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by amirmc 12y ago
I remember that that I could do far more with my Sony Ericsson W800 (and Salling Clicker) than I could with my first iPhone. Dialing numbers from the address book, sending and receiving SMSs while the phone was in my bag/pocket, turnin
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by amirmc 12y ago
As a counterpoint to yours, I'll be sticking with Alfred. I'm sure the devs will be able to enhance Alfred with the improvement made to the underlying bits of Spotlight. I use the custom workflow all the time as well as the abilit
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by amirmc 12y ago
The Swift is a bird. It's unsurprising that the icons are of birds. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift
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Sometimes ignorance is just as bad as malice. I also note that your argument could be applied almost verbatim to women working in predominantly male environments. Or any other case where there's a minority surrounded by a entrenched ma
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... it's far more enjoyable to interact with Americans if you put forth the effort to understand where they're coming from, and why they act the way that they do." Is it really too much to ask for the same in re
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by amirmc 12y ago
Well said. Let's not forget why GitHub is putting such things in place. Had they existed before, they might have avoided all the unpleasantness they (and their former employee) went through (which also led to the CEO's resignati
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by amirmc 12y ago
Everything you've described is part of the problem. For some of it there's a better word: bullying.
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That's part of it but I feel it's a stronger argument when you consider the lifetime of devices we put in the home (how often do you upgrade your TV vs your phone vs your fridge). I expect everything in my house to keep working re
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by amirmc 12y ago
I don't trust Apple to do this well. Firstly, they cannot (or will not) make their devices multi-user, which is a problem in the home environment (eg an Apple TV that's tied to only my account - and already exposes more info than
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From a comment on the article: "Great article, but with slight historical revisionism: Tekes was established in 1983 and Finnvera was created in 1999, when Nokia was still on its way up. The roots of Finland's national innovation
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by amirmc 12y ago
I think this is laziness on the part of employers. Nobody wants to offer training in a new job so they pressure for cookie-cutter grads that they can slot into junior roles.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... using an email provider that is not one of the popular ones might in itself make you seem more suspicious." This kind of thinking is dangerous and scares me more than the dragnets themselves. There should be nothing
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by amirmc 12y ago
No, there's no need for a new term. From what I've read 'full-stack' in this context is not much different to 'vertically-integrated'. The way it's being used, it's about as useful as 'ninja&#x
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I'm glad you do but I suspect most people don't. It takes a mental leap to realise that other people can now (unknowingly) do things that expose your information to parties you're trying to avoid sharing with. Even writing
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If your friends have your details in their address books and have connected the mobile app to it, then FB has your info already. Just because you can't see it on your profile doesn't mean the data is not on their systems.
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As most things on FB, there's been a slow march about what certain actions mean. In the case of 'likes' it's something on the order of: "I think this is cool" -> "+ please subscribe me to your updates&q
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "...thereby automagically reducing lobbyism." Only the visible stuff. Any sufficiently well-resourced organisation can simply adjust its tactics to suit this environment (a Global Active Adversary?). For example, just buy u
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How often does anyone look at their thermostat? Showing ads there seems like a waste of effort. Far more valuable to mine the data and show even more 'relevant' ads when you next go online.
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It's the developers I'm talking about, not the users. I've yet to see any breakout company that's using a proprietary IoT platform (but correct me if I'm wrong). There's an inherent risk associated with trying
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I agree that the IoT should be about improving lives but that's true of any new product/service/thing and is not specific to IoT. I do think the post misses the much larger point of how such services and products get create
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Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphs(economist.com)
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Our Move to Switzerland(blog.silentcircle.com)
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I'd be really interested in your thoughts on one of the things we're building. It does exactly what you describe. http://nymote.org/docs/2013-foci-signposts.pdf
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I don't understand what you're getting at. That things go in cycles? Sure, I agree with that. Is there something else?
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I concur. It really irritates me that some writers feel their content must somehow be timeless and yet a year later it's superseded because something in the world changed . When I'm trying to research something completely new to
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I didn't specify phone calls because you don't need a smartphone for that (just a phone). I'm not sure you need a smartphone for GPS either, but I don't actually know. I'm trying to argue that we're heading tow
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by amirmc 12y ago
For everyone slating this article, please try thinking of it from a different perspective (and look beyond the buzzwords). Here's my take. (paraphrasing) 'In the rush to 'the cloud' people are disovering that there are b
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "A smartphone is useful even without internet." In principle, I agree but that's not the way things are going. How many apps do you have that have to talk to (someone else's) backend service to be at all useful?
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If I were independently wealthy, an adjunct professorship would be pretty appealing (in the right institution). Getting frontline access to very smart people working on potentially world-changing problems while having very few hard responsi
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... unless that's changed drastically in the past year or so ..." Actually a lot has happened in the last year or so. If you're not aware of it, you could start by looking over the end-of-year post from OCaml L

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