TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This is a good article by Charles Krauthammer on that topic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12... The gist is that President Obama really cut a fantastic deal for liberals yet many were still livid because it al
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The solution to the problem he puts forth is actually a simple one: Go entirely to a consumption tax. Then the doctor with all the family to support gets taxed very little despite his income and the rich guy going out to buy a Yacht gets t
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Tell HN: Conservatives on Net Neutrality
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I think the question is one of what should be mainstream. I think most people will value portability over all else once it can come close to matching local apps. Because while it might not take you or me much effort to move our data from
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's a completely different computing paradigm. The current model is "work offline unless you have some reason to be online" the cloud model is "work online unless you can't".
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To address your points... Web Apps don't have to use the cloud - I suppose it's possible for a web developer to decide to locally cache all an application's data but it seems like your grasping at straws here. It would require a developer
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think the answer to both your questions is that the only way Google will succeed with ChromeOS is if they consider it a long-term play. The goal should be to have the most refined cloud based system 5-10 years from now. When looking at
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But they don't have to use the cloud. Meaning native apps can (and in my experience do) leave data on the device which in turn means the user experience isn't seamless from device to device. You're so focused on the technical aspect you'r
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You can still use local storage in a cached form in ChromeOS. Given that let me ask you this: If technologies like WebGL give Web apps the ability to work and act like native ones would you support ChromeOS then?
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I still think he’s missing the point here. Android’s ability to run native apps IS its weakness. ChromeOS, believe it or not, employs the Apple method of success. Apple imposes all kinds of restrictions on its developers but the end resu
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I agree but I do know a lot of 20 year old programmers who THINK they are better than their 30 year old counterparts
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Just to be fair his point is valid on the browser (though I agree with you that everything else he said is utterly false). But I'd defend Google on even that. The browser is the core of ChromeOS so I don't think they can allow it to be re
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I wonder if people like this blogger realize how alienating his harsh language is to even those who agree with him. I don't like DADT, I've always thought it was a stupid law and am completely for repealing it. But the viciousness of this
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
PhD graduates do at least earn more than those with a bachelor’s degree. A study in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management by Bernard Casey shows that British men with a bachelor’s degree earn 14% more than those who could h
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It doesn't matter what goes into a PHD process. In the real world you get respect for what you can do not the process by which you obtained skills. As I said the woman I was referring to admitted her students test scores were poor (though
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Your point is well taken but I'd offer one caveat which is the people in Reminder #1 are a big part of the problem that creates Reminder #2. I recently attended a meeting between educators and future California Governor Jerry Brown. At tha
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It would be interesting if someone could combine the two. Colleges give experience credit all the time. I wonder if an accredited institution could work with a company like Y-Combinator (which provides mentoring anyway) to create a busine
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The point is there's nothing you get from college that you couldn't get for free somewhere else (Internet for info and Industry gatherings for social aspects). College puts it together in a nice, easy to digest package but they vastly over
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Maybe I'm just not seeing it but I don't see how anyone could have really used it as a reference for algorithms in the first place. There are much better books for that. Beyond that anyone in their late 30s or younger probably started lea
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'd disagree with that only because I (and everyone I've ever spoken to about it who has a CS degree) was forced to read it cover to cover (and for the record I hated it at first). The problem with saying it's a reference book is it isn't
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'd agree with you on Cormen's Algorithms but the original post already mentioned Algorithms (which could mean one of two texts that are considered standard in the field but both cover about the same territory). But I'd be interested in kno
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm surprised Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming only got 1 upvote. I've never considered the series a good fit for beginning programmers but for someone with 7 years under their belt who is looking for depth of knowledge I really
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
In many ways this vision is why I believe in ChromeOS. I don't believe you'll ever see desktops with ChromeOS on it. But I think the line between Desktop and everything else will blur to the point that desktops will eventually stop existin
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I was more commenting on his delivery and the fact that it seems to have annoyed Cryptoz. So what I was saying was more "Hey Cryptoz don't get so annoyed because then you're giving him what he wants" than "his points are completely invalid
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This author is kind of known for flamebait. I pulled up a list of his columns I found ( http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,2086722,00.asp ). Titles include... Samsung to Apple: The Battle is On Google Acknowledges That Verizon Owns You
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Stallman is just anti-cloud and has been for a while. Here's one quote from a year and a half ago... "Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody e
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The problem with his thesis is, as he points out, democracy is currently supporting the factors he thinks will kill it. Why challenge your country's constitution when it's much easier to just convince people to let you subvert it? If Democ
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
My argument would be that it's not so much about technical functionality as it is about mindset. To do what ChromeOS does you would have to "take away" functionality from Android to force people to use cloud storage. No one would ever go f
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Paul Buchheit’s Prediction Is More Of A Warning(tomstechblog.com)
37 points by TomOfTTB 16y ago|26 comments
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You say that but the irony is Chrome OS holds the potential for IT departments to make your life even more miserable. One example... It's still reasonably difficult to document every single thing a user does on a PC. It can be done with k

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