Tyrannosaurs

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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Clearly we don't expect his journalism to have the same level of rigour as his academic work. That's a very different thing to any suggestion he might be part of an orchestrated PR move by Hachette which was the original implicati
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Love of writing doesn't make the time needed to write a novel and it doesn't feed families. Surely the quality of the output rather than the purity of the intent should be the driving metric? Weary journalists knocking out a book
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
It's not intended as an appeal to accomplishment, more as a suggestion that he would have as much to lose in reputation than to gain by getting involved in such a thing if he didn't genuinely believe his position. EDIT: I'd a
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
And I'm sure the 90% that vanishes will be the 90% you want gone. What I'm curious about is why you think Amazon's actions will drive away those creating crap for the sake of money. When I look through the Kindle Store the th
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Are you suggesting that Nobel Prize Winner Paul Krugman is speaking out against Amazon because Hachette have drafted him for some sort of PR campaign?
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I recently replaced Alfred with Spotlight when I upgraded to Yosemite. Alfred feels like it was very much an "inspiration" for the new Spotlight but as is often the way with little helper type apps, if it's good enough, soone
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Ha, why doesn't it surprise me that Waitrose have that?
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
This article claims that the Guardian style guide was unhelpful. Possibly he should have read it: "fewer/less: fewer means smaller in number, eg fewer coins; less means smaller in quantity, eg less money" Simply put fewer is
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Curious to see the Cryptonomicon on the second list. It's a great books sure, but sci-fi? Surely just contemporary fiction? Hell, half of it is historical fiction.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Or move the attack. If it's encrypted at rest you look at attack in transit or via social engineering or whatever. I think sometimes we get too hung up about the technology around security. For a targeted attack, going for the technolo
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Apparently though he was symptomatic for a few days before going to hospital which is significantly not good.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
You're also not infectious until you're symptomatic which makes it easier to identify and contain. Ultimately it should be manageable so long as people follow instructions.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I see it more as a state of mind. An angry, angry state of mind.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I'm sure he feels better getting it all off his chest and it's good to have a hobby. And if you can't have a hobby then being irrationally angry on the internet will do instead.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
People have been moaning about Facebook's attitude to privacy for years and it's not stopped their growth of users, usage and revenue. The reality is that for most users this isn't a big issue - they don't understand it
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
$5 a month out of each and every user? Good luck with that - it would put them over Google and MASSIVELY beyond Twitter and Facebook (both in single figures annually).
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Ad free and with no data mining like facebook and twitter used to be? Things start well, but things change, and sadly I see no reason why history won't repeat itself. Goodwill doesn't pay for hosting or bandwidth and most social n
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I'm not sure if I'm defending or criticising Apple here but frankly we saw too little of the Apple Watch to really know what the interaction is like. Right now it looks interesting but it's hard to say much more than that.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Only 2% would almost certainly be tens of thousands so I'd agree. But right now this doesn't feel like this is tens of thousands. On the other hand it is early days.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
We need to know the proportion of people this is happening to to understand whether this is a thing or not. Apple supposedly sold 10 million phones on the weekend of release, more since. Apparently more of those are 6s than 6 Pluses but we
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
If a metal phone is bending why couldn't a metal case? It's not the material, it's the construction. The case could be made of plastic so long as it had something along the long sides preventing it flexing.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
The Notes are plastic. They'd flex but would be unlikely to deform in any permanent way unless held like that for a long time I'd imagine.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Accurately measuring productivity of programmers in a way which doesn't negatively distort performance... Crack that and you'll not need to program, you'll be rich.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Entry level can be pretty different. They're looking at potential rather than ability and things can be competitive (depending on the specific skills or organisation). I'm really thinking about programmers with 5 - 10 years of exp
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Based on many of the people I've worked with "well enough to get a job" is a pretty low bar to clear.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
The question here is over what timescale would you expect to see the new climb? Isn't what you're really describing is just boom and bust which is pretty much business as usual, but you seem to be implying that it might just recov
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I think there are a couple of reasons why cash is a major motivator for start ups: 1) People understand the true value of equity which is to say in most cases, really not that much. As someone who was a non-vested dollar millionaire back in
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I have a friend who does a similar thing with smoking - every year or so he'll stop for three to six months to prove to himself he still can. The problem with both these is obviously what happens if you find you're not in control.
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
I don't know about Yelp, but I've met people working in hotels who live in genuine fear of bad Trip Advisor reviews. And I can understand that - if I'm going somewhere I don't know and have little time for research you j
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by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
> It's kind of hard to explain why I love the Kindle so much. For me it's a great example of a device that does one thing and does it well. Yes there are compromises (buying from Amazon is frictionless, from anyone else require

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