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by docmach 17y ago
Why does this belong on Hacker News?
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by docmach 17y ago
Without naming names it's hard to know what you're talking about. If it's public marketing material why not provide a link?
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by docmach 17y ago
I doubt a magnet that small would cause any problems. I'm not sure about the new MacBooks Pros, but the old ones had an embedded magnet that I think was used to detect the screen closing.
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by docmach 17y ago
The color scheme is hard to look at and it doesn't seem to do anything that delicious doesn't. What makes this notable?
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by docmach 17y ago
MobileMe will show you a map of where your iPhone is.
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by docmach 17y ago
In Lincoln, NE you can get a one bedroom apartment with utilities included for $425 and if you are happy with 15' x 20' one room apartment you can get one for $275. There is a college here so finding interns is fairly easy and there are lo
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by docmach 17y ago
Not living in NYC is a great way to save money. If you don't need to be there you can live on less than $800 a month in some places.
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by docmach 17y ago
If they wanted an Objective-C web framework it seems like they would have been better off improving GNUstep Web. From looking at the site I don't see what makes this special other than using Cocoa. It might have some compelling features t
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by docmach 17y ago
Why? What makes this framework better to do penetration testing on than other frameworks?
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by docmach 17y ago
Getting the power to the US from a large third world nation is probably not as cheap as easy as building them in the US. There is also lots of land in Arizona that isn't useful for very many things.
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by docmach 17y ago
CouchDB 0.8 is pretty old. If you tried the newest version your results might be significantly different.
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by docmach 17y ago
Why do you think that Microsoft products are necessary to sell to large businesses? There might not be any large businesses that don't have any Microsoft products, but I've seen several successful sales to very large business by small comp
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by docmach 17y ago
That seems like it could easily end up being very slow. The OS doesn't know what data is going to be needed and it could page out the wrong data. It's probably worth trying, but it doesn't seem like a masterful solution.
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by docmach 17y ago
Sitting next to someone tapping away on their phone during a movie is distracting and saying that other people are doing it as well is just a childish excuse.
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by docmach 17y ago
The deployment may be cross platform, but to develop with Cocotron you need a Mac. I didn't see the reasoning behind them choosing Cocotron explained on the project page, but it seems like if they really wanted it to be cross platform they
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by docmach 17y ago
Why would it be better in the long run?
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by docmach 17y ago
That seems like a much better comparison. However, what it leaves out is the network usage. Maybe there aren't as many people using one carrier's towers in those other places or maybe the usage isn't as heavy. So while we know that AT&#3
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by docmach 17y ago
Being sparsely populated makes it much easier to run a stable network, so that's not a very good comparison. It's not that AT&T's network is bad everywhere, but places with lots of people in a small area cause problems. Where I am the
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by docmach 17y ago
If you have 100% code coverage you don't necessarily have 100% path coverage, so there could still be errors that a statically typed language would catch at compile time. Realistically, most programs aren't going to have extensive test sui
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by docmach 17y ago
C is not a bad language for humans. It's simple enough to be able to see how the machine will execute it but not low level enough that you have to manually manage everything, like assembly. It's not always the best choice, but for some th
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by docmach 17y ago
Other: Tcl
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by docmach 17y ago
This is why I'm saying that healthcare isn't a necessity. I might not need any medical care for years, but if I needed to spend 4 nights in a hospital it would bankrupt me. This makes not having health insurance risky, but starting a comp
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by docmach 17y ago
As I posted in a comment on the article, he seems to have unrealistic expectations for an x86 assembler. TI's DSPs have a nice assembly because of their architecture. The x86 architecture is too complicated and the implementations too div
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by docmach 17y ago
It's also different because healthcare isn't a necessity. Many people can go for years with no health issues, but everyone needs to eat on a regular basis.
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by docmach 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974089 has a direct link to the news at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-bo... .
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by docmach 17y ago
What makes you think diversity helps in any environment? I think that homogeneity is a great help for efficiency, which is often important. Diversity has its uses, but it's not for everything.
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by docmach 17y ago
It works fine on the latest WebKit nightly on 10.5.
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by docmach 17y ago
If cost reduction is the reason then CPU resources should be higher as well, but they don't seem to be.
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by docmach 17y ago
I think the big advantage of Amazon is that you can scale up and down quickly so that you aren't paying for services you don't need. They also have the advantage of better integration with their other services since you don't pay for trans
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by docmach 17y ago
Why does Prgmr offer so much more memory/$ compared to the other providers? Is there something about the usual workloads that makes RAM less important or is it based on hardware capabilities?

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