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by sorbus 15y ago
> Point #3 is purely a UI consideration, one where electronic textbooks could easily outdo their paper counterparts. Emphasis added. Until they do, it's still an issue. > The Internet and electronics will turn learning upside down
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Buying Kindle books and owning it forever is old news- but now you can rent them too. Thanks for pointing that out; I've removed issue 4, because it's really just the product of my tired mind. Having the entire text searchable is a re
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by sorbus 15y ago
As a college student, I see a few problems with switching purely to electronic textbooks. 1) I would have to verify in every class that it's okay to be using a laptop or tablet - that's been the case in most of the classes I've had, so it's
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by sorbus 15y ago
Well, I look like an idiot now. That's what I get for not going back to reread an article before making a claim about what it says, I suppose.
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by sorbus 15y ago
People claiming that something won't work is not a good heuristic for finding things that will work. It may be the case that people say that many ideas that turn out to work won't, but they are overshadowed by all of the ideas that people s
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by sorbus 15y ago
There was some discussion on this a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765834
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by sorbus 15y ago
The article does not make the claim that his raise was lower than the rate of inflation. If it was, then yes, it was effectively losing money.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> e-mails to travel with the speed of photosynthesis Am I the only person who found this metaphor a bit jarring? It seems very much like the author trying to make himself sound more cultured or intelligent, unless he's trying to say som
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by sorbus 15y ago
He doesn't lose money, he gets a smaller raise.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> especially since HN fades the text until it's near impossible to read, making discussion harder. You can highlight the text to make it readable.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Well then, you were entirely correct. I suppose that my search was both fairly cursory and didn't include all of the right search terms. I find it very surprising that this is the first I've heard of it, though; the "apple stole from xerox"
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by sorbus 15y ago
> They paid Xerox for a license to commercialize the technology via a stock deal, and then they spent significant effort refining it to make a consumer product. You are the first person I've ever heard make that claim. The only suppor
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by sorbus 15y ago
> which was announced after the iPhone The first iPhone was announced on January 9, 2007. The LG was announced on December 12, 2006. Your timeline seems to be a bit off. > I made a good, rational argument, but since I'm not in agree
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by sorbus 15y ago
Epoxy the wires you absolutely need into place, fill the rest of the ports with epoxy, and put the computer in a locked metal box, with only the power button revealed. If someone is so committed to getting access that they would try to stri
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by sorbus 15y ago
> The key is UX. I'm still waiting for an easy way to easily add one person to multiple circles without repeated click-drags... Circle auto-discovery (or suggestion) would be even better. While it's not auto-discovery or suggesting circ
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by sorbus 15y ago
> sounds like not that rare. Or is it rare just because doctor couldn't diagnose it? The highest incidence of Kawasaki Disease is in Japan, at 0.175% (175 cases per 100,000 children younger than five). In the UK, it's around 0.008%, tho
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by sorbus 15y ago
Needless editorializing in the title, that isn't mentioned at all by the article. (In case the article's title is changed, it's currently "Finally we can stop pretending that itunes helps the music industry").
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by sorbus 15y ago
There are already applications which do this, or things like it. There's a social network based on Dropbox called Frenzy[1], which seems to do most of the things that your proposed DropChannels would do, and plenty of applications that auto
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by sorbus 15y ago
Just because something is not a fundamental human right does not mean that it's not possible to have a monopoly over it. Monopolies are a problem, regardless of what they're providing.
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by sorbus 15y ago
While I'm not in any way a lawyer, that's the advice I'd give too. There seems to be little potential for confusion between a TV platform and a social network (trademarks are within a field of business, so two different trademarks could use
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by sorbus 15y ago
Consult a lawyer. That's really the only advice that anyone can give at this point, other than that you should do your best to avoid getting into a lawsuit with Google.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Does it help to solve the problem of keeping the community from degrading? That seems to be the main thing that PG cares about when adding features to HN. If the only thing it make easier is targeting submissions for maximum karma and visib
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Will there even be decent gaming under java? (angry birds does not count) Minecraft is written in Java. > When will ... even more specialized medical/industrial/scientific software be available for android? Presumably when the peo
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by sorbus 15y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything in that article that suggests that the military perpetrated the attacks. Would you care to explain further? EDIT: While a researcher with the US army was accused, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that
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by sorbus 15y ago
Email them and ask politely? According to the second paragraph of the article, they're doing a gradual transition over the next few weeks, beginning with Pandora One subscribers. There doesn't seem to be a way to opt-in to get it immediatel
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by sorbus 15y ago
> From the link: Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. The real definition, from wikipedia: "Capitalism is an economic system st
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by sorbus 15y ago
I used to have a bash script that would automatically comment out and uncomment lines in /etc/hosts (using sed, as I recall), as well as having an automatic timer so it would block access after ten minutes or so. Come to think of it, I coul
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by sorbus 15y ago
There's a market for speed dating, and some people think that speed dates are too fast, so spontaneous location-based dates probably have some market. I'm not sure how big it is, though.
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's one of the biggest pieces of mainstream technology news right now, and though that might be because of the exclusive aspect of it (remember the PR firm that offered invites to other PR firms as a way of getting contacts?), it's also be
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by sorbus 15y ago
So, some quick math: The average user downloads 83 apps. 15 billion apps have been downloaded. There are a bit over 180 million iOS devices. $2.5 Billion has been paid out to developers; that's about $14 per user. Since the average price of

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