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by billybob 17y ago
"That's a pretty nice browser ya got there. Mind if I use it to bypass your crazy policy decisions?"
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by billybob 17y ago
In other news, "billybob to stop reading nytimes.com"
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by billybob 17y ago
Choosing parenting over work is great. But it doesn't mean we should devalue work in order to get it. Better to have people choose between two good options than to make one option lousy.
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by billybob 17y ago
Yes, but to be fair to publishers: libraries don't replace sales the way that piracy can. Borrowing requires a trip to the library, which has a limited number of copies of any book, borrowers have a limited time to read a book, they can't m
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by billybob 17y ago
"Most web designers I know want to know more about programming and jump at the opportunity to learn." Because they enjoy it, or because they want to advance in their career?
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by billybob 17y ago
"If designers liked programming they would be programmers." Amen. Having to express a visual idea in code is about as fun as it would be to have to draw your program and have a compiler turn it into code
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by billybob 17y ago
This is a great point - the web is a place where anyone can participate on equal footing. If I have the savvy to make a site that people like, there's no reason it can't be the next Google or Facebook or Craigslist. If we don't maintain net
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by billybob 17y ago
Would be nice if the link showed this was from DISCUSS.joelonsoftware.com... My first reaction was "Joel quit his day job!?!"
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by billybob 17y ago
1) Writing blog posts instead of going home early
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by billybob 17y ago
That's wretched. Though it doesn't correct the overall problem, a GPS unit would help you a lot. You can always verify that you're on the right road and see how far your next turn is.
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by billybob 17y ago
She would have a pink computer, with two giant words printed on the screen in a thickly-bordered box: "Access Granted."
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by billybob 17y ago
Really, weasel words can be kind of a gift. The company is unintentionally telling me what kind of people they are. If they can't be bothered to clearly state what they do and why they're great at it, they're telling me that I don't want to
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by billybob 17y ago
I think "Valued Customer" is exceedingly, even bluntly, honest. I AM a valued customer - valued to an exact dollar amount. In this case, the weasel word ends up saying the truth.
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by billybob 17y ago
Even that is a bit dishonest. I'm not 'dear' to my bank.
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by billybob 17y ago
I had trouble parsing that headline - a rousing game of "find the verb."
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by billybob 17y ago
I just emailed the Gmail team to tell them.
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by billybob 17y ago
I'd say that, although this is the best Android phone yet, the phone itself is not revolutionary. The most important aspect of this story will be if the sales model catches on: buying your phone one place, and activating it another. The mor
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by billybob 17y ago
Yeah, that comment made me gasp. Best Buy should fire someone who says you can't install your own software.
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by billybob 17y ago
So it works like this?: 1) Crapware makers pay PC makers to pre-load their crapware 2) PC makers use (some of) the money to reduce their selling price 3) Best Buy removes (some of) the crapware and increases the pr
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by billybob 17y ago
Yes. C.S. Lewis makes an interesting argument in "The Abolition of Man." IIRC, he says this: imagine a generation which has absolute power to shape the following generation to its will. Every generation that follows will then be puppets of
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by billybob 17y ago
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that if being is the result of chance, then so are our wills. So if evolution is the universe blindly programming creatures, then human-directed evolution is the universe blindly meta-programming
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by billybob 17y ago
I think this idea is interesting and possibly great, but that the details will make or break it. If you fiddle around with an implementation, I'd like to see it.
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by billybob 17y ago
<pedantic> purvey 1 : to supply (as provisions) usually as a matter of business 2 : peddle </pedantic>
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by billybob 17y ago
Well this is great because I always want to know what my friends are buying oh my GOSH WHAT ARE THEY BUYING THAT I'M NOT BUYING I MUST CONFORM TO BE ACCEPTED!!!
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by billybob 17y ago
If you've got a stylesheet with more than 4095 rules, I bet you have some interesting debugging anyway.
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by billybob 17y ago
"Resolution: To work around this limitation, combine multiple classes into a single style tag." Um... don't they mean multiple styles into a single class tag?
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by billybob 17y ago
The TV example is different. The cable company doesn't sell you X hours of TV, it sells you 'as much TV as you want' each month. Whether you watch constantly or not at all, you got what you paid for. The calling cards are good for X minutes
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by billybob 17y ago
Maybe. Or maybe it's because of this: "Smart people want to give their best and as they learn more, they learn that they need to learn a lot more before they start sharing." I'd be reluctant to share what I know about, say, website security
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by billybob 17y ago
All excellent points. I would add one more: In the case of drugs, the patent can be chemically specific. It's easy to tell whether another drug infringes. Software patents are sufficiently vague that it's hard to tell what they cover. Which
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by billybob 17y ago
Algorithms are not mathematical formulae. Those are inherent in the universe. Code is nearly as arbitrary as a novel. It expresses an idea in specific terms. There are lots of ways to write the same program, and lots of possible programs to

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