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by aston 19y ago
100% of PG articles make it here, lots of TC's make it here (although many don't hit the front page), probably half of the xkcd's do, and PB's generally make it here eventually. Also, I omitted Matt Maroon before, but his articles generally
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by aston 19y ago
I was planning at some vague point in the future to make bots for Techcrunch, PG, PB and xkcd just to take away that way to game karma. I think it'd be a net positive for the community, personally.
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by aston 19y ago
Bonus points for the Erdos number reference in the alt text.
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by aston 19y ago
Teach yourself programming in 10 years: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by aston 19y ago
"I've thought about this for a bit and realized that both camps ... are wrong, at least when stated so simply." Applies to basically every pair of controversial and/or reasonably substantial claims on the web. Obviously the right answer is
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by aston 19y ago
Some of those kids are summer interns...
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by aston 19y ago
By the way, no need to guess how the money went down. They were acquired by a public company, who filed all of the agreement with the SEC, who made said filings available on the web. They're pretty interesting if you're into that sort of th
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by aston 19y ago
I tried that earlier today. Their t's in particular are pretty crazy, and not from any common font, I don't think. Could easily be a custom job based on something like VAG rounded for the vowels, though.
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by aston 19y ago
As opposed to the zero copies of Vista that need replacing.
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by aston 19y ago
Are you questioning whether it's important to argue, or whether it's important to win?
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by aston 19y ago
I don't disagree in general. But. The Xbox is one of the few products that actually break the Microsoft trend. The first one was great and the second one was better as far as value provided to the consumer goes. Manufacturing problems make
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by aston 19y ago
You're comparing fundamentally very different approaches to the game console industry. Nintendo must be profitable selling its consoles and software licenses in order to survive. The company ethos is letting people have fun and doing so i
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by aston 19y ago
555 was also Domino's'.
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by aston 19y ago
Bigger lesson here is that first-mover isn't really worth that much if you're going to get it wrong. Act early on trends, but don't be first; let someone else make the mistakes for you.
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by aston 19y ago
The Xbox 360 has been amazingly successful. Not sure what similarities you see between it and Vista.
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by aston 19y ago
Volatility is one of AAPL's trademarks. Had you bought in January '05 , you were already at a decent loss halfway through the year. Same sort of big loss from the beginning of 2006 to halfway in. Not to mention the huge drop since the begin
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by aston 19y ago
Good job, rms.
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by aston 19y ago
And here http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N14/sturgess.html for an interview with Jim Sturgess.
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by aston 19y ago
Thankless work, but somebody's gotta do it.
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Just Thinking About Apple Boosts Creativity(blog.wired.com)
1 points by aston 19y ago|0 comments
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by aston 19y ago
Lemme guess, jaanix?
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by aston 19y ago
Anyone who didn't is a phony.
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by aston 19y ago
The text is so big it hurts. Still, nice implementation.
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by aston 19y ago
The top execs taking no salary is definitely a signal, but it's not solidarity with the other employees. Taking your pay all in equity means you're pegging your future wealth entirely on the performance of the company. Having executives ali
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Australian Company Calls WiMax a Disaster(blog.wired.com)
2 points by aston 19y ago|1 comments
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by aston 19y ago
While we're on it, these two quotes are famous for being famously wrong: “I think there is a world market for about five computers.” “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” But they were both compl
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by aston 19y ago
Punchline: "decode early, unicode everywhere, encode late." There're actually more caveats to unicode, especially if you have 3rd party code doing the decoding and encoding. There are ways to manufacture strings that are broken (not valid u
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by aston 19y ago
Looks like an improvement. I wonder how much money they paid for what are essentially tiny tweaks?
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by aston 19y ago
Why not try again for Anybots?
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by aston 19y ago
I'm pretty sure they were trading Pokemon cards.

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