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1. 16561.▲
   by api 17y ago

   Nope. Without some sort of patent, each participant in a collaborate effort gets nothing and whomever is most successful in marketing the result gets everything.
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   by api 17y ago

   The problem is that money trickles down from the point of transaction, and the volume of the trickle is determined by your leverage. So what you're saying is that the people who get people to buy a thing should make almost all the money, fo
3. 16563.▲
   by api 17y ago

   That's because operating systems are fundamentally broken in terms of how they handle application installing, application uninstalling, etc. OSX's .app drag-and-drop is the closest to the right answer. Linux's package management is a workin
4. 16564.▲
   by api 17y ago

   I could not agree more. Business is something you do with stuff, but you have to have stuff to do business about. Business is not something that can be done in a void. A lot of the fakers and cargo cultists are trying to do business about b
5. 16565.▲
   by api 17y ago

   I'm not convinced that this rumor about OSX is true. Has Apple officially said such a thing? BTW, part of the problem with computers not progressing faster is that the software world is dropping the ball. We're not taking advantage of thing
6. 16566.▲
   by api 17y ago

   Computers are fundamentally different from things like the iPad. The iPad is a console , not a computer. It is heavily restricted in what you can do with it. Yes, computers are progressing a little more slowly in a sense. This isn't a bad
7. 16567.▲
   by api 17y ago

   I get the feeling that C and C++ are undergoing a mini-renaissance right now. This is a good thing. The high level language / low-level language thing is one of the "cycles of reincarnation" in software. I do sometimes wonder... if we spent
8. 16568.▲
   by api 17y ago

   I find the "developers aren't motivated by money" thing demeaning. Of course developers are motivated by money. It's not the only motivation, but it's in there. It's demeaning because what you're really saying is "I shouldn't have to pay
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   by api 17y ago

   I don't live in The Valley (tm), but I do live in a tech center (Boston area). My impression: The positives: lots of people doing tech entrepreneurial things, lots of talent, other startups to work with and learn from, entrepreneurial cultu
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    by api 17y ago

    Human group social behavior is a liability in our modern society. It works pretty well when you're a tribe of 20 people hunting and gathering, but it doesn't scale.
11. 16571.▲
    by api 17y ago

    No, it's worse than that. I have seen this before. There is an entire portion of the business world that merely goes through the motions of being successful businesses rather than actually being businesses at all. It's really weird. You cou
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    by api 17y ago

    "I got the feeling that our clients were simply trying to mimic successful businesses, and that as consultants, our earnings came from having the luck of being included in an elaborate cargo-cult ritual." WOW that is dead on. I get the feel
13. 16573.▲
    by api 17y ago

    How does crap on a plate like this get funding when there are so many more worthy projects out there?
14. 16574.▲
    by api 17y ago

    I remember the first time I tried OSX and saw Expose. I realized then and there that that feature alone was worth the $500-$1000 premium that I would pay for a Macbook. That's right. IMHO, Expose is worth $1000. (Of course, now everyone
15. 16575.▲
    by api 17y ago

    I will keep repeating this until people get it: User interfaces matter! A lot!
16. 16576.▲
    by api 17y ago

    I agree. Nucking futz. This is much crazier than anything Microsoft has done in recent memory.
17. 16577.▲
    by api 17y ago

    ... with a crummy user interface. I'm posting this a lot, but I'm not just trolling. I'm trying to get people to grasp the fact that UI is the reason for Apple's success. Everyone else treats the UI as an afterthought or for whatever reas
18. 16578.▲
    by api 17y ago

    What Apple really has down about UIs is sparseness. "Exterminate features." I loathe clutter, both in real life and in technology. When something on a mac looks like it should be able to be frobbed, dragged, etc., it usually can and in ex
19. 16579.▲
    by api 17y ago

    User interface, user interface, quality of hardware, and user interface. "Quality of hardware" boils down to user interface... just at the hardware level. Their UI ability is the secret of Apple's success. Everyone else treats UI and design
20. 16580.▲
    by api 17y ago

    Couldn't you have a non-fascist solution to this? Do something like Reddit, Digg, or Hacker News... let people guinea-pig apps and upvote/downvote them and sort in each category.
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    by api 17y ago

    Windows 7 is usable for two reasons: 1) They removed much of the "originality" that they did from Vista. 2) They copied more stuff from Apple, and a little bit from the Linux ecosystem. Oh... and what's their fetish with that sickening shad
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    by api 17y ago

    Yup, freedom to have: no access to hardware, no ability to do anything computationally intensive, no filesystem access, no storage, no disconnected access, ...
23. 16583.▲
    by api 17y ago

    Hmm... if it's flimsy I probably wouldn't like it. One thing I don't like about Apple hardware is how you have to treat it like a family heirloom or it turns into a scratched up mess. Anything less hardy than that would be unusable. Toughbo
24. 16584.▲
    by api 17y ago

    That's what I'm worried about. The instant that happens, I'm gone.
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    by api 17y ago

    The hardest thing to me about ditching Mac would be that Apple is the only company capable of doing a user interface. ALL other user interfaces by ALL other vendors suck. For some reason, no human beings on the entire planet other than thos
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    by api 17y ago

    I have been a very loyal mac user for years and love it, but I'm seriously considering going back to Linux. I am not a free software "zealot" and don't mind some closed-ness, but this is getting absolutely insane. Enforcing which LANGUAGES
27. 16587.▲
    by api 17y ago

    ISPs networks are not (totally) private property though. They are in many cases publicly subsidized, and they operate with a state-backed grant of monopoly or oligopoly within each region. IMHO, regardless of what you think of Objectivism o
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    by api 19y ago

    IM send file almost never works if both parties are behind firewalls. Skype works, but it tends to be very slow since it almost always ends up relaying (sometimes several times) to get around the NAT problem. This uses some sophisticated NA
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    by api 19y ago

    Because it costs far, far less than this per user to operate. All I run is a rendezvous server, which uses very little bandwidth per user. The economics are actually pretty good for a small thing like this. It ain't gonna be Google, but it
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    IM-like micro-startup for unlimited encrypted NAT-friendly file transfer in beta(filephile.net)

    6 points by api 19y ago|5 comments