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by whiskers 15y ago
I absolutely love my MacBook Air. I run it exclusively in Lion but have virtual machines for Ubuntu and Windows when I need it. The build is amazing, the battery life very good for its size, and I really like the keyboard and screen (though
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by whiskers 15y ago
I'm using a 2011 Macbook Air that came with Lion and from opening the lid to login prompt takes about a second. I'd never shut it down fully because the battery life is so good I don't need to!
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by whiskers 15y ago
Stunning result in this case, and with minimal assets (an image, some CSS) - great! Sadly doesn't obviously transfer well to anything other than a flat glossy object though.
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by whiskers 15y ago
I generally really dislike the Groupon approach and have since it started. The size of the discounts they enforce ensures a constant stream of people convinced they are getting a great deal without really mentally evaluating and doing due d
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by whiskers 15y ago
Can't you just middle click the icon in the dock? Middle click launches a new instance of the app instead of bringing the current instance to the foreground.
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by whiskers 15y ago
I appreciate the concept - I'm just surprised at how dramatically the results have changed (literally) overnight.
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Has Hacker News fallen down the Google listings for everyone?
25 points by whiskers 15y ago|29 comments
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by whiskers 15y ago
"It's two days old, there isn't a lot of software written for it yet. That's not surprising since most developers just got theirs two days ago." So it's unacceptable that the iPad doesn't come preinstalled with all the things that you e
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by whiskers 15y ago
And here's the same product from a UK BASED high street retailer: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/asus-ux31e-ultrabook-silver-11... Price: £999 A "breathtaking" 10% price difference which I'm happy to swallow for Thunderbolt, my preferred O
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by whiskers 15y ago
"breathtakingly expensive hardware and software" Where can you get something considerably cheaper than the Macbook Airs that sport: - 128GB SSD (13") - 1440x900 (13") display - 4GB of RAM - Core i5 - operating system included - thin, ligh
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by whiskers 15y ago
Because of the greater viewing distance to a laptop panel they should still be able to give it the "Retina" tag.
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by whiskers 15y ago
Completely unnecessary comment. But as an anecdotal counterpoint I love glossy screens. The colours are more vibrant and there is less of the "soft fuzz" that matt screen surfaces cause to the image. I use my laptop as a workhorse for hours
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by whiskers 15y ago
I use a late 2008 Macbook and it has a Nvidia 9400M.
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New drug could cure nearly any viral infection(web.mit.edu)
39 points by whiskers 15y ago|5 comments
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Comcast Rolls Out $10 Internet Access For Low-Income Families(consumerist.com)
1 points by whiskers 15y ago|0 comments
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Mac vs. PC: Does it matter, since the browser is everything?(zdnet.com)
2 points by whiskers 15y ago|4 comments
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Google Blames Human for Robot Car Crash(nbcbayarea.com)
2 points by whiskers 15y ago|1 comments
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The Not-So-United Android & iPhone States of America(mashable.com)
4 points by whiskers 15y ago|0 comments
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by whiskers 15y ago
It's not quite what you're asking for, but there is a way to handle array results from functions where you know the number of elements that will be returned. For example: // explode splits the string on the provided boundary // and returns
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by whiskers 15y ago
"The Nexus S is the first commercial smartphone certified by NASA to fly on the space shuttle and to be cleared for use on the International Space Station (ISS)." Am I missing something? I'm sure two iPhones were up there as well.
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by whiskers 15y ago
Absolutely agree!
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by whiskers 15y ago
That's a chassis for 2.5" disks so you'd be looking at 60x1TB disks, and that would mean 3 of those enclosures. Now rack them somewhere and add power - still much more than a couple of grand, we haven't even paid for the disks yet...
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by whiskers 15y ago
Even using 3TB consumer grade SATA disks you'd need 20 of them, an enclosure for 20 disks costs a lot more than a couple of grand.
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by whiskers 15y ago
I'm an idiot.
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by whiskers 15y ago
It's due to be around 4:30pm GMT (edited to correct the time, I was out by an hour)
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Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)(nasa.gov)
172 points by whiskers 15y ago|83 comments
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by whiskers 15y ago
Also on an iPhone. The reason is they're using a 'spoiler' tag that hides the text until it is selected. Unfortunately we can't do that...
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by whiskers 15y ago
I believe the change in policy was that you can now implement VMs/scripting engines but that /all/ of the bytecode/code that will run on them must be packaged within the app (i.e. you can't download more code to run dynamically).
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by whiskers 15y ago
I agree a well crafted native app will produce a better end result however the time and effort to produce can be prohibitively expensive. I'm not sure there are enough published Apps that have been produced with Flash Builder 4.5 to make a
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Adobe Updates Flash Builder and Flex to Support Building iOS Applications(blogs.adobe.com)
47 points by whiskers 15y ago|31 comments

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