cletus

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by cletus 16y ago
You're line of thinking is I think quite similar to Google's. Google seems to have this mindset of having no dependence on any outside party. I can understand this from Google as it fits into their internet commoditization goal. Apple's SN
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by cletus 16y ago
I don't buy this at all. Apple has always been a hardware and software company with a very specific philosophy about user experience being everything. The digital music revolution gave Steve Jobs the opening to create the iPod that basicall
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by cletus 16y ago
I agree: these numbers just don't add up. Where are the sites that get 35%+ of their search traffic from Bing to balance out the plethora of sites that get 85%+ of their traffic from Google? I haven't heard of any.
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by cletus 16y ago
The calculus one is a strange one. I don't know what maths education is in US high schools but in Australia I learnt differential and integral calculus in high school. It wasn't required (it depended on what courses you chose) but most peop
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by cletus 16y ago
Honestly this kind of article annoys me. It's split across 5 pages (more page views anyone?) and meanders through largely meaningless anecdotes without ever really getting to the point. The whole stream of anecdotes style of journalism is o
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by cletus 16y ago
Memory pricing for all shared/VPS hosting is simply bizarre. RAM is dirt cheap. I don't get it. It's almost like they all got together and decided to gouge on the one thing people need. It's this one factor alone that seems to make dedicate
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by cletus 16y ago
You saw this a lot in the early days of the iPad: there were opinions from those who had used the device and opinions from those who hadn't. A lot of the second group didn't "get it". Once they used it many of them were convinced. Basically
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by cletus 16y ago
Email, Web browsing, reading technical books, games, photo storage, photo editing, slideshows, watching TV, Twitter, Facebook (even though theres no native iPad app annoyingly), reading (particular technical books where the extra screen rea
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by cletus 16y ago
I ordered the Apple TV right after Chris Martin finished singing off key. Not because I'm utterly convinced of its utility but because for $99 I don't really care if it doesn't meet my expectations.
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by cletus 16y ago
The article referenced this: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/technology/08pogue.html?_r... The one company that seems to have a clue about this is actually Apple. The iPhone 4 has a 5mp camera in it. Some pundits say things like "I wish
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by cletus 16y ago
The lack of a front facing camera is a common complaint but honestly (owning an iPad that I love and use all the time) I don't think the use case is as cut and dried as that. Video calls are most often made with a desktop computer or laptop
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by cletus 16y ago
The internet really does seem to thrive on kneejerk hyperbole. On another forum I frequent there are some fanatics calling iTunes 10 an "abomination" because of the new logo and slightly different colours. It sorta reminds me of that episod
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by cletus 16y ago
"Bait and switch" is stronger than I really mean. Don't get me wrong: I'm not pissed. Nor do I really feel cheated. I am just leery and perhaps oversensitive to freely contributing to paid content, which is what my example about SO and the
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by cletus 16y ago
I agreed in email. There was no mention that the next (and I assume subsequent) editions would be paid for digital. To be honest, I hadn't heard of Hackers Monthly before being approached. The previous three issues were free so I simply ass
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by cletus 16y ago
As the author of one of the articles in this issue ("Plain English Explanation of Big O") I'm not sure how I feel about this. Cheng did seek my permission for this and I was happy to give it but I was also operating under the assumption tha
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by cletus 16y ago
Why is custom anything so popular? People have different ways they like working, routines and aesthetics. It's all just personal preference really. The font is simply about how easy it is to read and one's aesthetics sensibilities.
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by cletus 16y ago
Personally I think Digg is now in the same bucket as PointCast, if not to the same degree: they should've sold when they had the chance. Now they're basically irrelevant. I mean just look at the language when Digg talks about your home page
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by cletus 16y ago
While the initiative is clearly well-intentioned you're making the same "error" as those who espouse food stamps: anything that can be traded for goods and services can be traded for cash, usually at a deep discount. Basically if someone wa
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by cletus 16y ago
This was my question. I used to live in London and there were a lot of panhandlers there. It was clear that for some this was their job. Moreso, you just need one little old lady to give em a fiver to beat busting your hump at MacDonalds fo
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by cletus 16y ago
Steve is the ultimate product guy. Agree with him or not, agree with his vision or not, he clearly has a vision for Apple and its products. The same can't be said for Carol Bartz or Steve Ballmer. Those are the people you want in the room w
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by cletus 16y ago
Yahoo went bad because: 1. It has no notable engineering foundation; 2. It has no clear vision about what it is and where it's going; and 3. Like Microsoft, it's put a business person in charge, which is the death knell of any tech company.
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Google Wave, Microsoft and Engineers Running the Asylum(cforcoding.com)
3 points by cletus 16y ago|0 comments
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by cletus 16y ago
I don't think you can call Apple "evil". Arguably you can call it "cynical" however. Apple's philosophy is to make decisions for you, the consumer. Steve said exactly that in his D8 interview. Frankly, most people like that. Apple makes dec
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by cletus 16y ago
I agree that Gowalla is playing second fiddle and the smart money is on Foursquare, not just because they were/are first but because they seem to be killing it, but many second-comers have succeeded (eg Facebook, Google, Microsoft). Anyway,
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by cletus 16y ago
When Fred Wilson speaks, you have to pay attention. He's nearly always got something interesting to say and agree or disagree, his opinion carries a lot of weight. That being said, you also have to remember that Fred isn't just speaking as
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by cletus 16y ago
Amen. It's also I think why a lot of programmers are attracted to startups: because it's far more attractive (not to mention the company's and the programmer's interests are more greatly aligned) to be somewhere where you share in the succe
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by cletus 16y ago
> The BBC is, quite rightly, a public service - and is unique in its ability to remain relatively impartial and free from commercial pressures. This is the idea but in practice doesn't pan out. The government has to approve changes in t
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by cletus 16y ago
How ironic is it that an article about the abject failure of a paywall is hidden behind a registrationwall, which has proven to be almost as much of a barrier?
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by cletus 16y ago
Joel Spolsky gave a Google Tech Talk about Stackoverflow. At one point someone asked him about something he said. He had to look it up. He opened up IE and did a search on live.com (pre-bing). It got a good laugh.
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by cletus 16y ago
The "top 1%" is such a great phenomenon. I remember in the 2000 election the top 1% of earners were daemonized by then VP Gore. In a survey some 20% of people thought they were in the top 1% and another 19% aspired to be. And that's with so

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