sjs

95 ms·

901.
by sjs 17y ago
Google uses Flash outside of Youtube. Google Translate and Analytics are two that come to mind. I'm sure there are others.
902.
by sjs 17y ago
Things like the 3.1.3 update are precisely why my next phone will run Android, not iPhone OS.
903.
by sjs 17y ago
Apple can serve DMCA notices till they're blue in the face. Outside the US people will just laugh them off. Not to mention that if they start prosecuting their customers that's terrible PR, and the ones most likely to jailbreak are the ones
904.
by sjs 17y ago
I'm not buying it. This is from Nov. 2009: > Shoppers and list-makers may be interested to learn that Asus and Toshiba notebooks had three-year failure rates below 16 percent. Sony placed third, with a 16.8 percent three-year failure ra
905.
by sjs 17y ago
I know you're being sarcastic but some notebook manufacturers can't even get the USB ports right side up. Most of them cut corners all over the place, and unless you spend an amount equivalent to the price of a MacBook ($1500+) you won't fi
906.
by sjs 17y ago
Not to mention that startups can't do everything a company the size of Google can (such as start their own ISP providing gigabit service). There is a place in our society for all shapes and sizes of companies.
907.
by sjs 17y ago
There are some faster connections available in the US too. In and around the north east iirc. Here on the west side of Canada, Shaw offers 100mbps connections for $150/mo. That's obviously a complete rip-off but it's nice to have the option
908.
by sjs 17y ago
The prototype source[1] has the answer, and it does not curry the function. In fact it does not even perform real partial application. It just returns a closure that has references to the original function and the argument(s) you asked it t
909.
by sjs 17y ago
None of them. The blog says: "Well, that flexibility will be on display on Monday, February 8th when MTV is going to re-furbish and change its logo for the first time since 1981." Those images show the flexibility of the current logo withou
910.
by sjs 17y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cdngiadmnkhgemki...
911.
by sjs 17y ago
As someone who currently has an iPhone, you made the right decision. I love my iPhone, but sometimes it feels too much like Apple's iPhone rather than my iPhone. Android for me next.
912.
by sjs 17y ago
As a teenager I learned to program in Win 98 days. I wrote a program that faked the "this program has performed an illegal operation" dialog every few fours and put it on my dad's computer. His programs never crashed but he thought there wa
913.
by sjs 17y ago
On making people feel like idiots... do we still need KatMouse* on Windows 7? * http://ehiti.de/katmouse/
914.
by sjs 17y ago
> I'm just saying that it's irrational to think that MPEG LA's plan is to sue consumers. Us being "hackers" does nothing to change those odds. Some of us make products that may want to use h.264 and would be liable to have to pay to do
915.
by sjs 17y ago
maybe social web surfing? delicious is social bookmarking. i guess it depends how one uses reddit though.
916.
by sjs 17y ago
Also MacRuby.
917.
by sjs 17y ago
I imagine multi-touch will be natural and integral enough that people will forego the mouse altogether. Although, I suppose a magic mouse might fit the bill (haven't used one yet).
918.
by sjs 17y ago
I agree with all of that. But even if for no reason other than a dislike of Apple, there will be people who don't want one of these. There will be competition. Anyone here on hacker news that is worried about an Apple monopoly in the futur
919.
by sjs 17y ago
Nothing that currently exists is going away even if this becomes popular. Devices that run other systems will emerge with time. Mainly because this does 100% of what most people want to do with a computer.
920.
by sjs 17y ago
The iPad replaces a computer for most people, and does a lot more by being so portable and simple to use. Seriously, get one of these a keyboard dock and you're good to go. For developers and other content creators we still need the power
921.
by sjs 17y ago
Jailbreaking doesn't help when, say, Google doesn't release an app to the public that Apple won't let in the store. I agree with some of what you say but can't help but feel that open is the only way to a good future. Then again, this devic
922.
by sjs 17y ago
> Besides presenting us with an unfalsifiable anecdote, you obviously haven't read the article. There were a few articles trying to "debunk" dvorak recently and no, I did not read this one. I am tired of them. It's a silly debate. It's
923.
by sjs 17y ago
> The QWERTY vs Dvorak argument is silly; both were designed at a time before any research had been performed into typing ergonomics, and the only reason to pick one or the other is largely based on hearsay and rumor. I grew up using my
924.
by sjs 17y ago
Let us know whey they have a client that doesn't bring my workstation to its knees every 1/2 hour.
925.
by sjs 17y ago
Great job, thank you for sharing this resource with us. Please add this cheat sheet for Xcode: http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.com/2009/08/xcode-shortcuts-upd... It's not mine but I have found it useful.
926.
by sjs 17y ago
It might be to me, but I can be somewhat pedantic. Professional correspondence should be just that: professional. It doesn't need to be rushed. Get rid of the red squiggly underlines. It's so easy to spot mistakes when typing on a compute
927.
by sjs 17y ago
No need to wonder, have a look at the source code for them both and it will become clear exactly why there is such a performance difference. Lua gives you raw C numeric types which makes a big difference right there. Other people have men
928.
by sjs 17y ago
Here's a video that shows how easy it is for people to set these up. http://www.wimp.com/cashscam/
929.
by sjs 17y ago
Pike says that Perl delivered the eulogy for "do one thing, do it well" but perhaps the scope of those things has just increased. Especially since there are so many viable scripting languages today it's more important than ever to create i
930.
by sjs 17y ago
The paragraph above that one is enough context, no? He was asked about pulling out of China. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday the software giant had no plans to pull out of China. Microsoft is chiefly interested in

More ›