5teev

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by 5teev 15y ago
Actually, this arcane styling might make a lot of sense to non-geeks (even mothers!) who used a word processor in the early 1990s.
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by 5teev 15y ago
So Google's facebook-beater is a product that appeals only to hardcore geeks and not "yo momma"? I doubt it. Maybe for now, but not for long. Anyway, if it's that important to dodge your mother online, there's always Orkut.
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by 5teev 15y ago
> A lot of OS X users seem to have this idea that Apple hired only the best of the best when it came to programmers while Microsoft hired the cheapest and barely adequately skilled... Is this really a commonly held belief? I've never en
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by 5teev 15y ago
And as Mac users, they may be consciously avoiding the reverse of an all too familiar situation, where non-Mac-using Windows developers shoddily port their app to OSX.
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by 5teev 15y ago
It seems unlikely those sites have a very representative audience. The numbers you cite are perhaps large slices of tiny slivers of the overall group of web users.
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by 5teev 15y ago
It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for Flash to retrench, slim down, and focus only on the things for which it's best suited.
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by 5teev 15y ago
Sometimes it's good to be a late bloomer.
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by 5teev 15y ago
It's probably the former. Older people--developers included--can enter a phase of "generativity" wherein they seek to give something back to the world in which they've prospered by helping following generations. See "Generativity vs. Stagna
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by 5teev 15y ago
As I understand it, the European Smarts are much lighter and thus more fuel efficient; the US government (perhaps in a move of trade protectionism) required a lot of extra body reinforcement for Smart cars before they would allow their impo
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by 5teev 15y ago
Yes, in spite of claims to the contrary, 10.4 -> 10.6 worked for several people I know.
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by 5teev 15y ago
It might be good for extremely passive users for whom a computer is just a fancy TV. Tap the screen, sit back and watch stuff. This is one of those features that seems really cool in a demo, but in practice...well, even decades later my sho
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by 5teev 15y ago
Yes, but as a daily BBEdit user, it was the first thing that crossed my mind. Evidently I am the only one.
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by 5teev 15y ago
Just FYI: this "Bare Bones" does not refer to the long-time Mac OS software developer responsible for BBEdit, TextWrangler, etc.
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by 5teev 15y ago
BART and Muni beat most other transit systems in the US, but pale in comparison even to London, let alone Berlin or Frankfurt. If you're heading anywhere west of downtown SF, expect long waits for connecting buses...which often simply fail
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by 5teev 15y ago
Another key aspect is that even major software updates tend to work reasonably well on previous generations of their devices. For instance, an iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS, and Apple's one-year OS development cycle isn't obs
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by 5teev 15y ago
Typing on the command line is not like typing in a code file: it's perhaps the least forgiving environment for typos, and tiny mistakes can have huge consequences. A good typist can re-type the correct text after the command finishes--maybe
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by 5teev 15y ago
That's exactly where I stopped reading.
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by 5teev 15y ago
Apple seems to be doing all right as a middleman.
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by 5teev 15y ago
I wish I'd even once had students who understood the experiment well enough to fabricate data.
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by 5teev 15y ago
Those sellers are counting on making money by shipping for less than the amount by which Amazon reimburses them. ($3.99 for a recent purchase of mine, while the postage was about $2.00.)
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by 5teev 15y ago
> It's funny, just a couple of hundred years ago, the belief was that the human race used to be happy and successful, and then declined. This statement can be applied recursively all the way back to the dawn of civilization.
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by 5teev 16y ago
I wonder if Times Select users who paid their annual renewal fee about a month before nytimes.com reverted to free again will receive any credit toward this new pay scheme. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
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by 5teev 16y ago
How?!
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by 5teev 16y ago
Carrying the "natural monopoly" point a little further, it's not all upside for the municipal operator: while the commercial operator could walk away from an unprofitable service area, the municipality will have to provide the service even
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by 5teev 16y ago
I admired Nokia's "noble" stand against carrier exclusivity deals and subsidized phones, but in retrospect it cost them a lot of their relevance in the US market.
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by 5teev 16y ago
"For want of a nail the kingdom was lost" overly diminishes the significance of UI. For users, the experience of using the phone is not a minor detail added onto a great device, it IS the device. Perhaps a better quote for Nokia's situation
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by 5teev 16y ago
Picking a minor nit: I think you mean "asymmetrical" not "asynchronous".
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by 5teev 16y ago
Adium betas? Probably. Skype betas? No, don't think so. I've heard only deep regret from friends who tried the new Skype for Mac.
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by 5teev 16y ago
Does this headline mean Stack Overflow is actually killing Quora, ending its very existence? Fine. If it only means Stack Overflow is succeeding, am I the only one tired of this figure of speech?
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by 5teev 16y ago
It probably doesn't matter either way, as it doesn't seem like people do more than skim emails. They won't scroll down to read interleaved replies--Outlook/Entourage's text-formatting doesn't help--nor will they even scroll down if your top

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