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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
After looking over the link, I agree. In most of these cases, it's not really comparing the words, but their usage. For example, when you say something is "fast" you can only mean that its speed is high. If you say it's "stuck fast", fast i
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I don't know how they pulled it off, but I like that they did. Things like this make the music industry more flexible over time, and is only better for us consumers. I agree though - I had the same thing happen to me when I logged in today
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
This is one of the points I always try to make with other tools... if you can do what you want with it, and it suits the needs of your project, you don't need to "move on" to something else. Sure, it's good to keep your mind open, investiga
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I might be wrong about this, but I imagine that even early on, it was also much cheaper to make CD's than cassettes.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Codeacademy is a great site... it makes it fun to brush up on the basics or try out a new language. It helped me learn some Javascript recently, and I really enjoyed the course. I'd love to see them do something on OAuth / Twitter. I find t
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Haha, well I'm no industrial designer, so who knows what it ought to look like... but if it looks like this image, you can be sure I won't ever have one sitting next to my TV. I'm not really interested at this point anyway, but an ugly hard
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Maybe I'm just dense, but how did Zynga damage Facebook's reputation concerning games? Aren't they really considered (by the general public) one of the premiere game developers for Facebook?
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
No, you're not the only one. It's awful.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
If Valve makes their new platform the only way to play Half-Life 3... that might be the first game in the series that I'll have to skip. I hate to say that, because I don't doubt that it will be an awesome game, but it's just not enough to
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Shadowmint touched on what I meant by that - other companies make creative software which doesn't directly compete with Adobe's lineup, but which costs 2x - 4x more. As someone who uses this software and occasionally tries the alternatives,
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
That's absolutely it. All it takes is one or two decent jobs and you've paid for your Creative Suite. It's a lot of money overall, but not as much as it appears when you're new to it all. It's a little regrettable that Adobe maintains so mu
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Of course they didn't. Mostly because they just wanted to have the story "first", and secondly because most of them either don't have editors / fact-checkers or don't care about them. It's the price we pay for getting news as fast as we do.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Totally agree. Also, while we're at it, can we stop referring to these high-density displays by the idiotic marketing term, "Retina"?
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Well, like I said, I agree with you, in that I think that the traditional form of work / retirement is out-dated and wrong, at least for me. Life is too short to waste it doing something you dislike, only to try to carve out some small enjo
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I guess I see what you mean, and I agree that the world (especially regarding work) has changed / is changing a lot because of the internet. I also believe that the traditional model of working the same job for 40 years and then retiring is
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
How many were repeats (deleted from device, then re-downloaded later)? How many were updates to existing apps (or did they count those)? These numbers are meant to impress people who know nothing about numbers, in my opinion.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Whether you're a thief or not, is it harmful merely to wonder if you might be? I believe not.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. I agree that there are a few small issues with this re-design, but I don't see how Windows 8's "massive UX problems" manifest themselves here. Are you saying that just because the buttons / "tiles" in
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I don't understand this logic entirely. If your site is unavailable due to normal, unavoidable probabilities in reasonable uptime, why does it matter if the CDN is hosting your scripts or not? Your site isn't going to be around to access th
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
This is exactly my thought on the matter. It's cool that larger sites will host these scripts for you, but why should I make my site dependent on another just for a negligible improvement in speed / caching efficiency? My feeling is that if
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Capitalism doesn't put an expiration date on companies though. Capitalism, in theory, is always there to provide new life for those who put the work in to make it happen. Whether or not the current "renaissance" that's happening at Microsof
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
The app argument used to be more of a "thing", but they've made great strides over the years to get competitive there, and as a WP7 user, it's just about at the point where I can feel comfortable recommending it to people without feeling an
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Having not used Windows 8 extensively, I can't say much about it, but I have to disagree about Windows Phone. I've been using WP7 for about two years now, and I really like it. The OS actually has a lot of features built-in that you have to
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
His point was that the motion of the video doesn't need to look like it's happening in person for the film to be entertaining. Just like the story doesn't have to explain why there are elves, trolls, etc. for you to accept their presence an
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Steam / Big Picture will never be "must-have" for living room use until they can make it compelling and easy for people to use in that environment. But that goes against the whole reason why they are popular in the first place - the fact th
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Newell has a store that is essentially competing with and which will probably feel pressure from the existence of a built-in Windows store. It's a pretty easy logical step to take to assume that he is mostly against it because of these thin
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Seems like a janky way to do things, to be honest. Achievements for productivity software? Seriously.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
While I didn't think exactly of Ion Storm, this photo did remind me a bit of the extravagance of that generation of "rock star" developers. Not saying that out of any malice or jealousy of Notch or Mojang - just being honest about my gut, k
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by FredFredrickson 15y ago
I don't work with these types of people, so I might sound ignorant here, but it seems like glasses like these could add a lot of "noise" to the world of an autistic or disabled adult.
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by FredFredrickson 15y ago
"And that's a damn shame, because given Google's talent, it'll nevertheless be a engineering feat of epic proportion." You know, I have respect for the people Google employs - they are certainly a very talented bunch. But what has Google ev

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