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by batista 14y ago
> 'Absolute failure' only if your standards are impossibly high. "impossibly high"? He's talking about it with the standard "breaking into the US market" term in use since the sixties. What are you describing ("TV appearances, concerts
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by batista 14y ago
FWIW, I'm on the same boat: I bought 3, then 4, and now have to update to 5. They do have some discount (free upgrade actually) to those that bought it after some date however.
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by batista 14y ago
> I'm a bit annoyed, I just paid $50 to upgrade to the Lion version last year, plus $50 for Fusion 3 upgrade the year before that, and now I have to pay again? The changing digits at the end of the names you mention (Fusion 3, 4, 5) ma
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by batista 14y ago
Obviously because in Ubuntu you can freely move the non-existing iCloud folder.
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Kids of that age (that watch the same "flash animated movies" over and over again) seldom buy/rent movies themselves. Plus, they do not normally use online rating systems...
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by batista 14y ago
> If I can get iTunes through the stereo, why bother with radio Because those are two different mediums. In one you listen to your own music collection over and over, in the other you can find new things (at least where I live, dunno a
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by batista 14y ago
> A big part of the 37signals play book is awareness through blogs and magazines. Their business model can't be "hey, we're going to sit here for 70 hours a week and crank out code" because then there is nothing to write about. I'd say
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> Yes, as I die I'll be able to look back on my life and see that I had everything properly organized into neat folders. Whereas you are mr. Joe Adventure, middle name "Unpredictable" now? The same thing could be said for all "todo", "
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> Patents don't kill other products, products do. I could make a patent for a magical frosting generator cannon but until it's on the shelves in a way affordable to consumers, who cares? Captain Obvious to the rescue. The write of the
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> f I had a iPhone jack in my car, I would listen to my iPhone's music. If I had an iPhone receiver in my garage, I'd listen to my iPhone's music. If I had an iPhone receiver in my office, I'd listen to my iPhone's music. I don't, so I
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by batista 14y ago
Because the rewatchability rating doesn't just tell you how rewatchable a movie is, but also how good and "timeless" it is, i.e mainly how deeply it resonates with people. This is not about picking a movie to watch again after you have alre
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by batista 14y ago
Because "rewatchability" is not just useful to judge how much people like to watch a movie again -- it's also useful to judge how much people like the movie, find it deep, and connect with it (over pure mindless fun). So rewatchability roug
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by batista 14y ago
> it won't invoke that suspicious, foreign language feeling in developers that it probably should. The "foreign language feeling" is a good thing in a developer? Who would have thought... Talk about narrow horizons... Reminds me of the
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by batista 14y ago
It's not Perl all over again. Have you even _read_ those one-liners? Those are neither line-noise, nor fickle one-line imperative solutions. On the contrary, they are elegant and easy to read --you just have to understand the basics of func
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by batista 14y ago
> It may be obvious to you, but that's a pretty handwavy dismissal. Once again, please explain how a government knowing biographical/demographical information about its population impacts personal freedom Once again? It has been explai
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by batista 14y ago
Actually don't call it a comeback for a better reason: RSS is not coming back. On the contrary, its use continues to fall.
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by batista 14y ago
> If you believe this, then what is the purpose of putting illegal drug users in jail? The moral majority (or a vocal minority with the necessary clout) imposing it's ideas? Bureaucracy inventing roles for itself using some early 20th
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by batista 14y ago
> Style manuals have their place but are hardly scripture, and there are countless examples of great writers breaking every rule in the book. Indeed, Strunk & White breaks its own rules, sometimes when describing the very rule it's
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't know where on earth he got "By definition an idiom is something you remove from good clean writing," which is obviously not true Maybe from all those classic books on writing, like the "Chicago Manual of Style", "On Writing W
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Well, maybe they should.
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by batista 14y ago
> read ignorance as a lack of knowledge - not the voluntarily action to ignore. Same thing. You cannot do anything with just "lack of knowledge", whereas you can do lots with either "knowledge" (e.g process it and extract more knowledg
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by batista 14y ago
> It is a classical Russian propaganda defense: answer an accusation on human rights violations with "and you are lynching Negroes" or similar. Really? Because it's also called "pot calling the kettle black". Being a "classic defence"
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by batista 14y ago
> "Breaking news! Corruption and totalitarianism of the Russian government, KGB and orthodox church exposed by the unimaginable injustice dealt to the members of the Pussy Riot and undisputed chess champion Gary Kasparov" How about: un
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> Please clarify how reliable government-issued ID impacts personal freedom. You're making an awfully big leap here. Is he? It is obvious that the government amassing all the more data for it's citizens impacts personal freedom, from p
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> I'm sure you're not making stuff up, so could you provide your citation? Sure, happy to oblige. It was on a comment in his Google+ page (around 1/5 scroll length) he said: "no, Lenovo doesn't [still make quite decent hardware]. I hav
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> Thinkpads have an understated, timeless design, superior to almost all competition, Macs included. The only distinguishing quality of Macs is their built quality - but that's not exactly a good reason to buy an ugly laptop A Mac is a
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> I wouldn't buy a macbook for linux regardless of display. You wouldn't. Linus Torvalds would --and actually did. And he says that his Macbook Air is the best laptop he ever had, and that Lenovo doesn't even come close.
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> I miss Sun. They made some seriously cool stuff, and in their later years they were really quite progressive in their outlook and approach. Yes, and look how well it worked out for them...
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How you came to the "never even read her then" conclusion? I read her alright. That's why I can be so dismissive.
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> I love armchair experts. Speaking as a battle-scarred, proven old sage veteran of the DB wars? Because the opinions you state above don't really qualify you as that...

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