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by swernli 17y ago
That's a good point that goes a long way to proving Apple right. Yes, a small subset of people create software that the rest use. And every day, that small subset desides what that software can and can't do. Apple decided what their soft
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by swernli 17y ago
Good point. I made the classic mistake of forgetting to correct for my own bias :). That said, I at least appreciate that they make fun of the parties on both the left and right, which are more and more becoming paradies of themselves rat
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by swernli 17y ago
I'm curious; what do you think is the OS that's ready for the desktop? By the high score of your comment, I'm guessing a lot of people agree with your sentiment, and I don't understand your distinction between what is "ok for some users" a
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by swernli 17y ago
In my opinion: The Daily Show and/or Colbert Report. I guess you could say their only bias is toward comedic pessimism. Is it sad to say that a comedy network has become what I believe to be the least biased news? Or is it just our moder
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by swernli 17y ago
To be fair, I think the article (and the original paper) do more than bug sniffing; the code that fails test cases is being automatically modified to eliminate the bug. The "Do what I mean" programming idea is certainly a good one. One of
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by swernli 17y ago
The HN insular social circle is abnormal.
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by swernli 17y ago
Could have been from some of the plant life. There certainly seemed to be an abundance of native flora and fauna that took sufficiently different forms from the standard leafy greens that it isn't implausible that the "feathers" were reall
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by swernli 17y ago
Ouch! $22/month for 512 kbps? I pay about $15/month for 30 mbps and at this point couldn't imagine living without it. Downloading big updates, videos, game demos, you name it, and by the time you're done naming it you're almost done downl
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by swernli 17y ago
I too enjoyed the movie quite a bit. I can agree that the plot was simplistic, but I for one did not find the dialog horrible. Like the review points out, it comes off like something mixing elements of Disney movies like "The Lion King" and
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by swernli 17y ago
To respond specifically to the issue of multitasking, I am still surprised that this is such a big deal. Maybe I have atypical phone usage patterns, but the only application I have every wished I could run in the background is Pandora. An
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by swernli 17y ago
From pg's essay "Hiring is Obsolete" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html ), Have you ever noticed that when animals are let out of cages, they don't always realize at first that the door's open? Often they have to be poked with a
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by swernli 17y ago
Ah, now I understand the distinction you are making. And I agree; get fewer servers, not the same number of slightly more efficient ones, and then you can talk about saving money on power.
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by swernli 17y ago
The number is correct, the wording is backwards. Studies have shown that waist-to-hip ratios (WHR) for women considered attractive within their cultures hover around average of 0.7. Interestingly enough, variation in attractive frontal WH
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by swernli 17y ago
While I agree that for those numbers, 5% to 10% savings isn't worth the effort, this isn't a good reason to dismiss saving by reducing data center power. Nissan recently starting rolling out virtualization solutions for some of their datac
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"64 bit" Snow Leopard defaults to 32 bit kernel(arstechnica.com)
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by swernli 17y ago
So they fully admit that the iPhone "cannibalized iPod sales" but then said that they "didn't count the iPhone because the product is also a wireless handset." So all this is saying is that among mp3 devices sold that weren't also phones i
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by swernli 17y ago
Harvard never got free hot breakfast on weekday mornings. There is a nearly $800 a year meal plan, from which hot breakfast was just eliminated without changing the cost. Very different than losing the free coffee.
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The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey(blogs.zdnet.com)
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by swernli 17y ago
I think this is pretty cool. I could imagine it being even more useful (at least to me) if it were one of those iPhone-esque websites. That way I can lazily grab my phone, tap my bookmark for your site, and then flick through the schedule
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Wii Hacker is working on Microsoft's Natal(news.cnet.com)
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by swernli 17y ago
I find it interesting that no comments (as of writing this) touch on the other intersting issue the article brought up: that Americans "prefer technology, not radical politics, to propel social change." I think that's an interesting point,
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From 2005: XP adoption slow for Companies, "problematic"(betanews.com)
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by swernli 18y ago
My theory is based on personal desire, and some early and very fake images of the iPhone 3G: video calling. A major desire for many users has been the ability to record video. If they give the chance to record it, they would also be press
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by swernli 18y ago
I agree with your points about Wal-Mart not translating to creative marketing, but something many news agencies are missing out on in reporting this is that he used to work for Wal-Mart but is actually leaving Dreamworks, where he worked in
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by swernli 18y ago
Here is an arc version of the struquine macro: (mac strq (name . slots) (withs (bname (coerce (string name "#") 'sym) creator `((def ,(coerce (string name "?") 'sym) (thing) (is (car thing) ',bname))