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by SamAtt 16y ago
His premise seems flawed to me. He says people should forget about F@#$ You Money because you can't depend on it to grow in this bad economy. That's reasonable. But then he suggests you aim for “f@#$ you influence and credibility” because
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Don't waste your time with this. He's constantly saying studies agree with him but when pushed for an actual study this is the one he comes up with... There's a study called "The Laptop and the Lecture" that divided a class into two sets.
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by SamAtt 16y ago
But there's a difference between the banning in Brave New World and what we consider the term to mean today (or what it meant in 1984). Most World State citizens couldn't read at all so banning books was done so they wouldn't be tempted to
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Forbes contradicts this ( http://tinyurl.com/2exqhg7 ). Here's the quote... And, perhaps, persuasive. Total sales for Old Spice body wash at supermarkets, drugstores and mass market retailers excluding Wal-Mart were up 16.7% in the 52-week
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I'm sorry but I think this is bad advice. I'm not against learning C in general. I think everyone should. But his question isn't should he learn C ever it's should he learn it in his spare time between High School and College The best thi
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Isn't this a good thing for us? Teacher is still a pretty low tech job even though technology could do a lot in the classroom. So wouldn't a lack of teachers force school districts to look towards technological solutions? There was an art
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I'm going to take the long view and say next year. Apple is very Apple centric so I can't see them making a developer based announcement for anyone other than Apple developers. Based on that I'd guess WWDC in June 2011. Plus they're selli
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by SamAtt 16y ago
For that to be true you have to argue that College grades are meaningless (because if you base your judgments on College grades you can let everyone in and judge them based on how they do once they're in). To take your logic a step further
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I'm sorry but this is just over reaction. The big deal about the antenna issue is that Apple tried to cover it up NOT the issue itself. The issue itself can be fixed easily and cheaply by either using masking tape (as they suggest) or by
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by SamAtt 16y ago
NPR is pretty left leaning. I certainly wouldn't call them unbiased. As for where to go I agree with the other comments. There is no unbiased news. I say check both. Add Fox News to your NPR habit and you should be fine.
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Can you tell us more about what the site is built on (Language/Framework)? If you've built your site on something standard like Wordpress or Django than it will be much cheaper to implement these features. If it's custom all the way thing
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Two things... First you aren't "Calling it like it is". You're passing judgement on the community based on what you perceive to be inaction. What I'm saying is we can't really act until someone who knows the other side comes to us and ask
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by SamAtt 16y ago
Sorry if this is harsh but I don't have much respect for whiners. Education is just like every other good cause in that it needs leadership to be improved. If someone with a background in education put together a concrete plan and came her
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by SamAtt 16y ago
She didn't really "school the author" in that he points out her humor falls into the "funny because it's true" category and it's the fact that she and her readers think it's true that really disturbs him.
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I personally think this is more of a cycle based on individuals and less of an inevitable decline in society I think there are people who refuse to grow up in every generation. Those people eventually have kids and in my experience most ki
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I find myself motivated by the extremes. Either a product was so fantastic that I felt the need to reward the manufacturer with something more than my money or it was so terrible that I felt the need to get back at the manufacturer for tak
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by SamAtt 16y ago
My main problem with this is he's dropping a platform that isn't a walled garden (the Mac) to protest walled gardens. By doing that he's making Apple more likely to abandon the one platform they have that isn't a walled garden in the futur
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by SamAtt 16y ago
It's fair for him to e-mail but looking over the discussion it was stupid for him to e-mail so much (and cross the line into pestering). On May 4th the Apple guy said he'd need a few days to catch up because he'd been sick. The author the
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I sincerely doubt any amount of invention would change the fact that it costs $4,000 and essentially does the same thing as a $140 scooter.
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I found this article which says 66% of businesses fail within 4 years according to the Small Business Administration: http://www.businessknowhow.com/startup/business-failure.htm That was written in 2006 when we were in a boom (unjustified
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I really don't think bloggers should expect comments. In my experience blog comments fall into three categories. 1. People who want something from the author (notice, funding, what have you). 2. People who think the blogger is an idiot a
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by SamAtt 16y ago
This post is just the same old Facebook privacy issues repackaged as link bait. The problem Facebook has isn't Mark Z. it's the fact that they need revenue and every privacy feature they implement makes them less likely to get it. That pu
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I actually hope the author here is taking this out of context because if not this is the ultimate in amateur hour.
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Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie says Chrome is the future, Android is the past(mobile.venturebeat.com)
7 points by SamAtt 16y ago|3 comments
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by SamAtt 16y ago
The whole argument of "you can use the browser" has always been a straw man that falls apart when exposed to even the least bit of scrutiny. You can't access much of the hardware via the browser (no audio, camera, etc...) You can't charge
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I can't see how he could mean it in that way but here's the transcript verbatim so you can make your own decision... Jobs: An even more popular development environment was Hypercard and we were ok to axe that. Mossberg: It wasn't more popul
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by SamAtt 16y ago
There should seriously be a graduate class devoted to watching Steve Jobs speak. I'm watching this and I know he's full of it. Hypercard was as big as Flash? Come on! But as I watch him I'm totally buying it. Even though I know he's full
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by SamAtt 16y ago
There is a way to make development simple and consistent across a wide range of devices and it's called Flash. A platform that, last I checked, Google was going out of their way to integrate. (Which is why it's funny that the author of the
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I don't know. Dying sucks no matter where it happens but once you come to terms with that I think it would be kind of neat. I can't imagine they didn't have some kind of suicide pill to avoid an unpleasant death (probably couldn't be a pi
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by SamAtt 16y ago
I agree. I laughed out loud when I got to "could avoid losing 108GB of data from lost or stolen laptops". If you're losing 108GB per year from lost or stolen laptops you need to strongly review your corporate policies.

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