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by dejb 16y ago
This is a pretty lame 'religious mystery' in my view. There doesn't seem to be any real wisdom in the method of splitting the debt and the explanation seems fairly straight forward. It isn't even new. Why people find this interesting is bey
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by dejb 16y ago
I don't think it is the same to test something on a platform as developing it on that platform. Developers will instinctively look to take advantage of the strengths of their main platform and work around the weaknesses. With nobody in an e
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by dejb 16y ago
The danger here is that they will lose touch with the 80% of their user base that uses windows. If they don't have enough people who intimately understand the computing experience of their users then their products could suffer.
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by dejb 16y ago
His bias shows clearly in my view. He complains about large scale epidemiological studies (in the links you provided) and then uses what seems like a relatively small study to back up his claims (in the parent story). Large scale epidemiolo
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by dejb 16y ago
Imagine ten thousand of them swarming in over the horizon, all sharing data and building a super accurate 3d map of everywhere they go. In 5-10 years time the cost of something like this would have to be less than $100. I guess power supp
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by dejb 16y ago
I never said it helps Google only that it hurts Apple. The fact that google can hurt Apple so much without a large direct profit motive is pretty telling about Apple's weakness IMHO.
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by dejb 16y ago
Android is growing much faster than the iPhone. The rest of the world (where I come from) is a lot more varied. RIM doesn't do so well and Nokia dominates heavily in a lot of markets. The iPhone doesn't do so well outside of the US either.
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by dejb 16y ago
How prescient as Java and it's derivatives are probably the biggest danger to apple.
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by dejb 16y ago
If it can be done then it will be done eventually. So the question becomes who does it first.
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by dejb 16y ago
People contribute to open source projects - doing work for free that many would consider mundane. Looking for loopholes would be a lot like debugging.
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by dejb 16y ago
This surprises me given that it seems pretty clear they are about to lose their projected dominance in the smartphone game to Android. I can't see how you can justify that sort of valuation without projecting them to be the dominant smartph
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by dejb 16y ago
> for making my life that much easier. Yea it really sucks having to sit next to somebody else on the way to work. Especially if they are really fat. Of course you need a 2 tonne truck to get to work as well, cause smaller cars or motor
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by dejb 16y ago
Or maybe pace of change is increasing.
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by dejb 16y ago
The tracks from the latest album are a LOT better. They are obviously played by a human. Here's an example (search YouTube for 'Emily Howell music') http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEjdiE0AoCU&feature=relat... I'm really surprised the
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by dejb 16y ago
> this surprised me a bit as well Surprised isn't the word. That freaked me out totally. I was I hadn't read this article.
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by dejb 16y ago
searyc.com doesn't exist. Whats the domain? I'd be interested in reading the story. What if you already have a company that has has enough revenue to support you from US customers?
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by dejb 16y ago
Should you add spoiler alert to this your post?
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by dejb 16y ago
You wanna ban people from putting their penis of Facebook? I think they already do this. > If I go to see a surgeon I don't want to see a compete record of all the stupid things he did while drunk at university. If it's irrelevant then
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by dejb 16y ago
> Has this ever happened anywhere? Probably whenever significant technological/social change occurs. > We've already seen absence of privacy in tribal societies, and those are exceptionally bad places to fail to conform. Only cities
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by dejb 16y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg has been surrounded with allegations ranging from questionable personality traits, unethical behaviors and outright illegal activities. It certainly seems he wouldn't fair well if he applied the concept of ‘radical tra
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by dejb 16y ago
> Portraying oneself more conservatively in less familiar company is often essential. People's reaction to the 'less conservative' aspects of each other would have to change if there was no way of hiding them. It is rather analogous to
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by dejb 16y ago
What if you had a filename like 'gif.gif'? Wouldn't that end up as 'png.png' which would cause it to skip that node?
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by dejb 16y ago
> In other words, work produced by lonely geniuses is quite likely to go unnoticed. I think this is something that has happened throughout history. The web probably makes it easier for the their work to be uncover than before but they a
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by dejb 16y ago
If you can't find something (perhaps not this story) to convince you that life is amazing and precious that is indeed sad. You need to change your life
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by dejb 16y ago
The last paragraph was the point. The first bit is just one of the many stories that could lead you to this conclusion.
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by dejb 16y ago
Is it too early to start saying "I told you so" yet?
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by dejb 16y ago
I don't think we've any of the major Android phones apart from the HTC Desire since the Magic. No Droid or Nexus one. So the results would definitely be very skewed towards the iPhone. I just hope the Australian carriers wake up to what the
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by dejb 16y ago
I had an idea for something similar to EventChase but it would been a tool for existing organised teams. The weekly task of checking to see who can turn up to the match and possibly finding replacements could be largely automated and it is
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by dejb 16y ago
The vege sub is a ripoff.
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by dejb 16y ago
> highly talented social re-engineering to alter the incentives AKA censorship

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