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by betterth 14y ago
You've just described the basic difficulties and market pressures faced by all companies recycling just about anything.
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by betterth 14y ago
Flash was the standard. Sure, you could use something else, but that something else most likely worked for less viewers. And the plugin-gap is real -- asking users to install a plugin causes some users to skip and move on. To ignore the pre
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by betterth 14y ago
Notice how unlike Android phones, they don't introduce NEW phones at cheap price points? How they use old models for free and cheap models? This is intentional -- users understand that free and cheap go along with old, and users don't mista
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by betterth 14y ago
Seeing as I completely and totally reject your conclusion on a fundamental level, I would like to see the analysis. Apple has remained sexy in the face of mainstream, a feat that I'm incredibly impressed by. Say what you will but many, ma
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by betterth 14y ago
If it was this simple than Facebook would never have caught on in the first place. The answer isn't "rollback" because clearly there is some value here. The answer is finding out how to maximize that value to our lives, not maximize the pay
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by betterth 14y ago
EDIT: Sorry about the long post, but I enjoyed being able to put some of my thoughts down onto paper. I won't be offended if you tl;dr it! Apple is rounding a corner on it's iOS platform, growing from it's chaotic youth phase into a more co
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by betterth 14y ago
Saying that this isn't a political challenge would be like ignoring the language that a framework is built in. Technology is a framework built on top of our society, made possible by the rules and laws (or lack thereof) of our society. It i
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by betterth 14y ago
What a shame! To each their own -- I'm really excited by Apple's 2-3 year plan.
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by betterth 14y ago
I think that both of these (plus a number of effects yet unnamed) affect it. One of his links, the by version: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... Has some interesting information that I think sheds more light
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by betterth 14y ago
Anti-apple fanboys are rabid in this thread, today. But as anyone who deals with the anti-fanboys on a regular basis can tell you: haters gonna' hate.
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by betterth 14y ago
"Apple won't be Apple for much longer, and it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots." That's some hilarious armchair analysis. Got any polls, statistics or.... anything... to back that up? Or just stereotypical Apple-i
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by betterth 14y ago
Oh yes, you should take everything from ZH with a grain of salt. All of there posts are either eerily accurate financial predictions or ridiculous, conspiracy theory laden nonsense. (I think, they'd prefer to the call the latter 'prediction
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by betterth 14y ago
>When I'm stuck in the wilderness with nothing but an atom based netbook tethered to a patchy and expensive GPRS connection, I beg to differ. Who cares about outliers like that? How many people using your webpage are connecting like tha
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by betterth 14y ago
Yup, $2bn was an obvious low ball for even the depth of the loss itself, without compounding the ganging up on top. ZH estimated $5bn the day that JPM announced the loss. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/jpm-staring-another-3-billion-...
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by betterth 14y ago
For someone who knows Rails and front end web development (and a bit of Java and a touch of C++), what could I offer to Servo? Learning Rust and helping would be fun, but would such novice to Rust be welcome to the project?
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by betterth 14y ago
My question: How are you going to get well rounded debate? I can see modern liberals and libertarians in good numbers in the hacker community, but are there conservatives? Specifically, are there New Right conservatives in the Tea Party vei
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by betterth 14y ago
Use a Google Voice number or something similar?
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by betterth 14y ago
This isn't fair. The FDA does a pretty decent job at it's regulation. I'd say we have the best (or near the best) regulated food supply and drug supply of any nation. It's impressive when you consider that the country is also the third larg
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by betterth 14y ago
They didn't have to! -- what they just did was screw themselves in the branding (and that's it). They've created a new update, Windows Phone 7.8 that will rollout to current Nokia devices and other Windows Phone 7.5 devices. It will inclu
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by betterth 14y ago
Fine, Codeacademy teaches Reading (for beginners) instead of Reading (intermediate). But to imply that learning the alphabet is not the first step of learning to read, and instead is a separate thing, is totally disingenuous. If you want to
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by betterth 14y ago
You could make the case that the Forbes author themself fell victim to the fundamental attribution error that they claim plagues SV. It's easy to point out how THAT OTHER industry engages in groupthink, now isn't it...
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by betterth 14y ago
I think the point is that it's not videos and lectures followed by a multiple choice or something, it's fully interactive. You learn coding by coding on their website. Learning by doing.
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by betterth 14y ago
Any customer of Heroku who didn't weigh the cost/benefit of Cloud hosting is a fool and deserves to watch their app have downtime. Cloud hosting is fantastic but it's a trade off. There are so many layers of abstraction between you and the
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by betterth 14y ago
Well, considering that the entire article was about Apple offering the market a choice and following the direction the market chose, it's not exactly an incorrect title. And the other title tells us nothing about the story itself. But try
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by betterth 14y ago
Question I wonder is: Iceland is tiny. Like TINY tiny kind of tiny. Their National GDP is $12.57 billion USD. America spends about $20.2 billion a year on air condition in Afghanistan. The point being -- the world economy can (and did) with
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by betterth 14y ago
CCG = collectible card game. Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, YuGiOh, etc etc etc. The mechanics translate to gaming well and many video games still use card mechanics with varying kinds of digital 'cards', usually mixed with other game play m
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by betterth 14y ago
I think the kind of price disparity they enjoyed was bound to dry up. There's only so much innovation and undercutting a retailer can do before they're just not profitting any more. My local brick and mortar computer store checks most of th
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by betterth 14y ago
I've heard this a lot -- in fact in a recent Stack Overflow "best rails IDE's" thread, Vim was near the top of recommended answers. I've been using gedit with a few add-ons installed to make working with rails a little easier. I also grabbe
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by betterth 14y ago
As a strangely pertinent anecdote: I've been a Windows "poweruser" for a long time, and have never used much of Linux. I never had a real need for it. But I've been doing rails development lately and Windows kept getting in the way, and so
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by betterth 14y ago
If there is anything as good as Siri in 2.3, I can't say I've ever seen an Android wielding friend use it. Maps was a unique case: They were paying the price of having partnered with Google in the beginning. A steep price to pay, but ultima

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