johnnygood

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by johnnygood 15y ago
There are two things here: business and technology. AT&T and Verizon are both using "700MHz" spectrum. However, Verizon is using the upper-700MHz band and AT&T is using the lower 700MHz band. It is possible (clearly) to support mu
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by johnnygood 15y ago
That's quite an accusation. It's incredibly unlikely that PC Magazine is risking the FTC going after it by publishing something paid for by AT&T without disclosing it. Frankly, that was an unjustified attack to discredit without providi
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by johnnygood 15y ago
In Rackspace's defense, this might be more of an issue of lack of community. Sometimes it's hard to get other people involved and excited about an open source project. It's a lot easier for them to go to NASA, Dell, CloudKick and others a
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by johnnygood 16y ago
The one issue with T-Mobile is it uses the fairly nonstandard 1870 MHz frequency Actually, T-Mobile uses the AWS spectrum (in addition to PCS/1900MHz spectrum) which has the uplink around 1700MHz and the downlink around 2100MHz. AT&T
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by johnnygood 16y ago
It doesn't break them. Safari doesn't accept cookies from across domains (by default). Safari still sends cookies to iframes across domains. Even if Safari blocked sending cookies to other domains, it would still be possible for both co
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by johnnygood 16y ago
The big deal is that many people see Yahoo as a company that time has passed by. There was a time when its properties were the tops. Everyone used Yahoo Mail or AOL, Flickr was the tops if you wanted to share photos, Yahoo.com was the hom
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by johnnygood 16y ago
You're right. Coins are cheaper than bills, but $183M per year isn't going to balance the budget. Basically, keeping the $1 in bill form is costing 60 cents per American per year.
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by johnnygood 16y ago
The signature database is where they'll get more money from. However, this is still bad for them. It gives people the chance to look through the code for vulnerabilities and it allows competitors to look at any techniques they're using.
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I guess I don't see how BankSimple can be truly better. First, there are already no-branch banks like ING-Direct. Second, Credit Unions exist. BankSimple seems to be a no-branch bank like ING-Direct. They're presenting themselves as bein
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by johnnygood 16y ago
ATT isn't saying that your iPhone is 4G. Your iPhone supports HSPA 7.2. ATT's network is HSPA+ but they don't have any HSPA+ phones yet. HSPA+ is what ATT and T-mobile are calling 4G.
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by johnnygood 16y ago
This is something that has bothered me about my Ruby usage. A lot of the time, I feel like I'm writing "dynamic" code that really just needs to be pre-processed. class Cool [:ice, :soda, :snow].each do |item| define_method it
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I'm not trying to be harsh on your concept, but if one takes it a little further: "If the citizens can't be mustered to volunteer their taxes. . ." One of the ideas behind government is that certain situations are prisoner's dilemmas and th
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I have no internal knowledge of Zencoder, but. . . Because Zencoder is running a service, they can have lots of boxes going at the same time. You might want to encode 50 things at once which would have to be queued up if you were doing it
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I came here to post that too. The only thing I can think that means is that it is laid out better for large teams to program on without stepping on each other's toes. Sort of like a Java argument against dynamic languages - those cool scr
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by johnnygood 16y ago
Actually, high fructose corn syrup is a combination of fructose and glucose - the same sugars in most fruits. For example, grapes are 52% fructose, 46% glucose, and 1% sucrose. Pears are 63% fructose, 29% glucose, and 8% sucrose. High fru
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by johnnygood 16y ago
You're right to be suspicious. Juices like orange juice and apple juice hit the same 40g of sugar per 12 fl oz mark that Coca-Cola hits. It calls into question the entire post. It should be noted that the subtitle of the blog is "News, V
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I find it a little odd that an open source project seems so opaque. Maybe I'm missing something, but there seems to be no concrete news on Android 2.3. This article says that Nexus one devices will get 2.3 in the next few days. However,
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by johnnygood 16y ago
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I decided to look through your comment history to see what postings you've been downvoted for. There's a decently common theme. Usually they have flippant remarks and/or curse words. "Microsoft what have you been smoking?"; "You are so fu
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by johnnygood 16y ago
Something I'd like to point out: http://i.imgur.com/gNdLh.png Make sure you test your fonts on Windows both with and without Cleartype. A few of the trendy new sites are using this font now and it's near unreadable on Windows without Cle
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by johnnygood 16y ago
The beauty of this is that it's a way for them to let people try Ubuntu Server quickly and easily. While I don't remember the articles, we've all seen the ones talking about how demand isn't linear. Lots of people will try something free
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by johnnygood 16y ago
It's not surprising that they've sold so many. The Galaxy S seems to be the first Android device that the maker hasn't gone the exclusive route. In the US, yes, they did rename it and make minute changes for different carriers, but its su
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by johnnygood 16y ago
Google Apps Standard might be different. Google Apps Standard is offering you the same thing that Google already offers for free, just using your own domain. It still has ads and such. As such, as long as Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. rem
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by johnnygood 16y ago
Rails is based around the idea that the simple cases don't need a lot of explanation to the computer. So, let's say that you have an Article model. class Article < ActiveRecord::Base end There's no need to do things like 1) te
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by johnnygood 16y ago
So, I encounter a lot of programmers that have read a little and consider themselves to really know what they're talking about. However, they can't explain how an index works - not even in simple terms. Like, if I'm looking for someone wi
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Cisco Planning to Acquire Skype(zacks.com)
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by johnnygood 16y ago
In DHH's video on Big Think ( http://bigthink.com/davidheinemeierhansson ), he started talking at one point about whether there was a baseline past which you can't make things easier (see the quote below). The premise was that Ruby and Rai
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I've used both pretty extensively. The authentication system in Django isn't something to be that jealous of. It's not that it's bad or anything, it's that sites have very different authentication needs and it isn't a lot of code. Exampl
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by johnnygood 16y ago
Banking is a highly regulated industry and so products usually stop at national borders. Even banks that operate in multiple countries (RBS/Citizens, Santander/Sovereign, HSBC, etc.) basically operate as separate companies in each country.
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by johnnygood 16y ago
I was in the same situation and went with the Captivate (and Im in a pizza place posting from it right now). Its a really nice device. Its my first smartphone so I cant fully compare but I can say why I chose it. 1. The Galaxy S is going to

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