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by badman_ting 13y ago
Agreed about Cygwin. I used it for years out of necessity, but I don't like when people suggest it as a remedy for Windows's anemic command line. Cygwin adds a tiny amount of what is needed. For one thing, Cygwin can't do any
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Blech, you all can keep it. Just let me do enough to be useful, but not too useful, give me my money, and go away. Feel free to bash each other's brains in for a chance at imaginary glory when I am at a safe remove. As an American, if
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by badman_ting 13y ago
I believe the correct play for this scenario is to automate the work and never tell anyone. Though I can imagine that not revealing it could be just a little bit tricky to pull off.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
On the upside, western internet users mostly ignored Usenet in favor of BitTorrent, which made Usenet a real pleasure to download from for years. Copyright holders are starting to catch on, though, so this is going away.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Yeah, that is the conclusion I have reached as well. Interestingly, some people are saying that iOS 7 presents a sort of second coming of that gold rush, but we'll see.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Sometimes I feel like I passed up a big opportunity not getting in on the iPhone market. Other times, I feel like the app market is like very packed concert where people get crushed and trampled, and avoiding it was a good move.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Ironically, they would come in for less criticism if they simply continued to not sell Legos to girls.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
You know you're screwed when you start hoping Congress will save you.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
I guess they had it right the first time.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Sometimes a small portion of users can represent an outsize amount of value. As the OP's response to your comment would imply.
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by badman_ting 13y ago
Rather than "real reality versus distorted", probably a better way to think about it is to realize that everyone distorts reality differently. True, you can't lie to a compiler, but as far as I recall Jobs never suggested suc