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Microsoft Surface RT Pricing Announced(nbcnews.com)
1 points by swernli 14y ago|0 comments
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AT&T keeps screwing over iPhone customers(mashable.com)
3 points by swernli 14y ago|0 comments
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Google shutdown their weather API?(goingtorain.com)
2 points by swernli 14y ago|3 comments
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by swernli 15y ago
This is exactly what Microsoft has been building towards with the Xbox. The espn app on there is fantastic, and just added the ability to watch two events in split screen, while watching a customized news/score crawl at the bottom of the sc
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Win7 overtakes Win XP in global marketshare(zdnet.com)
1 points by swernli 15y ago|0 comments
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by swernli 15y ago
Yes, it would help show that the term "app" is generic, but that isn't really Amazon's claim. It's a bit more subtle than that. They are claiming that "app store" is a generic term for a store that sells downloadable applications. Apple
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by swernli 15y ago
Your response reminds me very much of Atlas Shrugged. That idea is central to the book. I recommend it as an interesting read, though not everyone cares for Aynn Rand's style.
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Microsoft makes tool to port iOS apps to Windows Phone 7(news.cnet.com)
3 points by swernli 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft to release Kinect SDK for PC(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by swernli 16y ago|0 comments
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by swernli 16y ago
That's exactly the problem. From what I've seen, the reason people don't want to hire overqualified applicants is because they know those people would be doing exactly what you are advising: coasting in the job for 3 months while waiting fo
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by swernli 16y ago
I think that's exactly the point: while those myriad of technologies allow you to mitigate some of the downsides of distance, they still don't have the accidental factor that random hallway conversations have. I can walk by someone having
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by swernli 16y ago
So funny, and so true: "When I get a text alert, it always makes me happy, even before I read the message. When my phone rings, I think, Uh-oh, what fresh hell is this?"
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Gartner: Microsoft "dominates" enterprise email and calendar(gartner.com)
3 points by swernli 16y ago|0 comments
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Honors course using Starcraft(technologyreview.com)
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by swernli 16y ago
The term "Face Book" as a resource for seeing peoples names and a info along with a photo in a less formal yearbook-style setting is not new at all. My high school had a "Face book" in paperback form that was distributed at the beginning o
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by swernli 16y ago
I have a weird theory about that, actually. I have seen some similar issues in the Seattle area when moving from one part of the city to the next; the signal is at full strength, but the call suddenly drops, almost as if I'm crossing a bou
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by swernli 16y ago
I can't believe there hasn't been more buzz about this. I own an iPad already, but I still find myself wanting one of these. Toshiba needs to do something to get some Apple-style publicity behind this so people can see what's coming. More
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Libretto: Toshiba's dual-touchscreen UMPC(youtube.com)
1 points by swernli 16y ago|1 comments
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by swernli 16y ago
Funny, because this particular article seems to argue the opposite. Two places in particular stand out to me where the article raised the specter of automation and outsourcing to scare people away from engineering-type jobs: >Meanwhile
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by swernli 16y ago
> There are huge ranges of jobs that a humanities degree qualifies you for that you can't get without one--- even a bunch of stuff that's unrelated to the degree, like HR or various secretarial jobs. I think that's exactly the problem.
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by swernli 16y ago
Fair point (though those numbers only include Xbox360, PS3, and computer, not the myriad of mobile incarnations). There could be a lot of RTS players out there who have been quiet over the years, just waiting for this opportunity. But the
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by swernli 16y ago
No, that is not a lot of StarCraft players. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (a game I have not interest in, personally) sold 4.7 million units in it's first day. That's 3 times as many units in 24 hours as the entire year of StarCraft sales
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by swernli 16y ago
> The benefit of a highly expressive language is that you can make your code more obvious. I completely agree with your point about the expressiveness of poetry. Yes, there is some high initial investment in understanding poetry (in spo
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Taiwanese tablet makers switch from Android to Windows 7(computerworld.com)
1 points by swernli 16y ago|0 comments
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by swernli 16y ago
My guess is that much of the syncing and streaming will require the devices to be on the same local subnet/wifi. Otherwise things get hairy, as you pointed out.
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by swernli 16y ago
Proof of concept can also mean a demonstration that the technology is effective, not just "I got a bunch of users and I think I might be able to monetize them." If he's patenting a method of distribution, I'd assume the former is more usef
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by swernli 16y ago
But the time required to learn a new technology, at least enough to use it successfully, is much lower for "millenials." And it's scary low for the kids in middle school now, who learned how to spell from animated computer programs and cou
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by swernli 16y ago
Sorry for the accidental downvote. I was trying to upvote and missed!
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by swernli 16y ago
Maybe that's what all this discontent with Facebook is growing toward. As people look around and realize that their relationships aren't really being enhanced by this new technology, but instead trivialized and put to work for advertising d
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by swernli 16y ago
Couldn't an HTML parser be art? I don't think of an a parser as being like the wood used for a sculpture. The HTML itself is the wood, and perhaps the parser is the lathe. I think there is a false dichotomy between tools as purely functiona

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