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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yes, basically. It's ok to call the woo-woo stuff bullshit, I don't care about alien abductions and crystals. But to take that and then apply it to gun control and so-called "environmental hysteria" (their phrase) is no
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yeah, Penn & Teller started out debunking psychics and so on -- then they decided gun control and recycling are bullshit too. I think one needs to be very careful about this business of "cutting through the bullshit" or whatev
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Talk about burying the lede - the most important sentence in the whole article is the final one.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
My father has been a salesman his whole career. A few years ago he was fired from a job where he grew the market for a particular product from $8 million to $25 million. They decided they didn't need him anymore. I figured that given w
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Some interesting points but I think this is poorly-conceived. Apple dropped a ton of new interesting things last week, I'd much rather think about that than how Jobs worshipers are dumb. About Apple not deserving the scrutiny - if we&#
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Much as I like many other things Apple makes, I haven't liked any of their mice and this version is no exception. However, I would perhaps say this one is the least-bad. I liked how clicking was simply pressing down on the whole mouse.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I can't believe you two are talking about this crap. Come on.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Same here. I just mash various combos of shift, command, control, option, and 3 until it works.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I figured people would push back but I really don't see how. Everything about this company sounds totally screwed. It's funny that you bring up Blackberry because what you're saying now is pretty much what people were saying
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by badman_ting 12y ago
They're discussing CloudKit now at WWDC. This sounds great - and could take a noticeable chunk of business from current cloud providers. This looks like a smart move from Apple. It only got about a minute and a half during the Keynote,
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Thanks for posting!
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by badman_ting 12y ago
JS has exceptions though. I didn't notice that bit until just now… hmm. Could turn into lots of return-checking boilerplate. I'm still excited about this, very much so, but I think exceptions are worth keeping.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I don't think syntax is really the issue. Using objc these days is clunky for reasons besides syntax.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
> After all, your Windows Phone already runs Windows, right? A very philosophical question indeed.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Said no iOS developer ever.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I have my reservations about the startup world, but the question about risk management is strange. Young people shouldn't necessarily be worrying about that just yet. Hell, worry about the risk of getting stuck in a situation where 50
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by badman_ting 12y ago
No, no - don't tax his income, tax his wealth :)
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by badman_ting 12y ago
People say this because we are enjoined to "do what we love", find our passion. Well, what's so wrong with just doing something you like? Nothing (IMO), but it doesn't sound good. "Complacent" and "content
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by badman_ting 12y ago
It seems they don't really care about people being able to actually purchase their devices. Bizarre, and frustrating.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
The purchasing flow is confusing as shit. I paid with PayPal and entered all my info, now I'm going through again and adding the same info again, and it's asking me for payment info? Arggggggh. And the only reason I went with Payp
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Oh, yeah. The word itself is pretty close to a dealbreaker for me.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Seriously? Pretty sure this has been in iPhone Safari since 1.0 (tap top bar to scroll to top), or at least as long as I can remember. I realize other browsers/platforms may not have this but that's a pretty big one to leave out..
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Mobile web moves too quickly to care about what was true 2 entire years ago :) iOS got position: fixed a couple versions back, and iOS users upgrade rapidly. So, the advice not to use position: fixed on mobile may still be good, but iOS isn
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I like how this piece describes the tedium and pointless work involved in being a software developer, wasting time doing things to compensate for other people's mistakes and carelessness. You can be a developer without worrying about t
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Good point, sometimes the dread can be worse than the encounter itself. The only way out is through.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
If the causation can't be proven, will it matter?
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Serious question: What makes them fanboys but not you?
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Cringely has written some interesting pieces about it. He seems to essentially think that the current management is just trying to suck the last bits of value from the organization. http://www.cringely.com/?s=ibm
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I noticed a couple digs at Xbox here, particularly the one saying their division is "too cool" for the rest of MS. If I were that team I'd do the same thing -- wall off all the internal BS politics and other crap that causes
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yes, same here. My favorite rule in writing is "kill your darlings". If what you're saying isn't interesting when said plainly, perhaps vocabulary isn't the problem.

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