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by vtail 16y ago
> until you get to apt-get which just slaughters OS X So what's wrong with macports?
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by vtail 16y ago
The syncing problem should go away once all of our files will move to the cloud.
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by vtail 16y ago
Tricks 1-7 are also supported by Ruby - it accepts the same command-line options with the same functionality.
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by vtail 16y ago
> I've used Emacs in the past, but something about the way in which you can navigate code just makes me feel less than efficient in it. Have you ever tried IDO, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings ?
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by vtail 16y ago
TextMate/Ruby = Emacs/Elisp
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LittleDog robot learns how to traverse rough terrain(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by vtail 16y ago|0 comments
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by vtail 16y ago
I don't think it's 0%. That would imply that Facebook has no negotiations power in this dispute. But I think quite the opposite is true: Zynga cannot really afford leaving Facebook platform right now , so they don't have any credible threa
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by vtail 16y ago
My conspiracy theory is that bigger firms are expected to have PR departments, and people working in PR departments are expected to write longer paragraphs to justify their existence.
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by vtail 16y ago
That's a lot of words for saying "Facebook and Zynga entered a 5-year agreement on using Facebook credits in Zynga games, but details of that are not disclosed". Reading all those press releases, I'm wondering who is the target audience for
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by vtail 16y ago
I forwarded this to my (soon to be ex-) wife. I wish I had such an understanding partner...
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by vtail 16y ago
> I don't know how you could expect a delete not to be a delete unless you were familiar with something like git already. Ability to control and be able to reverse any changes you make to the source code tree is an essential feature o
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by vtail 16y ago
Do I read it right that your bill is about $10k/year? Given that their profit margin on a paying customer is not 100%, more like 15-20%, they would probably need 5x as much, or 10k paying customers, to cover the costs.
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by vtail 16y ago
Anybody knows what percentage of these 60,000 apps are actual paying clients? If e.g. 50,000 of these apps are free, even for a modest cost of $3/month to host each one, that quickly adds up to ~$2mn of cash burn / year. Another interesting
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by vtail 16y ago
Many people underestimate the cost to do (proper) system administration, as well as cost/time/skill required to do (proper) scaling
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by vtail 16y ago
Which reinforces Steve Jobs's point that there is no working mobile Flash implementation yet.
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by vtail 16y ago
"Journalists are terrified of this company too. Why? Just ask Jason Chen - the editor at tech blog Gizmodo who got his hands on the next iPhone. Apple's response? They sent in the police, who smashed down Chen's front door, ransacked his ho
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by vtail 16y ago
Well, Microsoft has created their own tests. They argue that tests like Acid3 are testing edge cases and as such are not really useful to test browser behavior in the real world. What I don't understand is why they don't use the latest Chro
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Microsoft Cross-browser Test Results Summary(samples.msdn.microsoft.com)
73 points by vtail 16y ago|82 comments
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by vtail 16y ago
> I believe in doing the right thing as much as the next person but where do we draw the line with expecting too much ethical behavior from people? I personally believe that law is applicable in this case. If you find someone's phone in
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by vtail 16y ago
You can read about e.g. New York Times Co vs United States and decide for yourself whether shield law benefits the society or not.
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by vtail 16y ago
Your intuition regarding California Law is wrong. "One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of ano
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Urinal protocol vulnerability(blog.xkcd.com)
4 points by vtail 16y ago|0 comments
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by vtail 16y ago
I usually buy them in batches, esp. if friends recommend them. Knowing that I have some unread books stimulates my reading :)
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by vtail 16y ago
These were annual figures. I figured out that average Kindle ownership time is about a year assuming growing sales.
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by vtail 16y ago
That's a valid point, although you should note that 800M is a gross number; what Amazon may report in their digital book sales is just their 30% share of the sell. I clearly need to investigate it some more.
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by vtail 16y ago
Well, do you know that both of these books are available for free? http://www.gutenberg.org/ and http://calibre-ebook.com/ are your friends.
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by vtail 16y ago
Yes, that's a fair comment. Anecdotally, though, I bought a dozen or so books in the very first week - that's why the iBooks number looks so low to me.
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by vtail 16y ago
I estimated number of books sold per Kindle as 27 - discussion is here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315532
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by vtail 16y ago
I made this estimate as a follow-up for this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315149 . Please suggest how to make this more accurate, and whether you believe the assumptions above.
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Estimate for number of books sold per Kindle: 27(spreadsheets.google.com)
49 points by vtail 16y ago|43 comments

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