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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Again—seriously? You can't compare one of the country’s largest electronics retail chains with a guy buying up iPads by the dozens and selling them on a gamer forum. Selling through Best Buy is clearly a strategic partnership that’s been ne
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
Are you serious? They don't need your permission to do this—it's their product, they can implement whatever sales policies they like. They don't have any responsibility to defend the practice, it's their prerogative. But even if it wasn't,
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by codyrobbins 16y ago
He needs a makeover. Or to be on ‘Dancing with the Stars’. Something to make him feel good about himself. I’m half-joking but I’m also half serious.
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
It also fits splendidly in my hand downloaded to my iPad, ready for my 14-hour airline flight next week, all without a trip to Kinko's or 4 pounds of paper to lug halfway around the world with me =)
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Yes, and it didn’t pass the creak test.
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
And then there are developers who aren’t ideologues—that simultaneously care and are in it for money. You’re implying a false dichotomy.
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
I make that mistake all the time, especially on my iPhone, and I always experience a pang of regret when I downvote a comment I actually really liked. Why can’t you change your vote?
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on. Do you have anything to say other than an exclamation of incredulity? I already explained that an anecdotal comparison of Google hits wouldn’t be very meaningful. I just as
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
You shouldn’t assume I don’t know what I’m talking about just because I didn’t take the time to include references in my comment. I have a graduate degree in linguistics and one of my concentrations is word formation. While it’s true that
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Except those blinking ads aren’t useless—they bring in substantial amounts of ad revenue for the New York Times. So what is OP’s point, exactly?
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
The plural of radius is radiuses , and the plural of Prius is Priuses . I am so tired of comments where people make up ‘funny’ pseudo-Latinate plurals.
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
You've obviously thought about this a lot more than I have. I readily admit that it is an extremely complex issue when analyzed with due consideration of the subtleties involved, and I certainly don't profess to be knowledgeable in any mean
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
While I have great respect and awe for Warren Buffet as a businessman and investor, I often feel like he publicly says little anecdotal things like this that are blatantly misleading and people just assume the validity of his premises in an
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
That’s just a red herring. Democracy isn’t being thrown away because the treaty negotiations are closed. A democracy does not imply absolute and unmitigated transparency in all steps along the way. As I already said, democratically elected
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
I disagree that I’m putting words in warfangle’s mouth. He said, ‘The fact that they are so secretive about the negotiations as to eject and ridicule third-party observes proves that they are not acting in the best interest of said third pa
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Holding the negotiations in secret does not prove that they’re acting one way or another. All secret negotiations have underhanded motives; these negotiations are secret; therefore, these negotiations have underhanded motives? The first pro
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Petitio principii—you’re saying there’s a difference because the treaty is unjust, but you’re simply declaring the treaty unjust. Negotiating anything among many parties with competing interests involves certain difficulties, and making the
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
People realize that the negotiations of the United States Constitutional Convention were secret, right? There’s a difference between a ‘secret treaty’ and a treaty merely negotiated in secret.
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Does behavior like that of the administrator in the story cause our math and science scores to be lower, or do the lower math and science scores cause the behavior of the administrator? It’s hard to tease apart the causality here. It may ve
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FCC orders wireless mike changes to make room for next-gen wireless services(nytimes.com)
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
I’m in. We have to meet at a scotch bar in NYC, though ;)
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
I like the question of semiology here, even though it's not really addressed in the article. I’ve been calling it the début de siècle — French for ‘start of the century’. The French term has so much more connotation than the literal Engli
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
See also the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803201 .
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/6/66...
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
You know the ones I’m talking about! =) http://www.kwajalein.us/Images/015_sm.jpg
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Let me guess, you use one of those pressboard corner computer hutches with fifteen hundred shelves and hidden compartments, complete with printer cart on casters and CD rack, as your desk; and a folding chair you picked up at a rummage sale
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Yeah, those mice really suck. So does the Mighty Mouse, because you have to physically remove your other finger from the mouse to right click. And so, it seems, will the Magic Mouse — just watching the manner in which the guy demonstrating
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I can't comment on the actual display itself, but the thought of spending $1,300 on something that comes in such a poorly designed faux-futuristic plastic housing is an instant deal-breaker for me. I don't
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
But when are they going to finally release actual new Cinema Displays, sans iMac? The Dell 3008WFP is such an ugly piece of plastic crap, in my opinion.
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Haha, you’re right. The problem is that I really want cut to just do what it sounds like it should do based on its name! Sigh…

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