Hacker News: mortil

New comment by mortil in "Lenovo Computers, Soon To Be Made In America"

mortil — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:38:05 +0000

How does increasing manufacturing efficiency lead to low hourly pay for the workers? That doesn't make sense. I'd expect fewer workers, but higher hourly pay.

New comment by mortil in "Apple quietly announces new Mac Pros"

mortil — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:13:02 +0000

It's quiet because the Mac Pro upgrade was not announced in their big announcement, but only with a little "New" sign on their webstore after the show.

New comment by mortil in "There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format."

mortil — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:54:57 +0000

If anyone can hear it, then surely it must have been verified through a double-blind test. Can you provide a citation?

New comment by mortil in "Why wait? How Congress could fix copyright now"

mortil — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:27:21 +0000

While I agree that 2-3 years is probably too short time, your reasoning is wrong. The purpose of copyright should be to incentivise the creation of creative works, not to perpetually reward the owners of works with a sustained commercial value.

New comment by mortil in "Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion"

mortil — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:13:28 +0000

LTS releases are every 24 months.

New comment by mortil in "Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload"

mortil — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:32:44 +0000

Yes you can. If you delete an item from your Dropbox you can see it by choosing "Show deleted files" from here you can choose to permanently delete the file. In my testing this also removes any trace of the file ever being created from Events. While Dropbox certainly could be keeping an undeletable log of everything you ever upload, there is no evidence that they are doing so.

New comment by mortil in "Distrusting git"

mortil — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:57:00 +0000

Aside from having to import data from case-sensitive environments, could you give an example of a case where you would actually /want/ you filesystem to be case-sensitive? When would it ever, be a good idea to have two distinct files called readme.txt and README.txt?