butterfi

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by butterfi 8y ago
Poor analogy.
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by butterfi 8y ago
What is the value proposition for the user to use the app over the website? I tend to avoid content apps because they seem to offer the company more value then the consumer. Web browser works just fine and I can more easily determine what t
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by butterfi 8y ago
This is nothing new. What's more irritating to me is that these articles generate lots of conversation, but not one school will adjust its hours. Put up or shut up.
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by butterfi 8y ago
Drupal 8 adopted Symfony's db layer because it was better than what they had been using
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by butterfi 8y ago
We already have gatekeepers for books. The publisher who decides what to publish, the book store owner who decides what to stock, and the librarian who selects what book stays or goes. Gatekeeping doesn't seem like much of an argument.
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by butterfi 8y ago
The textbook industry is well known for its shady practices that go beyond "just doing business." Try this: https://www.edutopia.org/textbook-publishing-controversy
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by butterfi 8y ago
I hadn't heard that term before, but yeah, something like that as well.
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by butterfi 8y ago
In the past, I heard the story that BART was blocked in Marin by wealthy NIMBY's who didn't want to share, but just recently I learned this was BS. Turns out BART canceled the Marin expansion because: 1) GG Bridge couldn't ta
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by butterfi 8y ago
Not really. Preserving open space does far more then just make life pleasant for people. Expanding housing in a place that has already displaced most of the areas natural habitat helps reduce sprawl. I'm not saying I like the idea of m
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by butterfi 8y ago
Have you been to Modesto? It could be worse I suppose, but it's not exactly what I would call a stretch goal.
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by butterfi 8y ago
SF is a city that is constantly changing itself, for good or bad. Been in SF for over 40 years now and still can't believe how much has changed in that time.
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by butterfi 8y ago
Oh yes, lets turn one of the last Bay Area counties that isn't urban sprawl into another vast wasteland of concrete and strip malls. Redwoods are overrated. Wetlands are just swampy land that need an In-n-Out. Mt.Tam would be so much n
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by butterfi 8y ago
I would pay money to watch you tell a SFFD firefighter they were a hipster.
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by butterfi 8y ago
I've often wondered how Zuck is going to feel about that quote in the long run.
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by butterfi 8y ago
wow, I'm not sure how good the article is, but my browser threw a hairball trying to load that page. Rarely do I see a page fail as hard as this one did. Has Wired just collapsed under the weight of ad trafic nonsense?
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by butterfi 8y ago
Was I crazy in thinking that this WWDC was supposed to address MacBookPro's being outdated?
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by butterfi 8y ago
My point is that I believe people would appreciate less ad time. Tools for skipping ad time are a band-aid rather then a solution.
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by butterfi 8y ago
Traditional TV cut its own throat by expanding commercial air time to the point where customers are actively looking for and consuming alternatives. Rather then address the issue of why traditional TV is being rejected, Comcast is trying to
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by butterfi 8y ago
I'm puzzled by your comment about 'the point of Netflix.' It seems myopic to think that they should limit themselves to simply serving up others peoples content. I would imaging the point of Netflix is to be the most success
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by butterfi 8y ago
The owners of the platform. They are not a public service nor to they have to pretend to be one.
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by butterfi 9y ago
Linux?
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by butterfi 9y ago
I think an easier question is "Who likes iTunes and why?" I don't mean that to sound snarky, but exactly what is iTune's value proposition? I only use it to buy media from Apple, and even then I don't buy much media
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by butterfi 9y ago
I have a Samsung TV with built in apps and a suspicious privacy policy, so I plugged in a Roku and never use the built in apps.
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by butterfi 9y ago
As an avid movie watcher, this means nothing to me. Gatekeep your self-indulgent, self-congratulatory, award shows. Pontificate all you want about what "film" is or isn't. I'm not going to movie theaters on a regular bas
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by butterfi 9y ago
I'm puzzled by the use of the word "own". FB doesn't "own" it's users, which is kind of the point. Users gonna use, and that might be FB, but also could be something else. Thinking that FB "owns"
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by butterfi 9y ago
I had no idea. I'm a huge Pratchett fan and this made me smile.
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by butterfi 9y ago
"Vetinari"? Like, Lord Vetinari? Just when I thought I couldn't love you guys any more...
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by butterfi 9y ago
I am incredulous that the current administration wants to ban the use of the words 'science-based' or 'evidence-based' because they are "unnecessary" or redundant. It seems far more likely that this is the same
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by butterfi 9y ago
granted, my information is second-hand, but one of the smartest people I know (very accomplished) had worked with Brown personally over several years and remarked that Brown was the "smartest person in the room" and frequently cou
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by butterfi 9y ago
WOAH there... Brown might be a lot of things, but he's no Donald Trump. Friends and foe alike describe Brown as "the smartest guy in the room." Brown is an intellectual powerhouse compared to Trump and way more politically sa

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