straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Ship crosses Northwest Passage, sails into history
Yeap, that's 12 miles from each side.
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straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript
So why didn't humankind go to the stars from the very beginning? Wasn't that it's purpose?
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript
F# type providers already do that, also static types from CSV files, REST services and many others.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
Recommend Quora? Remind me to ignore your recommendations in the future.
As for Apple contributions, you should probably check out the lawsuits vs Samsung.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches
Travel to US? Oh man, you don't value your freedom and privacy enough.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
Not true, contract component manufacturing made only 7% of Samsung profits last year. The value of the Samsung branded smartphones they ship out is by far their most important financial metric.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung
Samsung makes the best smartphones in the world ;-)
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here
MS and Intel have the same partnership as airlines and hotels. Each wants their partner to make as little profit as possible, as that leaves more client money for grabbing.
Intel has been among the top 5 Linux kernel contributors for many years.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Developers are the autoworkers of our generation
Many interesting arguments here.
I work at a software consulting firm, that charges $300+ per dev per hour. Excellent salaries, benefits, gaming consoles, free drinks and meals at the office, etc. Still the majority of the developers we're capable of hiring are incapable of understanding and applying concepts like monads, SOLID, low level async. Maybe the higher supply will only drive down the salaries of PHP&Co crowd.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Unity Game Engine to Get Official 2D Game Support and a Built-In Ad Solution
Interesting - there are hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there and their average user spends more money on apps than the Android counterpart.
Are we already at the point where Apple is irrelevant to the app vendors?
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?
Hard to understand what you mean. It's not like the current resource managers are trying to maximize happiness, but just lack efficiency. Just the opposite - the majority of ambitions, rich, powerful people in the world are putting tremendous efforts into extracting as much resources from the poor as possible.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source
Most people won't be able to legally run XP VMs once the XP activation servers go down.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: What is the cost to make Smartphone in USA? $4
>> misleading title
Not really - the article claims it costs $4 per device to move manufacturing to US, so that is the cost of a "Made in USA" label.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: What is the cost to make Smartphone in USA? $4
It's still happening, in places like Alaska.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: What is the cost to make Smartphone in USA? $4
I haven't read the linked article, but this doesn't sound right. Assembly is mostly a manual process, workers salary must be the biggest cost. Salaries in US are way more that 50% higher than in China.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: The Bay Bridge is gradually disappearing from Google Maps
No, it's not required. Try the link in a private mode tab or different browser.
This is one of those evil tricks, if Microsoft or Google know somehow you have an account they'll try to force a sign in ever after.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: How Poverty Taxes the Brain
You are completely wrong. Easier is better, most of the time. In a 21st century developed economy it's vastly more efficient to spend your time thinking how to improve your income than how to optimize small expenses. Same principle as the famous "Premature optimization is the root of all evil".
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)
Good politicians are experts at manipulating people to like them.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: It's not the $7, but the principle
Very interesting. I remember back in the late 60s and 70s when credit card adoption raised in the US, charge back was a key selling feature. Customers refused to use cards that didn't offer it.
Makes me wonder how the world is going to change when BRIC economies get bigger than the current "developed" ones (if ever). Banks and other oligopolies may get away with far lower customer, privacy, heath, etc. protection.
straight_talk_2 | 12 years ago | on: Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?"
Just fax them to a random number, NSA will get them :D
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