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by apatters 10y ago
No, he shouldn't have to learn to use them. When open source fails this type of thinking is often why. Firefox makes a product and therefore should improve that product so that more people want to use it. Vendors in a market are rare
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Because democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. It's very easy to get people worked up and crusading (e.g., wolf-mode) about "think of the children" type causes. Then you get representatives who
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Even before the arrival of social media, the mass media was feeding people stories about the world which made it look far more dangerous than it actually was. So media isn't the reason. The reason is that the majority political philoso
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Capitalism's an economic system, not a moral one. He's got his responsibility to make money at any cost. Civic society has its responsibility to draw a line past which the cost is too high. History makes it clear that "assumi
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by apatters 10y ago
No, I'm not. Do you always assume that people who have differing opinions from yours must be heartless monsters and insult them? That must be a serious impediment to constructive discussion. To put my point succinctly Zuckerberg hasn&#
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by apatters 10y ago
This is difficult to say without sounding snarky, but will 'all disease' include the mental disorders (both discovered and undiscovered) that Facebook inflicts upon its users? Depression from seeing other people's perfect liv
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In accordance with Betteridge's law, TL;DR: No.
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This is such a cool idea. Since distribution is the real secret behind the success of Coca Cola and the beverage giants, I bet this would pair well with a Dollar Shave Club type of business model. Deliver a crate of Open Cola to people ever
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I'm just as impressed by SpaceX's achievements as the next guy but the Musk fanboyism is really getting out of control here. He's not going to terraform Mars, because we have no idea how to do it, the cost would likely be mea
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I'm not sure if it's available in the US, but I bought a Samsung Galaxy A5 in Thailand for about $220 and with the level of quality it offers for such a low price, I have a very hard time understanding why anyone would pay 3-5x th
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As someone who appreciates the design goals of both but is a user of neither Matrix nor XMPP for practical reasons (I don't know anyone who is), seeing users of both of these small networks sighing at each other leaves me nonplussed. A
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by apatters 10y ago
I think Uber's future hinges on two things: 1. Whether they figure out how to cut costs with driverless automation 2. If not, how many people will keep using them when fiscal discipline is inevitably imposed and prices go up. They are
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I agree that the poster is entitled to leave GNU for whatever reasons she likes. However, in the process she also made defamatory statements against GNU, with a clear intent of harming GNU. These are the statements which ought to be evaluat
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by apatters 10y ago
The poster levels accusations at members of GNU but does not substantiate them with evidence (at least in that thread which I can see). I should hope we still live in a society where the accused are innocent until proven guilty. Can we see
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by apatters 10y ago
So what do you call it when Google adds great UX, advanced sorting and searching etc. to email, and then slowly starts making it harder to send email to Gmail accounts from non-Gmail accounts? (All in the name of eliminating spam, of course
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by apatters 10y ago
That's very true, there are web apps where "cases where we need to minimize server roundtrips" are the default case. For these situations it makes sense to run a lot of the logic on the client. However it seems like this has
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This is exactly why I've always been puzzled by the urge to move more and more logic to the frontend. In backend development you have a choice of many mature languages, tools and frameworks which are fairly sane. I'll take that en
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The banks have a profit motive for assessing credit risk accurately. They are the ones who make money if this is done right. So why don't the banks pay for it? Why are we subsidizing the banks' business model by paying for credit
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by apatters 10y ago
What the scammer did is wrong, and the plight of the victim is easy to relate to here. It's easy to have a sense of personal outrage after reading this story. But let's keep a sense of proportion in mind: it is $500 worth of gift
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Fine, but the gaming market is what it is. The model that would work for mass adoption would probably look something like: sell a console with 1 VR headset and 1-3 games for $700, take a loss on it, and turn a profit later on more games and
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It's not like we don't know how to launch a new gaming system at this point: you package up everything the consumer needs to get started for around ~$500, you line up a couple of launch titles that are really great games or licens
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Freedom House is probably the most relevant watchdog/measuring organization I can think of for the general case of "equality, liberty and justice" that this article's author was handwaving about. They try to assess the s
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The NYT again reveals its inability to look at anything outside of its comfortable Western bubble. The global trend of the past 10 years has been a wave of efforts by entrenched rulers to suppress free elections, free press, and a rise in c
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Well, maybe less of the engineering should be done by capitalist businesses. The more open platforms and protocols that the PC and Internet were built on usually weren't developed by private companies with profit motives. They came fro
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There's a bit of truth to this for sure but the usable life of a desktop PC was and still is much longer than that of a smartphone. A desktop PC can get a memory upgrade, a new hard drive, maybe a new graphics card, in five years it wo
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You're reducing the entire market to fools and nerds. There's plenty of room for people in between. You didn't have to be an engineer to add more RAM to your system, you just had to be the geeky kid down the street who wasn&#
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The engineering feats are indeed remarkable! But so were the engineering feats of the desktop PC era. Previously it was unbelievable that you could make a computer small enough to sit on somebody's desk. So those guys were learning how
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It's really sad to think about how far we've fallen in terms of hardware customizability since the desktop PC era. It was once a given that you could build your own device from scratch and change out any part you wanted to. You co
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This doesn't sound like a problem to me at all - you found your sweet spot and dialed it back to a place that you're happy with, presumably with less regrets about it than if you had never gone a bit too far in the first place.
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Had I been the hiring manager (or anyone in management) here, I would have LOVED it if you had gotten in touch directly and told me about this. This likely would have been followed up by an interview with you and said recruiter being dismis

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