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by swernli 16y ago
Yep. I can't seem to edit it now, but the first sentence definitely meant have "protects" not "projects."
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by swernli 16y ago
I think the tact that it is hardware might make it a different game. When viewing patents on circuit design or specific hardware devices, there are usually circuit diagrams and drawings. In general, hardware patents have a lot more reprod
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by swernli 16y ago
Whether or not people understand encryption doesn't change how well it projects them. The difference between "encrypted" and "unencrypted and not evil" is like the difference between a car with airbags and a car that has a little sticker o
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by swernli 16y ago
Yes, and children are still taught that Bernoulli's principle is the reason why planes can fly. There are a lot of interesting physics misconceptions that have become widely accepted, but because physics (and perhaps science in general) is
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by swernli 16y ago
There was a post on here a few days ago about just such a distributed system. Diaspora, and it's under development by some current college students looking for crowdsourced funding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321651
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by swernli 16y ago
I've been saying this about Google for years. When a company makes money of off advertisements and gives away services for free, the people taking the services are not customers, and the free services are bait.
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by swernli 16y ago
Because this isn't something you posted on Facebook, this is just visiting a site and as a consequence having an application added. As the article points out, though the app doesn't show up on your profile, a friend who looks at the applic
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by swernli 16y ago
A fair point (though technically sudoku can have multiple solutions, they are all equally correct; there is no range of correctness, it's just binary). However, I think something like this is useful as a proof of concept for a GA system, b
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by swernli 16y ago
I agree about the timeframe. I think the issue is not when the technology will be ready, but when the money will be ready to embrace the disruption. So the tech will be ready in 5 years, but the products and paradigms wont make their way
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by swernli 16y ago
That makes sense, but misses one important point: most people who are convinced they are superstars are wrong.
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by swernli 16y ago
That is a really good point. Google can survive without specific personal data. Facebook cannot, by definition. That is a major factor in Google's favor.
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by swernli 16y ago
>Google has a much better revenue model since it is not tied to there being a conflict of interest between them and their users. I wholeheartedly disagree. Google is also in the business of using any tracking data it can gather on users
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by swernli 16y ago
Sounds like a return to the AOL model of accessing the internet through a portal. Some part of me likes the idea of a portal by which I access information, but when I stop and think about it, in my mind that portal is the browswer and the d
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by swernli 16y ago
An interesting point, though I don't think it justifies the way the new article chose to change the meaning of the original by rephrasing it. I don't think it's just Windows that encourages x86 use; it's also the fact that the ecosystem is
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by swernli 16y ago
I wish I could downvote articles. This is a shoddy regurgitation of the Techcrunch article from last week, with slightly more formal language (and thus misleading with its implied certainty). Let's compare: Techcrunch: "But our source tel
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by swernli 16y ago
I don't think you've tried the app he is talking about. The ABC app for iPad is for watching the streaming video of recent shows. It has nothing to do with articles or sharing. Call me old fashioned, but when I want to share something wit
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by swernli 16y ago
Makes perfect sense to me, as that is my use as well. I find myself very rarely turning to my laptop at home. iPad for web browsing, video watching when I'm not in front of the netflix enabled xbox 360, and pretty much all communication, wi
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by swernli 16y ago
I completely agree with this usage case, but I still don't miss it on the iPad. I think this comes down to the fact that I'm never trying to balance work and casual browsing on the iPad. At work, I might have several 'tab queues' open in or
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by swernli 16y ago
Which requires that you put it on something. I was trying to point out that even with the existing software keyboard on the iPad, it's easier for me to type standing up one handed than on a laptop or netbook, simply because of the form fac
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by swernli 16y ago
Us.
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by swernli 16y ago
Yes, because a netbook is so much easier to type on while holding it up with both hands...
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by swernli 17y ago
I've found myself feeling the same way too. Unless it's something I really want to do on a computer or device that clearly wasn't designed to do that, my expectation nowadays is that something should just work. Especially when I (perhaps
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by swernli 17y ago
Not true. The background services offered by the OS allow the apps to still receive calls/IMs etc while not in the foreground. According to Apple press release: "These services include background audio, so apps like Pandora can play music i
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by swernli 17y ago
I think it's possible people will get real work done on an iPad, but it just requires that they change some or many of their paradigms of production. Like any new tool, it may enable new forms of creation at the expense of some older ones,
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by swernli 17y ago
I'd say the iPad makes the next step harder, not impossible. Just because you wouldn't want to program on it doesn't mean someone else wouldn't. And if someone wanted to write a novel, nothing is stopping them from starting to write it on
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by swernli 17y ago
I don't think this is the Zune phone. It's more like the Windows Phone equivalent of the Motorola BackFlip: not quite a smart phone, but higher on the foodchain that a text+call only phone. It's designed for social stuff[1], and just soci
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by swernli 17y ago
The search is customizable to either google or yahoo. You can reach that from within the safari settings on the iPhone OS.
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by swernli 17y ago
I think even that is too long. Think about when that one second would occur: when the app you are using needs more memory, you are running low, and the system is closing the least recently used app. Right at that moment is the worst time, u
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by swernli 17y ago
Thank you. This phrases what I've been feeling for years (especially ever since the rush of Twitter based services). When you decide to make yourself dependent on someone else's product, and you don't get a formal partnership agreement from
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by swernli 17y ago
Perhaps a nitpick, but >So, firstly, the quality of games won't change at all, and secondly, it's relatively easy to port a game from the iPhone to a different platform. The only thing they are restricting is using better, more producti

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