TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I wish I'd kept a tally of how many times this story has been posted on HN in the last week. It has to be over 10 at this point (and I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 20)
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
"In school they give you a question and ask you to find an answer. In the real world the answers are everywhere -- the Internet, calculators, history books, reference manuals. The trick is asking the right questions." --Adapted from speech
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Everyone I've spoken to who went to Mix11 came out of it feeling better about Silverlight not worse. What I've heard is the message at Mix11 was that Silverlight was being presented as Microsoft's preferred native environment going forward
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But see your logic is exactly the problem. Ideas are opinion. Agenda doesn't matter when you are expressing an opinion. Because the opinion is biased by its nature. It matters when you are claiming to express a fact because then your agen
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
First on the whether it's wrong I wrote a whole big thing here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452634 But on your point about letting other people jump in and defend him I don't agree with you. When Scott Adams posts something I as
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
There's a difference between rules/law and morality. I don't dispute what he did was against the Metafilter rules but that doesn't in itself make it wrong from a moral standpoint. At least no more wrong than people who post off topic stuf
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I'm saying I think the fact that he defended himself is exactly what makes it moral. See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452634
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But that goes back to my original question of "Why is it bad?" The point I'm trying to make is we shouldn't automatically assume something is bad just because our first instinct says so. In this case our first instinct reacts to misleading
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Well no it's actually not. Astroturfing would be if he had 100 sock puppets.
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What exactly is wrong with a famous person having sock puppets? The opposition to this sort of thing defies logic to me. To quote a comment on Metafilter... Scott, if you wanted to sign up for Metafilter to defend your writing, that would
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
A few points... Your CPI point is nonsense. The graph compares the growth of expenses to other consumer products. So subtracting CPI from the college costs and then comparing that number isn't comparing apples to apples. The fact that the
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Perhaps the problem is people like you who are so convinced of the infallibility of Higher Education that you assume there must be some illogical reason for criticizing it. So we have to keep hammering the point. Or perhaps it's that many
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The problem with attacking fallacies is you run the risk of creating new ones in their place. That's exactly what this article does. I'll address each of his points... China Doesn't Own Us: He rightly points out that China only owns about
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm not sure the point is to stifle industrial development as much as it's to show we've built our society on several "facts" that might not be entirely accurate. Further I think the author is trying to say people in our society don't ques
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I guess I'm in the minority but I don't see this as being very interesting. To me a biography serves two purposes: To accurately tell the story of someone's life and to give you insight into their thought process On the first point let me
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Already Invented for those who plan to die in the next 27 years or so: http://www.brgprecision.com/products/timers/simpletimer.php
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That's not what's going on here at all. Read my post in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430247
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This article doesn't do a great job of explaining the situation. Essentially Iceland signed a treaty that allows them the benefits of participating in the EU's markets while not requiring them to join the EU. As part of that treaty they ar
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I agree with you on the tone but I think that's obscuring the real point behind the article which is Fred Wilson's advice to developers. The article is trying to discredit that advice (which was to develop for Android first). It uses his
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
For me this isn't an issue of privacy as much as its an issue of decency. If they released the bank records of these executives and said "these guys are loaded so why are they suing some kid" I wouldn't have a problem with that. But once y
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
What made that quake significant was the duration (it went on for 15 seconds). That's a factor that supersedes the strength of the quake to an extent. Because a weaker quake will cause more damage over a long period of time. Put it this w
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Ummmm...Dropbox has had competition from the start. Skydrive, Box.net, Syncplicity and so on. So the article's premise really doesn't stand (though I don't disagree with him on the quality of Dropbox)
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Do you have a passport and a car? The WiFi version is available at stores throughout the U.S.
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Honestly this article is an embarrassment and is exactly why I don't read CrunchGear. I have a WiFi Xoom and the thing is a disaster. The feature I use most is the hard reset. Everyone I've spoken to agrees this is the problem with the Xo
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I'd be interested to know what you consider the core platform problems because I've never run into anything that couldn't be worked around. Don't get me wrong. I sympathize. I lost several nights of sleep because I was so angry after a da
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't disagree with him but I still think Appcelerator is worth it. Because as annoying as Appcelerator can be it's still quicker than writing your app twice and Apple's devotion to objective-C makes it very hard to carry over code from
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Going with the same theme as the advice I gave above I'd suggest visiting Nettuts Vector/Illustrator site: http://vector.tutsplus.com/ They posted a tutorial just today that would probably teach you a good 80% of what you need to know: h
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I was looking for the same thing a while back and a friend recommended a book to me called Photoshop: Down and Dirty Tricks ( http://tinyurl.com/3hqdumj ). For me it was the best advice because I prefer to learn by doing. The Amazon link
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But that's the point. I'm not saying Sony is right but they aren't clearly wrong either. The way a civilized society deals with that type of situation is through the courts not through hackers launching DoS attacks. As for your last state
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What makes things like this interesting is we don't quite know how the web world works in this regard yet. In the publishing world it didn't matter because what was important was the subscribers and the physical assets (printing press, bui

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