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by adamlett 8y ago
There's no silver bullet, only trade offs. I see this a lot and it bugs me, because it implies that it's all zero sum and there's nothing that's ever unconditionally better or worse than anything else. But that's
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by adamlett 8y ago
I find it a little bit amazing that we now live in time where features in mainstream applications ship for the Mac before they ship for Windows.
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by adamlett 8y ago
The problem with the Java way, as I see it, is that it puts more of a burden on the programmer to the point where a majority simply won't do it. Getting programmers to document their code is an uphill battle to begin with. But the bure
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by adamlett 8y ago
Windows hasn't learned from the Mac, because user experience was never a key selling point for Windows. Windows dominance was the result of selling large quantities of Windows licences to IT managers who were not chiefly concerned with
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by adamlett 8y ago
However, what you have just explained is all pretty obvious. I was just addressing your notion that the investment was "terrible". To buy Apple's explanation that most of their disappointing quarterly earnings were as a re
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by adamlett 8y ago
Warren Buffet would be the first to tell you that how the market prices an investment on any given day, has very little to do with the intrinsic value of that investment. Just because Apple went down relative to when he invested, that doesn
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by adamlett 8y ago
I would state it more broadly and say that it is the responsibility of the company to ensure a good return on the shareholders' investments. That could be by increasing the share price, but it could also be by paying dividends. Also, r
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by adamlett 8y ago
No, I don't think they do in most boards, unless the board members are individually dangerously exposed to drops in the stock price (Elon Musk cough ). Apple more so than most other companies, is famous for taking the long view strate
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by adamlett 8y ago
But saying that a company is struggling because it stocks price is falling is like saying that a dog is happy because it is wagging its tail. In other words, it is reversing cause and effect. A company’s stock price may be falling for a
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by adamlett 8y ago
This is false.
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That sounds completely unrealistic and utopian to me. Before I even consider how to deploy a product, I want to experiment locally to find out if I even have a potential product. Most of my experiments never amount to being anything more th
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by adamlett 8y ago
Are plumber wages really going down, though? I am not familiar with the situation in the UK, but in Denmark where I live, demand for plumbers (and construction workers) has outstripped supply for many years now. It's difficult to find
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by adamlett 8y ago
If we were talking about something that had a non-zero marginal cost such as tangible goods or services, I would tend to agree. The problem with (or benefit of, depending on your perspective I guess) IP is that apart from a fixed upfront in
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by adamlett 8y ago
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the sole reason multinational corporations can avoid paying taxes, that they “have to” pay surprisingly large royalties to some sister company in a tax haven that “owns” all the rights to the mother
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by adamlett 8y ago
Let me get this straight: You would not consider paying a premium for a machine even though your experience tells you, that it has a useful life of 10+ years?
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by adamlett 8y ago
If you listened to Marcos podcasts, you'd know that he has been very critical of the most of the Macs that have come out in recent years. He remains critical of most of their laptops. That doesn't mean there is not still a confl
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by adamlett 8y ago
Please point me to a succesful hardware company that has ever let their products sell themselves . I simply don't understand what your gripe is. Providing review units for members of the press is completely standard. Every company doe
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by adamlett 8y ago
It's my impression that most Mac (and Linux) users have given Windows a chance. Maybe not the very latest versions, but most Mac users I know (including myself) have switched from Windows at some point in the past. I don't doubt
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How philanthropy is a way for the rich to preserve inequality that benefits them(boingboing.net)
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Human labour, especially in the presence of liveable wages , is extremely expensive… FTFY.
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Security researcher named in China spy chip story voices doubts(cultofmac.com)
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People are – I think – getting too hung up on possible "weasel words" in Apple's and Amazon's denials. Think about it for a moment: What good would it do Apple if it turned out that Bloomberg was essentially correct in t
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by adamlett 8y ago
If you’re looking for a motive, how about this administration’s obsession with getting manufacturing jobs “back” to the US? Seems to me that this along with the current trade war, could be part of a strategy to do just that.
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by adamlett 8y ago
The article doesn’t have to be correct , it just has to be well sourced . If it turns out to be incorrect, then it becomes a story about how or why the sources got it wrong.
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True, it doesn't do everything, but it really hits the sweet spot for me. I wouldn't say that it almost has no functionality. To me, it has surprisingly much. It's just that it does such a good job of keeping the interface cl
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by adamlett 8y ago
For me the one and only GUI for Git, is GitUp: https://gitup.co .
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by adamlett 8y ago
I think law like this is broken because it's like many (American) laws where it ends up selectively enforced Laws like these are not criminal laws, and are not meant to be enforced if by that you mean policed . It's up to som
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by adamlett 8y ago
I find it incredibly funny that a company in Switzerland has invented a way to store energy that basically uses the same mechanism as… a Swiss clock!
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by adamlett 8y ago
The majority of countries where elections take place, don't have voting machines. So it's hardly surprising that most kinds of election fraud don't involve voting machines. Also, I am very sceptical of your claim that most of
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by adamlett 8y ago
Nobody’s saying that Apple is not self interested. The claim is that it is Apple’s self interest not to violate its users’ privacy. In contrast to Google and Facebook, Apple’s business model does not require Apple to know as much as possibl

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