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by sprout 16y ago
Initially, but if they can get enough volume to start differentiating price based on features, a substantial market will show up for people who like the idea of not paying for things they don't want.
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by sprout 16y ago
When you have high-quality documentation available to the public, you don't need specially trained engineers. Apple's secrecy creates an artificial scarcity which they can capitalize on.
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by sprout 16y ago
Personally, I consider fixing test size to basically be an anti-pattern. You're sacrificing UX for design (which while it can be good business is never Good.)
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Specific copyright infringement claims in Oracle vs. Google(osnews.com)
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by sprout 16y ago
How difficult is it to jailbreak an iPhone, install a trojan, and then make it superficially at least unjailbroken? At the least steps 1 & 2 ought to be pretty easy.
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by sprout 16y ago
I stopped reading the article after they wrote that the browser is almost more important than the OS, and then in the next paragraph said that Windows Phone 7 shows promise.
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by sprout 16y ago
It has to have a pretty modern WebKit build. Compare to Windows Phone 7's IE7/8 hybrid...
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by sprout 16y ago
I still don't see any evidence that it will scale - especially in the US. Most areas still have signs, so the areas without signs remain exceptions that put people on the defense.
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by sprout 16y ago
The last time I tried to buy a ticket, I failed to find anyone among them who recognized + as a valid character to have in an email address. I'm not sure whether their engineers are incompetent, or just looking to spam me. Well, I know the
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by sprout 16y ago
I think iOS was already on every sysadmin's shitlist for quite a while. I remember some of my friends on the networking side complaining a good deal about the iPad's DHCP lease shenanigans.
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by sprout 16y ago
I have to wonder to what degree this sort of thing mistakes specific people's learned adaptation to specific light patterns rather than innate human traits. As someone who has been spending time on computers into various hours of the mornin
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by sprout 16y ago
No, they haven't. There was one recently linked on HN, but it was a fairly recent experiment, and it's far more likely to be attributable to the strangeness of it; people used to signs go into hyper-defensive-driver mode when they get to an
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by sprout 16y ago
Yes, but no one would ever use a hammer by itself. At a bare minimum you're going to need wood, nails, and probably a few saws. C isn't a hammer. Pointer arithmetic is a hammer, and there are other tools at your disposal in C.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'd say saying "I'm a C programmer" is more analogous to saying "I'm a helicopter pilot." You can probably fly a commercial jet or fighter, but they are very different aircraft, with very different use cases and operation. And there will a
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm providing a hypothesis to support the data they claim exist (and I'm inclined to trust that it exists.) Unless you can provide information on case studies where deregulation has provided benefits, I'm going to trust the OP. Data > i
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by sprout 16y ago
/r/netsec remains a great community. /r/coding is low-traffic, but aggressively moderated and has good content/people. /r/web_design is a lot like a slightly more informal version of Hacker News. /r/webdev is very small, but hey, it might p
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by sprout 16y ago
> the capital costs of entering the taxi business are low. Is what I suspect is the key point. Because capital costs are so low, it's easy for anyone to get into the business. Because it's easy to get into the business, you end up with
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by sprout 16y ago
In order to determine the morality of the hypothetical shooting, you must establish who morally deserves sovereignty over Iraq and Afghanistan. (An inherently political question.) If America deserves sovereignty, you're right, it's like rel
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by sprout 16y ago
Flip it around then. I submit that just as the American invaders cannot reasonably be compared to the Nazis, neither can the insurgents. It's hard to say either side in this conflict has the moral high ground, so it's equally hard to say th
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by sprout 16y ago
People want to maximize utility, we'll use money as a proxy, people want to maximize money. I suppose there are economic schools of thought that use other proxies for utility, but you seem to be agreeing with me insofar as the primary stand
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by sprout 16y ago
I especially like how moving a video from one monitor to another requires moving a bulky plastic (glass?) plate from one terminal to another, a plate sufficiently large to hold an entire computer, touchscreen, and information storage for a
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by sprout 16y ago
Or that people don't get graduate degrees with the intent of maximizing their earnings potential. I've often heard it said that the fundamental problem with economics is that it assumes people are rational and have good information. I'd say
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by sprout 16y ago
When it comes to security, people should not re-invent the wheel. An integrated installation and update method makes a lot of sense, and Apple negatively impacts the security of their ecosystem by using criteria beyond malicious intent to b
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by sprout 16y ago
For security and ease of use' sake it really is useful to provide a standardized interface for deploying applications through Apple's own update channels. I don't see why Apple can't manage feature parity with most of the major Linux distri
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by sprout 16y ago
>Even open source web applications don't have this freedom... If wordpress.org were to do this, those users would be in the same boat. It's pretty straightforward to self-host your own WordPress blog. Does WordPress not offer data dumps
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by sprout 16y ago
He didn't say RIM has any of those things. He just said that he's not going to pretend they're unimportant or even actively bad choices just because he hasn't implemented them (which is precisely what Apple does, and why I think they rightl
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by sprout 16y ago
Call me when a distro that implements package signing has shipped Python 3. I know it's a little OT, but I can't take anyone seriously who ships unsigned packages and calls them a distribution.
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by sprout 16y ago
Facebook has in a lot of ways run its course. They're still iterating, but I don't really see it benefiting users much. I don't see a sale to Apple benefiting users much either, but the fallout could be interesting. If I were him I might se
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by sprout 16y ago
I think you managed to demonstrate precisely why concision is overrated. In your quest for concision you used an obscure reference to a facet of an author's literary career most of us were unaware of, thus completely obscuring your point an
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by sprout 16y ago
I hate to be so flippant, but do you not care where your money is? If money is hard to track, it's hard to tell who has been paid. Money laundering, for example, would be easier if money were harder to track. So... I can't imagine that maki

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