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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, TeX is a really broken tech in 2012. When I tried to look at the base languages to edit a BibTeX file, it blew my mind. I'm lucky that LaTeX has templates that I like, I have no possible means of making one myself. It seems like the w
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by Lewisham 15y ago
It depends on your particular flavor of CS. The less-theoryish flavors, like games or graphics, definitely do seem to be accepting of Word, and I've been to a couple conferences where Word was more prevalent. Personally, I can't stand Word
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The Not So Short Guide To LaTeX has always been a godsend to me, and it's free.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Microsoft needs to do three things: 1. Come out with better, more insightful products. This is something it actually is doing: 360, Windows Phone and Windows 8 all look awesome. I would be very happy for Balmer to leave and for him to be re
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Microsoft has a knack for choosing (and approving) the most boneheaded PR stints in the business... do they pay companies for this nonsense or do they just come up with it themselves? In a nutshell, the campaign is "Watch us humiliate you a
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by Lewisham 15y ago
It's probably a bit of everything; talent, future revenue, and market consolidation, just like the With Friends purchase was.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is a wonderfully entitled piece. No company owes you anything if you don't have a contract with them. No person should be indebted to "the users" so much that his/her career stagnates because of it.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
There is probably a decent way to communicate to users that the corners are hot, probably via some animation. For example, running apps are available from the left hand side. When an app disappears (eg. hitting the Windows key), just having
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Apparently you are under the opinion that Microsoft is deleting Windows 7 from everyone's current PCs. No-one is being forced to upgrade, and security patches for 7 will be coming out for a while yet. I think the users that don't want Windo
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'd love to talk with you more about this offline :) I looked at your site and noticed you don't make your email address available (which I am sure is by design), so could you ping me at chris {{{at}}} chris.to ?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You're advocating the retardation of progress for the sake of familiarity, which has never worked for any company at any point in history, and I fail to see why Microsoft would willingly fall into that trap. You innovate or you die, and Mic
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Agreed, this is a very odd piece which hinges on the idea that the number of hours you put into a game is indicative of its quality, but you'll find people ploughing hundreds of hours into very poor games. Every game has its fans. Borderlan
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by Lewisham 15y ago
If your game has essential elements (not things that are supposed to be mysteries) that it does not present to the player, then it has failed. Not that I would play Borderlands through again, I didn't enjoy it at all.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
But they learned iOS and Android, no? The question at hand seems less about how quickly or readily people can adopt Metro than how often they need to leave it. It seems the context switch is actually the hard bit. Metro Office will go a lon
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by Lewisham 15y ago
But isn't it the case that the iPad is being manufactured much more cheaply than the competitors can (eg. the Xoom) because of Apple's manufacturing processes? Phones are a slightly different beast. FWIW, I think it's Apple's game to lose.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Angry Birds itself was a rip-off of Crush The Castle. Just having the game design doesn't sell; you have to find the right dressing. If I was the Crush The Castle guys, I'd be crying into my corn flakes every morning.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This article is truly speculative linkbait nonsense. It's better titled: "Do you think a reputable company like OnLive is dumb enough to expose itself to a huge lawsuit?" Ridiculous.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
AFAIK, all US visa grants are at the discretion of the officer reviewing your case. Anything that strengthens your case in their eyes can only help. However, I doubt they'll stamp visas where the criteria aren't met (which, according to the
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You're assuming that the hardware will be upgradable. It won't be. As noted elsewhere, the Xbox basically was a PC. This console cycle has been characterized by software and online, and that's how it will be from this point out. 360 has a v
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Why would Valve be interested in selling this to people with a gaming PC? Those people already play games on a PC, and are unlikely to give up their keyboard/mouse setups. Your scenario is highly unlikely.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
At least with the dev preview, the way to do it was to fire up Boot Camp in Lion, have it make the Windows 7 drivers USB stick, then quit Lion. Pop over to Win 8 and then install the drivers. But they don't all work (at least, I never got m
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Microsoft's shareholders would have had a fit if they marginialized the enterprise in this way. Let's face it, right now all of Microsoft's current future revenue is coming from there. The shareholders wouldn't allow them to go all-in again
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The first thing a power user will do is to go to the old-desktop and stay there, basically not interacting with metro at all. There is no point, it's about as useful as the winkey+tab is on Vista/W7. I don't know if you're trying to troll
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, not getting one is one thing. The probably inevitable emails of "Yeah, you know we charged your credit card and said we'd ship you a Raspberry Pi... well, we're not... please wait 4-8 weeks" are far, far worse.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
One picks their partners. It's certainly not the first time things have gone badly wrong when picking a partner, and you'd think that as a bunch of techies they might have seen this coming. It's clear they chose their partners based on thei
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Amazon deals with this too. [1] The TL;DR is that Amazon will take back units, and if they're marked as bad (presumably by the customer), Amazon holds on to them in their center, and can then ship them back to you. It's basically exactly th
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I find one-click is very helpful for this. Know what you want, find it, one-click, leave.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I think the other thing that's missing from this is that Amazon's customer service is really very good. I'll spend the extra dollars buying something from Amazon than, say, one of their third-party merchants, because I know Amazon will take
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't disagree, but tech isn't the only one that wrings its hands about gender disparity... lack of male teachers being an obvious one (although the pedo hysteria basically drove away any of them in elementary level). It's hard not to fee
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Free food helps people focus, as the post says, when you're not figuring out what to eat, mooching out the building then being a bit annoyed that there's a queue and then you're forking over cash, you're not focused or thinking about proble

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