DavidAbrams

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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
But now that people are more gullible, it seems like a fine idea.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Companies are STILL pulling moronic moves like that. Cooke, a cinema-camera-lens company, decided to call their electronically coupled lens technology "/i". Yes a slash with an "i" after it. Try searching on THAT.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
"I thought you might be starting a GitHub competitor service." That's exactly what I expected to find. "I suspected that the site may be a guy who wrote a book on git and this is his personal site." Exactly my reaction after seeing the book
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
A couple years ago some friends that I considered reasonably polite and well raised were shocked that you men aren't supposed to wear hats indoors. I thought they were kidding. They swore they'd never heard that, and we're talking about gu
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
It was more fun thinking of three-letter "I" words.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Which means don't be self-sufficient. Sell out. Don't go into an enterprise with the necessary resources yourself. Thanks, but I'll just forego their "coverage" instead.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Ink? Ire? Ide? Irk? Ill? Imp? Ion? Ilk?
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
The attack on attributes was my favorite parts. Attributes are indeed a moronic mess. Too bad he neglected to similarly attack namespaces.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
He didn't say he was tired of talking. He said he was tired of REPEATING. If one is too tired to read, one should be too tired to comment on the reading material.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
"I think the worst of it was Naggum's utter conviction of his own moral superiority... at the same time he was gleefully dumping shit on others." You act as though he named people and dumped shit on them. He didn't. And data formats are n
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
How is XML any more immune to schema changes?
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
How is he acting like an asshole or being rude? Torvalds is WAY ruder than this guy. I don't know what you're projecting onto this essay to find it assholey or rude, but it's bunk. Frankly, I'm disappointed that he failed to condemn namesp
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
A great many of Apple UIs fail those tests. The main problem with this one is discoverability, but since most gestures are essentially undiscoverable, that hardly impugns it. I think this is an excellent idea.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Facebook is still trying to use E-mail addresses as user IDs. Amateur hour, just like Apple.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
YouTube comments (aside from being a cavalcade of human stupidity) don't even work right. Threads don't work, with replies appearing in random locations rather than indented under the originals (but sometimes they do inexplicably appear co
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
"In the beginning people complained that Google has like a dozen different "Like" buttons on the Reader, Youtube and so on" No, they didn't. Who in hell would complain about that? Who cares?
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Google Video didn't take off because of branding failure. Google is not something that people contribute to; it aggregates things that are already out there. Google Video was perceived as a search engine for video, not as a user-content s
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
And pathetic. But that's the norm when you're dealing with apologists for bad behavior and bad design. Instead of learning something, they continue to childishly defend the discredited entity.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Nobody should work this hard to get around offensive policies, or work this hard to excuse them.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
There's a big difference between being "logged into" YouTube and signing up for Google+. This just completes Googles utter failure with Google Video and YouTube. They never understood why Google Video failed, and YouTube remains a steaming
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
"built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript." Why is that good? Eclipse is built in Java, and it's janky.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
And also that the bubble is back, big time.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Way TOO far. T, O, O.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Spine's hard-coding of "id" is unacceptable, especially when what they're really referring to is an ID.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Could cost you your hearing, though: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100301/Regular-use-of-asp...
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
I don't know about bleeding, but what about the hearing loss that's associated with regular aspirin and other NSAID use? http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100301/Regular-use-of-asp...
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
California rips companies off and begs for this kind of behavior. Ask anyone who has started a small business in California. For example, your business can make zero dollars (or even lose money), and you will still owe California $800. EV
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it. Apologists for the crippled user experience act as though a file system is some kind of arcane "nerdy" or "geeky" f
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
No, that's the point: That's what it is NOT. No straightforward way to get files or information on or off the device. That's not a suitable computer. It's a design dictated by Apple's fear and refusal to learn from the failure of DRM. Mo
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
"Similar, familiar, comfortable look and feel across platforms." Then you'd better get rid of the keyboard on the computer.

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