BigZaphod

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by BigZaphod 14y ago
Twitterrific was retina-ready before the retina MBP even came out.
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by BigZaphod 14y ago
You never ever ever ever blindly trust the client to behave a certain way.
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by BigZaphod 14y ago
A patent is not a product.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
This is stupid. 1994? Star Trek: TNG "invented" tablets, too - in the late 80s.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I'm no expert, but this doesn't seem to be any significantly better than a k-d tree, does it? I might be missing something. I find academic papers hard to parse.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I don't think there's any reason to believe they can't have their own rules in this regard - especially since senators in particular represent the state itself and the United States is (was?) a federation of the states, therefore the states
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I'm unsure about the House, but there are a handful of states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisco
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
No, the point is that even if you ban it in order to protect "everyone else", people who insist on being unsafe will find new ways to do so regardless of the law. Banning behaviors is only effective if the ban is actually observed by the pe
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I love this idea and fully support it, but a possibly unintended side effect would be reporting of this event taking a turn towards: "Holy crap, we all rely a lot on Wikipedia! Who are these people who run this global resource, anyway? Can
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
Twitterrific has done this for a long time. It was hard to make it perform well, but not impossible.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
Does anyone know why that pile was valued at $1.1M in the first place? I occationally stack junk in piles myself, so I'm kind of interested in the prospect of turning that habit into a business model...
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I don't know. Perhaps the utter iPod domination was largely a US thing - especially since it went hand-in-hand with Apple coming back from the dead and them not initially having the resources to go global in a big way? I think Apple has bee
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
"Do they expect Apple to continually innovate in a non-competitive market?" Probably, yes, and I would argue there is some reason to believe they would do so. Look at what happened in the MP3 player market: Apple utterly dominated that mark
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
The median age in the US is 36.5 according to this: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_... I have a terrible grasp of things like statistics so I'll avoid making any kind of leap of logic here and suggest this mea
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I can relate to the <write line of code> and immediately switch to Twitter, email, etc. In fact, this is me right now! However when I'm working on something truly interesting and challenging, all the distractions vanish. Tweets go u
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
Well I'm not sure who to believe, but leading off their rebuttal with, "I am not going to begin to decipher their convoluted logic" does not inspire confidence.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
In regards to your second question, check out figure 2 way at the bottom of the article where they have a breakdown of made in us with us parts vs. made in us without us parts, etc.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I don't think that's what it means. I might be wrong, but I got the impression it meant that 75% of the total money spent on motor vehicles ultimately stays in the US in some fashion. Either because it was assembled here or because of deale
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
We did this over 2 years ago. Our 2.5yo son is (so far) growing up with very little exposure to television commercials (he almost never sees them unless we are watching something on Hulu), and we consider that a good thing. Not only that, s
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
Greatest demo ever, IMO, was Future Crew's Second Reality. That utterly blew my mind in 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_aUxbbqWU
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
If you know the perfect solution, I'm sure we'd all love to hear it. All you're doing it tearing me down. You're not offering any suggestions to fix these apparently obvious glaring problems in my idea or the current system.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
No one would be getting paid (by way of tax discount) for a patent unless they're already doing something the market values and therefore generating an income to tax in the first place. It doesn't matter if the income is from use of the ide
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
There's probably problems with this, but... Patents should not be an exclusive license. Instead they should be a limited time income tax benefit. In other words, when you are granted a patent then you get some small percentage break in your
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
This is only a patent. This is not a feature of a shipping product. Hopefully it never will be. Apple patents anything and everything and a ton of them are never really used. Optimistically, perhaps they grabbed this idea solely to prevent
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
Nobody would keep $500,000 in cash sitting around their house, but that's essentially what this guy did.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I have a 2003 WRX which I enjoy greatly. I haven't done any track days or anything with it because I'm too chicken and boring, but it's still great fun. :) Bought it brand new and it is 100% paid for, which is even better. :)
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
I think it's mostly because it's hard to do other things while video chatting. Things like driving or walking or looking something up or typing, etc. If I have a video chat window open, I feel sorta weird when I cover it up and go look some
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
Believe it or not, in addition to the other tidbits people have posted here, Mike was also a professional opera singer in a former life! He's one of the most interesting and real guys on TV, IMO.
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by BigZaphod 15y ago
If the man really wants your location, he can just ask the phone company.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Does it matter?

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