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Re:Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
on Monday June 29, 2009 @03:33PM (#679520)
Not sure about iPod but many players like the cowon iaudio or sandisk sansa series act just like USB drives. So you just drag and drop songs to or from any computer so its easy to share songs with friends.
Re:Factor VM ported to C++
on Saturday May 09, 2009 @12:51AM (#600731)
Factor has not been related to JVM in any way for many years now. The core of the VM has been in C since 2004 and now it has been ported to C++.
Re:Can a Palm Pre multitask better than an iPhone?
on Thursday May 07, 2009 @06:38AM (#597726)
My guess is that the reverse is likely more true.
Re:Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active
on Friday April 17, 2009 @04:40AM (#566547)
Fedora servers were indeed hacked if I remember correctly and malicious packets were uploaded but it was detected before they reached the users.
Repo security is certainly very important. But well, ultimately you have to trust someone?
Re:Ztail Launches Innovative eBay Guarantee
on Thursday April 09, 2009 @08:14AM (#554252)
Article title on TC : "Ztail Launches Innovative eBay Guarantee For Worry-Free Shopping"
(Why was this title not retained when submitting to HN?)
Re:FBI seizes entire data center, won't say why
on Saturday April 04, 2009 @01:12AM (#546107)
Please, can a moderator change the headline?
Re:Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @08:24PM (#541101)
"To get GS to make the site look less official/confusing and bit less insulting" is only part of the answer.
The other part, as mechanical_fish has elqouently pointed out above, is to reach present/past/potential customers of 37s who were mislead by GS into thinking that 37s does not answer customer questions. Contacting GS alone would not have solved the damage GS already did. It was not enough for 37s to prevent future abuse, but also to turn back the damage already done in the past.
Re:Omegle - Talk to Strangers
on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @05:05AM (#539835)
Not very interesting.
edit: Is it possible to have some filtering according to interests or whatever? Otherwise conversations are exceedingly random.
Re:New tech could make consoles obsolete
on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @09:29PM (#532787)
You mean like a console?
They are also offering a browser plugin for your PC or Mac so you don't need their box. The box is only required if you want to use your TV and not your computer.
Re:Ask YC: Feedback on our new service: messagepub.com
on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @05:28PM (#530886)
I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency.
Don't tell that to us here. Say that in a convincing manner on the homepage.
Re:Wall Street Accelerates Options Analysis With GPU
on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @11:12AM (#521747)
You will note it includes no standard benchmarks and only includes a vague hand-waving claim saying that its orders of magnitude faster. No real world numbers are quoted. Nothing is said about how good the CPU implementation was and so on.
After working in GPGPU for a while, I have become really wary of vendor claims. Vendors do all sort of tricks to make their claims look good : comparing against single core non-optimized CPU code, comparing different algorithms on GPU and CPU, not reporting the time required to transfer data between CPU and GPU, comparing only 32-bit float performance when 64-bit floats should be used and so forth.
Of course, GPUs are certainly very good for some types of problems. But they are not magical solutions and are not suitable for most problems.
Re:Ask HN: Is it necessary to learn maths to enter into programming?
on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @10:04AM (#519862)
Its a little funny though. I learnt programming first and maths later. SO when I encountered functions in maths at school, I thought "oh I already know this stuff".
Re:Indian Americans: The New Model Minority
on Monday March 16, 2009 @12:52PM (#518395)
112 was quoted as IQ score for Indian-Americans.
Re:Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek
on Saturday February 07, 2009 @10:59AM (#471190)
I wonder if your score is an all time high on HN.
Anyone know of any higher ranked comment?
Re:I'minlikewithyou (YC S06) hires new CEO, changing names. Next: Revenue
on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @06:12PM (#466707)
Does that mean they dont have to earn money?
Re:Wall Street Journal: Even in Test Form, Windows 7 Leaves Vista in t...
on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:43PM (#447045)
Does it matter whether they are testing it in a VM or a "real machine"?
Re:Clinical trials: Unfavorable results often go unpublished
on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @07:19PM (#444089)
Hmm and maybe have a "peer reviewed" planet?
Re:Google's ever-growing market share
on Friday January 16, 2009 @01:53AM (#436273)
I do check occasionally and usually Google has been better. YMMV.
Re:Google's ever-growing market share
on Thursday January 15, 2009 @09:50PM (#436086)
Or maybe you know, it does provide better results.
Re:Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my little brother?
on Sunday January 11, 2009 @10:32AM (#429204)
Processing.org : easy to get started with graphics. I have been having fun with it recently myself.
Re:Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing
on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @07:09AM (#421850)
Btw Flash 9 does run on ARM devices.
Ask HN : Speculations for Phenom II?
I know most of you dont follow hardware but thought it might still be fun. What do you guys expect from the upcoming Phenom II? Do you think AMD will finally beat Intel Penryn? Beating Core i7 remains out of question.
Re:Uxpython: cross-platform GUI - modern, stylish and enjoyable cross-...
on Sunday January 04, 2009 @04:27AM (#419150)
1.Could not find any docs.
2. Why? Why not wxpython, tkinter etc?
Re:Water-lensed eyeglasses offer promise of sight for millions
on Saturday January 03, 2009 @08:34PM (#418861)
Weird. I was routinely buying glass lenses in India at $10. Now I am in Canada and I pay $150 or more for similar lenses.
Re:What does the "netbook" craze tell us about the future of laptops
on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @07:34AM (#414168)
7'' touchscreen tablet that can run a browser : Dont the Archos 7 Internet Tablet fit the bill? (Its sadly a closed platform though. No SDK which is really sad).
http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_7/index.html?count...
Re:Wow, check out this guy's comment
on Monday December 29, 2008 @06:26PM (#413648)
maybe someone emailed him a link or something.
Re:How to Network: 12 Tips for Geeks
on Sunday December 28, 2008 @06:23PM (#412322)
Is shy=introvert=geek? Not necessarily IMO .. arent these 3 different concepts?
Re:Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom
on Saturday December 27, 2008 @12:40PM (#411157)
Umm I just tried that : http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%22postmodern+programming%22
It returned 516 results for me (when including quotes in query).
Re:The nicest math book I own
on Monday December 22, 2008 @05:27PM (#406961)
A somewhat related book I recommend is The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.