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by shib71 17y ago
This is not helpful. The OS debate is almost completely tangental to Apple's smart phone policies.
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by shib71 17y ago
I've seen that opinion here a lot, that school is a glorified babysitting service. Maybe that's true in your experience, but that is a shortcoming of those schools in particular, not of schools in general. I loathe special cases. As a progr
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One of PGs essays discusses similar ideas ( http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html ). I agree that segregating teenagers may actually be harming their development instead of aiding it. The problem is specialisation and aptitude. First part of
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by shib71 17y ago
I'm a little confused by the use of the term "third-party" in this context. In these situations the first two parties are the User and either other Users (for multi-user or social apps) or the application server (for client-server type apps
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by shib71 17y ago
It could go either way: because Twitter are now eating their own dogfood (i.e. the Twitter API) perhaps that API will improve. Alternately they may instead be tempted to start creating internal-only APIs.
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by shib71 17y ago
When you put it like that it's even more of a marketing coup for Apple. Being known to be hated by the "elite" is a huge draw for consumer product, whether it actually is or not.
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by shib71 17y ago
Programmers these days. In my day we programmed in Java and liked it. ASP was the GOOD web programming language. We had to code up hill in both directions... But seriously, there are good and bad points to every language. Sometimes I think
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by shib71 17y ago
Sydney
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by shib71 17y ago
Looks like Google policy changes regarding China are the first scrambling steps up a slippery slope they're already on. If other countries start expecting Google to implement censoring based on their actions in China it may become a serious
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by shib71 17y ago
For a company in Google's position the line between policy and politics is a fine one. Their business depends on being the middleman between users and content. Censorship isn't an abstract ideal or a cultural artefact in that situation - it
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by shib71 17y ago
Here in Australia a "permanent" position typically includes around 4 weeks of paid vacation ("annual leave"). The vacation time is accumulated week by week so that if you want to take a long break you need to "save up" the time. Vacations c
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by shib71 17y ago
Some interesting thing he pointed out before is still happening, except not interesting this time because there is no new information. In other breaking news - other stuff is happening somewhere else: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/
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by shib71 17y ago
There is a growing attitude in the Internet community that content is worth very little, static content is worth nothing, and old content is the abyss looking back at you. I see it reflected in the new obsession with fleeting bits of nothin
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by shib71 17y ago
Any "reward" for interaction will help. - WOW: experience - T61: karma for hearting songs you like - Every forum ever: titles for number of posts - HN: karma for comments / submissions others like - StackOverflow: practically ev
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by shib71 17y ago
It's not in any state for public use yet. The UI is very buggy, and the annotation system doesn't support more than the latin equivalent of "See Spot Run".
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by shib71 17y ago
A website for people to post latin texts, collaboratively annotate them with grammer information, and read both.
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by shib71 17y ago
How can you call that hacking? He covered every angle like the engineer he was.
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by shib71 17y ago
Try http://media.olympics.com.au/ .
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Is it just me or is the writing style oddly insubstantial? I can't put my finger on it.
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And the former isn't a particularly useful conclusion. The results of doing the research have a lot of potential. What potential does not trying have?
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by shib71 17y ago
Is this blog spam? OMG this product is awesome, so much better than this other, better known, product. There is no attempt to contrast other options in the space like Dropbox.
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by shib71 17y ago
You have simultaneously missed the point of the article and demonstrated it. From the descriptions, there is no question that Sarah used the word 'retard' in the technically correct context, and NOT as a derogatory term. Sarah's brand of hu
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by shib71 17y ago
That would be an interesting advertising model. Keep the main application advertisement free, but buy up all the doppelgangers and advertise on those. Diabolical.
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It may be dependent on recent usage and search patterns. The standard search is influenced by 'hot' content, so why not maps?
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For your convenience here are continuations of the interview. The last two answer comment questions. http://internationalbs.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/talking-to-t... http://internationalbs.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/the-umbrella... http:/
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by shib71 17y ago
I think some form of this confrontation was inevitable. It's good to shake up an industry now and then to shake off outdated practices. Unfortunately for Macmillan I think it will mostly be their practices that fall short. Publishing houses
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Does anyone know what the device actually did? How can this be Hacker News without someone asking that?
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I suspect it began as the later, and the former crept in while they weren't paying attention. If you look at the early shows they didn't give anywhere near the time to current events and politics as recent ones do.
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Does this data include flagged/dead items?
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This would be kind of cool simply as a brainteaser site with problems taken from Project Euler.

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