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by bonch 16y ago
I saw nothing that constituted a "lie." This is an article from an obvious Android fan (looking at Seth Weintraub's other articles, it's all Google, all the time) who didn't like that Apple took some shots at competing tablets. I have to ag
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by bonch 16y ago
What an odd headline. I guess "Chrome Finally Gets 50% Of What Firefox Has" doesn't make Chrome look good enough. The stats show that Firefox still has about 20% share, while Chrome only has about 10%. While there is a downward trend for Fi
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by bonch 16y ago
The Kochs have donated to several libertarian causes, many of which would be considered "liberal," such as in favor of abortion. Hell, David Koch was the 1980 vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. The people attacking the K
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by bonch 16y ago
The sudden attacks on the libertarian Koch brothers from the Left is pretty silly and closed-minded.
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by bonch 16y ago
In that 0.000001% of the time (snicker), your email is 100% inaccessible.
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by bonch 16y ago
"If you need or rely on a 100% accurate re-representation of your content, Word should not be your tool. Never. Use PDFs." Or a Mac.
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by bonch 16y ago
What about people whining about the people whining? You could fix the bug and shut everyone up!
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by bonch 16y ago
That seems unusual. My experience with Windows 7 is that it's simply a repackaged Vista with an OS X dock.
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by bonch 16y ago
> However, the video game industry has matured since then, and walled gardens are no longer very helpful (there are far more than sufficient resources these days to determine which games to buy and which to avoid based on individual pre
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by bonch 16y ago
I believe Google wants the Android Store to be full of free apps...that just happen to be supported by Google ads. Otherwise, Google doesn't get anything out of the Android platform.
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by bonch 16y ago
I think it's weird that they differentiate between blogs and Facebook. Facebook is a blog, like Myspace was. Even Twitter is just a mini-blog.
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by bonch 16y ago
Identity politics? No, it's a simple statement of maturity. Youth today live longer at home with their parents, for example, and adulthood is postponed longer than previous generations. Many of them justify it with bitterness toward standar
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by bonch 16y ago
Penn & Teller on bottled water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0A7v8PeFNk (1/2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3px6o-6-w (2/2)
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by bonch 16y ago
A pre-adult is an embarrassing man-child who thinks playing videogames and posting anime on 4chan is something grownups do. It's a state of perpetual teen.
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by bonch 16y ago
Your software would still be open under a BSD license. Using it in a closed-source project doesn't automatically remove the existence of the open source version.
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by bonch 16y ago
It's hard to know the tone and context of the statement in its era. Perhaps it was simply a philosophical statement about God's intentions; perhaps it was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek; perhaps it was mis-translated.
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by bonch 16y ago
My favorite has always been the one by Wilbur Wright: "I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet ga
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by bonch 16y ago
Reminds me of the Bill Gates 640kb quote. Gates has denied saying it, but even if he had, it would have been an accurate statement at the time it was supposedly made.
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by bonch 16y ago
"Soon your browser will be synonymous with your computer." This prediction is going on 20 years old. :)
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by bonch 16y ago
Like most things in life, there's a middle-ground and a balance between the extremes that isn't easy to figure out. There's no easy answer for such things.
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by bonch 16y ago
Wave was definitely overhyped. That's why so many sought beta invites and why so many were confused and disappointed when they finally got in.
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by bonch 16y ago
Many people thought replacing email and IM with some grand collaborative technology would be spectacular too. A lot of articles were written about Wave, breathlessly reciting the history of email in their opening paragraphs as if it was alr
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by bonch 16y ago
"Suing people who are giving you money...spending millions on propaganda deeming sharing an illegal act." How is someone who is pirating music giving the RIAA money? Isn't sharing copyrighted materials in fact an illegal act? I've long thou
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by bonch 16y ago
/r/programming has become more like a generic technology link dump. The few programming-related links it does get tend to be either about functional-programming-language-of-the-month or a pointless JavaScript demo.
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by bonch 16y ago
The most recent and best example is when a bunch of Redditors attacked some girl doing a cancer fundraiser: http://gawker.com/#!5751581/misguided-internet-vigilantes-at...
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by bonch 16y ago
Apple doesn't want to own everything. They're happy being the BMW of tech and generate massive profits. Comparing this situation to monarchies and abuses of power is stupid. It's just an in-app subscription model for a mobile OS that nobody
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by bonch 16y ago
Sure can't wait for "net neutrality." What could possibly go wrong in having politicians determine what fair traffic is rather than letting sysadmins manage the bandwidth on their privately-owned networks as they wish?
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by bonch 16y ago
"great for GUIs, not so great for writing drivers" NeXTStep had DriverKit, a framework for writing drivers in Objective-C, and this was on 1990s-era PCs. Driver performance is I/O-bound and typically has little to do with the language the d
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by bonch 16y ago
The point of a dictatorship is that the people don't have a say. The dictator does what he wants and portrays himself as benevolent through state-run media.
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by bonch 16y ago
NeXTStep drivers were written in Objective-C using a framework called DriverKit, and this was on 90s machines. Objective-C is just C; there is no inherent performance penalty other than the dynamic dispatch of messages. In situations where

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