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ybother
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Comment #4592581
That would be a real bad idea in this scenario. It would reduce their profits and decrease the chance of the seller being able to pay back the loan in full. When your playing with …
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Comment #4577087
Seems to me that being able to run legacy apps is kind of more important than the scaling.
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Comment #4576957
And a much larger print area.
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Comment #4560651
That's not very convincing argument when you consider that if she was running Windows that none of these issues would've mattered.
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Comment #4560593
ASUS has been known to be one of the more Linux-friendly vendors.
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Comment #4415061
any workflowy is just an evernote with less apps
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Comment #4397452
Just don't say shit about Apple.
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Comment #4314671
The power of Apple's marketing isn't in the new customers who see it, it's the old customers who use it as a script on how to promote the company. Who needs clever marketing with f…
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Comment #4306993
Amazon has gotten into hot water before for NOT censoring or blocking content.
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Comment #4300339
Why was this "no" before? Seems trivial, I'm surprised this is just showing up now.
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Comment #4297352
Nah, he just wants to buy up more MSFT and he's trying to set a trend to drop the price short term so he can get a better deal.
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Comment #4297302
Wait, so he's saying that he's moving from MSFT to AAPL because AAPL has better lock-in? Personally, I'm staying with MSFT because MSFT has already learned the follies of relying o…
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Comment #4287245
"repeatedly"? Source? I've worked in Amazon warehouses and they are far and above any other workhouse job in terms of both safety, pay and workload required. Granted, I only worked…
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Comment #4273936
Skeuomorphism was around in a lot of interfaces before Apple "invented" it. It's a very common feature in videogame interfaces. My old ThinkPad had to slide to unlock switch to the…
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Comment #4269674
Thank you. This makes me feel much better after reading that awfull object-oriented article.
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Comment #4269425
Doesn't matter if they're in parallel.
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Comment #4269418
Or how to make code that is easy to exploit. This teaches me to avoid ruby, if anything.
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Comment #4267214
based on this, it shouldn't take more than half a day under the worst circumstances (single EBS drive with crappy performance), and if you Raid together enough drives, you can do i…
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Comment #4267027
I prefer Anonymous because it it's legible at low resolutions. Any font can take advantage of high resolution, it opens up a lot of freedom to the artist.
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Comment #4267003
Any idea on what it actually does? How does it detect "danger"? It seems more like an attempt to co-opt internet freedom movements than actually do anything at all.
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Comment #4263901
Windows had disappearing scroll-bars since the early 90's. It was called scrollbar.display=auto.
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Comment #4263885
Looks like Apple wants to spend its billions in profits on lawyers. Almost everything on the iPhone exists as prior art. I can't really think of anything original on the iPhone oth…
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Comment #4256659
I always assumed Skype used the client for tapping, considering how buggy it was.
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Comment #4241079
reddit is still a great site once you remove the default subreddits and find some of the more active but smaller subreddits. /r/truereddit regularly has in depth articles that are …