VengefulCynic

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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
Moreover, in all of these examples, the outcomes are all available as a matter of public record as controlled by a government entity. If an IV shell company sues someone and actually finalizes the lawsuit, it's still (frequently) not reveal
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
There is one more strange thing about IE10 that I should mention. IE9 often maxes out one CPU core when a Lucidchart diagram is open, even when the user is completely idle. IE10 is somewhat better, but on our test machine it still used abo
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
You don't need to use Microsoft products. Unless you want to sell native software to the ~400 million Windows users worldwide. Regardless of how you feel about the platform, it seems foolish to fault someone for trying to sell software on
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
Much as I find anti-competitive behavior contemptible, this article makes a glaring, uncorroborated assumption that Google's voice-to-speech functionality is currently being held up by Apple. Looking closer, it's not even clear that ReadWri
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
I feel like this is an argument that is being irresponsibly being held in public: 1) Do Gruber or Marco honestly believe that The Verge 's ethics are questionable? Both have appeared on On The Verge and frequently link to The Verge ...
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
The worst part of this and the Ustream debacle ( http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4471213 ) is that many of the takedowns on major video-streaming services to date have been entirely voluntary. You can only imagine what would happen if the govern
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
Whenever I'm using "enterprise" software or some equally-awful tool that's sold using a feature checklist, I can't help but think about Steve Jobs's line about how innovation is saying no to 1000 things. edit: Well, a feature checklist and
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
Communication skill is a proxy for critical thinking skill - if you can't communicate effectively, your critical thinking skill is either going to be undervalued or underutilized. For the lack of understanding, communication inputs are misi
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
They're essentially reducing the value of the shares of stock. Each share of Google stock has a value as a portion of the overall company and also includes the right to vote in board elections and exercise voting rights on any measure put
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Anti-competitive behavior doesn't become a violation of US law until it involves the abuse of a monopoly position, involves market collusion, or breaks some other law. While anti-competitive, Apple doesn't currently exercise a meaningful mo
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
There are essentially two kinds of layoffs: "We're getting rid of Division X and everyone in it" and "We need to reduce expenses and so we're laying off people." In this case, it sounds like a little bit of each. There are entire companies
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
While they certainly have incentive to downplay revenue for the purposes of paying Oracle, let's not forget that all of the contributing revenue factors would be legally discoverable. I think that we can assume that the numbers contributed
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
This is one of those areas where the legalese proclaims that the emperor has clothes and all of the marketing copy indicates otherwise. The article's follow-up clearly shows that the Pinterest founder is aware of the conflict, and it's cle
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UltraViolet: DRM by any other name still stinks(news.cnet.com)
6 points by VengefulCynic 15y ago|1 comments
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
I would really love this if it creates a minimally-invasive legal framework to enable innovation and curb nonsense like pedestrians jumping in front of cars and trying to sue the manufacturer when they get hit (hopefully while providing a m
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Marco goes to some length in the most recent episode of his podcast Build & Analyze ( http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/67 ) to grapple with the reality of Readability as (to his mind) his first competitor with a design ethos that seems to be
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Uneven enforcement and a lack of transparency are (to my mind) the two leading causes of a perception of unfairness. If Apple is going to continue with a relatively low level of transparency (which seems to be almost a given, considering it
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
"Doesn't make sense since this assumes that all teenagers speak like the 'bullies' depicted in the film." The only thing materially communicated by this R rating is that someone says "fuck" more than once in the movie. To call that speaking
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
I'm confused as to how Apple's lack of regard for the privacy of its users is a story, but Path's lack of regard for the privacy of those same users is a non-issue. One of the parties failed to protect the users' data, another one of them t
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
While I agree with you that the change brought on by progress can be very damaging to the elements of a society that have been made redundant, I think you have to step back and take a look at the big picture. As I see it, when you are prese
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
The real interesting point in all of this to me is how hard it is to innovate in this space on account of state legislatures essentially subsidizing car dealerships. "So, after several dealers’ associations complained that TrueCar was viola
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Hashing for privacy in social apps(mattgemmell.com)
9 points by VengefulCynic 15y ago|0 comments
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
As of Q1 2010, Apple uses reporting that accounts for the revenues and profits of phones in the quarter that they're received. ( http://investor.apple.com/financials.cfm - the Form 10-K/A explains the changes on accounting principles on th
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
I've often heard it said that (nearly every time Apple in the Enterprise comes up) the conventional wisdom is that Apple doesn't experience larger gains in the enterprise because of the culture of secrecy whereby it doesn't give advance inf
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
While I agree that this is slightly cynical, you're approaching this as though it's also exploitative and one-sided. If you're a good tipper and frequent diner, there's a strong financial benefit to the employee and it turns into a mutuall
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
A couple of years ago, I remember Ars Technica ran an experiment for a day or so when they blocked end users who run Ad Blocker. ( http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking... ) I recall it generated a lot of negative fee
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
To my mind, the far more concerning part of this is that Apple isn't even ready for sandboxing. As Jalkut says, "the only things we know now that we didn’t know [at WWDC] is that there are some sandbox entitlements that exist in the shippi
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Have you ever been party to textbook adoption time? The textbook companies are buying dinners and drinks for the teachers, "conferences" for the department chairs and offers of all manner of paid amenities for the school district. Obviousl
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
The most puzzling part of this to me is that the content studios honestly thought it would work. "We're going to sell you a company with assets which vanish in two years, after which time, you have a company with no assets and the right to
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
I'm largely in agreement with Gruber insofar as development environments are largely a matter of taste. On the other hand, I'm rather surprised that Gruber is looking to defend reference counting, especially in light of how well it went for

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