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snom370
17y ago
While I agree that the media and politicians are now feasting on Toyotas failures, the fact is that Toyota really botched this. Had they taken the reports seriously earlier none of this would have happened, and lives could have been spared.
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snom370
17y ago
People who do the recommended security updates shut down their computers quite often. And yes, sleep reliability varies a lot with the hardware (unfortunately).
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17y ago
I was really surprised when I saw my mother using Safari on her iPhone (which we gave her for christmas just to have a "simple" phone and iPod, nothing more). It's not like she can't use a PC, but she rarely does so. This made me think that
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snom370
17y ago
Actually, this is a really brilliant idea. Combine it with push notifications and you have a service that could actually be dead simple and replace a lot of the common print jobs at my work.
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17y ago
True, for certain values of always. class Symbol def ==(o) true end end :surprise_level == 0 => true
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17y ago
People still are generally want to do good and genereally want to pay for and reward good content if it's super easy and they don't have to think about spiraling costs. I think the "flat rate" part might be the trick to make this work. If I
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17y ago
Yep. Mainly because people like to think that Joel is a completely incompetent idiot that quite naturally would do something like inventing a new language for no absolutely no reason whatsoever, never mind the fact that he's running a succe
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17y ago
Except for the part where Wasabi powers FogBugz, the main product of Fog Creek Software, and enough people pay for this software to keep that company running very profitably for 10+ years.
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17y ago
I think the interesting thing about this rumor mill is that so many people are wondering WHY they would buy the Apple Tablet. The answer is of course: Content! Games, movies, newspapers, magazines, books, and of course, apps. Sure, you can