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by sharmajai 15y ago
On an unrelated note, if you highlight a portion of the article, you can listen to it. Very useful for listening to articles while working, instead of listening to music, or just to rest your eyes. It is powered by http://www.readspeaker.c
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by sharmajai 15y ago
If all the 'Think Different' ads, the product differentiation by Apple, and the Jony Ive's memorial speech about caring about months for things that the user will never see, with no regards to its contribution to profit, cannot convince the
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Ya business as USUAL is what apple is known for. Ya right.
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by sharmajai 15y ago
A very beautiful and probably very correct interpretation of Jobs' management approach was given by 'alexqgb' in a not so old thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078669 This difference, I suppose, is between someone bending
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Wow that is one more reason why your system should be open. All the closed systems (read windows) have had precedents of working closely with their partners (read OEMs) to achieve this hardware software harmony (which Steve was a big fan of
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Galaxy Nexus(google.com)
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by sharmajai 15y ago
C, like thousands of other computer science students, was the first language I learnt. I have always felt that a language is only as popular as the niche it serves. For C that niche started out as OS implementation and expanded into driver
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I have heard of many googlers, who use Ubuntu on their macbooks. Besides that is an ability which is not a prerequisite for majority of the computer users. Look I am a Ubuntu (not on a macbook though) user myself, and being a developer love
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Fuck you RMS. I have been and still am a staunch believer in open source, but when I read comments like this from the person who's motto once was that everybody writing software should contribute the source back to the community, not becaus
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Amazon Bestselling Books(amazon.com)
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Steve Jobs Quotes(en.wikiquote.org)
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I have never met Steve Jobs in person, yet I am deeply saddened by this news, this does not happen very often. Thank you Steve for being an inspiration in our lives and making the world a better place. You will be missed forever. Rest in pe
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by sharmajai 15y ago
A very sad day for humanity.
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by sharmajai 15y ago
the right development process that allows for rapid development , well rapid development is the reason people write webapps in python/ruby/node and not C++. We have to stop pretending that language choice is immaterial, hadn't it for C we
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I for one felt this was unnecessary critical for a first iteration. The only major blow is no support for native sdk and hence all the top tier 3d games, and no google maps (is that what was indicated?), since the current map support on the
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Details on Android apps support on the Playbook(guardian.co.uk)
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by sharmajai 15y ago
"My iPad can replace my laptop for basically everything but work" - so I guess my point stands. I was trying to argue against OP's point that all these things "Web browsing, listening/browsing/buying music, twitter et al, emails, games, boo
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Your tablet can never be a replacement for your laptop. Period.
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by sharmajai 15y ago
On a related note, does anybody know of a good vps provider for serving sites to India?
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by sharmajai 15y ago
That is because playbook requires a swipe up from the bottom bezel to bring up app list where you can close it. This is due to the ingenious functioning bezel it has, which removes the need for that lingering bottom bar as in android.
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Then maybe Steve Jobs should use his salary to make his products affordable to third world countries to do some real good than serving the riches of the world, and maybe Larry Ellison should have honored Sun Microsystem's policies of not su
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Laws, being constructed by humans are not infalliable, or otherwise new laws won't replace existing ones. I don't know how willing the google's decision to permit advertising of prescription drugs was, but I am assuming they went with it be
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I think, google is the one protecting the idea of online privacy by not having stupid restrictions on exporting your own social data and by allowing the users to decide what gets shared with whom (circles). And stupid lawsuits are not irrel
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Google is not law enforcement and thank god for that. Unlike apple which strives to be the moral leader of the world that nobody needs. What google did here was illegal and it paid the price for it, but I don't see anybody getting directly
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I am reminded time and time again how much "Don't be evil" mantra still holds for Google whenever other evil corporations do things like suing companies for looks of a product, primarily to hamper competition, and when they take cut out o
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I can very well relate to this. In the past, I could never really understand the affection between a newborn and her parents, till I became a father recently. Having seen my son right from the time of delivery I know it better than the othe
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by sharmajai 15y ago
We have to stop pretending degrees are worthless. The way I see it, going to school, expedites your learning process, by exposing you to professors and your peers, it helps you learn best practices, which although generic, saves you a lot o
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by sharmajai 15y ago
I am waiting for Gruber's justification for this. I am sure he will be able to cook something up as he always does. On the other hand, I think this is one of those things, which have brought down Apple time and time again in the past, from
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by sharmajai 15y ago
Why so critical, even if it is just for offices it makes a huge difference to the ease of taking/offering bribe, simply because of the knowledge that you are being watched. That is why we have surveillance cameras in offices. Even if it is
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Leading chess engine bit by missing attribution to open source roots(engadget.com)
9 points by sharmajai 15y ago|1 comments

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