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by devx 13y ago
> Most agree that patents are a good thing No, not software patents: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552740
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by devx 13y ago
I imagine the US ambassadors are working overtime these days, in all countries, to make up excuses for the US government, and try to mend their relationships (hopefully unsuccessfully, since they'll just be vain promises).
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by devx 13y ago
Wasn't there an awful ad from Samsung or some big company recently, and they had to pull it and apologize for it, because it was very offensive, and they had no idea what the ad would be prior to being on TV? (or at least that's w
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by devx 13y ago
Maybe future polls should just ask HN users to use something like http://strawpoll.me
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by devx 13y ago
Not that useful if it's not updated often enough.
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by devx 13y ago
Gladwell said it takes 10,000 to mastery , not "learning" the basics of a skill. You don't need 10,000 hours to learn how to drive a car, obviously. You may need 10,000 hours to become a racing master .
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by devx 13y ago
If only Google did the same with all Android devices, or at least a big "Google-approved" subset of them. They need to bring over the ChromeOS update system to Android, especially now that Chrome and Android have the same guy runn
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by devx 13y ago
I'm not so sure that will continue to be true. Maybe if Americans convince me that they can elect a Congress and a new president that is very against these mass surveillance practices, campaigns on that, and has a proven track record
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by devx 13y ago
Couldn't we set-up a laser system to detect asteroids from farther away? Or would that be pretty inefficient?
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MEPs call for suspension of EU-US bank data deal in response to NSA snooping(europarl.europa.eu)
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by devx 13y ago
It would be nice if they made it cross-platform, like on Linux/Windows and even Android/iOS eventually. It might give Adobe a run for their money.
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by devx 13y ago
Didn't Microsoft basically reverse engineer Google's Youtube API's to make that WP8 Youtube app? I wonder if Google will consider integrating a reverse engineered Skype into Hangouts. Not that I'm particularly excited my
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by devx 13y ago
I'm happy for Mozilla, but I hope OEM's start experimenting with another native open source OS like Ubuntu Touch, too.
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by devx 13y ago
But having that color covering a whole laptop does seems a lot tackier. Now, a black Macbook Air would be interesting - or perhaps even a "space grey" one.
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by devx 13y ago
They have actually, I think at least a couple of times with the 3GS and then the 4, when they said they "doubled the memory". But not sure if they said exactly how much that was, but everyone knew how much they had before anyway,
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by devx 13y ago
Yeah, it might be pressure sensitive, but I doubt it's anywhere as close to accurate as active digitizer pens. It looks like a capacitive pen with a thick rubber tip, so I doubt it's much more useful than a $20 capacitive stylus.
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by devx 13y ago
I know at least 2 people who'd love to have the option to buy Wacom pens for iPads. Right now it doesn't really work unless you use some very hacky solutions. I wish Apple supported pressure sensitive pens. I'n also still hop
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by devx 13y ago
I think the bigger hit to Microsoft, or just as big, is the free and much improved iWorks. Now there are 2 office suites from 2 big companies being offered for free (Docs and iWorks), which are becoming increasingly more popular not just wi
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by devx 13y ago
It's possible they wanted to be misleading like that. So the A7 in iPhone 5S could have a certain level of performance, while the "A7" in iPad Air has its GPU clocked twice as higher, but the same name.
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by devx 13y ago
Hoping it will appear in Android 5.0. Six months or so should be enough to implement this, right? Also, they should probably acquire these guys, too: http://www.genymotion.com/ The emulator is also one of Android's lon
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by devx 13y ago
I don't usually post comments like that, but I thought yours deserved it. I've never seen a whole list of specs like that being copy pasted on HN. It just comes off as a desperate attempt to promote a product. The specs were alrea
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by devx 13y ago
Thanks Nokia PR team.
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by devx 13y ago
I also thought his explanation for why this stuff is unconstitutional, and more importantly, immoral , was one of the clearest I've read online. I hope he gets called to Congress hearings so they hear him say the same things there, to
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by devx 13y ago
Serious question: what happens if say Wikileaks or Snowden or the next important whistleblower uses this service, and then the head of DHS, FBI, DOJ, etc (not a Court) "gives a call" to Google? Will Google "protect their free
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by devx 13y ago
Since Microsoft is so "popular" today on HN, have you seen Pogue's hands-on review of Windows 8.1 yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u-vDf...
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by devx 13y ago
But that's the thing. They did create the hardware, and it isn't even the first generation, and it still performs poorly. The problem isn't the hardware. It's the software. So either Microsoft makes a new OS from scrat
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by devx 13y ago
> Because re-writing for a new platform isn't trivial That's not the consumers' problem, is it? > Because the customers want it. That's not reflected in sales yet. If you're talking about the 100 Microsoft fan
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by devx 13y ago
I disagree. WP7 would've been a much better and more efficient OS for tablets, and they already built that, but in the name of keeping OS licenses for tablets at ~$100 like for notebooks, and some kind of "unification strategy&quo
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by devx 13y ago
Why would you need "legacy apps" on a tablet ? The old Windows tablets had 4 main problems: 1) apps not optimized for touch 2) OS not optimized for touch 3) expensive hardware 4) inefficient hardware/small battery life It se
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by devx 13y ago
Yes, that's the correct answer. This problem today, on tablets especially, also comes from Microsoft's unwilling to use anything other than the full Windows on almost any product they have. So instead of starting something from

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