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by SCdF 14y ago
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." is the guideline. You could argue it's intellectually interesting to see the artefacts generated out of a cultural shift in a nation. Personally I think a deep dive into the meaning of
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by SCdF 14y ago
Well, to be completely fair MS Labs made it, not the office team, and there is no indication that they made it because it was so hard to use. If that was the case surely then Office would actually ship with Ribbon Hero, instead of having it
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by SCdF 14y ago
I'm damn excited about this. I've been mulling this concept over in the last couple of years, because I really we need something post-blogs that isn't the walled garden facebook / twitter / G+ / et al model. For the me the ultimate social n
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by SCdF 14y ago
Revolutionary means (to me) it would change the way that you interact with that genre of 'thing', or change the way you live your life in some way. A car that is faster, or more efficient, or prettier, is not revolutionary. A car that is dr
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by SCdF 14y ago
Oh, I'm not disputing they exist, more just pointing out that it's kind of momentarily depressing thinking that the devs who actually affect change and do noteworthy things are 100 times more awesome than you'll ever be.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Am I the only person who feels woefully inadequate whenever I read articles where phrases like "10 or 100 times as productive as the average engineer". Sorry guys, I'm trying my best! :-(
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by SCdF 14y ago
Wow, so this is the first time I've seen one-click purchasing (It's not normally enabled for me). It's really disconcerting. Not that I want to (and it's only $3) but is there any way to cancel a one-click purchase? It's not obvious..
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by SCdF 14y ago
So more pixels is great. Is it really that great? I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices. For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how cri
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by SCdF 14y ago
I think it comes down to what you're trying to achieve with your app. If your goal (and your software) is based around lots of users, then clearly free is optimal. There are lots of studies which show the power of free, and how free is much
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by SCdF 14y ago
I think if anything the best thing about having a paid system is that you have one less person to make happy. Unless your ads are just a dropin (e.g. google ads) you have to have a marketing and sales team, and presumably a bunch of coding
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by SCdF 14y ago
So I was thinking about this recently: do companies actually "sell" your personal details to advertisers? A practical example: let's say I run a cooking website, where users log in and share recipes, vote and comment on them etc. I (the sit
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by SCdF 14y ago
Yeah, I considered leaving that example out ;-) So FPS games have changed dramatically to work on consoles. They are often third person, and it gives you a better sense of space on a display so far away. They have become 'slower' and the
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by SCdF 14y ago
Depends on your definition of sell I suppose. By that logic all of our interactions with people are 'selling' to them. When my boss asks me how many hours I've got left I'm 'selling' the 12hrs I need. When I hold open a door for an old lady
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by SCdF 14y ago
Initially I was excited for Ouya. Not because I was ever going to own one (console/tv gaming sucks for my lifestyle) but because it would mean there would be better games on Android. Except now I'm not so sure. Making a game work on a touch
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by SCdF 14y ago
They're amazing. I have a normal keyboard at home (gaming..) but I make sure to have one at work. It takes about a week of feeling very awkward but after that it all clicks.
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by SCdF 14y ago
It eats one of my cores completely..
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by SCdF 14y ago
And I'm sure Twilight brought the magic of reading and exploring imaginative worlds to countless teenage girls around the world too, that doesn't make it "good" fiction (you seem to also think Twilight is "trash"), it just makes it popular
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by SCdF 14y ago
All of this is true. I'd add to this by saying that as depressing as a million COD clones is, see it as a maturing of the industry, and as a positive thing. Most movies are trash, most TV is trash, most music is trash, most books are trash^
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by SCdF 14y ago
So those names were indeed terrible. But how the hell do you name things well? It's really hard. The second you write some code you have to call it something , and I imagine that's the point where people think up janky cute names, and th
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by SCdF 14y ago
I clicked the link in his blog post, which took me here: https://alpha.app.net/ . You're right though, 3 paragraphs into the blog there is a link to join.app.net.
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by SCdF 14y ago
I read HN every day. It is probably the site I read the most after Google reader. It is my go to for filling time between doing actual work and doing more actual work. I'd like to think I'm vaguely down with the Internet kids, but.. Wtf is
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by SCdF 14y ago
If anything (imo), startups are the least interesting company size / maturity when looking at technology stacks, since they have neither grown enough or been around long enough for their choices to actually matter, (on the other hand, rea
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by SCdF 14y ago
I wonder, do any of these company send defensive communications when people try to unlock things like this? Yes, I made that phrase up. So here's what I mean: - "Amazon then allows you to input a new credit card." <-- Amazon should then
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by SCdF 14y ago
Myth: Right, but what happens in the very common scenario of my Android phone-- logged into Google with the Authenticator installed-- getting lost / stolen? Surely then 2-factor auth is basically useless? (insert your answer below)
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by SCdF 14y ago
I imagine this is just an unresolvable difference of opinion, but I don't believe in taking credit (any credit) for things I didn't actively take part in. The sum contribution of your average American citizen to NASA's amazing success was
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by SCdF 14y ago
The achievement doesn't belong to the world. It doesn't belong to Americans either. It belongs to the people who actually goddamn contributed to the project. The people who coded it, who built it, who put in the hard effort. Yes, American p
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by SCdF 14y ago
Exactly. If the lucrativeness of his side project changes I'm sure his tune will soon follow.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Sounds like you agree with him, as he advocates a 'conf' directory at the end of his post.
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by SCdF 14y ago
You're not the only one. Valve are not the first people to port Windows games to Linux, and while some people claim they're faster, the general benchmarked consensus I've seen over the years is that both platform are, within 10% or so, ba
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by SCdF 14y ago
While I imagine next to no one uses Safari as their actual browser on Windows, it was nice that it was there so most cross browser testing could be done on one box.

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