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by benihana 13y ago
Users and tweets aren't nearly as impressive as hardware or software sales numbers. But since it's Hacker News commentary, I guess yes plenty of pessimism.
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by benihana 13y ago
I downvoted you for being so thick that you can't figure out how the comic was relevant to the discussion and also because you took the time to explain your downvote, like it actually matters.
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by benihana 13y ago
I don't think you fully appreciate how expensive it is to go to court.
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by benihana 13y ago
Another post on the top of Hacker News making the mistake of thinking paying customers give a crap about how easy it is to [write|deploy|test|debug] your app. Even with all the pain associated with the App Store people still write more apps
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by benihana 13y ago
Google doesn't make the money on Android that Microsoft made on Windows though.
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by benihana 13y ago
I like this analogy much better than the one above about using a web framework. This is more in line with the amount of work it would be to build a game engine.
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by benihana 13y ago
Ironically, recreational hunters solved this problem a long time ago. Give people a private plot and a quota and they will make sure populations stay healthy in that plot and surrounding areas. There are more whitetail deer in North America
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by benihana 13y ago
Positives: Xbox/Games division
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by benihana 13y ago
> Yeah, well, it's easy to make bets on events that will still be playing out hundreds of years after we are all dead, isn't it. Is that why you lead off with a fine example of it when you said that Fukushima was "about 1
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by benihana 13y ago
Timeline of events: - you get upset at OP for missing the point and criticizing the author for being too wordy - you give a neat two sentence summary of the article - you say sometimes you can't give a nice neat summary of an article -
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by benihana 13y ago
Because everyone* knows JavaScript. I'd wager that the vast majority of professional software engineers work on the web, or very close to the web, and JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web. I mean just look at the front page of
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by benihana 13y ago
SF HNers: Rep. Pelosi was against the ammendment. Surprising no one.
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by benihana 13y ago
There are a couple of things here. First, Apple isn't a unique company. It's modeled on car companies like Porsche and BMW and watch companies like Rolex. It provides luxury items and is ridiculously protective of its brand. I thi
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by benihana 13y ago
Could you imagine if people could make the kind of money developing things for Linux that they do developing things for iOS? It would make comments like yours kind of funny and relevant.
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by benihana 13y ago
> 90% of the time poor performance is caused by the managers not really taking time to understand what's wrong or to consider their own attitude. Oh phew. Some random person on the internet said a vast percentage of poor performanc
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by benihana 13y ago
Wow... just wow. A sociopath? Hyperbole much? So not paying someone a severance he's not contractually obligated to provide is sociopathy? That's like saying not tipping the contractor who installed his cabinets is sociopathy beca
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by benihana 13y ago
The same pack of cigarettes taught me how to draw an owl. http://i.imgur.com/Ygg3gxk.jpg
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by benihana 13y ago
This comment sums up what Hacker News has become perfectly. Front and center is the sentence correcting some slight, inconsequential anachronism that has nothing to do with the overall point of the comment and only serves to show the perce
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by benihana 13y ago
That's like saying you don't want to eat the eggs in your fridge because there are too many ways to cook them, and you're certain, despite the fact that you don't have any experience cooking them, that cooking eggs needs
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by benihana 13y ago
I see what you did there.
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by benihana 13y ago
The 4/5/6 line is the busiest line in the country. It gets more traffic than the entirety of Washington's, Chicago's, Boston's and San Francisco's lines.
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by benihana 13y ago
here's why: http://putthison.com/post/49277992157/professionalism-severa... The undertaker at the pet cemetery only buries dead animals, why would they care what he wears? The answer is because other people exist.
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by benihana 13y ago
People who complain on the forums are not necessarily power users
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by benihana 13y ago
I wonder if the author has ever actually worked professionally on a real team with real constraints and real people all with different ideas about what is right for the product. I'm guessing probably not. Fluff like this is pointless; if do
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by benihana 13y ago
The article seems to disagree with you: > The number of firearms available for sale to or possessed by U.S. civilians (about 310 million in 2009, according to the Congressional Research Service) has grown in recent years, and the 2009 p
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by benihana 13y ago
Don't forget selective enforcement, which is probably the biggest frustration and source of uncertainty and cost. Not knowing if doing one thing one day will be fine the next day are not conditions most businesses thrive in.
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by benihana 13y ago
>I'm not sure what this thread is about frankly. Make a decision, even if it's difficult and even if it will piss off your users. Don't defer the making of a decision to the user and hide behind "choice"
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by benihana 13y ago
Also, water is wet.
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by benihana 14y ago
> There is a bias in much of the mainstream press and commentariat that people from outside of NY-BOS-WAS-CHI-SEA-SF-LA are less intelligent, or at least well educated. Many public commenters harbor an anti-Texas (and anti-Southern, and
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by benihana 14y ago
I'm really glad I don't work with you.

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