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by sid0 15y ago
Rushed endings are a staple of Stephenson books. Anathem probably has the least rushed one.
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by sid0 15y ago
Anathem is fundamentally about the philosophy of mathematics. To someone like me who's actually interested in it, it was amazing.
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by sid0 15y ago
Anathem is the second-best Stephenson after Diamond Age in my opinion.
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by sid0 15y ago
The device doesn't really bother the user with that choice. All the user needs to do is close the laptop's lid or hit the power button and the device would go to sleep (by default). Every time a shutdown happens it means the user's going ou
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by sid0 15y ago
It's as if you haven't even read the article. Despite fast sleep/wakeup existing in Windows, lots of people tend to not use it.
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by sid0 15y ago
The agreement has expired, right?
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by sid0 15y ago
But all that exists today with sleep mode, yet apparently a large number of people don't use it.
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by sid0 15y ago
I blogged about some of the problems I faced: http://monogatari.doukut.su/2011/07/my-experiences-with-appl...
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by sid0 15y ago
Editing a registry entry and typing a command in couldn't possibly be a pain to anyone on Hacker News...
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by sid0 15y ago
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows-7/clean-install-...
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by sid0 15y ago
The EFI firmware with "legacy" BIOS support that Apple uses. It doesn't help that Windows actually supports booting from UEFI but not the EFI 1.1 hack that Apple uses.
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by sid0 15y ago
That's not true! When Vista came out the 15" MacBook Pro was the machine which had the best performance in Vista. Think a bit about that. Having had all this trouble, I don't believe that for a second. Turning off AHCI and not supporting
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by sid0 15y ago
Yes, all of them are. Apple notebooks are the worst at running Windows. You don't have to type product codes -- you can install without one and copy/paste from a text file works fine once you're all set up. You don't have to insert DVDs
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by sid0 15y ago
The probable 40-50 million on Steam alone is not really a number you can ignore.
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by sid0 15y ago
Are you sure Apple even supports running Vista on a 2010 MacBook Pro? I've had a huge number of problems with Windows on an Apple computer, and I now think Apple computers are simply terrible at running Windows.
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by sid0 15y ago
The infrastructure's there, it's up to extensions to specify which settings they want to sync. Extensions themselves aren't yet synced though, yeah.
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by sid0 15y ago
But XSS isn't novel by any stretch of the imagination, so there's no "disclosure" going on here at all.
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by sid0 15y ago
most state machines you're likely to need in your day-to-day development have nothing in common with their computing theory counterparts I don't follow this? The core of whichever state machines I write seem to be DFAs, with the alphabet
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by sid0 15y ago
Ehsan's a Mozilla employee, yes.
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by sid0 15y ago
Define "manually update".
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by sid0 15y ago
You must be running Firefox 3.6 then.
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by sid0 15y ago
Maybe you can provide a practical example of a case where you need to move files onto your system that can't be opened by any of the applications installed on your system. I never said the files couldn't be opened by any of the applicatio
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by sid0 15y ago
Such as?
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by sid0 15y ago
The barrier to buying a game off Steam given that you own a PC/Mac is much lower than the barrier to buying an app off the App Store given that you own an iOS device (ignoring jailbreaking as usual). These sorts of barriers are characterist
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JavaScript and crypto (on a new high-level crypto API)(monocleglobe.wordpress.com)
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by sid0 15y ago
You really think we should write an app for every file type? As a developer who believes in abstracting common code out, I find the notion frankly idiotic.
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by sid0 15y ago
The size of Windows 7 SP1 is based on how many updates you already have. It's generally 60-100 MB. Only the absolute full ISO download is a gigabyte, and most people simply won't need that. Not to mention that non-SP1 Win7 kept getting secu
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by sid0 15y ago
Firefox uses its own CA store, so you need to remove it there too (or wait for the 6.0.1 update).
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by sid0 15y ago
And Mozilla products and apparently IE. Serves them right. I hope every time such a thing happens the CA gets kicked out and blacklisted for life.
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by sid0 15y ago
You aren't locked into Steam for all game purchases.

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