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by _broody 12y ago
I wonder what would result out of the opposite concept - enforce a minimum of characters per post. Of course, no longer being a quick release for vapidity, such a social network would be doomed to fail, but the outcome might be interesting
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by _broody 12y ago
Everyone is derivating from Metro UI now. I can't complain, I quite like the look. Funny that Microsoft, in this day an age would be such a trend setter!
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by _broody 12y ago
Then again, the big tech players are hardly good sports.
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by _broody 12y ago
Forget about the rescue party, there isn't even ever bulletproof intelligence to justify the first drone strike, due to the way targets are acquired. This is well documented, and a serious source of controversy. https://fi
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by _broody 12y ago
Microsoft has a competitive advantage in the Android market because they're the only manufacturer that doesn't have to pay Microsoft $15 in Android licencing costs for each device released. (Actually, does that still hold true..
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by _broody 12y ago
Then, too, unlike other languages that frequently attract veteran programmers rather than newbies, CL doesn't appear utterly baffling to an initiate.
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by _broody 12y ago
We already know of the cost of plastic pollution, just do a freaking Google search. From there it's easy to weigh down the payoff vs. cost. (If you're too lazy to do, yes, reducing plastic pollution will save a good deal of wildli
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by _broody 12y ago
I think app-like interfaces on the web are a pipe dream at this point, anyways. Attempts to emulate native interfaces inevitably get stuck in a java-like uncanny valley that's nearly as hard to get out of as it would be rewriting nati
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by _broody 12y ago
It's not functional in the same vein as Haskell, but it is in the same vein as a lisp. Essentially, JS is an application of the lambda calculus.
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by _broody 12y ago
Well, this shows the legislation is broken. Uber drivers can work without having to pay for medallions/licenses/what have you, and having to fulfill cumbersome regulations. If you rule they get a pass, then so should the cab drive
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by _broody 12y ago
Perhaps facing a crisis is what low-quality colleges need. The current system is a failure. It doesn't make sense that in an age where so many top-end study materials are available so ubiquitously, easily, and much cheaper than ever (e
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by _broody 12y ago
After seeing some demos of the new UI features in Isis, which are pretty original and amazing, I don't think it's copying OSX any more than the later and iOS are copying Microsoft's modern UI with Yosemite.
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by _broody 12y ago
Where do you get from that 'fat has always been fine'? It's been the target of demonization by trendy dietitians for essentially the second half of the 20th century. This article on the subject made it to the top of HN a whil
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by _broody 12y ago
Ah, was that not Larry Wall moments before inventing a language intended to parse bashing one's head against the keyboard?
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by _broody 12y ago
Not to mention that Beats' business would be shooting itself in the foot by locking their products to working with iDevices only. I mean, you wouldn't even be able to jack them to your Mac! This is the worst idea ever!
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by _broody 12y ago
They're not. They're actually paying for the del... illusion it brings. Just further proof that marketing doesn't actually need a product to succeed.
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by _broody 12y ago
How sad to hear this. As he dies, the design principles he championed are taking over the interface design world with a vengeance. The visual language in iOS 7, Windows 8 Modern UI, and even Google Now owes a lot to designers like him. Rest
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by _broody 12y ago
Traditional education is reaching a breaking point, IMO. Tuition costs keep rising at a runaway pace, while the prospects delivered by a diploma are dwindling just as quickly, which is having a catastrophic effect not only on the lives of g
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by _broody 12y ago
It's already yielded impressive results for me. I bought a SP1 at a big discount, hoping to use it only for digital artwork. I didn't have my hopes too high, as I was aware of all the criticism it had drawn (though honestly, the t
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by _broody 12y ago
And Hitler. Let's not forget to bring up parallels to Hitler when trying to smear up someone. Godwin's law must be fulfilled, damn it! I don't see "criticisms being ignored." The author is dialoguing with his critic
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by _broody 12y ago
Admitting to the behavior you've described would no doubt destroy his career, so it's not surprise he's twisting the story around. He does have the victim card to play, though, and he's going to keep milking it for all i
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by _broody 12y ago
On the contrary, rebrandings rarely come without an accompanying press release, and this is a rather nice presentation.
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by _broody 12y ago
It's not even being misused, it's not being used at all . MVC may be the epitome of poorly defined design patterns. It's a unicorn. No one can even tell you with certainty what a controller is, or how the hell MVC maps from
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by _broody 12y ago
Not arguing your main point, but going on a tangent: One wouldn't need to "seriously throttle down the world economy" to achieve significant amelioration of pollution. There is plenty of low-hanging fruit to lower industrial
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by _broody 12y ago
The author isn't blaming the sharing economy for the death of the middle class, but describing it as a symptom (and as a patchwork solution that doesn't actually solve any problem -having to work more for subsistency isn't go
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by _broody 12y ago
As a freelancer, you're not paying for someone else's job security, you are actually _benefitting_ from it. Job security (and employment benefits in general) are huge mitigating factors against the stress of the modern worker&#x27
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by _broody 12y ago
I can't imagine Facebook getting even 10% of their investment on Whatsapp back. It's crazy that they blew so much money on something which hasn't proven to be anything more than a flavor-of-the-day platform. Whatsapp suffers
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by _broody 13y ago
That sort of naive techno-utopian response isn't helpful at all in the face of reality. We lack the ability to stop the degradation of our current environment. That doesn't bring high hopes that we could undertake the exponentiall