TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Beyond the obvious point I submitted this because I think there's an important issue here. Google's way of software development relies heavily on analytics. So they look at how much feature #1 and feature #2 are used and make decisions ba
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Iranians Upset Over Google Reader (A Bigger Deal Than You Think)(techcrunch.com)
2 points by TomOfTTB 15y ago|3 comments
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Says the guy shamelessly poisoning this thread with negativity rather than just addressing the points in the article
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Here's the thing. Apple took the desktop metaphors and input technology from PARC. But it then made its own interface. The Xerox PARC machines don't look like a Macintosh. I don't think you can compare that to what Google did with Andr
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Again I think that's a privacy issue more than an issue of being pseudonymous. Someone using a pseudonym wants to be identified they just want to do it on their own terms. What you're talking about is complete anonymity which is a differen
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't know. I think it's two different issues. One is an issue of policy the other is an issue of incompetence in implementing a policy.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
If Google knows your name but allows you to post under a pseudonym then how can someone scratch the surface and find out your real name (unless they work for Google)? That's like saying you can't post an anonymous blog because the web prov
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Was there a vote I was unaware of? (Sorry, the unflinching confidence in your statement made the snarkyness irresistible to me) I realize there's a spectrum to every debate and it's sometimes hard to know where the fringe is. But I have to
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think he's missing a distinction here. There's people's right not to have their name associated with stuff in public. Either because they've established a pseudonym they want to be associated with or they want to speak freely without ris
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's funny because I agreed with the top comment until you posted this. Now that you mention it though believing the positive pronouncements of your top generals at a time when you're clearly losing is delusional. Especially when it leads
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
When he says "we graduated during a recession" I think he means the early 80s recession (Gen X includes those born from around 61-81 so the first batch graduated in the early 80s). That recession actually was comparable. In fact peak unem
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
With all due respect I think you both misunderstand the principle of Gold as currency (or bitcoin as currency for that matter). Currency at its most basic level is a representation of the value generated by the society it is used in. So t
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Most of the world's currencies don't have backing these days. Even when they do have some kind of commodity backing them the governments don't tell people how much backing is there (The U.S. Government for example won't tell people how muc
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think you underestimate the value of marketing. As fun as consumer services are most people aren't going to pay for them (or will pay very little). The real value in these types of services are Power Users and Business. As someone who co
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
A couple things here... 1. The argument is used to create a mental model of the situation. Some might use that model to make an argument for cutting but that doesn't mean their argument is inherent in the model and as such it doesn't inva
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't agree with that. Much of our debt comes from bonds which need to be repaid in a few years. So we're constantly having to reborrow on our debt much like someone jumping from credit card to credit card. If anything the current debt
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The one thing I'd add is The amount of revenue generated by the Top 10% of income earners. Using the household budget model it would be $6,835. (individual income tax is about 45% of federal revenue and the top 10% pay 70% of that). Too ma
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I was brought to the valley by a guy who came to my University (Harvey Mudd in Southern California) and paid the aide in my freshman Java course to give him the names of the most promising students. He then offered us $80,000 sight unseen
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree with you but I'll go even further and say this guy has no idea what he's talking about. As someone whose been in charge of a fairly small cloud outlay (8 virtual servers, 2 of which go off at night) I can tell you the cloud introdu
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
That's my point. Users don't want two different UIs. If Metro can't scale up then it will never be an appropriate desktop UI
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This article basically sums up the opinion I walked away from Build with. The biggest problem I have with Metro is Microsoft doesn't seem to know how it scales up. When asked how you'd make applications like Office, PhotoShop or even the f
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I actually see this as a good thing. The people who revolutionize education probably aren't going to be people from the old system. Because people from the old school tend to think of it as "using technology to emulate the current classro
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I was firmly in the "there's nothing disappointing in this release" camp before reading this. But I have to say this sounds a LOT like what people used to say about the Mac pre-Jobs' return. As Windows was slowly catching up you'd hear ab
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I have a problem with the premise of this article. I note all but one of these people have a degree. Someone should tell Mr. Klein the unemployment rate among people with a college degree is only 4.2% which is close to the transitional ra
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The movement still, as far as I can tell, has no intellectual grounding. Watch the Reason.TV Video: http://reason.tv/video/show/what-we-saw-at-occupy-wall-str You have a Ron Paul supporter next to a guy who wants to nationalize the banks
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
That would be fine if his statements were factually correct. For example, the author's point is Steve Jobs built an organization that created great products. But he also ACTUALLY HELPED BUILD great products. Along with creating the organ
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I HATED this list. A few rebuttals to point out why... Steve Jobs did not create products he created an organization. No. He was partially responsible for the creation. He sat in on design meetings and offered input and feedback. Plus h
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This is terribly tragic and don't take anything I say after this as meaning anything other than that. But the more I think about this the more I think this is somehow the way things were meant to be. I mean, as much as we wish it wasn't tr
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I doubt this person has any leadership position. His views seem too harsh (see his website: http://dadapop.com/ ) Here's a quote from "We're All Black Now!" ( http://dadapop.com/black.html ) "Now that Electronic Jim-Crow has officially st
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree but it does show the ridiculousness of starting a movement without first having a list of grievances. In a void people will look for and assign whatever list of demands is available.

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