angus77

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by angus77 15y ago
GPL violations are copyright violations. Where's the hypocrisy?
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by angus77 15y ago
All that means is that Japanese young people are getting married later than was customary 30 years ago. For the eldest son, it's still expected in some families that he will never move out, even after getting married (my brother-in-law w
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by angus77 15y ago
ATMs in banks and train stations, sure, but not the ones in 7-11s. (You'll notice nandemo said "in convenience stores").
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by angus77 15y ago
"Bullshit" is a lack of concern over whether what you've said was true or not. "We’re not tracking you when you’re logged out" was a straight up lie.
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by angus77 15y ago
Maybe the deal didn't go through.
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by angus77 15y ago
Funny, I seem to run into people everywhere saying you can't trust Wikipedia. Where are all these people who take it as Gospel?
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by angus77 15y ago
I think that definitely depends on where you live. Here in Shizuoka, in the 90s, pretty much all big public works projects came to a standstill. Roads they were building just stopped being built partway through construction. A few years
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by angus77 15y ago
Isn't it weird that this article is trying to squash the myth of the "lost decade"--the 1990's--by Japan's affluence since 2000? Big screen TVs, advanced cellphones, high-speed internet, etc etc.
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by angus77 15y ago
There's a lot of diversity in North American comics, just not in their sales. All the diversity gets shoved into the back corner of the store, where only those already "in the know" would dare venture. Check out Fantagraphics and Drawn &#
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by angus77 15y ago
I hate it when I don't know why I'm being downvoted---did I make some kind of error? did I word things wrong? or do people just disagree with me? What if there were a separate "flag" that people could click for trolls and spam, but when you
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by angus77 15y ago
The packages are text files, not executables.
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by angus77 15y ago
When e-readers get down to the $10 price point, I'll certainly consider buying a stack for my kids!
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by angus77 15y ago
I just about upvoted you until you threw in that last parenthetical comment.
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by angus77 15y ago
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow...
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Apple threatens tiny Luxembourg bistro AppleADay(itworld.com)
1 points by angus77 15y ago|0 comments
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by angus77 15y ago
The article wasn't about agreeing or disagreeing with Stallman's beliefs, it was about all the comments that inevitably pop up about how fat, weird, smelly, unkempt, etc. he is, which has absolutely nothing to do with his beliefs.
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by angus77 15y ago
Tablets?
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by angus77 15y ago
Is there an advantage to this for someone who owns no Apple products and has no iTunes account? EDIT: Looking at http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_compa... it looks like the only clear advantage ALAC has is iTunes/iDe
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by angus77 15y ago
But that's taken from all the software available in the repos, not the software that's actually installed on people's systems. For instance, the pie chart shows slices for both Gnome and KDE. How many people have both installed on their
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by angus77 15y ago
I agree with a lot of what you've written, except for one of my favourite topics that you've stumbled across--- the idea that increasing education funding will result in more education. I've pointed out a couple of times on hn that Canadian
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by angus77 15y ago
I don't have hard numbers, but I wold like to point out that Japanese students spend more days per year and longer hours in school, as well as hours of cram school on top of it for most of them, than Canadian schools, and yet Canadian stude
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by angus77 15y ago
The thing with the winding streets is that they came out organically---nobody planned them that way. You can't really fix that without doing something horribly draconian. The newspaper inserts, magazines and websites, though...you'd think
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by angus77 15y ago
Wow. I've only owned Toshiba phones (on both au and SoftBank) before I got my HTC Desire, and making a call was always a matter of clicking the 電話帳 button and selecting the name. Although I've used other people's phones plenty of times, a
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by angus77 15y ago
Except that most people (even Japanese people) don't know his name.
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by angus77 15y ago
Canada's got at least the diversity the US has, and yet regularly ranks quite high in worldwide educational standards. Edit: added the following link http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-ed...
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by angus77 15y ago
Who's forcing whom to do anything? Why is having the option to do something such a bad thing? Windows gives its users plenty of opportunity to tinker. Most of them don't bother. With the ipad, however, the option itself is taken away.
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by angus77 15y ago
I have an HTC Desire, and the Twitter and Facebook apps are always turning themselves on. I can kill them, but I can't prevent them from coming back on. And I don't even have a Twitter account! Why is so unreasonable to want to free up so
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by angus77 15y ago
One point Jobs' father made was that he was surprised Steve didn't contact him to find out information about his family's medical history. I was adopted, too. I never had any inclination to track down my birth parents (not out of anger or a
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Barnes & Noble Removes DC Comics After Exclusive Amazon Deal(pcmag.com)
1 points by angus77 15y ago|0 comments
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by angus77 15y ago
When Jobs "stepped down", he remained on the board of directors. He became remarkably less active, but certainly wasn't presented as being "gone".

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