superuser2

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by superuser2 16y ago
Sell to people who jailbreak. Take advantage of Cydia. You just won't be able to reach people as easily (just like if you don't like Amazon's terms you make people jump through hoops to put your books on a Kindle).
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by superuser2 16y ago
You wouldn't download a car?
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by superuser2 16y ago
Yep. The thing for me was that trumpet was not anywhere near "jamming with friends" the way choir is - I didn't like anyone in band, and after 45 minutes of playing I'm winded and my brain is deprived of oxygen, whereas 45 minutes of singin
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by superuser2 16y ago
I have a 3.95. I could've earned that .05 back by letting academics consume my life, but I didn't. I was a terrible trumpet player (and hated the trumpet) until I left band for choir in middle school, and I could have been a lot better at i
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by superuser2 16y ago
Your iPhone is limited by default but you are free to sever your relationship with Apple (jailbreak) and use it as you see fit. Software is different.
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by superuser2 16y ago
I am not renting the privilege of using my computer from Intel; I purchased a piece of hardware they happen to produce. I own it now, and I shouldn't have to maintain a relationship with Intel any more than I should have to continue paying
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by superuser2 16y ago
If you're writing desktop software for a platform, I think it's perfectly reasonable to demand you buy into that desktop OS. Windows devs can test their web apps on Safari for free , from right inside Windows. Why should I have to drop $20
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by superuser2 16y ago
Do you know of any recorded instances of Creators sprouting out of nothing? You're making an implicit assumption; something exists, therefore it was created by an intelligent being. If God exists, this has to apply to Him as well, otherwise
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by superuser2 16y ago
I suspect transfers are archaic (inconvenient, expensive, and take several days or weeks to process) in the US because otherwise the credit card and payment processing industries would cease to exist.
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by superuser2 16y ago
I've investigated this possibilty and found that OpenFire (Jabber server) is very easy to work with. You can control user account centrally, and create rooms and assign who can access which rooms, from a web GUI. I've yet to see an IRC serv
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by superuser2 16y ago
Because it's a smaller cost than the money you could lose on a car with a troubled past.
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by superuser2 16y ago
Why is he picking a fight with the Kindle? Isn't reading when we'd otherwise be completely idle a good thing?
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by superuser2 16y ago
When I first heard of this attack I'm pretty sure the solution to that is a high-gain antenna. I don't know how often that actually works, but it's theoretically supposed to.
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by superuser2 16y ago
But.. but... but... we're an Enterprise! Any language that doesn't require writing a Dao and a DaoImpl and a Service and a ServiceImpl and a Controller and a ControllerImpl and an extremely verbose JSP template and about a hundred lines of
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by superuser2 16y ago
I assume there are workarounds to get some amount of data for free, but the fact is, if you want high volumes of professionally-gathered data, you pay the people who do that for a living. Give Dun and Bradstreet a call, or use their web int
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by superuser2 16y ago
(This was an intentionally vague question, but I'm talking about visual design of websites and applications. That could be anything from principles/theory to reusable elements/templates to Photoshop/HTML/CSS tutorials. There seems to be les
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Ask HN: Modern web design resources?
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by superuser2 16y ago
Reddit has long-running jokes mocking the idea of paying for websites. The backlash to being asked to pay for anything on the internet would be massive. Strange, because you'd think a community of programmers would appreciate what the engin
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by superuser2 16y ago
I agree completely. I'm basically cribbing from my reply to a different comment, but the spoiled kids aren't the ones whose parents never punished them; the spoiled kids are the ones whose parents made it look like the real boundaries d
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by superuser2 16y ago
Timeouts aren't about punishment (at least, not the way they were used in my house). I think it's difficult for people who were raised that way to see the discipline side of parenting as anything other than coercing your child to behave, bu
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by superuser2 16y ago
Sometimes they quote/summarize too much rather than directing you to the source, I'll grant you that, but as a website TC still has its place. If I want information about who's getting funded/doing what, that's where I go. I don't think it
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by superuser2 16y ago
Not really. TechCrunch is in my Rss reader; Woot is not. Most blogspam is on little unheard-of blogs to make a few bucks on ad revenue from that particular post; TechCrunch serves as an aggregator, kind of like HN.
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by superuser2 16y ago
I can see that being true, but they're both composites. I don't know, the left one is what I'd call "hot", though it's not really attractive to me. The right one seems to fit "cute" much better.
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by superuser2 16y ago
I agree. The one on the left seems to have the hallmarks of objective attractiveness, but I could much more easily see myself spending time with the one on the right.
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by superuser2 16y ago
You make them respect you by understanding what they do and treating them like what they are: the people who create value for your business. You show actual respect for the work they do and give them interesting things to work on. I think F