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by rythie 17y ago
I've seen a few auto stereo displays and they only work if you view dead on from the center, at the right distance - though for a portable device that might not be too much of a restriction.
872.
by rythie 17y ago
This video represents an important milestone showing the evolution of the platform as celebrities adopt it. I personally want to see more stories that indicate further milestones (probably some funding and a recommendation engine/filter I'
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by rythie 17y ago
So by that logic, Would you have sold Google, Microsoft or Apple in the early days for $2bn even though they were profitable and growing fast?
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by rythie 17y ago
I'd agree, after all, Google, Apple and Microsoft all got to be the massive companies they are today, by not selling out early on.
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Big Music’s Digital Strategy: Cheap CDs(mediamemo.allthingsd.com)
1 points by rythie 17y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 17y ago
Well they weren't my friends as such just normal non-tech Japanese that I met in various hostels around March 2005. It seemed like it was just getting established at that time, whilst a few had heard of them, the people I had met had never
877.
by rythie 17y ago
Thinking about this a bit more... Most of Apple's products are mainstream versions of technology that was available before but not suited to normal consumers. For example, Personal Computers, MP3 players, Smart Phones and tablet PCs all exi
878.
by rythie 17y ago
Yes, Japan didn't create the iPod but it doesn't mean they are behind. I remember showing my black and white iPod to some people in Japan in 2005 and they had never seen one before. However, if you looked in the shops you could find 100s of
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by rythie 17y ago
I once wrote a CPUid feature check program in assembly, it took surprisingly long to learn and write those 80 lines (including blank lines and comments) The executable was 736 bytes: http://rythie.com/labs/cpuid.php
880.
by rythie 17y ago
I would suggest caching some of the data server side, so there is some previous data on first page load.
881.
by rythie 17y ago
Well what's the name of it? Surely everywhere you go, you should be telling people about it as a start
882.
by rythie 17y ago
So at the end of this he runs a department, so he still a middle manager, how depressing. Did he create anything? Did he invent anything? He doesn't seem like much of a role model to me. If I met Saul at a party I'd find an excuse to exit t
883.
by rythie 17y ago
Agreed. I feel the author conned me while reading it, when all the while it was a pitch for his own product.
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by rythie 17y ago
Well is that really true? They've bundled loads of features into the format, the other readers might be safer but only because they don't support those features and they will try to add them at some point. Also PDF is based on postscript wh
885.
by rythie 17y ago
A lot of people prefer to receiving PDFs because they are safer than MS Office documents. Maybe not eh?
886.
by rythie 17y ago
That's a good point and since I pay it, I should have thought of that. It does seem more like a tax, since you pay it for having a T.V. regardless of weather you watch it or not.
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by rythie 17y ago
ROR is free and so are most of the competitors and there a lot now. The BBC is doing a good job, it's news coverage is certainly one the best and most respected in the world and that's got nothing to do with it being free - people would cer
888.
by rythie 17y ago
I imagine the book is really only relevant industries where the real resource is the people and the profit margins can be massive. It seems that Jason's main point would be that in a tech. business you shouldn't squander that main resource
889.
by rythie 17y ago
That's in the short term of course. Twitpic is essentially a feature on top of Twitter and without Twitter, Twitpic wouldn't exist. In the end, if Twitter implemented picture hosting themselves, Twitpic would surely slowly die.
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The problem with online advertising(posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk)
1 points by rythie 17y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 17y ago
Ok, thanks though you can't do it per site so you have to click on all the ads that offend you and they may change ad supplier. Also your effectively blocking a particular ad supplier not a domain that has a poor ad policy.
892.
by rythie 17y ago
Many of the adverts are in Flash, if I don't have Flash installed am I stealing too?
893.
by rythie 17y ago
2) I don't think AdBlockPlus lets you do that 3) You surely know that, that is a waste of time, 1. they already know, 2. they won't respond or do anything
894.
by rythie 17y ago
I'd use a list in Adblock that whitelisted sites that only ever showed adverts that never moved, never poped up, never used flash, never showed me body parts and never tried to sell me something that was obviously a scam. Currently that lis
895.
by rythie 17y ago
Is there actually a practical way to that though?
896.
by rythie 17y ago
Isn't that the same as doing a "STRAIGHT JOIN" with a "USE INDEX()" in MySQL?
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Apple's patent attack (details on the patents involved)(lwn.net)
9 points by rythie 17y ago|1 comments
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by rythie 17y ago
In a lot of countries bribery is necessary on a daily basis, otherwise government officials can take literally hours to carry out simple requests. It seems to occur when the person carrying out gets very little pay verses the value of the s
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by rythie 17y ago
Well if they weren't going to get it right first try, then maybe they should have a done a small early rollout. Surely one the first 1000 users would have noticed the privacy issue and reported it, before it was a big deal.
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by rythie 17y ago
Do you write comments on Hacker News? And if so, why?

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