Clubber

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3631.
by Clubber 9y ago
Yes, Novell, Netscape, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes, Spyglass, Borland, CP/M, OS/2, ColdFusion: all dead or a shell of their former selves. There were many, many more I can't even recall. Most were superior products an
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by Clubber 9y ago
But no one is forced to use their eco-system. You can buy an Android and use their ecosystem. You can buy a Blackberry or Microsoft phone (I think) and use theirs.
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by Clubber 9y ago
Please explain how Apple has monopoly control over high end phones.
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by Clubber 9y ago
Apple doesn't set prices for the apps they distribute except for their own apps. The developers do.
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by Clubber 9y ago
The person I was responding to wasn't talking about pricing power, they were talking about monopolies. Apple isn't anywhere near a monopoly in any commodity or service. In fact, they compete with the near monopolies of Microsoft a
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by Clubber 9y ago
When writing an opinion piece, at least in formal writing which has higher standards, writers are trained not to do that. At least in the writing classes I took ages ago. Here's why: https://preciseedit.wordpress.com/20
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by Clubber 9y ago
>Peer pressure or not, protesting accountability for your group after a member committed manslaughter is a bad act. I believe they were protesting the generalizations he insinuated about the entire police department. I found it distastef
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by Clubber 9y ago
>As it is now, it's just a tool for the police to criminalize whoever they feel like. There is actually something to this. It's the latest moral justification for around-the-law searches. Last few decades it was drugs. Police c
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by Clubber 9y ago
About $450 a pop with dock. Storage is expensive though. Cameras on all times and retention for 90 days is what this particular department had. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-09-24/police-wei...
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by Clubber 9y ago
Yes, this is the real benefit. It's no longer the police's word against the defendant, which nearly always goes the way of the police in a court of law. Accountability is key.
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by Clubber 9y ago
Not even in the top ten. Less dangerous than grounds maintenance worker. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/28/chart... As far as straight up getting murdered, it's in the
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by Clubber 9y ago
Yes, but it isn't monopolistic abuse. You can always go to another phone and another ecosystem and probably get the very same apps.
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by Clubber 9y ago
Which? What product do they not have an abundance of competition in? I mean they have the minority market share in every category.
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by Clubber 9y ago
This is the same trick lie detector tests use. They don't actually work, but it tricks the defendant into confessing because it believes the machine is infallible, just like God in the medieval period.
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by Clubber 9y ago
I believe a teen can be convicted of distributing child pornography for sending a picture of themselves to someone. The legal system terrifies me.
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by Clubber 9y ago
>I could also see arguments for allowing the above for misdemeanors but not felonies. You'd be surprised at how many petty offenses are considered felonies. Shortly after high school, a friend of mine took a stop sign and put it in
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by Clubber 9y ago
Most of the time, it's the best way to invest. Fund managers are so wealthy, often not because they make great picks, but they use manipulative tactics to get people to invest with them. Most of them can't beat the market.
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by Clubber 9y ago
I understand what you are saying, but having done 2 week cycles for several years now, it seems a lot more chaotic to me. With the 3 month cycle, it seemed users (or at least project managers) and developers had time to hash things out befo
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by Clubber 9y ago
I think the key word is "formal," to me, meaning a strict process to be used at all times in all situations. Like anything in development, it makes better sense to use whatever process works best for whatever team is implementing
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by Clubber 9y ago
>ensure that your team is creating a working, tested, and "shippable" update every ~2 weeks. If you think about this, it falls down a bit because there is no way you can code and do a full regression test in 2 weeks on any subs
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by Clubber 9y ago
I find it difficult to believe toasters and pans would be unaffordable if the manufacturers used US steel. Also, shaving blades are massively marked up by Gillette. The generic blades cost pennies.
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by Clubber 9y ago
In all fairness, it sounds like the author took over the project after it was already 2 years late.
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by Clubber 9y ago
Sounds like they graded him on feature completion rather than how he implemented the features. It's a one sided story though. I've seen projects fail due to constantly "rearranging the furniture."
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by Clubber 9y ago
>Your team’s strength is not a function of the talent of individual members. It’s a function of their collaboration, tenacity, and mutual respect. It's both. Don't fall into the trap that collaboration, tenacity and mutual resp
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by Clubber 9y ago
In the US? I would say there are far fewer families as a percentage of the US population who can afford stuff made of steel (say new cars) today than 40 years ago.
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by Clubber 9y ago
It's not fair either way, but the company probably makes most of it's money selling to the US market, and benefits from the US court system, so there's that.
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by Clubber 9y ago
You'll quickly change your mind when you can't pay rent, or support your family. Principles go out the window when bills are due and there is no money coming in.
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by Clubber 9y ago
>that blaming Facebook for Trump's election is an exceedingly self-absolving way of dealing with the problem of a very unsatisfied, poorly educated electorate. I'm not sure poorly educated is the right term, but they are defini
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by Clubber 9y ago
I agree with a lot of this. I've said before that whatever Russia did pales in comparison to what Limbaugh and Fox does every day. The Democrats didn't have a good candidate, obviously, and Americans were ready to shake things up.
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by Clubber 9y ago
>I mean that the wisdom of the crowds is, well, not I just realized that the same crowds that can predict whether a company will do well via the stock market are the same crowds that can smash people to death against a fence. I don'

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