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by aeturnum 15y ago
My read of the article is that "bikeshedding" generally covers discussions in which the energy expended vastly outweighs the gravity of the topic under discussion. There can be a correct answer to, "what color should we paint the bike shed?
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I associate Apple products a lot more closely to luxury goods than the sort of socially-conscious products you mention. Apple did that (RED) promotion a while back with their products, but that is as close as they have come to putting forwa
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by aeturnum 15y ago
That quote seems to be talking about the "social graph", not Facebook. Facebook pushes the "social graph" as part of their product, but I don't think they'd claim Facebook is the same thing as the graph.
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I agree about the archival nature of torrents, but I was reacting to the rude insistence that "only" giving away source code wasn't enough. I hope that, in time, more credence will be given to the idea of "abandonware." Right now it's pirac
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by aeturnum 15y ago
If you feel the need to own the assets, you can get Quake 2 for $2.50 from Amazon. Though I suppose it's harder to be a curmudgeon about ID if you look for solutions like that.
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I also think that Lua has a perception of being an embedded-only language (which it's very good at). The biggest code bases are World of Warcraft interface modifications and other plugin architectures. The features Lua would need to be real
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I've done a lot of work in Lua and haven't really found it to be an issue. As long as you stick to doing things the "lua way" (i.e. pairs / ipairs), the specific indexes matter very little. Every once in a while I'll have an, "oh yah," mome
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by aeturnum 15y ago
Most CCDs extract color information using a Bayer Filter[1] over them. Each square is a pixel in the megapixel count (a 1 megapixel sensor would have 250k red, 250k blue and 500k green photo sites). Algorithms are used to get RGB values for
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I think that people need to realize that politics, like any other industry, has a learning curve. It's not that Mr.Ham is unfit to win, or that he's not senatorial material, it's that he's a newbie to a very complex world. Even Obama, who h
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I'm actually a huge car fan too. My friend and I drove around the south-western US during a summer in a way that would be impossible without a car. Though I take BART to work, my girlfriend drives (and it makes sense for her). I guess I was
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by aeturnum 15y ago
>> I'm pretty optimally situated to take advantage of public transit. I don't doubt that public transit is the worse choice for you, but I wanted to comment on an attitude this line reminds me of. People expect that public transport
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I think the downvotes may be because you don't note the difference between saying you support a thing and actually pushing something through. It's quite easy to say you support something that will never get to the floor and score political
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by aeturnum 15y ago
It seems that BMW actually built a prototype, which lets the company test out specific ideas about how to change something (in this case the surface of the car). That's very different from asking people to imagine how things will be 10 year
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by aeturnum 15y ago
Though I worry about how much power Google wields, I think this is a bad example. EE and its ilk are designed to rank as high as possible on Google specifically. Their whole product was (more or less) SCO - if they could have ranked higher
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by aeturnum 15y ago
You can do that sometimes...as long as your key isn't bound to a user account (Battle.net), and as long as you have the patience to get it working (mail the cds, give them your steam account password, find them a crack, etc). Some of those
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I think this is one of the things that good DRM can provide the end-user that has been largely ignored by everyone. I mostly blame the industry for ignoring the possibilities, but they're exciting. You could "loan" games to people without p
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by aeturnum 15y ago
You don't have to be a designer to appreciate the importance of design. What the author is bemoaning is that other companies don't understand the process. You see many stories of Jobs rejecting designs, but none about him sitting down and c
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by aeturnum 15y ago
I've seen this reaction when I advocate for Sublime-Text 2 (I don't use Text Mate as I want a cross-platform editor). Excellent FOSS applications exist in the space, but individuals may value what they get out of products that cost money. T
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by aeturnum 15y ago
People have complained about Microsoft's monopoly at great length. They had an anti-trust case successfully brought against them in the US and similar cases overseas. It's an issue that people are very much aware of. That aside, the departm
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by aeturnum 15y ago
His OS stats are from December 2010, the up-to-date stats[1] show that xp is now down to about 42% and win7 is up to 37%. Not great, but hardly the stark picture he paints. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201008-201108