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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Given the wording of the lead paragraph... The FCC challenges...to create apps that empower consumers to monitor and protect Internet Openess ...I'd suggest a challenge to create apps that empower consumers to monitor and protect...spell
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Just a friendly reminder to whoever downvoted me: you're really not supposed to downvote on HN for differences of opinion. I understand a lot of people have a lot invested in Apple, but having used and developed for both devices, this is my
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Dishwashers that allow you to purchase a special, DRM'd version of dishware that will only clean in Apple(tm) dishwashers using Apple(tm) detergent. Cameras that require you to download, install, update, and maintain iTunes before they'll g
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I recently switched from an iPhone to an Android and haven't looked back, even though I still see the iPhone as a best-in-class device. The best Android phones are just a few percentage points shy of the iPhone in usability, and the availab
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Look, I don't want to get into some online vendetta over this. My God. I thought you wrote a good article. I upvoted the thing. I'm even upvoting this comment where you basically take me, one of your loyal readers, apart. It was at 4, now i
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear. What?
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
The link is buried beneath about two feet of content and would require you to read every word of the article to even know it's there. Honest placement for this link would have been top of the fold, when you first mention Gruber...but you (c
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
"I generally enjoy John Gruber’s writings, but today he’s dishing out SEO advice about HTML title tags. Some of it is bad advice." Here's a piece of good advice. When you post in response to someone else's posting, have the courtesy to link
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Not surprising, though removing a problematic app from the app store hardly qualifies as joining the "war" on Wikileaks. It sounds like the app was basically charging people $1.99 to deliver content that was meant to be free.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
When you burn someone in TF2, they scream.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Upboated for recognizing LifeHacker is basically Internet regurge.
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
What we need is more Ron Paul.
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Investigations into the Doomsday Argument(anthropic-principle.com)
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Security Theater: The Ripples Spread to Japan(theatlantic.com)
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Yeah, fortunately this is not how software works in practice. The best example is probably the PC market, which is fragmented to such a degree that the hardware permutations are uncountable -- and yet Windows, Linux, other major operating s
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
How hard is it to run spellcheck before publishing an article for half a million readers? compile Android on a home Linux machin--a way
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Yes! Learn C!! But learn it with a view towards using it to inform your use of other languages . The low-level aspects (pointers, memory management, working with .DLL or object libraries) are things that most languages, however fluent or h
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Agreed. There is no really good web framework for C++. This is a weakness of C++ going forward. I suppose you could do ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC with C++/CLI...though in that case it would seem C# or VB.NET is indicated...
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Do you really think this is a fair comparison? Web dev has never been C++'s strong point. I could as well say, "so, I've been using Haskell for desktop and console gaming. After 6 years, I moved to C++ and man, I never want to code a line o
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Can somebody explain why these unilateral Big Brother actions always seem to originate from or be attached to the state of New York or jurisdictions within New York?
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
On the Mac side, people haven't really learned the benefits of standard look and feel to the degree they have on Windows. Not to say there's no standardization, but in general, Mac apps are a chance for developers to strut their stuff and d
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
IMO, the larger the budget you have, the more valuable the 99designs model becomes. I agree going to a trusted professional is always a good idea, budget allowing. The value of 99designs at that level isn't so much to crowdsource your fun
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Well allow me to be the lone dissenting opinion. (Edit: what follows should be interpreted as a rant against this practice, not against you personally, or your business idea :) Harvesting user's emails from a 3rd-party site that you plan to
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
You can't trust anything you read on TechScrunch or CrunchFear. This is bogus science by a guy who believes in a lot of weird shit. Another article from the same original source re: the alien starchild: http://m.www.helium.com/items/161807
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Thanks. Just the sort of info I was looking for. +1
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Ah, but you're talking about short-term luck ("I sat down at a table full of sharks", "I sat down and was too tired to play my best"). On any given day, you can win or lose, and the best player in the world can't guarantee a win across a s
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Original, much more detailed article: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
No, I agree that you can flip the switch. Absolutely. In gcc as well as MSVC. It's a flag, nothing more. I just don't think you can flip the switch without also doing due diligence so far as re-testing goes. I wouldn't feel comfortable ma
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
Is this a terrorism vector? Could infection of the 5 largest wheat-producing countries be done maliciously? If the disease is fungal in nature, what's to stop Joe Terrorist from hopping over to mainland USA or AUS and injecting a few dozen
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by codingthewheel 16y ago
I agree with the overall thrust of this but this... "Even after they made their case, we were fairly direct in asking them why they couldn't do a simple recompile and use SSE instead of x87.." This is hardly a simple re

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