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by seldo 17y ago
Memo to terrorists: wrap your next bomb in a shiny white box with an Apple logo. No one will question you.
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by seldo 17y ago
Does anybody have any third-party video of these? I would like to see what the effect is like when not viewed from exactly the right angle (and also proof that it's not just fake).
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by seldo 17y ago
Alternatively, if you'd like to help Haiti specifically don't give money to large international charities. They are the McDonald's of humanitarian assistance: big, generic, and predictable, but not necessarily the best available. My family
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by seldo 17y ago
I see what you mean, but I was referring more to the situation where merely the existence of the product is enough to show how it's done -- e.g. the infamous "1-click" patent, which doesn't describe a technology but instead a method. My poi
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Are spot instances killing the performance of Amazon EC2?(seldo.com)
15 points by seldo 17y ago|4 comments
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by seldo 17y ago
The embarrassing part of the patent system is not how long it takes but the way patents have been perverted from their original purpose. The point of a patent was that you would get an exclusive license to your invention for 8 years. In exc
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by seldo 17y ago
It depends where you're talking about. In an area reasonably prepared for disasters, they actually do bring about increased prosperity -- Florida has periodic construction booms after hurricanes, and a majority are insured, so financial l
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by seldo 17y ago
Coming from Trinidad and Tobago, where we get both, I assure you it's possible to build in a way to withstand both.
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by seldo 17y ago
Yeah, it's not that people think he's clueless because he's old. People think he's clueless because he's clueless, and has been writing posts that makes no sense with increasing frequency. This feels like an excuse.
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by seldo 17y ago
The reputation of the Caribs as cannibals is almost entirely myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carib#Cannibalism
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by seldo 17y ago
But that's exactly what I said. It doesn't excuse the holocaust. But it also makes it hard to say that Germany in the 1940s was an evil regime that contributed nothing to the world. Both are true: they were evil bastards, and they gave us r
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by seldo 17y ago
You're missing the point. It's not that genocide is sometimes good, it's that civilizations that commit genocide also do good things. The Germany that produced the Jewish holocaust also invented rocket science, which indirectly led us to th
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by seldo 17y ago
[Warning: spoiler-heavy] I have to say the exact same thing occurred to me at the end of the movie. "And so the aliens returned to their dying world." ...yeah, to get more ammo. Of course, the counter-argument might be that the Na'vi manage
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by seldo 17y ago
It is an intellectual trap to believe that just because a skill you worked hard to achieve is no longer necessary, you are a "better person" than those who no longer need that skill. Can you use a slide rule? I bet you can't. But when pocke
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by seldo 17y ago
I would suggest not buying headphones which, apparently, cost $175 a pair. I use a pair of very high-quality $99 bose in-ear buds; the point where the wire meets the phone in my pocket is a frequent point of failure, so I use a $14 headphon
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by seldo 17y ago
In addition to being a troll, Mr. Orlowski has a long-standing and irrational dislike of Google in particular, and while this is the most credible piece I've ever seen from him, everything he says about the company should be taken with huge
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by seldo 17y ago
Well, there's two side to that. The fragmentation of the mobile industry is the problem that Android was built to solve. However, Google getting directly into the business of making and selling handsets means the playing field is no longer
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by seldo 17y ago
I am completely shocked by "her" casual admission that Facebook employees have in the past logged in as other users on a whim, and potentially continue to do so via database access and user-switching. In some countries -- for instance the U
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by seldo 17y ago
This is why the iPhone/iTouch is so powerful: it's not just a device, it is a hardware platform for anybody who needs to build a small, mobile device. Not just the universal remote control: we've already seen apps that turn the iPhone into
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by seldo 17y ago
I've never really understood why Java took off in the enterprise the way it did. Was it just the automatic garbage collection and no pointers was a killer feature over C++?
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by seldo 17y ago
There is an equation here: Votes = Humour / Popularity So Steve Jobs is really popular, so you have to be really funny to get voted up for mocking Steve. But Arrington is crazy unpopular , so anything vaguely denigrating will do.
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by seldo 17y ago
Which is where carbon-trading comes in. We give third-world nations extra money so they can build these instead of coal plants. They give us their carbon credit so we can continue to drive stretch Hummers. Win-win! Except for the polar bear
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by seldo 17y ago
I wasn't suggesting that we should route the power to the US from the third world. I was saying third-world nations should build these plants, and the US should build other kinds.
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by seldo 17y ago
This is such a silly lawsuit. Nexus is a generic word, long used by geeks to describe anything vaguely cool with a centralized component. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus There are 4 magazines, 2 video games and at least 5 different pie
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by seldo 17y ago
These towers are not very land-efficient compared to solar farms, but they are very cheap to build. So it seems strange to build them in the US instead of a large third-world nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#History
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by seldo 17y ago
This is the network he was plugging: http://modlife.com/ There are a lot of other sites in this space and I can't say this one stands out as being particularly impressive.
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by seldo 17y ago
When I was in D.C. for the inauguration last January I discovered the fatal incompatibility of iPhone's touchscreen with gloves. A stylus would have been handy.
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by seldo 17y ago
Nexus One uses a two-way slider to answer calls -- left-to-right to answer, right-to-left to send to voice mail. I found it terrible. Unintuitive, and hard to use even when you understand what it's doing.
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by seldo 17y ago
Six months ago I would have said that was a stupid question, but Apple has bought a mapping company, now an ad network, and a gigantic server farm in middle America -- it's really only a matter of time before it begins to make sense for the
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by seldo 17y ago
Slightly more charitably, perhaps Apple recognized that for many app manufacturers who offer both paid and free versions of an app, Apple already has an existing financial relationship with them, so allowing Apple to handle the ad payments

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