TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
First, who said "an illegal" or "lazy"? Searching the page I only find your comment using those terms. Second, "the system is already being abused so lets allow further abuse" isn't really a great argument. (For the record I'm actually in
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The problem here is you rely too much on models. I'm not saying you're wrong but you're certainly too sure of yourself. Economic Models, by definition, have to make assumptions on psychology. Those assumptions can often be wrong and that
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I'm sorry but you're wrong on just about everything here. 1. While I don't know the articles you speak of you can't blame commentators for being off on predictions if the Government is doing everything it can to goose the economy. You say
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'd say it's pretty reasonable to worry about. In fact I'd say a crisis is an absolute certainty. The question is just how bad it will be. A few things to consider... Borrowing - When people discuss the Debt (National and Private) they f
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I found that whole part of the presentation to be a real turn off. All those guys (beards or not) deserve admiration. Any one who creates a language that's used by hundreds of thousands of developers probably did far more right than they
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This one is actually kind of fun when you consider this: Most feel MG Siegler is the heir to Duncan Riley's TechCrunch writing style. So this is kind of like Future Siegler giving commentary on Present Day Siegler
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
You can still hear the podcast he made when he left here: http://www.blogherald.com/2008/05/05/podcast-20082-an-exclus... As I recall he left under favorable terms but the relationship between him and Arrington quickly degraded (You can r
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
If this is your concern you should encourage people to pay special attention to the "New" section on that day. A handful of people can make sure anything that would be overlooked gets to the front page. You can count me in.
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His point is the majority can just not vote things up where as a ban would be have to be implemented by pg based on the opinion of a subset of the majority. So since voting provides the majority with a means to eliminate the 9/11 posts why
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree on the specific numbers and on smaller sites. But on sites as large as engadget I think they can show fairly accurate trending
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I guess it depends on how you interpret this graph: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/engadget.com/?metric=uv (given their contentious relationship it is ironic that AOL killed both Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington's greatest accomplishm
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's only passingly relevant to the story but I hate when people bring up Choi Jin-Sil in this context (that's the name of the South Korean actress mentioned in the article). A few facts about that case... 1. She had a history of battling
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Harsher than it probably should be but it's hard to dispute his points. The only unfair criticism that I see is the GigaOm thing (I don't disagree with his point but GigaOm's basically a Freemium business model with the consulting acting a
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This seems dubious. I think the report is referring to total US assets (public and private). See this quote... That’s a hard question to answer completely, but a good place to start is the Financial Report of the United States Government.
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Poll: Do you know the Dow is actually at 7,403 (not 11,240)?
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Yes
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No
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As someone who has interviewed candidates from physical universities with IT degrees I can say the same is probably true of them. I see candidates all the time who can recite the OSI Model by heart but can't figure out a Windows XP system
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The problem I have with this story and with the health care debate in general is I think political agenda is blocking people from rationally looking at the problem. In the United States it is already illegal for a hospital to deny someone m
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't understand what you mean. Microsoft has said you'll still be able to access the file system from Metro. You'll still be able to access hardware devices and system settings too. So how is it any more of a shell than what Apple has
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
As much as I hate to defend Microsoft you have to admit they're essentially doing the same thing Apple is in OSX Lion. Just substitute Metro for the Mac's new iPad like interface. Both are splitting the difference by implementing a more
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's really just an issue of themeing (There's already an unofficial Metro theme for Windows 7: http://www.nirmaltv.com/2011/06/10/windows-metro-ui-theme-fo... ). You can create Metro like applications using XAML today and they look fine
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
A bias is defined as a conclusion that is held unfairly. The only way to determine if a conclusion is held unfairly is to evaluate it and evaluating a conclusion requires drawing that conclusion in the first place. The relevance is the aut
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I'm sorry but you're just wrong here. There's a lot robots can do but there are still people on most assembly lines because robots still aren't capable of precision (I know that sounds stupid but it's true). This is why companies like Fox
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Except the "old anti-open source argument" has proven to be largely true. At least 82% (roughly) of Linux development is corporate sponsored (it could be more since not all contributors disclose). Beyond that people who like building robot
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree with you only because Communism is a well thought out theory. A theory that most (at least in the United States) feel has failed but a well thought out theory none the less. For example, every manifestation of Communism has estab
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
This seems to confuse two different issues and in doing so leads to the wrong conclusion. The author seems to conclude it's wrong to think race is responsible for so many 100m winners being black because the assumption is erroneous. But on
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The mistake of this article is to divorce intent from execution. Most workplaces aren't looking to change the world. As such the employees aren't willing to put up with the same exacting standards. So acting like Steve Jobs in such a comp
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I get the joke and I don't mean to lessen Jobs' accomplishments in any way. But don't underestimate the challenges Cook faces. Services like Netflix are eating into Apple's video business while services like Mog and Spotify attack on the m
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
There's a lot that's wrong with this article (or if not wrong nit-picky at the very least). Off the top of my head... 1. You can't really blame Jobs for the Apple III. His focus had already shifted to the Lisa/Mac side of things. Apple

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