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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think the nice thing about Rails is that the core committee tries to make the core framework slimmer by removing features and stuffing them into gems. It's nice that Rails keeps features out that might be considered "core" by others, lik
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Well, the Tesla S is essentially their first consumer electric car. It's like buying the first laptop Apple produced (Powerbook 100) which costs around $6000 in today's dollars.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
John Broder does have an affinity for writing articles about big oil. I don't exactly want to assume he was paid under the table to denounce electric cars, but it's odd for a writer to have 90% of their articles being related to oil: http
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Well, all I'm saying is if it were easy to do, Monsanto probably would have done it already to protect their business model. Unfortunately modifying DNA is not quite as easy as setting compiler flags.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
So companies producing IP in a critical industry like agriculture have no access to IP protection? If anyone is allowed to sell 2G seeds, then Monsanto will make no money, and no future agriculture company will ever spend money on GMO rese
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by veemjeem 14y ago
It's probably possible to do that with fruit (making seedless fruit), but probably not possible with edible seeds like soybean or corn. If we were playing God here, why didn't Monsanto just invent a plant that would produce all different k
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Yes, but they didn't. Your straw-man argument is pretty inaccurate here. The lawsuit isn't about the accidental cross pollination of genes. It's probably closer to duplicating copyright works by someone who bought one copy.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Even if you had an amazing 3D printer that could produce iPads, that doesn't mean you can sell it. You bought Microsoft Office, can you just duplicate it and sell it to your coworkers? I'm sure your software "duplicator" can produce exact
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by veemjeem 14y ago
The difference between Monsanto and Apple is that Monsanto's inventions are non-trivial compared to rounded corners and "slide to unlock" type of utility patents. I doubt anyone without a decent lab could produce any of Monsanto's patents.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Wouldn't that apply to software & video media as well? AMC sells me a movie, then I copy it and send it to all my friends with no loss in quality for free. Companies then spend tons of money inventing DRM and copy protection technique
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Yes, but in this example it's not a shoestring funded startup. It's MSNBC. The parent company decided to shut it down abruptly and there was probably zero time to migrate anything. This stuff happens all the time at big companies when do
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by veemjeem 14y ago
You're just linking to an average drip machine, which obviously doesn't have these problems, but it doesn't help the stackoverflow user who had the original question. The machines he was asking about have a separate container that stores b
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I find it odd that you link to a project that hasn't seen an update in the last 12 years. How old does a project have to be before it is considered "dead"?
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by veemjeem 14y ago
This may sound dumb, but maybe the easiest solution is to put a transparent fake water container that never drains. So anyone who is about to pour water would see that the machine already has water. Since the machine in question is hooked
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I don't think yours is contrary; you're probably a data point in the other 75% that didn't fail. I don't think a single data point could ever be contrary to anything since it would never represent an aggregate. Since I have a dead HP note
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by veemjeem 14y ago
True, but if you have energy that can't be easily stored or transported, it might be worthwhile using that energy to make clean water. For example, the solar panels in 3rd world countries can only charge batteries up to a certain point. T
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I've found iTerm2 to be extremely slow on large buffers compared to Terminal.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I don't think key action matters much to ergonomics. It doesn't change the positions of your hands or fingers. It's like comparing the health benefits of orange juice more pulp vs less pulp.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
My Quicksilver app hasn't changed since 2008. It's an old app but it still works being 5 years old. Maybe you're running poorly built apps and you should be complaining about shoddy developers instead of a shoddy operating system.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
The complaint is that average users are not going to know or understand the difference between "real windows" and "ipad windows". It's also kind of pointless for a salesperson to attempt explaining this to the average user. The surface co
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by veemjeem 14y ago
It should at least note that only 21gb of space is available in the advertising. The consumers won the lawsuit when screen sizes did not match the advertised screen sizes for monitors. Maybe microsoft should release a 32gb version of the t
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but Apple isn't on the PowerPC or MC68k arch anymore. Would you expect them to continue supporting apps that were made to run on the PowerPC & Motorola 68k chips too?
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by veemjeem 14y ago
The key sizes on the Air are identical to the Thinkpad, so I don't see how the ergonomics would be different. Your hand position on the Air would be identical to the Thinkpad. I don't think there are any laptops out there that would have
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I don't see how the ergonomics of the Air would be significantly different than other laptops. It has slightly less pixels on screen, but the screen height and keyboard size remains similar to all other laptops. The only way to fix ergono
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Interesting, but not sure how useful the chart is. It might have more utility with some aggregation in there.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody has invoked godwin's law yet; ie searching for "Nazis who live in California".
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by veemjeem 14y ago
Last phone to use the qualcomm snapdragon s1 processor was the htc droid incredible. It came out in 2010 and reached end of life near the end of 2011.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
You must've been somewhere nice that had fast internet. I think most people back then had dialup, and downloading a single song would take at least 20 minutes on their 28.8k modem.
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by veemjeem 14y ago
I think the most popular digital camera around that time was the the Sony Mavica FD-81. You could insert a normal 3.5" floppy disk into the camera and save pictures directly to it. Our school bought one for $900 and it was shared by the d
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by veemjeem 14y ago
If you're a computer activist, 30 years is a long time. The computers 30 years ago were barely considered desktop computers. The first Mac was released in 1984, about 29 years ago. If you have zero access to computers for 30 years, it's

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