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by Tloewald 11y ago
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&... There's a recorded instance of a B29 shooting down 14 fighters over Tokyo (it was also rammed by two fighters and still made it home). There are also
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Given that the Bradley was designed to fight Eastern Bloc forces on the plains of Germany (which comprises rolling terrain, closely spaced villages, streams, etc.) a vehicle that can be tucked behind cover and fire lethal anti-tank missiles
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by Tloewald 11y ago
If my life were on the line I'd prefer not to be in combat, but if you're infantry, riding around in an Abrams isn't an option. It's like saying you'd prefer to be in a frigate.
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> "it was never forced on anybody" Depends on what you mean by "forced", right? If a PC manufacturer's choice is between not selling PCs with Windows pre-installed and having to pay a per-PC license for Windows w
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by Tloewald 11y ago
So it's not ugly in...?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
But the formality is, at bottom, just a set of rules for convincing somebody.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
As one of my favorite math professors once pointed out, a proof is merely an argument that convinces people, so whatever works works.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
And of course SpaceX (and before them John Carmack's team) did vertical test landings on land years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKWh7kLDzw But expecting journalists to even google something during their fact-
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by Tloewald 11y ago
And in a more energy-efficient and elegant manner.
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This is true -- but again Microsoft got caught lying about how IE's functionality was "intrinsic" to Windows (which was why it prevented IE from being uninstalled). It was also forcing PC manufacturers to pay a royalty for ev
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by Tloewald 11y ago
IBM got "disrupted" by Apple in what sense? It responded with the insanely successful IBM PC and in fact was disrupted not so much by innovation as poor business decisions (e.g. signing a contract with Microsoft that allowed Micro
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by Tloewald 11y ago
In Apple-speak "by the end of x" means "just before the end of x".
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think the problem is JSON. Because JSON is tied so strongly to Javascript it tends to be very ugly in any other language. I think we need a simplified (and more concise) alternative to JSON that more closely matches the way languages that
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Microsoft didn't get sued for trying to make installing Windows easier. It got sued for making changes in Windows designed to damage competitors (specifically Netscape, Sun, Borland, and Apple) and publicly and repeatedly lying about i
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Fair enough (note that "Android Studio" would presumably not be an "App" so much as a desktop IDE).
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Since I can't link to the text of the book (and don't have my copy handy), here's a New Yorker story on the piece: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-... 'I
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by Tloewald 11y ago
As I recall, Apple supposedly bought a Cray to simulate the 68030, and the apocryphal story is that someone announced to Cray that Apple had just bought one of his computers to help them design their next computer, to which he replied, &quo
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Or you can go direct to the horse's mouth, e.g. https://info.internet.org/en/story/developers/
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Neither is really any more or less OK than the other. Whether or not either is OK is a matter for the USPTO, courts, lawyers, and private agreements to determine. Android Studio as a development tool for building anthropomorphic robots migh
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Do any of those actually predate Visual Studio (i.e. 1997)? (Not suggesting Microsoft owns the word "Studio" but you're not actually answering the question.) When Microsoft starting referring to its developer suite as Visual
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I agree that clarity is hard to define. But so is power. Is C more or less "powerful" than Java?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
In general UX at the expense of usability is an annoying trend that last was a major issue when Flash became popular. I don't think Apple is giving design a bad name, this is what design is usually about. Apple's (usual) focus on
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think Apple's move to San Francisco actually addresses this issue quite well. The move to ultra thin Helvetica weights was a tad too much.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Like you a big Apple fan who is horribly confused by the iOS music app — which, functionally is all I could hope for (the play list manager is something I've wanted forever) but seriously wtf?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It seems to me that the author is attacking the wrong problem axes. I don't think expressiveness or power are the problem here. I think the problem is lack of clarity. Consider the discussion of terseness. What is the best way to expla
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually rooms are getting bigger too (and lighting is non-linear) but I think lighting is a pretty small part of all this.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually I think the javascriptcore restriction is the main thing. I'm not sure that, say, the kindle app has to use a web view (for example)
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Until your battery goes flat. Oops.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How is Cloudflare SSL a MITM attack ? Obviously, they're in the middle, but you have to trust someone .
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by Tloewald 11y ago
A big part of the problem is that "content" insists on being wrapped up in "interactivity" that is confusing and subtracts value (or adds cost) in other ways (image carousels with ads, articles broken into lots of small

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