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by alexqgb 14y ago
Rest assured, I was neither ignoring nor overlooking anything. Here's what you said up top: "Why do people hate the greatest weakness question? I have never minded receiving it, and I often ask people the same." After receiving an answer, y
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Of course there are scenarios where the app could be better. That's not the point. The point is that nag screens suck, people strongly dislike them, and if you actually do have a mobile app that's much better than the web app, there are bet
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by alexqgb 14y ago
If you're replying to someone you don't mind getting snarky with, you can always sign your message "Sent from my Atari".
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Easy, tiger. My point is that anyone who thinks this question is a fair and reliable way to suss out character flaws should think twice. Again, what you did (asking a question when the answers were right in front of you) indicated that you
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Maybe, maybe not. We're simply taking them at their word. For all anyone outside the company knows, this was a stealth move designed to see how far the TOS could be pushed before the company decided what, exactly, they were going to do with
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by alexqgb 14y ago
I hate to point this out, but you just asked "Why do people hate the greatest weakness question?" after scrolling through a long and and very reasonable list of reasons why people hate this question. You also said people who don't answer th
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by alexqgb 14y ago
When asked by a technical person in a technical trade, it's an easier question to answer. When asked by an HR person who knows little about the craft, the subtext is very, very different. A far better way of getting the same information wou
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Ok. You can start by properly reading the link you posted. Here's the opening line: "Yesterday we introduced a new version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. These two documents help communicate
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Exactly. Even if you're honoring the rule in the breach, you're still honoring it. An that, by itself, represents a major win for the NYT. As time goes by and the unsustainability and injustice of the "all content should be free" mantra bec
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Oh for god's sake, just STOP with this trite bit of idiocy. Every time a service that relies on users IP to do business does something users dislike, some brainless moron repeats this goddamn cliche as though it were an actual contribution
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Perhaps, but deliberate illiteracy makes it harder to take seriously.
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In there any electrical customer anywhere who wants the utility to say what they can and plug into the wall sockets based on whether or not the utility also sells competing products? ("Sorry, but your fancy new toaster doesn't come from Pac
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They could have taken the blame for meaning one thing, saying something else entirely, and apologizing to their users for all that alarm that their clumsy TOS justifiably provoked. This could be followed with a brief account of how they act
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by alexqgb 14y ago
This particular clock face is a fetish object within design circles. The idea that several layers of Apple design people were unfamiliar with it is absurd. To get any more absurd, you'd have to postulate the existence of a tenured English p
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Given that willful copyright infringement can carry a fine up to $150k per instance, a mere 140 copies of the offending OS could attract a $21 million fine. Given that ~3 million iPads with the clock shipped in the first weekend it was avai
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by alexqgb 14y ago
I'm a producer, not a lawyer, so I can't quote you legal chapter and verse. But as your own link makes clear "But suppose you took the same movie or TV episode and showed it to patrons at a club or bar that you happen to manage. In that cas
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by alexqgb 14y ago
"This DVD is licensed only for private, non-commercial use." That's backed up by copyright law. If you build a theater, charge people to enter, and program runs of classic movies, you will get sued for violating the commercial-distribution
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Worse that that, he's demonstrating that the 'access' and 'insights' and 'instincts' on which their status as Notable Pundits depends is actually worthless. They are simply making shit up, and what they invent is invariably a tight race sce
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Copyright law governs both the creation of copies, and their distribution. This pairing is one of the law's longest-standing and must basic features. It's also the root of the conflict in this case.
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Elliot Spitzer - who knows all about books been suddenly thrown in cases that routinely go unpunished - has some choice words about this in "Inside Job". Having been on both sides of the table, he is entirely credible when saying that the d
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This Atlantic piece on mob rule in Nigeria highlights three frightening features of lynchings; incredible speed, terrifying spontaneity, and often egregious inaccuracy. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/per... There
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. And I apologize if I misread your intent.
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To the extent that you've diluted the market for new copies in some small but real way, then yes, you have theoretically harmed the author. However, the law doesn't recognize that harm as significant enough to be legally actionable. To the
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You're correct in thinking that a publisher who gives an artist a big advance and ends up making a decent return form the finished work may not share a dime of that with the artist. But given this success, the publisher is also a lot more l
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The Doctrine of First Sale is like Fair Use in that it sets specific limits to the number and nature of situations in which publishers and authors can demand recompense for copying and / or redistributing their work. So no, you haven't robb
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The analogy highlights the rhetorical technique of abstracting something to such a degree that opposition seems unreasonable. It's like saying "I was arrested just for being myself!" when in fact you were arrested for flashing people on the
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A few months ago Tim Cook went on record saying he "wasn't going to leave any price umbrellas". As Ryan Jones (via Forbes) observes, "a price umbrella is the cover that a market leader provides other companies by establishing a premium pric
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Let's not forget marketing, technical support, and regular software updates!
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I've always been put off by the size of the iPad, and I could never understand why Jobs thought a smaller device would be too small for people's fingers when the much smaller iPhone was already a bazillion dollar business. Having passed on
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Let's not forget: the product itself was hideously creepy. It was intended to be a Trojan horse designed to harvest semi-private data from previously inaccessible spaces / transactions / situations, etc, but the design made those intentions

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