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1141.
The fate of Graphics and GPU APIs in the mobile era(realtimerendering.com)
5 points by sien 15y ago|0 comments
1142.
by sien 15y ago
Who will they sell to? Will robots buy the things that are made in the end? Why will people build robot factories,cab drivers,teachers and doctors if there is no demand? Automation is self-limiting in that the robots will only built if ther
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by sien 15y ago
Perhaps. But the POS code is not written by Chipotle. For the company that wrote the POS it is customer facing as Chipotle are the customer. Similarly for much of the purchasing and other software they use internally. There would be conside
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by sien 15y ago
Are there modern figures to back up that 90% figure? It sounds a bit high. Surely it would be high, but these days so much software is for some website that is used by customers or whatever which is quite often visible externally.
1145.
by sien 15y ago
No probs running from VirtualBox 4 on Win 7 either.
1146.
by sien 15y ago
It was better as a song than a blog post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mATf3SAqj30 (Avenue Q)
1147.
by sien 15y ago
Has anyone done a proper comparison to Ook ? http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
1148.
by sien 15y ago
Oh, just as an aside for the record I'm an atheist.
1149.
What would Jesus Hack(economist.com)
8 points by sien 15y ago|3 comments
1150.
by sien 15y ago
Would it be legal to produce a product called 'Soylent Green' ?
1151.
by sien 15y ago
Is there a Chinese copy of HN?
1152.
by sien 15y ago
The original purpose of Gerrymandering was not to enhance the voting power of minorities, it was to game elections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering Black majority electorates came decades after Gerrymandering. Not a bad articl
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by sien 15y ago
They are probably fairly confident that isn't worth the hassle for most people. You could already do the same with the Kindle app on the PC at any rate. There are also scripts for breaking the encryption on Kindle files already.
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by sien 15y ago
Klein is pretty funny. Have a look at The Economist's blog that did a round up of reviews of the Shock Doctrine: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/10/naomi_kl... I remember reading 'No Logo' and wondering why on earth a boo
1155.
by sien 15y ago
Onestall.
1156.
by sien 15y ago
Sure, sure, it's a great idea to shine a laser on the ground for safety. Until all the cats in the neighbourhood start chasing you....
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by sien 15y ago
The flipside of this is that Europe should probably not be compared to single countries like the US or Israel. The comparable entities are North America, the Middle East and Europe. Then things would change. Individual countries in Europe,
1158.
by sien 15y ago
In languages where it's appropriate. Not in those where being close to the metal matters.
1159.
by sien 15y ago
Indeed. The economists were presumably speaking relatively.
1160.
by sien 15y ago
You could even go further and say that the Western Empire corresponds roughly to Catholic/protestant Christendom while the Eastern is Orthodox where Christianity has remained.
1161.
by sien 15y ago
Indeed. This is what I meant.
1162.
by sien 15y ago
Here's a company that is smart enough to know that they could have a major part of a market though could explode. Google don't just have to sell ads. They have loads of very smart people. They could wind up being the major provide for drive
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by sien 15y ago
Pascal and related languages that include various flavours of object Pascal like Delphi and other languages like Modula-2 and Ada are there. There were probably a bunch of them in the late 1980s. The thing is for this kind of language C/C++
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by sien 16y ago
That's a big overstatement. Arts is very easy to get in to in Australia. Law is far harder. At most of Australia's top Universities you have to be in the top 0.5% of high school students. Admittedly a large number of Law Grads use Law as an
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by sien 16y ago
K5 needed more user generated content. Metafilter posts are links strung together. They are easier to do. Another thing that probably drove the decline of K5 was the rise of blogs for everyone. Why post at K5 when some bunch of goons could