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by sorbus 16y ago
That's not what the term means, though, and using the real definition of market share it is impossible to have a negative market share, for the exact same reason that you can't have a negative number of people using a product. "Small market
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by sorbus 16y ago
By "making upload time much shorter" you mean "making apparent upload time much shorter." They'll still take the same amount of time[1] to upload, except that that time begins while they're being recorded. [1] Or more, in some probably unli
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by sorbus 16y ago
I've had a bunch of things in about:flags on for the last few versions (pretty much as soon as I found out about it, which I think was in 7.x), including both of the hardware acceleration options. It hasn't led to any crashes, as far as I c
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by sorbus 16y ago
> I don't think it will be until at least v11 In 11.0.691.0 canary, GPU acceleration of Canvas is still an option in about:flags, just as it is in 9.0.597.107. GPU accelerated compositing is no longer optional, though, it appears. Of co
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by sorbus 16y ago
They occasionally show up in one of the columns on the homepage, next to the news feed. They're quite small, and very easily ignorable. Facebook even lets you close them, and after you do so enough times it seems to stop showing them to you
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by sorbus 16y ago
Possibly because the necessary switching apparatus would be a nightmare with modern technology, and would have been entirely unworkable even 20 years ago. That said, it's a really good idea, and one which I would like to see attempted - or
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by sorbus 16y ago
Interestingly enough, a car which simply refuses to drive in hurricanes, hailstorms, white-out snow, and so forth would be rather more than 20% superior to the average driver. So that's easily dealt with - if insufficient sensory data is av
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by sorbus 16y ago
You're entirely right. Oddly enough, though, this never occurred to me before, even though in retrospect it's ridiculously obvious. Always interesting when that happens.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Asus has superior build quality to Apple (measured in failures within 3 years; Apple is around 17% and Asus is 15%, as I recall), lots of original designs (they started the netbook craze, and have a line of laptops made with bamboo), and th
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by sorbus 16y ago
> Should cause enough of a problem that they open it again. Do you have any examples of negative publicity leading to paypal correcting their mistake? I've never seen anything like that in any of the stories about paypal freezing accoun
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by sorbus 16y ago
Comments which complain about articles polluting HN and say nothing other than that the commenter is flagging it are polluting HN, and are against the guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's only going to get worse. Just look at all the efforts to stop evolution from being taught in schools, and, in at least one state, to make it illegal for teachers to grade answers as incorrect if the answer is supported by the religious
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by sorbus 16y ago
Chrome already has full-text search of every page I visit (and keeps it around forever, as far as I can tell). The only advantage this seems to offer is letting it be accessed from anywhere, and storing it in the cloud. I'm very unsure whet
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by sorbus 16y ago
> When you're using your true identity people will generally behave a lot better. Because obviously no one has fake facebook accounts, and the barrier of creating an account with a plausible sounding name in order to troll people is a h
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by sorbus 16y ago
Yeah, probably. Would take more effort to get balanced, though, and using an equation to see how much it's counted for would make the code more complex, and harder to modify on the fly. It's not uncommon for spam to be alive for a while eit
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by sorbus 16y ago
As I recall, you need 50 karma to flag items. The logic behind this is preventing bunches of new users from flooding the site and knocking off all of the new articles - as with 10 flags, an article under 10 points is auto-killed, or somethi
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by sorbus 16y ago
There is no "why" in this article; it is merely about the how.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Either it's just you or it's started working in the hour since you posted this.
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by sorbus 16y ago
As I define it: No packet shaping based on what service users are accessing; all packets are created equal. Wikipedia also has a quite good definition. A key line from it: "The principle advocates no restrictions by Internet service provide
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by sorbus 16y ago
For the casual user, temporarily losing all their emails while google recovers from backups is far, far better than permanently losing all of their emails when their hard drive crashes and they realize that they had forgotten to backup.
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by sorbus 16y ago
When the value it provides to the customer becomes less than how much you're selling it for. If someone is able to make >$20 (and the cost of their time) as a result of buying that book, then it's worth it.
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by sorbus 16y ago
"Fortunately our products can detect and remove Trojans like this, and for home use they're free! If you would like to install Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition, click on the banner below." Hmm.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I would assume that the reasoning is that most people don't need or want a numeric keypad.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Taking information from a file and acting on it is something like for $line in `cat file` do encode stuff done You would probably want to use awk or something similar to split up the lines into multiple values, though. It's
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by sorbus 16y ago
I will withhold being impressed until I see actual benchmarks. At this point it's all marketing.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Controlling the system people use allows more opportunities to profit. It's the exact same basis that almost every corporation operates on: control what people are using so that you can monetize them (either by charging them directly, or ch
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Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators(blog.makezine.com)
14 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
Features Win7 has that OSX doesn't: - Easily installed on any machine you want. - Hardware generally has two or more mouse buttons. - Will run more games and software than OSX. - Does not come with an app store.
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by sorbus 16y ago
pg@ycombinator.org, I believe.
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by sorbus 16y ago
As far as I know, the only way to do this is to email PG and ask him to do it for you.

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