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by tx 18y ago
Dell charges $1-2 per crapware install, but sometimes those are free if Dell feels like they add value. Vista Basic, OEM edition, is probably $50 (I am guessing about this one). This requires 20-25 cases of infection with useless shit to of
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by tx 18y ago
With laptops, there are 3 things to be worried about: video, wireless and suspend/resume. Video: Always Intel integrated. Wifi : Anything from Intel Suspend/Resume: Thinkpads
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by tx 18y ago
"Desktop" is too broad of a definition. Gnome/Nautilus already kick Finder's ass, but is it enough to recommend Ubuntu over OSX to my parents? No. What Linux needs, is PC manufacturer's support. I am not talking about drivers here, I'm talk
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by tx 18y ago
What I don't get is why aren't housing prices falling even further? In my recent memory (I moved to US in 2000) house prices rose by 200-400% and they haven't fallen nearly as much lately. A decent houses/condos in all interesting US metr
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by tx 18y ago
Could not agree more. I know it first hand that wedding photographers are probably the most underpaid kind: even though I love photography, but sitting in a quiet cubicle writing 5 lines of Java a day and hacking on your own stuff for fun a
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by tx 18y ago
I have to disagree: founders of the most successful and admired companies stick around for long, long time. Neither of Brin, Page, Gates, Moore or Yang think there are more interesting activities than running their companies. Maybe that's w
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by tx 18y ago
I guess people at FusionCharts aren't happy. It's hard to be a commercial software tools/libraries company these days.
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by tx 18y ago
The problem with this is that I want my RAM to run applications on it, not just the OS alone. I want to say to Vista: "fuck off, this is my RAM, for my applications, to solve MY problem, not yours". We don't buy RAM to run operating systems
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by tx 18y ago
What has changed? I just bought a new laptop with Vista on it. The poor puppy was spending about 10 minutes to boot up and cool down: HDD activity upon startup was so insane that it was better to let it sit for 10 minutes before you could a
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by tx 18y ago
Raganwald, your writing kicks ass. I wish I've mastered this language well enough to disagree with some of your points [regarding obsolesce of VCs] properly. Have fun in August!
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Ask YC: what desktop software do you want?
5 points by tx 18y ago|5 comments
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by tx 18y ago
What "new and exciting" is on the web? After I dumped Windows, moved to Linux and especially after bought a Mac I actually started enjoying installing and exploring new (to me) software. I can honestly say that these programs changed the
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by tx 18y ago
I’ve installed but not actually used ... Yelp, Movies.app, Facebook, PayPal, NYTimes... What?! Those are apps? That's nice, I want off-browser applications for my favorite sites too, on a regular PC desktop: without annoying login screen
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by tx 18y ago
There's a marketing play here, you see how the slash separates two types of future customers? "Cloud computing" - for those who believe in it and "web browsing" for the rest of us. :-)
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by tx 18y ago
Why would that industry be worried? These machines aren't replacing more powerful laptops nor desktops: I bet people are buying them as an addition to a regular computer. I was shopping for EeePC and reading reviews of it, and lots of peo
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21 Must-have Scripts for your Favorite JavaScript Library(labs.iamkoa.net)
4 points by tx 18y ago|0 comments
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by tx 18y ago
As for Java on mobile: there are projects that are going that route. I'd wait and see before I postulated whether this is a good idea or not. I'm sure you've seen "Java: Please Wait..." on tiny mobile screens with famous Java logo (cup of
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Tough love: Linux needs more haters(blogs.zdnet.com)
17 points by tx 18y ago|10 comments
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by tx 18y ago
This feature has nothing to do with IE. It's called something like "system file protection" (can't recall exact term). Nearly everything in System32 is protected by this: Windows keeps shadow copies of those files: their attempt at fixing "
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by tx 18y ago
Bezos likes the analogy about Amazon services being "electricity" for other businesses, i.e. you don't to have to own a generator if you operate a restaurant (as they used to back in the day) - just "hook up to the grid" and you're all set.
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by tx 18y ago
Couldn't agree more. His point #3, about IE being integrated "deep" into OS is absurd: IE isn't integrated into anything, in fact IE is just two DLLs, which allows them to "merge" iexplore.exe and explorer.exe, very similar to how conqueror
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by tx 18y ago
Last year we've built a storage unit for IP surveillance cameras where we've written our own filesystem optimized for continuous writing with zero fragmentation. We had only 4MB of RAM available and the requirement was to never use more tha
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by tx 18y ago
The App Engine is just that - a tool to build apps, not startups. Not even programs. Just apps. Look for a startup engine.
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by tx 18y ago
Instead of hundreds per second I see you've switched to billions with a "B" per month? No shit, Sherlock. How about Trillions with a "T" per year? You should also try measuring shit in football fields just to make your arguments more impres
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by tx 18y ago
This is pathetic. How about these two? http://www.aol.com http://www.yahoo.com Or these two? http://live.com http://ask.com When there isn't any technology behind your "look and feel", then "look and feel" is the only thing you've g
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by tx 18y ago
Weird. The problem we're tackling at Pikluk is exactly what #2 is about, yet we weren't even invited for an interview in 07 cycle. Something tells me we should have polished our application more.
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by tx 18y ago
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and other web-based services companies offering functionality and apps for free that Microsoft currently charges a boatload for. What are they smoking? What exactly do Yahoo and Amazon offer that equals to Windows o
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by tx 18y ago
Well... It does exactly what you've described in your question.
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by tx 18y ago
The question is wrong. They should have asked "Who wants to be next Steve Jobs?" I suspect not too many: most technical entrepreneurs are more interested in quickly making a "widget" of some sort and sell out to the first real business that
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by tx 18y ago
I submitted this to Reddit. Vote up: http://www.reddit.com/info/6sclv/comments

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