Goronmon

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by Goronmon 14y ago
Call me crazy, but I think we're seeing Apple using the process to defend their inventions, which is exactly what the system was set up to do. What exactly are they defending their "inventions" from? Other companies making competing produ
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Anyway, patents don't require that nobody else be working on the same thing you are, quite the opposite: patents are designed to get everyone working on this new invention, by publishing it. They seem extremely poorly designed for this go
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Copying files, even a specific implementation, doesn't seem worthy of patent protection.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The Wii is winning if the only metric is pure console sales. I know personally that even though I own one. I've played a single game on it in the last 2 years and the last 6 months it's been delegated to a Netflix machine in the bedroom. I
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The thing that doesn't work for me in Agile: being treated like a baby and spoon fed little bits of work with little room for responsibility, initiative, creativity and a personal touch. For the "agile" teams I've worked on, the developer
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by Goronmon 14y ago
For me, scrum masters have always been regular members of the team who had the added responsible of organizing the meta-scrum aspects of the work. They scheduled the planning, retro, etc meetings as well as set up the task board once work w
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I think that if you are bringing your own phone, the price is pretty solid. I'm paying $60 a month for my old plan with is 500 min, Unlimited Text and 5GB cap. If prices stay the same for plans I can switch to a comparable Value plan that h
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I'm just going to disagree with literally everything you've posted here, as it goes against everything I've dealt with over the last 10 years or so when putting together my own machines. And my experiences with Linux as well.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Why would someone who built their own PC want to use something other that Windows? First of all, most people building PCs are building them for gaming. So, Windows is really the only choice there. Secondly, hardware works in Windows. The sa
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The Internet is not a hugbox. HN is not "the internet". I don't think HN should strive to be as terrible as most of the internet can be. If I want "the Internet" I can go to /r/all. That is a much better snapshot of what "the Internet" ac
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Personally, I don't have a problem with people being negative. 99% of startups fail, and I think it's worthwhile reminding people of that every now and then. Hacker News shouldn't live in some magical land where everyone is going to make t
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I disagree. From my experience as long as the keyboard is at a height so that your wrists are relatively neutral and the monitors are at a height where your neck is relatively neutral, I've had no issues with back soreness. I haven't experi
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by Goronmon 14y ago
That is a terrible way to measure utility, there are so many other factors to consider. I use my keyboard for work constantly, but it is not worth more than maybe $10 to me. I'd say his measurement of utility makes a lot more sense than y
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that roughly half the population won't disregard everything your working on to get two bullet points off your list is just stupid. Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending important topic
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I just don't buy that there are really many people willing to do that. You don't need many, you just need enough.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Especially in light of Curiosity, why is it assumed that the logical next step after sending a robotic lab is to send a person, rather than sending a few dozen more robots? Why not both? Humans are infinitely more versatile than a robot,
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Assuming you're referencing things like this being funded by taxes, that's not really how it works.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Are you arguing that it's Amazon's fault, not Apple's, that this "hack" happened?
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The problem for me isn't commuting, it's having to invest so much money into a huge pile of metal and plastic that someone distracted by someone or something in their own pile of metal and plastic can destroy in an instance, possibly killin
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by Goronmon 14y ago
It's still an easy way to transfer money between two people, especially if your bank does mobile deposits through a smartphone. At that point, the check is really just a paper record of a transaction you intend to make with the bank account
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by Goronmon 14y ago
So, now Microsoft and Apple are buying patents and they're the bad guys for doing so? Microsoft and Apple use patents to bring forth lengthy and costly lawsuits in an attempt to hurt their competitors. I'd say that's a lot worse than the
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The blatant copying by Samsung of Apple (even down to icon colors and packaging design) is just as obvious as Zynga's ripoff. I honestly can't believe you that you think this could possibly be true. Then again, Apple fans can get pretty o
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by Goronmon 14y ago
By the way, Zynga usually beats their competitors because in the long run their clones are better than the originals. Like it or not, but thats innovation. I think cross-advertising through their other games to their massive existing user
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Stealing from dag11's comment below. http://www.scribd.com/doc/101954002/EA-v-Zynga-Complaint-Fin... I'd say that's pretty blatant copying there.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The point is that there is, in essence, no point. That's the same as the point of working on a Bonzai tree. Well, if there is truthfully no point, you could replace working on an ancient computer with actually working on a Bonzai tree, or
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by Goronmon 14y ago
But remember the people generating publicity on blogs, because their Google+ account was deleted? Then it turned out they used a company name as their profile name, posted underage nudity, or otherwise violated the rules. It sucks for peo
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I think it depends on your end goal regarding space travel. If your end goal is to mine resources in space, then yes, using humans seems like a waste of time and money. However, if your goals are more along the lines of colonizing other pla
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by Goronmon 14y ago
And I think most users of reddit would disagree. Sometimes I visit /r/gaming or even gasp /r/all knowing what I'm going to get. Likewise, I visit /r/games knowing I'm not going to get the same content as /r/gaming. Trying to make everythi
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I was nearly in shock as to how complicated the landing sequence was going to be and then...sky crane. That is one amazingly ambitious project.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Or it's just that some people are rational about what it is worth feeling guilty about.

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