bradshaw1965

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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
This... Well, theoretically such a machine could be worth billions but actually you’d probably sell a few to research institutes and then one to a commercial company and then it is game over for you. sure sounds like I think there is a worl
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
> 1. Open up the platform, or 2. Go down the same road that they went down in the 80s/90s, handing the bulk of the business over to an open platform. > You gave two options at a crossroads as a result of a maps fiasco, both options
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
All roads lead to open by way of a maps fiasco? I can't even begin to diagram your thought process.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
What is it with fluorescent light and programmers? I left a gig specifically because of a mid-afternoon fluorescent hum that was soul sucking. Decent light and a good ergonomic work environment are so important.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
I used to burn some time when my son was young by sitting him in front of the attract loop of games in places like Dave & Busters. The more things change...
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
...are up to par with... We disagree on use of language so we won't be able to reach agreement.
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
>>>Conditons are so poor<<< is your interpretation. It does not take a mass delusion Stockholm syndrome sort of interpretation to figure out that a lot of developers get great satisfaction working on the platform. I'
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
... Those that refuse to ditch iOS aren't doing so because they'll miss out on potential customers, it's because they like the idea of building apps for the most popular phone on the market, despite the crap they have to put up with. ... Tr
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by bradshaw1965 14y ago
Financial freedom is a hedge against the loss of your human capital. Most people dramatically overestimate the continuity of their human capital and are surprised when it starts to diminish. It's a great thing that a certain percentage of p
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
I've got no truck in this fight, but they really should call these things propogandagraphics.
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
People get tied up in knots about the Efficient Market Hypothesis. The factor that often gets ignored when approaching the problem is the costs factor. Trading fees, Analysis, Commissions, etc. make it very hard in practicality to beat pass
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
If he's angling for a patent, I have prior art.
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
The part I consider sharecropping is the lack of communication with your customer. In Amazon's case they've been able to build a very strong brand with lot's of global mindshare, but they had to rely on a webpage in a Kindle blog to explain
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
The most important thing to focus on is not life extension, but extending healthy vitality longer or compressed morbidity. Life extension is way too much of a tax on humanity if we can't solve the problem of frailty in the extreme old.
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
Here is a post from a Kobo developer outlining their experience with their store. It doesn't sound like there was any room for taking a stand in their case and that they got boxed into not being able to communicate anything about their prod
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
That's my biggest beef about the whole thing. I guess you could argue it is Apple's prerogative to change rules, but Kobo and Amazon can't even communicate why things are changing to their customers. It really points out how much the App st
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
There is no stand. Apple required it. Same thing happened to Kobo.
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
EaselJS allows a parent-child display list relationship and mouse interactions with sprites. http://easeljs.com/
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
I've seen some compiled flash air apps that are useful, but we'll just have to disagree on the utility of it in the browser.
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
...That said, at least Flash support is there. I hear that argument a lot, but I've never found myself where a kludge of a technology really saved the day. I lump it with the web browser on the Kindle where the idea of having it available
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
you don't get to decide what is or is not a "non-issue". You have opinions just like anybody else.
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
Again, he seems happy with his revenue generation and he cuts down significantly on annoying chatter in his ear. Seems like a good decision. Some folks would talk about his "lifestyle business" and how he needs to change x and y, I'd say ju
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by bradshaw1965 15y ago
...Marco should man up If it gets under your skin and you are meeting your revenue expectations is there a good reason to invite haters to your party?
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
While I'm relatively bullish on Apple as a company, I can't say that I'm bullish on Apple stock. It's the same old growth story where a company gets priced to perfection and no company is perfect in strategy or execution. Couple that with
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
fake discipline might have been a poor choice of words. My intent was to indict a process of using quantitative skills in a manner that was supposed to "add rigor" to finance, to encapsulate and tame risk. It didn't work.
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
My fake discipline comment is a direct response to the havoc wrought by attempting to place a normal distribution, which worked so nicely in insurance when dealing with things like lifespan, on top of a chaotic system like finance. Long Ter
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
I'd say as a developer, all I care about is a nice niche market to serve with a development environment I enjoy. All of that world domination, battle stuff doesn't interest me very much at all.
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
True. I'm simply using elite college enrollment as a proxy for "smart".
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
The percentage of smart people working in finance trended much higher then science and engineering. Fake disciplines like "Financial Engineering" thus became paramount. Institutions supported these changes.
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by bradshaw1965 16y ago
I prefer the original CDL, the commercial drivers license, with that you can certainly go far.

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