butterfi

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by butterfi 17y ago
cool stuff from the makers of cool software. nicely done!
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by butterfi 17y ago
hmm. I think you might be thinking of PNG, which to my memory was the codec developed as a response to patent issues.
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by butterfi 17y ago
Consider expanding your definition of a mobile device. I watch stuff daily on my iTouch, and I suspect lots of people will use a tablet device for the same.
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by butterfi 17y ago
Pretty funny considering this is a site centered around start-ups and their culture. It's easy to be flippant, but I know too many people who have done just exactly that -- burned out before 40, and regretful about their choices. Talk with
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by butterfi 17y ago
I'm a little taken aback by your criticism. Did we even read the same letter? What part of (and I paraphrase) "stay busy, keep a balanced home/professional life, live with positive attributes and avoid the bad ones" did you have a problem w
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by butterfi 17y ago
Great read! There's lots to ponder, but this cracked me up: In referring to the Pink Flamingos Godel's wife put in their front lawn, Godel says "urchtbar herzig," or “awfully charming." If that isn't the greatest definition of kitsch, I do
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by butterfi 17y ago
That there are nice people at Microsoft is hardly the point. It's naive to ignore the reputation MCSFT has developed over the years, and Myhrvold was a senior decision maker at Microsoft. While the original posters hyperbole might be out of
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A former music executive's view of Macmillan vs. Amazon(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by butterfi 17y ago|0 comments
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by butterfi 17y ago
and television... and movie projectors...
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by butterfi 17y ago
I can't help but chuckle -- this why geeks hate the iPad, and everyone else will love it.
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by butterfi 17y ago
True -- most people weren't interested in cooking as an exercise, they just wanted to eat. However, interest in cooking as an art form, not just as consumption, is at an all time high (or so it seems to me from the countless media around fo
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by butterfi 17y ago
"Perhaps the iPad signals an end to the hacker era of digital history" Perhaps the microwave signals an end to the chef era of cooking history.
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75% of Linux Code Written by Paid Developers(osnews.com)
39 points by butterfi 17y ago|14 comments
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by butterfi 17y ago
ya know, I'd love to read the article except the sites page contrast makes the site almost unreadable.
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by butterfi 17y ago
A really awesome example of why tech columnists are terrible prognosticators of tech future. Look out SGI, or you'll share the same fate as Apple! Hah! They wish...
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by butterfi 17y ago
Interesting! The title is a bit vague for me -- when I think browser wars, I think of the mid 90's. This graph kind of picks up in the middle of story. It's like skipping "The Fellowship of the Ring" and going straight to "The Two Towers."
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“Hulu for Magazines”(mediamemo.allthingsd.com)
2 points by butterfi 17y ago|0 comments
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by butterfi 17y ago
huh... What little I read was interesting, yet I was constantly distracted by the sheer volume of huge, brightly colored ads or labeling. Talk about information pollution.
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by butterfi 17y ago
Just because its so cool, Lessig's OSCON speech on copyright: http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ Favorite quote (paraphrased) "Disney didn't want others to do to them what they did to the Brothers Grimm."
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Apple Wins Like a Champ - Psystar is Toast -- What? You're Surprised?(groklaw.net)
43 points by butterfi 17y ago|35 comments
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by butterfi 17y ago
I love the fact one of the brothers complains about other clone makers ripping them off, letting them do all the legal hard work. Sucks when people sell your efforts as their own, huh?
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by butterfi 17y ago
You sound like a smart, capable guy, and I've read a lot of good advice here. I'm a guy in his 40's who had a similar crisis and feel like I came out the other side. Let me say this: You can do this. Find a job that lets you work near home.
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by butterfi 17y ago
You're alluding to the broken windows theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows
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by butterfi 17y ago
hmm indeed! :-)
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by butterfi 17y ago
hmm... delist my content from Google and instead rely on a company with no business model and that crashes frequently... hmm....
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by butterfi 17y ago
I have to admit, looking at Dustin's site, I thought "huh, interesting choices from a UX designer." I also found it hard to read now that you mention it...
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by butterfi 17y ago
Clearly AA prioritizes the wrong things. I'm betting the guy broke some policy, but is it really a firing offense? Are they going to sack the middle-management bonehead who blew this up into a much more embarrassing spectacle? Like I really
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by butterfi 17y ago
apology accepted, thank you. I spoke with my 8 year-old about this and he ultimately found it compelling if it could take place in real-time, at which point my 10 year-old jumped in with an "oh yeah!" And I guess thats the missing piece for
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by butterfi 17y ago
First off, "Use your brains" is so condescending that it shuts down any useful dialog. Most importantly, the people who are responding with "i don't get it" (like myself), are not missing the point of what they're trying to deliver. In fact
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by butterfi 17y ago
As a father of four (and a web developer), who has read to his children every night for... 16 years now... (OMG), I have to ask: "Why would I want this?" My kids never really liked those books that came with a tape, and this just seems like

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