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by billybob 15y ago
"Microsoft would be incredibly stupid to tell all their customers that they now have to use web versions." Yes, they would. But they'd also be stupid NOT to do what Google Docs is doing. 1) Offer a web-based set of apps that do most of what
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by billybob 15y ago
My ex-Googler friend and I (both of us developers) excitedly started using Wave together, but soon gave up. It was neat, but we couldn't think of anything we needed it for. So this isn't a matter of ignorance. I was, however, happy to see t
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"Facebook want you to be connected to as many people as possible because this network of connections is essentially what they sell." I agree, but I also think that eventually, this devalues Facebook. It's like you had this party with all yo
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by billybob 15y ago
My wife and I each have a car. I'd be happy driving a short-range electric car for my commute as long as our other car can be used for long trips. I bet a lot of people are in the same situation. Obviously that leaves a lot of gasoline cars
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by billybob 15y ago
Felt to me more like "check out this company" than "let me explain something new to you."
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by billybob 15y ago
tldr; "Listen to your customers and try to make a big but not 180-degree change in direction. I'm going to call this a veer. I know of a company doing this, but I can't tell you the details. But they are awesome."
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by billybob 15y ago
If someone wanted to write an interactive text game like these and put it on the web, are there any frameworks available? If not, a lot of the work would be on figuring out how to parse the player's input, how to map out the possible paths
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Not necessarily. IE6 is a terrible browser that was made more terrible by its widespread adoption, meaning everybody had to support it. As more users adopt auto-updating browsers like Chrome (and hopefully soon, Firefox) and as browser mark
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I don't see how the web is getting worse at sharing text. If anything, HTML5 makes it possible to mark up text in a more semantic way, improving access for screen readers for the blind, for example. The fact that people CAN embed movies and
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by billybob 15y ago
What if a business that wouldn't be feasible without companies adopting modern browsers becomes feasible when they do?
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by billybob 15y ago
The title is worded too strongly. According to the article, Sprint will let you uninstall bloatware from your Android device. It doesn't say that they won't install it in the first place, and it doesn't say that they will let you uninstall
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by billybob 15y ago
Also, as vague as "community standards" are, it does seem to me that they have some value in regulation. For instance, would you be in favor of allowing pornographic billboards in your town? What if the porn was political in nature? I would
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by billybob 15y ago
Yes, the standard is vague. But at some level, all laws come back to moral judgments of one kind or another. Even if you start with practical concerns, you end with moral values. For instance, why do we value free speech? Because we believe
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by billybob 15y ago
I don't quite follow you. You seem to be saying that AT&T is smart enough not to do things that aren't cost effective, so there must be a reason for this. I think that's overly generous. Aaron Patterson spoke at RailsConf. He said he wo
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by billybob 15y ago
I don't quite follow you. You seem to be saying 1) AT&T is smart enough not to do things that aren't cost effective and 2) forcing people through the pain of getting a particular browser improves their experience later, or maybe their a
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by billybob 15y ago
"Doctors know nothing of how their medications actually work. They are glorified nurses." My wife is a doctor, still in residency, so I know the kind of training doctors go through. She has taken in an inhuman amount of information during h
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by billybob 15y ago
I've always wondered about this. Also: I pronounce "daemon" as "DAY-mun," as opposed to "demon", which I pronounce "DEE-mun." Do the rest of you make this distinction?
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More likely, driverless cars will be programmed to make really, really long commutes. How far would you be willing to commute right now? OK, what if you could sleep or play videogames en route?
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by billybob 15y ago
Merits of the argument aside, I was surprised to see the tone that Asa Dotzler took on that thread. To me, it sounded like "you enterprises are dumb and we don't care about you." If I were "Community Coordinator for Firefox marketing projec
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by billybob 15y ago
Fantastic idea. To require carriers to define 4G like "at least X megabits per second transmission speed will be available Y percent of the time, costing Z dollars, with exactly these limits on data volume and this kind of traffic priority
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by billybob 15y ago
I felt the same mistrust for Oracle, but at Railsconf, I had the chance to talk with the team from Percona, which is a free fork of MySQL that makes some performance improvements and sells consulting (think Red Hat). The Percona team said t
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by billybob 15y ago
Or, if the Github team, having first created a GUI for Mac, which they use themselves and can more easily test, were to then create a Windows version and charge $0 for it, they could convince a lot of Windows Subversion users to switch to G
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by billybob 15y ago
Summary: "Microsoft's position is not entirely unreasonable... [But] the same vulnerability exists in Silverlight 5... So, Microsoft, does this mean you are going to kill 3D support in Silverlight, or does it mean you will add WebGL support
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You think jQuery, Ruby and Python are subpar? Why, and who would you pick?
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None of the models on magazine covers are real, either. They're just based on real people. This was a great video showing how far from reality Photoshop can take a picture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U We're now to the point
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There seems to be agreement that Javascript is a messy language which is popular by default: it was included in Netscape, then other browsers picked it up. Now we're stuck with it. I realize this would be very difficult and introduce horrib
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I think this is a great point, and helps explain why much FOSS software is clunkier than its commercial counterpart. Although I don't think this is an issue of good, professional developers vs bad, amateur ones. Sometimes the same developer
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I majored in journalism and did work as a newspaper writer and photographer as a while, but didn't enjoy it. Eventually I found my way into computer programming. The pay WAS terrible, but the job was nothing like what this AOL writer talks
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In that case, they could get nice PR points by 1) announcing "we patented this to keep anyone from using it" and/or 2) donating the patent to the EFF or someone similar.
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This title made me do two double-takes. My first thought: "Are people are buying public domain philosophy works as Kindle books?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke My second thought: "Is somebody writing as Locke as a reference to E

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