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by scrod 15y ago
What really matters — the click-through rate that infolinks pays you to link the action verb in the sentence "Some incredibly special times were shared" to Scottrade .
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by scrod 15y ago
>I suspect you don't actually know what everyone else on the site thinks. Cool, thanks for that incredibly insightful observation, marshray. The best part about your original question is that it can be answered provably in only one wa
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by scrod 15y ago
Yes, you are. The fist symbolizes strength through solidarity and partnership, which is the only strategy that most Americans have for confronting consolidated corporate power.
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by scrod 15y ago
Take a look at the front page of the committee's web site: >Markup Shows Strong Support for SOPA (12/16/2011) >SOPA Has Strong Support (12/15/2011) >Smith: Critics Continue to Spread Lies about SOPA (12/14/2011) This is ab
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by scrod 15y ago
There's no need to ask permission from Google. You can already search the web using fully decentralized search engines like grub.org and yacy.net.
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by scrod 15y ago
To call him a troll could brush aside a few things worth our attention. Disturbingly enough, a statistically significant number of people in the U.S. actually hold viewpoints like these, and unfortunately a few of them occasionally comment
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by scrod 15y ago
Well, the author has at least been working at Basho earlier this year: http://basho.com/blog/technical/2011/03/02/Mathias-Meyer-has...
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by scrod 15y ago
Clearly. WebOS has proven the author correct with its stunning success in the marketplace.
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by scrod 15y ago
>As browsers get smarter native apps will introduce new interaction models, hardware accesses and new features. Those will get folded into HTML 9, then HTML 10 and the cycle will continue. So in other words, the latest web technology
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by scrod 15y ago
Nice. So that pretty much guarantees that only those SAAS apps that are operated by the largest corporations, and that harvest your personal data most efficiently, are the ones that dominate. Everything else is only that much more likely to
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by scrod 15y ago
Depending on how well you can map your code to the built-in Cocoa text-editing classes, this could be as easy as adding two NSLayoutManagers (each directing one NSTextContainer and NSTextView) beneath a single NSTextStorage instance. Apple
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by scrod 15y ago
Sorry, but "neglect" is a pretty obnoxious accusation you're leveling against Alan. He's dutifully maintained Textmate 1.5.x over those years and has released many many updates. That these releases have not also served to entertain you is s
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by scrod 15y ago
Your self-control is just masterful. Congratulations.
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by scrod 15y ago
Shhh, now that embedded Java does everything we need, we must pretend it no longer exists — how else could we justify all the insane technological contortions that we'll need in order to justify profiting through sequestering users' data, r
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by scrod 15y ago
>No, it operates under the very correct assumption that paid services are MUCH LESS common to shut down. Yep. Not to mention that, in paying for the service, you become the service's customer. The relationship with a free service is m
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by scrod 15y ago
And those businesses are accordingly regulated by society. But good luck trying to foster that winner-takes-all free-market world of yours. I'm sure it'll be a real blast.
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by scrod 15y ago
> there is a power to abstract, there is a freedom to not micromanage. Oh, so is that like having freedom from porn now?
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by scrod 15y ago
Your comment is completely salient and relevant here, but it's received down-votes because it proposes sacrificing profits (i.e., hand-holding, generally cloud-hosted software) for freedom, and Hacker News is simply too sophisticated for
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by scrod 15y ago
I hope they succeed and I fully support their efforts. Distance learning programs will never be a substitute for genuine classroom-based interaction, and under no circumstances should they ever be used to replace skilled teachers. And even
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by scrod 15y ago
Perfect! Combine with your choice of the following for plug-n-play subversion: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Linux-system-squishes-into-Ethernet-connector/ http://pwnieexpress.com/ http://www.gumstix.com/ http://www.rasp
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by scrod 15y ago
I await the time when Google Beer can be integrated into the already long line of Google Foods™ products. http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/googlegulp/
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by scrod 15y ago
Every example you give is in terms of an individualist view point, and yet understanding what makes a "functioning society" requires some conception of a common good . It is impossible for any significant portion of society to be treated
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by scrod 15y ago
What is possibly the only coherent comment in this entire discussion is already being down-voted. Sorry Hacker News, but your "cultivated community" demonstrably fails to perpetuate very little more than a disinterested, self-serving, cente
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by scrod 15y ago
Don't worry, I don't have any sympathy for you, either. And in an unrelated point, a good companion to this article is Being Poor : http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
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by scrod 15y ago
> It's the usual story: capture of the USPS by its unions... Oh, if only it weren't for all those undeserving, greedy workers! Clearly the problem is that they banded together to protect each others' wages, access to medical care, and
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by scrod 15y ago
Remember that an application has to support the sudden termination API, and indicate to the OS that it can be safely shutdown, in order to actually have this condition apply. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...
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by scrod 15y ago
LOL, the cloud.
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by scrod 15y ago
This was my first thought, too. Safari does the same thing.
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by scrod 15y ago
Thanks, but BBEdit 6 worked just fine.
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by scrod 15y ago
Now I have to ask: how is the unsophisticated user (at whom these messages are apparently targeted) supposed to distinguish such alerts from actual malware itself that masquerades as anti-viral/anti-malware software? If anything it will est

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