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by scrod 16y ago
> Without trying to sound like an absolute ass... Some things just come naturally to you I suppose.
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by scrod 16y ago
Chatting in a web browser is an abomination of an idea, and only serves to illustrate the limitations and inanity of the "web" as some kind of universal platform. If this is ever to occur, then at the very least the browser as an applicatio
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by scrod 16y ago
The problem is when "getting ahead" becomes the only way to gain freedom in a society. With economic freedom as the primary form of liberty, people must effectively compete for freedom, or in a way "earning" it as an indentured servant woul
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by scrod 16y ago
>Congress shouldn't be allowed to redistribute wealth. When wealth is redistributed in the right direction, then there are empirical, measurable, positive benefits across the whole of society -- including those who are already wealthy.
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by scrod 16y ago
I think he answered that question here: http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=19 with more of an introduction here: http://bettermeans.org/front/?page_id=306
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by scrod 16y ago
For some reason it's recently become trendy to paint teachers' unions as the root of all evil on Hacker News. Who knows which think tank master-minded this particular tidbit of right-wing propaganda, but it's a story line that rings increas
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by scrod 16y ago
>Sorry, I'm not clear what you're ashamed of? It doesn't bother you to be a citizen of a country that has allowed so many people to lose their homes that bathing in a public restroom is now a nuisance frequent enough to warrant official
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by scrod 16y ago
>But that's not all; prison labor is now used as cheap labor to compete with foreign countries, instituting a new age of under-the-radar slavery. Oh, don't worry, those countries are fighting back, too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south
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by scrod 16y ago
>...and so is harder to develop and support for than the iOS machines... Harder to develop because you can use the programming language and runtime of your choosing, including the exact same APIs that are on iOS, or harder because you d
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by scrod 16y ago
People who want to try this should see the FAQ about problems using note-level syncing with file-level syncing: http://wiki.github.com/scrod/nv/faq-synchronization
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by scrod 16y ago
>Wait until some enterprising district attorney confiscates your hard drive, surmises you frequent HN, subpoenas your voting history from pg, finds this thread and examines which anti-governement/pro-common-sense comments you up voted.
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by scrod 16y ago
Wow, this has got to be the most brazen troll I've ever seen.
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by scrod 16y ago
This article almost seems to suggest that it's some kind of CAT5 balun, which is a technique that's been around for many years, carrying VGA, DVI, USB, and all manner of protocols. And running HDMI over CAT5 is not exactly brand new, either
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by scrod 16y ago
Which stove did Rolf saute the broccoli with the sesame seed oil next to?
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by scrod 16y ago
Organize a cooperative with your neighbors to purchase the capital equipment and sustain the costs to operate it. The initial "risk" will be shared and the members will derive a superior benefit by making profit and advertising costs (howev
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by scrod 16y ago
While we're talking about Feynman, I think most people here could relate to his perspective on uninterrupted time, and the avoidance of administrative work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08g3OXAA14&NR=1
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by scrod 16y ago
>"If you're going to want to run your iOS apps on actual devices (not just the built-in simulator), you'll need a $99/year iPhone Developer membership from Apple..." Which is a good reason to get acclimated to Objective-C/Cocoa by writi
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by scrod 16y ago
If people pursued this philosophy on a large scale, the economy would be far more stable, and its participants more contented.
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by scrod 16y ago
Bing has long "featured" random background images on their home page. So it seems that Google's confidence and self-restraint have finally slipped: http://www.windowsobserver.com/2010/06/10/is-google-directly...
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by scrod 16y ago
Compared to just a couple of years ago, Apple is investing noticeably less in this year's WWDC. There are fewer sessions overall, fewer "evangelists" to introduce sessions and take questions, and fewer services for attendees. They aren't ev
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by scrod 16y ago
Let's not forget HTML Slidy < http://www.w3.org/2005/03/slideshow.html >, an older presentation framework with the added benefits of back/forward navigation and incremental build-out.
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by scrod 16y ago
It's extremely refreshing to see your perspective on hacker news; I encourage you to continue posting. The free-market-fetishism around here is becoming nauseating.
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by scrod 16y ago
The demand-responsive pricing aspect is the most interesting: >"SFpark will charge the lowest possible hourly rate to achieve the right level of availability in both garages and at metered spaces. This project is not about raising parki
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by scrod 16y ago
Someone needs to suggest this to him.
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by scrod 16y ago
> "I think it's usually best to look at the various things a company does and judge each of them separately. That way we put more pressure on a company to change the things that are bad." Actually, that sounds pretty darn pragmatic and
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by scrod 16y ago
This is perhaps the most salient observation in the entire thread. Free-market libertarians have an ideological imperative to deny any causality between activity in the pursuit of profit and environmental catastrophes. It's no surprise that
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by scrod 16y ago
No, it's reference counting, which by definition is not manual memory management. Rentzsch used this notation because he, like most Mac developers, uses Objective-C, a language that has had any significant pertinence to the iPhone only for
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by scrod 16y ago
Relevant: The Ugly Face of Crime: http://www.metafilter.com/49356/The-Ugly-Face-of-Crime
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by scrod 17y ago
Those scheming women's groups -- they'll stoop to any level to promote their cause. It's almost as if they were fighting for peoples' lives!
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by scrod 17y ago
I'll take QuickTime over flash any day of the week.

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