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by tjmc 15y ago
DHH declared the solution in 2007 [1] - apparently nobody needs offline applications! [1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/347-youre-not-on-a-fucking-pl...
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The thing I'd really like to see in the book (but don't expect to) is why Jobs said no to the Amiga team back in 1983-84 when they were desperately looking for investors. This was prior to the Mac being launched and Commodore eventually buy
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by tjmc 15y ago
I'm one of them and I don't see a compelling enough reason to upgrade at this point (iPhone or Android). Siri looks interesting, but it's not a feature worth locking myself into another 24 month contract for. All the Australian networks are
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by tjmc 15y ago
Of course - only sue politicians, the media and anyone else with political influence. Give them 2 options: 1. Pay - where all proceeds will be used to acquire more frivolous patents and lawyers to sue them again 2. Change the law to ban all
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Breathless speculation penned by yet another 3D printing evangelist with less consideration of material science than your average ant. Wake me up when you know what Young's Modulus is.
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Given that you could buy a ticket to fly from London to New York faster in the 70s than you can today, you'd have to admit he has a point in certain areas. On the other hand, I just sent this reply from my phone on a hydrogen powered bus in
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by tjmc 15y ago
That may be true for the Mac, but the vast majority of users were on Windows. And on Windows, IE would have won the browser wars on its own merits without Microsoft's dirty tricks. As the GP said - IE3 was better than Netscape 3 and IE4 was
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Smart phones are computers that are capable of phoning too. Netbooks and laptops aren't ideal for entering a lot of numbers either because they don't have a numeric keypad. Calculator keyboards are laid out better for working with equatio
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Slightly different issue. Entering equations quickly and accurately is very hard with a virtual keyboard. I'd like to use my phone rather than a calculator in situations when i dont have a full pc handy. I've used Maple extensively and it's
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Yep - I'd definitely pay for a stylish hardware icalc keypad over a whole calculator. Im studying mech engineering. So it needs to be more than just a numeric keyboard - a scientific calc layout with brackets, exponents, logs and trig funct
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by tjmc 15y ago
This is a cool hack, but what I really want is a hardware calculator keypad that interfaces with the iphone. There are some great calculator apps but it's just not usable at speed without physical keys. You could do a nice case with the k
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by tjmc 15y ago
I hear Carol Bartz was available. Guess she'll now have to wait another 12 months or so. Actually on second thoughts I'm thinking Balmer. At least MS employees would be happy...
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by tjmc 15y ago
I found that jarring too. If I brought that seppo bullshit home the cheese n kisses'd be dark as a dingo's kidneys.
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by tjmc 15y ago
Huge props to your dad. Skunk Works ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works ) was where the SR-71 Blackbird was born. From an aviation/engineering perspective it'd be hard to find a better job
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Not at night it isn't. High costs for storage mean that photovoltaic solar will need to be complemented by other sources for a good while yet.
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This poor advice is like saying you can save money by not paying insurance premiums. Of course you can - until something goes wrong. A better lawyer would have been able to amend that contract with minimal fuss. I used to get a legal briefi
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by tjmc 15y ago
I've always seen Yahoo as a "me too" company - the Carl's Jr of the online titans. If they've ever been the best at something they've never stayed there for long. The decline began when they decided search wasn't their core business and por
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by tjmc 15y ago
Agree, but I'd still be happy to lend the Microsoft board my iPhone for a couple of minutes...
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No. However I would pay for content if the bandwidth to stream it was included in the price. Here in Australia most broadband is metered. Globally, most 3G and 4G bandwidth is metered. I'd much rather stream something in HD that I can watch
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by tjmc 15y ago
God I wish Nokia had bought Palm and WebOS. I used to work for Elop and I like him, but my heart sank when he hitched Nokia's wagon to MS.
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Have you considered using a debt collection agency? On the first consulting gig I ever did, I was owed $10K by a client who refused to pay. After months of patience, including offers to let them pay off the debt over time I went to a collec
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by tjmc 15y ago
You're right. Apple have a video of the CNC process here: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/design.html They also use a laser cutter to do the speaker holes and the incredibly fine holes on the front that you only see when the light is on.
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by tjmc 15y ago
Congratulations guys. Airbnb saved our weary butts when a plane delay stranded us in Paris last month. There were no hotels or hostels left at the time, but Airbnb found us a cracking apartment right on the Seine a block away from the Eiffe
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Exactly. One problem that they need to solve before leaving the gravity well again is creating sustainable biospheres - capable of recycling all CO2, waste and water, producing food and, most importantly, keeping the people inside happy, he
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Carmack has a side gig running an aerospace company which includes coding all the control systems and telemetry. Some devs are just prolific.
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Interesting to contrast this advice with the approach of Amy "Tiger Mom" Chua ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870411150457605... ) who advocates strict routine and control and discourages imaginative thinking, participation i
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by tjmc 15y ago
Original paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201100152/ab... (free access until 27 June 2011) This looks like a major breakthrough. Love the nickname - "Cambridge crude". As with all flow batteries, power density is low
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by tjmc 15y ago
Completely agree. Ideally they'd also update their Gracenote matching to match tracks to CDs that people hadn't ripped yet. If not, I guess the race will now be on to build a ripper that can encode as fast as possible at the minimum quality
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That'd be kind of hypocritical on their part. Google makes more advertising revenue off duplicated or scraped content than anyone. Just look at YouTube or Google News.
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You're overlooking health and safety which is still a very legitimate concern. In laissez-faire societies, mine workers die like flies. China (quite ironically as an apparently worker loving state) takes such an attitude and thousands of

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