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Ask HN: Could we sue Microsoft for IE and wasting our time?
3 points by trebor 15y ago|1 comments
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by trebor 15y ago
My first thought was, "Oh! no you didn't!" Kudos for thinking of it. I think that it's a very viable solution for those who don't have a great need for a graphical IDE. But as a web developer I have to test across all major browsers, so I c
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by trebor 15y ago
I wonder if the Redstone part of the name came from a secret Minecraft fan at HP's headquarters. I hope it succeeds, just to give Intel a run for their money. I really think that ARM is the future of computing (including the desktop).
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by trebor 15y ago
And you imply that there isn't value in having friends and family, spending time with your spouse and kids. When a person has a spouse and kids they have responsibilities to their family. Not everyone has your values either. As someone
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by trebor 15y ago
That's because most people today don't believe in making restitution . They think that if they just pretend they're innocent in front of a court that they'll be acquitted. It's simpler and cheaper to take responsibility by paying for your
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by trebor 15y ago
Yeah, I think I'm mistaken about the definition of Permit—though I know I looked up a similar word that had the definition I gave. Maybe I mixed it with definition with that of License. I'd studied both words out of curiosity and it's been
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by trebor 15y ago
Thanks for setting me straight on those issues. However on Common Law marriage, I'm under the impression that existing Common Law marriages are recognized by the government because persons married outside the country fall under it (no ide
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by trebor 15y ago
This has a simple explanation. A permit, as defined by Black's law dictionary (paraphrased[1]), is authorization to commit an otherwise criminal/forbidden act. Thus if you had a skulking permit that authorizes you to steal and kill, you leg
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by trebor 15y ago
He isn't. Children in America today have no requirement to work for their survival. If a child wants to work for a bigger allowance, why not let them?
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by trebor 15y ago
I find the first sentence to be inadequately motivating. Besides, if DARPA does invent this who's to say they won't turn it on the American populace? And who's to say that folks won't go back to burning their documents?
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by trebor 15y ago
Of course, just like their SATAN project catalogs almost all US internet traffic.
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by trebor 15y ago
Personally, I shred documents to make sure they're destroyed. Why would I ever want to help DARPA come up with a way to reconstruct them?
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by trebor 15y ago
From what I understand of it, the program is for folks who've gone upside down in their mortgage because of inflation and falling real estate value—not bad/underwater loans.
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by trebor 15y ago
But only if the banks say you qualify. I know someone going through the process (last 5 months they've tried) and it isn't fun, or beneficial at this point. Don't buy the hype. It has really stressed them, and despite needing that help (v
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by trebor 15y ago
I've managed to survive without debt thus far. I still have a credit card, but always paid in full for everything that I bought on it. Just watching friends and family struggle with debt is enough to keep me far from it.
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by trebor 15y ago
Wow, that's the clearest explanation I've heard of how we got into this cycle. Good for Dalio being honest and clear!
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by trebor 15y ago
I personally think the cost is 3x that (I doubt a fully loaded Semi gets 12mpg), but when you tack that on top of everything you buy it does affect market prices. I think the biggest cost is in commuting/personal travel. I drive ~19mi to wo
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by trebor 15y ago
Y'think? Most east coast Americans eat salad that comes from the west coast. Now, driving ~2,600 miles in a truck with an efficiency of ~12mpg will cost $736 at $3.40/gal. That's just transportation of SALAD. Add that up for everything we s
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by trebor 15y ago
This is just the stupidity of the "me too!" clones. Just look at clones of Groupon. Or jobs on Elance (at least 20% are "clone this"). Copying is no guarantee of success. At a certain point you have to risk being hated (Jobs' and his produc
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by trebor 15y ago
It qualifies as a "fictional" language because Colin is right: it's just an alternative encoding of the English translation. There's no nuance to it at all, even the Star Wars "language" Mando'a (or however you spell it) is better. Mando'a
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by trebor 15y ago
That was nice of him to do. And I doubt, after the reaction he got, that he'd do it again any time soon.
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by trebor 15y ago
The "safe" lifespan of an SSD, this is just hear-say so don't criticize that, is around 1 year. Any more you get is just a bonus. I think I read that on codinghorror.com... Anyway, I've got a Mac which probably doesn't support the latest, g
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by trebor 15y ago
Because I can only afford a 120GB SSD and have at least that much on my HDD already. Plus reliability is an issue. Any improvement of SSD reliability is a huge gain for them.
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by trebor 15y ago
#define is one of the reasons I don't touch most C code. While yes, you can use it to determine environment and load appropriate modules it is abused so often to either obfuscate "open source" code or to inline something. If #define had bee
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by trebor 15y ago
It hasn't been the case with Fortran or COBOL, IMO. And both are still used, despite being "dead," to maintain legacy systems that companies can't quite afford to replace yet.
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by trebor 15y ago
I have a backup system. It's just that I'd rather lose them than share them—exactly how I said it.
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by trebor 15y ago
I can afford to upgrade my Github account, but I'm a bit cheap when it comes to doing so. I do a lot of experimentation and I'm of the opinion that not everything I do is worthy of sharing. I've partially written a web interface for pianoba
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by trebor 15y ago
> But for my private projects GitHub is totally useless and also expensive, which is why I have been hosting my own Git repo on an instance that I own - it's pretty easy to setup too. Ditto. There's a number of projects that I just won'
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by trebor 15y ago
In other words, we'll regress from having a PC to a net-enabled terminal—they'll just be called "smartphones" and "tablets" instead. Just like computing started it looks like there is a trend to, again, go back to the terminal model.
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by trebor 15y ago
I, for one, am shocked that I didn't see this one coming. Adobe has a great suite of fonts, and with HTML5 and the open web killing flash they'll need some new thinks to keep in the market.

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