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by cbs 15y ago
>he supposedly worked to be a respected blogger and now he's rewarded for that Supply and demand makes that the situation that he can tell people if they want his attention they need to buy him lunch, what it doesn't do is make him any
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by cbs 15y ago
>Either it's software running on one chip, or it's software on another chip. That's irrelevant. No, its not irrelevant. The terms have meaning, regarding the separation. And while it may technically be a misnomer, feigning ignorance t
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by cbs 15y ago
people can't understand that scrolling "feels right" Am I the only person in the world for whom the inertia of a scrollable area at rest, tending to stay at rest _is_ what feels right?
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by cbs 15y ago
To be clear, many android phones have physical keyboards. >Why you would monitor the physical key presses seems obvious to me: in the case of a phone or application crash, you want to know which keys were pressed at the time. What good
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by cbs 15y ago
>most techies in this area aren't that entrepreneurial. Is an entrepreneur really going to want to work at facebook? They're a huge established player. Is facebook even looking for that sort of employee?
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by cbs 15y ago
Just think it's a twisted frame of mind to think about music as above. Most people who are serious about music buy merch at shows for the explicit purpose of supporting the artist. It is a pure form of voting with your wallet, "I want yo
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by cbs 15y ago
it still proves this info has value "This info" is quite the weasel word. The set of data collected by cmstat, and what carrier's need spyware to obtain are mutually exclusive. Everything that CM stats collects would be available to carr
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by cbs 15y ago
That is a very different aspect of intellectual property. While related in the broad scope, as far as the constraints of this report and the subject of downloading copy-written materiel go it is irrelevant.
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by cbs 15y ago
Outside of habitually bending over for Intellectual Property, he seems OK on tech. His tech policy isn't that tech is bad, S 74 was the best net neutrality proposal I've seen in this congress (I'm not entirely happy with it, but its leaps
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by cbs 15y ago
You kind of implied it when you said contract-free instead of not from a carrier . At least here in the States, the majority of contract free and prepaid phones for sale are associated with a particular carrier.
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by cbs 15y ago
by this definition, the Rolling Stones are "the product" too then Yeah, by what definition aren't they? Like any popular high-demand product they get to name their price. But no gmail user is in much higher demand by google (or their a
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by cbs 15y ago
One of us what? Hes just some dude that manged to strike it big and is now a VC. The most common linking factor I can see between the HN poster and PG is entrepreneurial- and tech-focus. Whats so "one of us" about that? Nothing. Or is i
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by cbs 15y ago
>I really don't think name calling is necessary. And I don't think a whole paragraph of riding your high horse is necessary for what could have been a quick "lets keep it above board" tacked onto the end of a post.
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by cbs 15y ago
Its much easier to invade privacy in the name of providing a better product than to actually figure out what the customer wants. Collecting huge swaths of data allows product to be tweaked to find a local maximum of profitability. Its an e
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by cbs 15y ago
Shhh... don't bring up those crazy ideals here. We all know that the end all and be all of the world is the free market's sociopathic fundamental that "more money, and more money alone, always means better".
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by cbs 15y ago
Twitter is the new hotness, its buzzword tech that will move more units than a device that does something more practical.
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by cbs 15y ago
>even if IT don't like it Fuck cooperate security, I want my iPhone cake and to eat it too!
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by cbs 15y ago
They'd know by now There is also a very active Android community, and they're just finding out so I wouldn't be so sure. From a structural perspective, it would also make more sense if any of their own statistical software lived in the i
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by cbs 15y ago
"We won't be looking at singular shoppers," said Stephanie Shriver-Engdahl, vice president of digital strategy for Forest City. "The system monitors patterns of movement. We can see, like migrating birds, where people are going to." Read:
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by cbs 15y ago
Your point only hold up if the _only_ reason for compensation in the case of physical books would be the cost to the publisher to print them. I'm trying to understand your point as far as intellectual property. Is it your belief that IP sho
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by cbs 15y ago
(As that is what they're doing) I'm sure its a smart business strategy for Growl, because it maintains Growl's momentum and developers have less reason to seek alternatives and introducing those alternatives to the users. But its just not s
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by cbs 15y ago
>If growl didn't exist, every application would provide its own mechanism for notifications As I see it now, as a developer, growl doesn't exist anymore. I loved using it both as a user to receive notification and as a developer to sen
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by cbs 15y ago
>If you work at a place like that, I feel sorry for you. I came to the comments to express the same sort of opinion. I work at a place that understands and values programmers. I can't imagine working in any other kind of environment u
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by cbs 15y ago
>There is a world of difference between not supported and not allowed. Allowing any foreign device, even if unsupported, is a serious cost. Not supported but still on the privileged network (or on the guest net and hooking into any priv
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by cbs 15y ago
>Instead of helping them do their job better they dictate and put up roadblocks so IT guy has an easier job. Oh yes, I forgot. IT budgets are infinite and supporting all existing business computing requirements on any foreign device th
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by cbs 15y ago
>up until now you have to admit it's a dud The genie is out of the bottle, so that doesn't matter anymore. >You do know that Time Machine works perfectly fine [...] Yes, do go on. Lecture me about my environment and my needs. >
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by cbs 15y ago
Macs in the enterprise don't need management, backup or security software? You're fucking around, right? Even in my personal limited deployment of macs, they're managed by joining the domain and ssh access. They're backed up with a combin
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by cbs 15y ago
>One of the Jobs' supporting argument about integrated approach is that the tight control is what enables them to make the computers "smooth". Yes, encrypting the bootloader of the ipod so I can't install rockbox is necessary so that th
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by cbs 15y ago
my 2.5 year old niece is more adept at handling a touch phone than my mother! Thats crazy! No, its not crazy, its perfectly logical. You're niece is learning how things in the world work out of necessity, touch interfaces being just one
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by cbs 15y ago
>It's a sad fact that Google became more of a follower than innovator recently. Haven't they always been a do x good company? Web search and email were around for years before google showed up.

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