akadien

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by akadien 16y ago
All of this for a damn phone.
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by akadien 17y ago
Everybody has ideas. Your good friend is no different from almost everybody else on the planet. Ideas aren't worth anything. If they were, there would be a marketplace or exchange where you could buy and sell ideas. Implementation is everyt
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by akadien 17y ago
For checking email, read news on the web, and what else? I seriously doubt any security department would let a leader "govern" using that device.
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by akadien 17y ago
Another example of (a) how schools break the minds of kids, and (b) why America is doomed. A working class hero is something to be.
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by akadien 17y ago
You don't know me, so why are you surprised? I thought I would like it and could use it, it's not working out, I don't expect it to work out, so I'm returning it. It's not a political statement.
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by akadien 17y ago
For me, the iPad does not provide more utility compared to other devices I use to warrant carrying around and maintaining yet another device (Yad? iYad?). If it did or I thought it would, I would keep it. That it makes me physically uncomf
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by akadien 17y ago
$50 restocking fee and two weeks to get it back to them.
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by akadien 17y ago
Neither is it for me. I'm sending mine back. Things I don't like: (a) Eye strain, (b)It doesn't provide enough utility for me to justify another device in my life, and I don't want another media consumption device. In short, it's another to
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by akadien 17y ago
Eat meat and veggies. Eliminate any foods that are white and come in a box or bag from the middle of the supermarket. Walk a lot in between working out, and swim from time to time.
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by akadien 17y ago
And Jobs isn't the inventor of Objective-C.
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by akadien 17y ago
I preordered mine. Despite the first couple of days of unadulterated enthusiasm, I'm thinking about sending mine back this week. No killer app. Not a meaningful proxy or replacement for my iPhone or laptop. And, I get bad eyestrain if I use
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by akadien 17y ago
Somebody needs to invent a font or HTML 5 tag for sarcasm.
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by akadien 17y ago
I disagree with Reitzensteinm. It's brilliant sarcasm and deserves every upvote.
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by akadien 17y ago
I can't get the taste out of my mouth about 331. To the point that this is actually making me study other platforms because of the spookiness of Apple's propensity to be arbitrary. I'm two weeks into developing a game I had hoped to port o
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by akadien 17y ago
Curious what other platforms you are considering. I chose iPhone over Android because I perceived the latter to be a poor marketplace to sell apps and of fragmentation of the OS. I'm now wondering if I made a mistake or if mobile web apps a
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by akadien 17y ago
Do you really expect a regime change at Apple? Jobs walks two feet off the ground in Cupertino.
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by akadien 17y ago
I'm in the same boat. I know obj-c, but wanted to use unity3d for a game and phonegap to leverage my html5/CSS skills. Now, I'm spooked by what I perceive is Apple's prerogative to be arbitrary. I understand needing to cull the 'crapps', an
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by akadien 17y ago
Not a joke, whatever chair you buy, budget $20 or $25 for a professional grade stability ball for "sitting breaks". It's good for posture, core, etc. and helps one to stretch out a bit. I thought it was weird until I tried it, and now I al
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by akadien 17y ago
It seems logical he will end up at Google working on Android.
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by akadien 17y ago
The information I described was released to the public yesterday. I didn't describe any of the API or class reference.
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by akadien 17y ago
I just read the Apple docs, and it's not multitasking in the sense that the world thinks of multitasking. It's more like suspended animation with selected background tasks or events (playing audio, voip, location events, "I need more time t
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by akadien 17y ago
"Fourth, 15 hours to do a main screen and a new message form, really? I'm sure that we or the guys at Cappuccino & Sproutcore could throw a similarly functioning demo together quicker." It's been seven hours. How's your functioning demo
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by akadien 17y ago
And, good riddance, I say. I now own an iPad and I see how the laptop is now in the same class as a desktop. It's now a work machine. I can watch TV, check email, surf the web, look up information, chat, listen to music, play games, etc. on
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by akadien 17y ago
It would appear so, but I did not. I have no regrets and enjoyed my time as student and professor. I self-funded my PhD through fellowships and work, which gave me freedom to work on any problem I wanted. That taught me self-reliance and th
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by akadien 17y ago
Those two questions have the same answer. I have a PhD and my experience is that the process is broken because it's geared towards the wrong goals of (1) writing papers, (2) getting grants, and (3) the game of getting a tenure-track positio
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by akadien 17y ago
No, they need knowledge, creativity, and courage to ask "why?" and "why not?" A PhD is a firm credential for a job in academia that may or may not indicate that you have these qualities. It is neither necessary nor sufficient to becoming
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by akadien 17y ago
I'm afraid the modern attention span is becoming limited to 140 characters.
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by akadien 17y ago
Last week's Tosh.0 is what led me to that description. Just, ewwwwww.
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by akadien 17y ago
For global virtual circle jerking, yes.
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by akadien 17y ago
No. I'm speculating and conjecturing on the intent of a six month EIR tenure.

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