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by sjs 17y ago
Steve Mann doesn't have anything unremoveable in his body that I know of, just a higher level of integration between his body and hardware.
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by sjs 17y ago
Our iPhones don't make us cyborgs, hackers like Steve Mann are cyborgs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/ http://wearcam.org/pictures.html
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by sjs 17y ago
IMO it also shows that people shouldn't worry about adblock (any more than they worry about lynx anyway). The people blocking ads are not clicking on them anyway.
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by sjs 17y ago
Mac and Linux users tend to be more tech savvy, although a (likely significant) chunk of Mac users lie at the opposite end of the spectrum. We're also at an advantage because it's very clear that the ads that fake the Windows UI are not rea
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by sjs 17y ago
My mistake. I wrongly assumed Chrome OS did not include X11 when I read that they used a new window system.
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by sjs 17y ago
That explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrom
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by sjs 17y ago
Have you seen Subtext? It's an interesting semi-visual language from Jonathan Edwards at MIT. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext_programming_language [2] http://subtextual.org/subtext2.html (demo) These days the idea is developed
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by sjs 17y ago
It's the same on OS X, imho. I've carried around my preferences and such for some years now, from an old PPC G4 Mac Mini, so I cleared out some Safari cache databases and that helped startup delays a bit, but Chrome's dev preview for OS X
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by sjs 17y ago
Sometimes faster than other new Ruby VMs: http://twitter.com/avibryant/status/6073999000 It's a really exciting time for Ruby programmers! Too bad I don't get paid to write (much) Ruby these days.
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by sjs 17y ago
Be more secure. Maintain itself. Cost nothing. Not lose your data when it crashes or is reinstalled. Not require any installations or upgrades for any software you use, ever. Limits to some of us are freedom to others. It all depends o
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by sjs 17y ago
html5 provides the infrastructure to run web apps offline. people used slow BBSs and the web long before broadband. Broadband is hard to give up but if you've never had it being connected is enough motivation to use whatever you have.
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by sjs 17y ago
I might dual boot Chrome OS on a netbook type portable. Honestly though, it is not meant for us geeks. Think about people in countries where it's not common to have an iPod that you want to sync 50GB of music to. Or very casual users.
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by sjs 17y ago
They might now but the iPhone didn't need apps to start selling.
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by sjs 17y ago
Resigning to the fact that you're a sharecropper[1] is implicit in developing on Apple platforms. [1] http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...
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by sjs 17y ago
lesson: pick your battles
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by sjs 17y ago
It doesn't help that it's titled "Stevie's Karate Tournament".
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by sjs 17y ago
Playing a flash video almost brings my Core Duo macbook to its knees and uses around 40% of each of my 4 cores on my hackintosh (Q9450).
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by sjs 17y ago
But there's no way Apple and Adobe will bundle it with Flash so it will remain a curiosity for geeks like us.
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by sjs 17y ago
You can always run a 32-bit browser and sidestep the whole issue. I don't think many web apps need 64-bit for anything.
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by sjs 17y ago
I wonder which type of Go player I would be. Sometimes I do something like this with development, where I spend too much time feeling ignorant and try to ramp up my knowledge by reading. Once I jump into the coding I still feel underprepa
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by sjs 17y ago
They are hiring a FS guru so if you know any good ones try to get them to apply and make the next one better.
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by sjs 17y ago
Not so crazy really. Samsung and other HDTV manufacturers are already starting to include a barebones PC running Windows in their television sets. I was quite skeptical of the article until the last paragraph reminded me of this. It woul
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by sjs 17y ago
I haven't drank Red Bull in a few years so things may have changed. I checked the amounts of caffeine and other "medicinal" ingredients myself when I was doing physical labour and drank them regularly.
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by sjs 17y ago
RSS isn't dead, my sisters just discovered it a year or two back.
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by sjs 17y ago
> The top ten institutions in this group accounted for only 19 percent of the entire sample. These top 10 institutions (3.5% of 287) supply almost 20% of the founders of tech startups. It's nice to know that it's not a requirement but
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by sjs 17y ago
And if you have a way to steam milk at home you can make London Fogs (earl grey, steamed milk, vanilla syrup).
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by sjs 17y ago
Red bull is not the strongest energy drink at all. I need to chug 2 of the normal size cans in succession to feel anything at all. Monster and Rock Star are fantastic if you need to keep up physical work but I worry about their effect on
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by sjs 17y ago
People with money to spend on getting their Hackintosh up and running can buy more compatible hardware. Sure it's only $50 but some motherboards aren't much more than that, and if you don't game you can get a fine Hackintosh-friendly video
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by sjs 17y ago
Dell is starting to get that aesthetics matter quite a bit to some people. Their designs are coming around, slowly. For a product like the 3008wfp a refresh will take some time. They probably skipped 3009wfp to avoid another debacle like
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by sjs 17y ago
Agreed. Every time I see someone use Hotmail or some other shitty service that flat out rejects some browsers my blood boils a little bit. I hate IE6 as much as the next guy but at least let them see what a mess their crippled browser mak

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