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by batista 14y ago
> Antenna gate wasn't real? I can reproduce the antenna fault with a significant drop in signal strength with one pinkie. I classify that as a major fault. For a premium product, that's unacceptable. Really? Because tens (hundreds) of
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by batista 14y ago
> I'm inclined to agree that iOS Maps wouldn't have got past Steve Jobs, because he was fanatical about the smallest details. I'm inclined to call this out. If it made business sense, Steve would have done the exact same thing. Especia
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by batista 14y ago
> For those who find the above so-called Grothendieck construction somewhat puzzling, here's a little motivation and background. It is the group completion of a monoid. The simplest case is the group completion of the free monoid on one
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by batista 14y ago
More melodies need at most a 2 octave range (especially in pop), which limits us to 24 choices for each melody note. (Actually less, if you factor in the constrains of the specific key the tune is in, but let's be maximalist and get an uppe
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by batista 14y ago
> I am not too bothered about them needing to do more work given that they produce a premium product, in fact putting more care in is their entire shtick! Putting more care in the LATEST offering. Putting more care in older versions if
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by batista 14y ago
Sort of. Cosmic rays, for one. And bad sectors. But, half-joking aside, it's dangerous to run old browsers with no security updates. It might not have bitten you, and it might never bit you (like how you can run off a red light lots of time
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by batista 14y ago
> I bought an ibook in 2002 and each time an upgrade was announced I chose not to purchase the upgrade (none of the advertised features appealed to me). That's not how it works. You either go on with the program or you get left behind.
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by batista 14y ago
> Well, the last time I used OSX for daily use, it was constantly pestering me to upgrade to various point releases. Those were usually massive downloads that required a reboot. Maybe things have changed? Constantly as in once every 3-
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by batista 14y ago
> Apple's incessant need to obsolete their old operating systems is surprising to me. I would think this would hurt their overall adoption rates (especially long term) as people get sick of constantly upgrading their OS and dealing with
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by batista 14y ago
He explained it all in his comment. (1) Being "already set up for testing" for an older OS version and (2) continuing to use the testing setup for that version in addition to ever increasing new test setups (for 10.6, 10.7. 10.8 etc) and co
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by batista 14y ago
Accomplished and crank are not at opposite ends... Especially when you are accomplished at complete irrelevant fields that one you are blathering about...
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by batista 14y ago
> And he does think he's going to be able to live forever and essentially reconstruct his dead father. And he does take 150 (previously 250) supplements and 10 glasses of alkaline water per day. And he did write a nutrition book about a
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by batista 14y ago
> Also, you're assuming that a charge of hypocrisy automatically means the idea is voided. It's not - a charge of hypocrisy is an accusation of a serious character flaw. I'm not assuming it's some general law. I know that it happens in
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by batista 14y ago
> In the room example it is stated the bad thing affects everyone in the room to some detriment. Even though the visionary got everyone to stop, the eventual outcome is the detrimental one since the visionary keeps doing the bad thing.
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by batista 14y ago
> Practically the problem with this is that unless you know the right thing to do before hand then you can't determine the right thing to do. The hypocrite does one thing and instructs you not to do that thing (or to do another instead)
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, but how do you explain the contacting the developer (and the client)?
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by batista 14y ago
> Twitter succeeded because it was a dumb, open pipe that developers made awesome apps for. Twitter is now acting like they don't have developers to thank for their success. Succeeded as in "they got lots of users". Not succeeded as in
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by batista 14y ago
> But is racist with with friends of other races really classical example of hypocrisy? I hadn't encountered it He probably means the classic "I'm not racist, I have black friends and all, but blacks in general do [this and that]". Whi
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by batista 14y ago
> Better to use hypocrisy to show "even supporters of X don't really believe their view is right, so it probably isn't". Still, not a good argument. Their view could be right, whether they do really believe it or not. E.g a politician
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, and it also could have been avoided if everybody paid more attention to what is beneficial for them (i.e what the visionary said) than to what the visionary does or does not. You just gave a perfect example of the narrow minded logic e
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by batista 14y ago
Gestation time is not a "parallelizable" problem. Fixing map data is.
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by batista 14y ago
> Crucial insight, there. From the perspective of an observer who has no special affection for Apple, it's surprising that a company of that competence would succumb to such a basic process error. What insight? Apple makes most of thei
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by batista 14y ago
Your time investment goes without saying. It's the other expenses that matter. People don't go around saying: "this latte cost me $48 dollars -- $8 dollars for the latte and 1 hour of my time ordering and drinking it at Starbucks". Not to m
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by batista 14y ago
I found this to be a quite good resource: philipbloom.co.uk Philip Bloom has become kind of the Paul Graham of the "DSLR video shooting" movement.
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by batista 14y ago
Translation: adopting the marketing/business fad of the day is important for your company even if it has no relation to your business whatsoever.
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Hypocrisy is better than some alternatives...(imomus.livejournal.com)
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by batista 14y ago
>And when someone is being an asshole, I just don't care about their arguments. But that's too bad. Better to do what a hypocrite proposes if it's the right thing, than to ignore it because of what he does. Here's a nice article on th
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by batista 14y ago
> People probably feel that it is hypocritical to sue one company for copying your designs, and then turn around and copy designs off someone else, especially when they happen right a few months apart. Only those two are in totally unr
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by batista 14y ago
Misguided sarcasm. It is indeed a homage. 1) Apple didn't copy the design to make it's own clock rip-off. It is for a very tiny part of their original product. 2) Apple didn't copy the design to sell more iPhones. 3) The design is famous. I
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by batista 14y ago
Which is not necessarily the default value you want for them. So not the same thing with default values at all. With this struct interface you just implement "optional" values...

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