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by sjh 18y ago
Nintendo and Sony have formal, up-front approvals processes for their respective consoles, which - if controlling what goes on/does not go on the platform is the goal - seems a better way of going about it. Incidentally, SCEE has quietly dr
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by sjh 18y ago
"Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer": http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=554
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by sjh 18y ago
The yen: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=JPYUSD , http://finance.google.com/finance?q=JPYEUR
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by sjh 18y ago
Is it just me, or does spawning a new process per tab - which makes perfect sense when the tab contains an actual web-app - seem like overkill if it's only to read a document? That said, if Chrome provided some equivalent of Live Bookmarks,
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by sjh 18y ago
The one magical word: http://www.twoguys.org/~gregh/fword.wav . Warning: NSFW, unless perhaps you're working at 37signals.
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by sjh 18y ago
Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science, points out some fundamental flaws with this "formula": http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/fame/
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Can T-Mobile get an Android onto US market in '08?(theregister.co.uk)
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by sjh 18y ago
Because the impression is about that they are different, an impression which they have fostered themselves. The opening words of the Letter from the Founders in the IPO prospectus reads: "Google is not a conventional company. We do not inte
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by sjh 18y ago
> what's a few more kids? An insurance liability, for one thing.
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by sjh 18y ago
Almost word-for-word, I'm in the same situation and have a very similar outlook, for whatever that's worth.
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by sjh 18y ago
The design, the simplicity of use and the philosophy (no registration/login/etc.) are all spot on.
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by sjh 18y ago
'Accidentally' turning on a broadcasting flag like this would be a quick-and-dirty way of flushing out the (commercial) DVR solutions which don't obey it.
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by sjh 18y ago
The Google Tech Talk given by the author is, if you're interested, a good watch: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567
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by sjh 19y ago
For Kurzweil, it's an interesting way of asserting - advertising, if you will - his own confidence in his capacities as a futurist.
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by sjh 19y ago
A quietly profitable domain trading business is apt to be an unreliable source of headlines for TechCrunch.
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by sjh 19y ago
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070906_0028... Since reading this bit by Cringely last Autumn, I can't help but think of a lot of Apple's output through the prism of "being alternately seduced and tormented"; e.g. the iPh
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Using the iPhone SDK on a PowerPC Mac(3by9.com)
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by sjh 19y ago
The soundtracks to Batman Begins and the Battlestar Galactica mini-series are not dissimilar to that for There Will Be Blood (which I've just been to see).
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by sjh 19y ago
When I was still working in an office, I found listening to film scores, in particular, very helpful in shutting out the noise of the office.
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by sjh 19y ago
As new users sign up to HN, and older submissions drop down the list, it's the sort of question which is apt to come up a couple of times.