PeterGriffin

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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
> "I love that these guys think of 4 years as short term and 20 years as long term. Young companies often set up this dichotomy as a couple months vs. a couple years, which just isn't enough." You can think 20 years ahead,
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Well, "gut" is far from obsolete, but not everything requires "gut". The article claims the program performs better when compared to data from manual management. It'll be saving them $800k/year alone. Also sinc
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
> Just don't try to redefine the word intelligence just so it can be a compliment paid to a different set of people. I believe the word "intelligence" should pay a compliment to those people who life pays compliment to,
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Many, many people willingly meditate ("alone with their thoughts") on their own will in order to focus and clear their mind, including me. And that's despite I do have traumatic events in my past that float up from time to ti
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Are you even replying to the right post? I'm talking about the relationship between Apple and devs making apps for their platforms . Not about "who invented flat first" (answer: the 70s did, but that's another story). P
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Your worries are completely unwarranted. Apple's direction for OSX is a trend setter. Due to sheer exposure, whatever Apple makes, becomes fashionable and most developers try to imitate it (usually that's good, sometimes it's
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
The point the article makes is well understood and valid: even if you have the potential, if you don't work hard to use it, you won't develop the skills and discipline for success. All right. But we don't need to cast failure
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
I think Yosemite strikes an amazing balance between simplicity/flatness and complexity/depth. I am hoping this is the consensus inside Apple where design should go for iOS as well, because I still can't stand the iOS 7/8
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
That's like saying "if you don't want to get mobbed, don't go outside". Most of the apps we use store data somewhere online and the privacy controls are often unclear or misleading. Putting something online is as ea
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
This is why Nest didn't start, like many, with internet controlled colored light bulbs. It's a very lazy product with a small market (namely, people so bored with their life, they want internet controlled colored lightbulbs). You
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
You're welcome, buddy.
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
If you read carefully, it's not just the advantages of C++ applied to Swift, because Swift avoids certain weaknesses of C which C++ can't (like said aliased pointers etc.). Swift is much more strict in terms of typing than eithe
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
And the omnipresent, omniscient commenter who can solve a rape case by reading about it online strikes again. Good job, sir. Good job.
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
For this to work, it has to have at least a specific community volume, and it won't have that volume if it's buried as a link in that obscure menu up there, while the homepage of HN is "regular" news. Power of defaults,
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Not that all entries of Show HN are shining, but I'd rather read about people's creations, rather than "Can we guess which teenagers will binge drink" and some of the other popular garbage that shows up on HN. We need mo
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Seriously, you're going to nitpick the way I used the word "evolution" now? I'm done.
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
> No, you can use threads. I thought that was assumed in the sentence I wrote, as threads are even harder to deal with properly due to their shared memory space. But they still do context switch, have cache misses, require complex (way m
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
I don't know why the author called this "Multi-process architectures suck :(" when he really meant "I suck at multi-process architectures :(". Look at what he lists: - "Context Switching" You can find 4 co
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
No I'm actually impressed you designed your own rings. In another setting that would certainly be worth a nice conversation over lunch or dinner with you and your husband. Maybe my reaction is... beyond understanding ... (cue in spook
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
I wonder if you realize that just because your family bought some trinket (or whatever) for money some time in the past, it doesn't make it special. "Look, honey, my grandgrandfather wasted his money on this piece of junk. He wa
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
> Does that make me "less sophisticated" than somebody who looks at their wedding ring and says "Gold prices are up from when we got married; let's cash this sucker in and make some profit"? They wouldn't bu
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Please don't compare one's attachment to another living being (like a cat) to attachment to objects, or even worse, intangible symbols (like a name). A tendency to apply high value to symbols, instead of substance is a property I&
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
You suggest the point of a name is false associations and nostalgia. I think you're missing the point of a name. The point of a name is so people don't refer to you as "hey you, the tall guy with the blue shirt". That&#x
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
It's a great name, but it has three syllables and is uncommon enough for people to wonder if they should pronounce the "s" as he himself demonstrated. There's a reason you know William Gates and William Clinton as Bill G
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Or you can adopt a short nickname everyone can say right, and put the entire problem behind you. There are more important things in this short life. A name is just a bunch of random sounds so when someone talks, you know they mean you.
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
Understood. Saying "old" is an invalid argument, even among people who are supposed to understand the context. But comparing IMAP to Earth is very valid. It's a marvel of rational thought. You must be very popular. Everyone
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
That's quite insightful to compare a 1986 network protocol to a 1986 planet , thank you for enlightening me. Now I feel justified comparing a 1986 network protocol to a 1986 pizza . Would you take a bite?
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
IMAP was created in 1986. You'll have to excuse app authors for not turning a blind eye towards the modern APIs that vendors expose. To have a great standard, you need to have a non-standard predecessor that sets the tone, approach and
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
I use some Google Web Fonts and I was interested, but when I went here: http://brick.im/fonts/ And I clicked on a few fonts, I kept getting 404s. Any idea?
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by PeterGriffin 12y ago
> Why do so many people here think this kind of thing is okay when Facebook does it? Is it simply because they feel kinship to a tech-related company? Yup. It's like asking in a wolf forum if having the sheep for dinner is considere

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