It is amazing the amount of nonsense. The Maldives example is a good one. Someone posts some alarmist nonsense making this claim-- completely unsicentific, or a single paper presenting the hypthesis-- and the whole…
The IPCC is a political institution and its reports have no scientific validity. If you want to know the facts about this stuff, look into the IR absorbtion of CO2, and the planets history of temperature and CO2 levels.…
The most amazing symptom of the surge in popularity of macs is all these windows people showing up thinking they should be running anti-virus software! You don't need it, and you can now relax. Just have software update…
Argument to the person, therefore, you concede the point. Your argument to the person, rather than to the issue at hand is why hacker news is a place where proper discussion is rare when it comes to apple products.
No, but most people from both political parties support the laws that prevent people from hiring kids his age. I think he was only able to get the $3,000 because it was a bounty or a "Contest", and not a "job" or…
Neither is chillingo or the other iPhone publishers. Or at least, in most cases they don't. If you've had a hit with them, then maybe they will front cash. But the old model where the publisher pays for development is…
This is a common perspective, but it is worth noting that it is not a foregone conclusion that the publisher will actually do any marketing. I've been a developer on several games that were published by a major…
I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave" because he's "too young to make…
Actually, you can't. People who "hate apple's policies" are people who hate apple for ideological reasons and are attempting to rationalize it. If you understand apple's policies you'll realize that all of them are…
And browsing can be a pretty CPU heavy thing, these days. Not on the scale of video encoding, but enough to bring an ARM or Atom processor to its knees.
It is amazing the amount of nonsense. The Maldives example is a good one. Someone posts some alarmist nonsense making this claim-- completely unsicentific, or a single paper presenting the hypthesis-- and the whole…
The IPCC is a political institution and its reports have no scientific validity. If you want to know the facts about this stuff, look into the IR absorbtion of CO2, and the planets history of temperature and CO2 levels.…
The most amazing symptom of the surge in popularity of macs is all these windows people showing up thinking they should be running anti-virus software! You don't need it, and you can now relax. Just have software update…
Argument to the person, therefore, you concede the point. Your argument to the person, rather than to the issue at hand is why hacker news is a place where proper discussion is rare when it comes to apple products.
No, but most people from both political parties support the laws that prevent people from hiring kids his age. I think he was only able to get the $3,000 because it was a bounty or a "Contest", and not a "job" or…
Neither is chillingo or the other iPhone publishers. Or at least, in most cases they don't. If you've had a hit with them, then maybe they will front cash. But the old model where the publisher pays for development is…
This is a common perspective, but it is worth noting that it is not a foregone conclusion that the publisher will actually do any marketing. I've been a developer on several games that were published by a major…
I'm sorry, but I can't help but see this and think of all the kids around this age who are prevented from earning money by child labor laws, and the idea that this kid is a "Slave" because he's "too young to make…
Actually, you can't. People who "hate apple's policies" are people who hate apple for ideological reasons and are attempting to rationalize it. If you understand apple's policies you'll realize that all of them are…
And browsing can be a pretty CPU heavy thing, these days. Not on the scale of video encoding, but enough to bring an ARM or Atom processor to its knees.