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by drats 14y ago
>uninformed comment by some woman. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick Are you serious? I am so over the know-it-all snark on HN.
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by drats 14y ago
This is an excellent explanation of the core outrage in this case. I can't believe there are people in other threads attempting to excuse the actions of the prosecutors. The publisher dropped the case, there should have only been a pursuit
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by drats 14y ago
There isn't a 37 signals "voting ring" but pretty much we see about a blog per week from them of extremely low/general quality. Often they are of a lifestyle/why we didn't go big and why we are actually better than all the big IPOs changing
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by drats 14y ago
I'd also like to second the point regard the advertising of apps. Advertising your own app to me in a pop-up is pretty much the death-knell for my usage of any site.
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by drats 14y ago
Irrespective of the guilt or innocence of Assange or the Pirate Bay people there have been massive irregularities in Swedish government activities such that they can only be explained by corruption or incompetence and vindictiveness. While
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by drats 14y ago
It's a harder technical problem than people think, in terms of scaling and encoding smoothly (and playing smoothly while the rest of the video loads, which Vimeo can't seem to do). Google also has tons of fibre in addition to server infrast
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by drats 14y ago
"Dumbblack " "then proceeds to do what black men always can’t help but do" "black men always telling which way is up because they feel they are the “authority” when it comes to any and everything, most often when they don’t know sh
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by drats 14y ago
Yes, I fail to see what Quora is other than a cliquey silicon valley Stack Overflow Q&A site which actively doesn't want more users because it acts protective over content, demands signups and generally acts in a stupid manner rather th
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by drats 14y ago
>No vacation policy This seems like you'd want to explain it a little more, given plenty of other companies cover flights to conferences and while that's a nice perk nobody considers it to be a vacation.
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by drats 14y ago
Also the author missed the point of clicks, subsequent searches and back buttons/bounces: Google sees all of these as data to be mined. So while the Apple engineer is worried about returning the wrong result supposedly (yet they return tons
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by drats 14y ago
>They say Apple's browser and HTML5 support are conspicuously superior to Android's. Not even remotely true for anyone who's used ICS. And it's not "Apple's browser" it's the rendering engine from the KDE(GNU) world which Apple improved
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by drats 14y ago
This should be the top comment. Again and again we see Twitter, Facebook etc. being blamed for this type of stuff. But in truth these companies have well established processes to deal with requests from law enforcement authorities, as do IS
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by drats 14y ago
>so far there’s zero evidence that it’s a good way of providing startup capital for would-be businesses Flagged immediately for this statement. Troll journalism.
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by drats 14y ago
Exactly the hidden issue here is whether you will have the newest version of Android or just be stuck on an old version. People are even still selling ICS capable phones with Android 2.3 today.
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by drats 14y ago
This is the kind of ridiculous statement that comes from Slashdot. Yes for a Mars rover or medical device we might want some insane level of reliability. But reliable enough for Google, IBM and Amazon and thousands of other companies is eno
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by drats 14y ago
This is a good example of the Apple cultist. Other products get panned all the time as only being incremental but nobody waxes lyrically about the "real people who take real pride in what they do" and how saying that "the sentiment you just
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by drats 14y ago
Other than compatibility with other people I don't find MS Office has many advantages, but I will concede it is better designed, especially when you have to pay for it. Compatibility is the huge killer argument for Office and will remain so
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by drats 14y ago
Andrew Orlowski has to be one of the most unreliable troll journalists and last person who's word I will take at face value.
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by drats 14y ago
It might be an incentive to pass fewer laws, or ones that aren't so long.
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by drats 14y ago
Broken HTML, demands Google login. Flagged.
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by drats 14y ago
I made this case last week. "Apple products are like a good classy restaurant or hotel chain. They take ingredients everyone has and put a lot of work into fit and finish, they make the customer feel special for a slightly higher price."[1]
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by drats 14y ago
For anyone who's not doing graphics as their main job description it is a photoshop killer. Asides from integration with other Adobe products, print colour management and a few higher level features it has everything a person might need w
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by drats 14y ago
People don't own ideas, they are granted temporary monopoly on real innovations to encourage their disclosure so that they, in the short term, and society, in the long term, can profit. The question isn't "first" the question is "obvious".
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by drats 14y ago
This is silly, touch screen technology, faster ARM cpus and the rest make these things possible and came from elsewhere. My first computer with a GUI was 100mhz. As soon as smartphones got 600mhz+ and as soon as people get touch screens (fo
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by drats 14y ago
Few buttons, PDA. Tablet with news, Knight Ridder tablet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBEtPQDQNcI Icons finger sized in a grid. Well given we already had desktops, and given it's a handheld device, then it's insanely obvious to have fe
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by drats 14y ago
Your central thesis seems to be that drug laws do have a problem but they could have picked a better example, that's not much of a thesis. Besides they do pick better examples, they are just reporting this one as well and he was significant
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by drats 14y ago
I would recommend people don't work for Apple. It's one thing to lie about computing history and say you invented everything so that customers believe it and give you lots of money (which you then use to outsource jobs and stop the company
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by drats 14y ago
>Webkit is the premier cross-platform browser engine. Taken from the KDE guys, who had to make a lot of noise to get contributions back from Apple. And if the KDE guys hadn't done tons of work before, why didn't Apple just start from sc
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by drats 14y ago
Why should we cut a publicly traded legal entity notorious for lying about their inventions and being extremely litigious any slack? Have you seen how ridiculous their lawsuits over the Samsung stuff are? It's quite obvious they are prepare
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by drats 14y ago
Apple didn't invent the GUI or the mouse, which were all taken from Xerox who in turn took them from earlier people. They leaned heavily on open source for their comeback but did quite a lot to obstruct return contributions or fostering a p

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