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by ant5 16y ago
That quote has absolutely nothing to do with anything we were just discussing. Reddit's revenue isn't great, and company's maintain distinct budgets for different properties, but exactly what does that actually have to do with Conde Nast ha
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by ant5 16y ago
Sure you can. It's called revenue dollars. Most positions, whether we like it or not, can be evaluated on a quantitative basis. To who, exactly, do you ascribe those revenue dollars? The UX designer that came up with the feature the criti
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by ant5 16y ago
[1] Reddit is run by four developers, who are not out of touch, who can't make enough revenue despite their enormous size. Reddit is owned by Conde Nast. They don't have business people?
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by ant5 16y ago
So what do you do, exactly? We've talked about contracting a professional writer to help get our blog and website into shape, ride us to blog about what we're doing, and help edit what we do write.
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by ant5 16y ago
Are there people who don't find programming strenuous? I certainly don't enjoy all aspects of programming. I love programming, but I still find it to be incredibly strenuous. I have to work at the more difficult/novel problems for days, g
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by ant5 16y ago
That's not at all what I said I wanted :) I want trickle-up instead of trickle-down taxes, ie, the city controls the purse strings instead of the federal and state governments.
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by ant5 16y ago
Residents pay taxes to the feds and the state, some of that money trickles back down to the state, and some of that money trickles back down to the city. Wake me up when we can pay taxes to our city-states, and some of that money trickles
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by ant5 16y ago
Owen Thomas should have let another reporter pick this one up. His anger and bias is transparent, and raises serious red flags regarding the veracity of his article. It reads like an angry spat and a hit piece rolled into one: The one spec
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by ant5 16y ago
I never said the lock-in came from anywhere but from "within" me. Allow me to simplify: (apple user experience) - (annoying policies) > (everbody else's user experience) Now, this is just my opinion. You might think Linux on the
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by ant5 16y ago
The thing that keeps me "locked in" to Apple's products is that I like them better than the alternatives. But the moment that stops, there's nothing keeping me from moving over to Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. Me too, but there's a problem he
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by ant5 16y ago
> I believe I had a better education than the GED-to-college crowd. Of course you believe that. Most people tend to any ascribe success to the efficacy of their earlier life choices and hardships -- to believe you didn't select the be
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by ant5 16y ago
> Because back then the only math you needed was enough to count the animals on your farm and the size of your harvest? I can't think of any complex topic -- on par with school maths and science -- that took one hour a day for 180 days
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by ant5 16y ago
The 3.0 servlet spec fortunately includes support for async processing, so you can give your thread back mid-handling the request; No more thread-per-request required. Jetty has also supported their own async handling extension for quite so
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by ant5 16y ago
It seems like disrupting the user is the exact opposite of what Apple was trying to achieve with background support. The right way to do backgrounding: - Consume the least amount of CPU possible. Optimize, optimize, optimize! If you're impl
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by ant5 16y ago
> this is the dumbest argument ever. I'd say this argument is dumb-er. > you lose credibility by interjecting small jabs and opinions (ie, "unqualified") Your comment is amusing given your 'dumbest argument ever' intro, but regardle
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by ant5 16y ago
> As for my "out-of-context" quote, here is the context: http://junkscience.com/FOIA/mail/1107454306.txt . Why don't you explain to me how this was not a conspiracy to withhold data? The data they used is publicly available and the in
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by ant5 16y ago
If the data you need to reproduce their results is publicly available, then it isn't withheld, is it? The purpose of the three separate inquiries was to separate fact from out-of-context quotes like the ones you're still trying to leverag
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by ant5 16y ago
The data was available. If you want to independently verify it, the best way is to write your own code and see if it spits out the same/similar results.
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by ant5 16y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, people are only human, and tend to not react well when faced with a vitriolic "tone". The police may be required to protect and serve, but try berating a police officer and see how well he serves you when your h
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by ant5 16y ago
If the point is to independently verify the results, you should write your own code to grind it and compare it to CRU's results. anthonyb already quoted the relevant section: Writing computer code to process the data " took less than two da
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by ant5 16y ago
Holy crap. Pre-launch, so no revenue stream? $25k across 13+ people, plus office space? If you split the 25k evenly, that would be $1.9k each, or a yearly salary of roughly $23k. What kind of developers are you able to hire for that paltry
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by ant5 16y ago
Calling the police is a reactive measure -- you're already awake at 2am, now you're just trying to mitigate the damage and prevent it from happening again. With a short-term tenant, there isn't a next time to prevent, and chances are good t
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by ant5 16y ago
It makes for pretty bad neighborly relations, and they'll just behave worse the next time. The best approach is to mention it politely when you run into them in the hallways or out on the sidewalk. However, it's still pretty rare for incons
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by ant5 16y ago
Part of living in a city is exercising some basic decorum when it comes to living very close to a lot of people. When you play loud music until 2 am -- keeping your neighbor awake with a bass rumble that can be felt through the bed frame de
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by ant5 16y ago
> Looking at the website, it seems the general "improvement" is that you can edit formulas before you install; but that's exactly why I use MacPorts! I don't want to know how to install all these things, that abstraction is something I
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by ant5 16y ago
Which is a nice-sounding idea until the OS components are growing stale, at which point you'll be wondering why, for instance, your scripting language of choice's hash libraries don't support the modern idea of SHA256 (the answer being: bec
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by ant5 16y ago
> Apple still could have used it. It is open source, that is the point of open source. Yes, but Apple chose not to. It had nothing to do with legal reasons. > Not true. There is libapt, synaptic depends on it, for example. Sorry, yo
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by ant5 16y ago
> ... near as I can tell, this is a design decision. Yes. A very long time ago, MacPorts relied on file dependencies; if a library was there, it was used. The problem that emerged was that these dependencies often broken. Sometimes Appl
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by ant5 16y ago
> Oh, please... Apple could have used dpkg if they wanted to. Apple chose not to given the apparent community stance. > dpkg is open source software released under the GPL license. Apple just chose not to, because they would have ha
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by ant5 16y ago
What is the reason for making me build it instead of doing soemthing like apt-get on ubuntu? Originally, because around '00 Apple asked some Debian people if they minded if Apple used dpkg, and GPL non-withstanding, Debian said (paraphras

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