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by dlss 15y ago
Android inc was founded by Andy Rubin in 2003, bought by google in 2005, and unveiled its first phone in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) Not being an insider, it might be true that no one at Android inc wa
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by dlss 15y ago
> implying JK Rowling was produced by a publisher Source? You don't think JK would have produced at the same quality with a different publisher? Or if she had borrowed money, paid her own editor, and self-published?
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by dlss 15y ago
FWIW I agree with you. I think your point is similar to the old library vs framework debate ( http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/06/04/difference-between-a-lib... ) Library/Toolkit = Platform = Amazon's usual play. They give people the tools nee
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by dlss 15y ago
The publisher is a very odd beast -- the services you are citing as their primary benefit are the kind you would expect an author with money to simply pay for themselves. Or to put it another way, publishers are a combination of: 1. Angel i
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by dlss 15y ago
I think timjahn was trying to say something like: THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
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by dlss 15y ago
> Some APIs are not ready for developer use If they aren't ready, why does apple use them? > Apple does right to forbid their use to avoid crashes on the next iOS upgrade Why doesn't this argument apply to apple? Are there any o
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by dlss 15y ago
I don't understand why you didn't google before your comment. For the search "iPhone private api" we get: http://fajkowski.com/blog/2009/05/21/clicker-app-rejected-fo... https://github.com/kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks http://arste
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by dlss 15y ago
RIP Google Sets :(
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by dlss 15y ago
> could indicate a design flaw Why the change from your earlier position of screen breakage indicating a design flaw? > If the Nexus designers believe that a louder speaker is more important, that's valid, but it's not valid if t
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by dlss 15y ago
> I don't care whether something is defective by design, or defective by lack of design: I care that it's defective, period. Interesting. As an engineer, I very much care about causes. Especially systematic ones. They allow me to bett
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by dlss 15y ago
> If I have to train myself to lay my phone face down, it's a design flaw. It's a design flaw because it increases the chance of damaging the screen Screen damage rates for iPhone 4 are far higher than Nexus S. I take it from your mes
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by dlss 15y ago
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/11 Puts the iphone 4 over 3g as ~3x quieter than a nexus s over 3g. (2g is closer, but no one I know uses their iphone 4 over 2g). From the review: "For a long while, people have comp
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by dlss 15y ago
from the comment you replied to: > Reading about how you can't train yourself to place your phone face down, and that this is somehow a samsung design flaw, isn't interesting :-/
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by dlss 15y ago
I am not an electrical engineer, but to answer your question it is my understanding that the diameter of a speaker is very important for sound quality, volume, and cost. This is the reason that home audio speakers aren't the size of thimble
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by dlss 15y ago
I think what he was saying is that different != worse. If you had started on an android phone, you would probably have written a similar piece talking about how apple phones get muted when placed on a fluffy blanket (as the edge gets covere
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by dlss 15y ago
Right. This is the argument popularized by Penn & Teller in their GMO Bullshit episode. 1. My $3/meal was for US eaters. Remember that locally grown crops in 3rd world countries cost much less, as the cost of human time and land is lowe
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by dlss 15y ago
This post being at the top worries me more than the post PG replied to :-/ 1. You seem to think that consuming a GMO is a riskless way to save money. Consider reading "Assessment of the food safety issues related to genetically modified foo
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by dlss 15y ago
It's got to be something like that. Otherwise it would be a complete waste of resources. (5% of non-retail staff would be something like 10%+ of all engineering staff...)
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by dlss 15y ago
I think he just wants a new phone. ... perhaps to console his broken heart ...
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by dlss 15y ago
he's holding it wrong
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by dlss 15y ago
I feel the same way. If not for Steve, I'd be Jobless
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by dlss 15y ago
they took our jobs :(
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by dlss 15y ago
I think it's the opposite. It was already a paid site, so of course they have your billing info. This is the first indication they're coveting my data (at least w/o facebook connect turned on there are no recommendations to speak of on spot
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by dlss 15y ago
Ugh. I signed up two weeks ago and have been recommending them to friends. Now this. Why on earth does this make sense for Spotify?
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by dlss 15y ago
I understood that your comment was a joke - I was commenting on why you made that joke / in what contexts jokes like yours occur to people... and reasoning about steps that companies could take to make such jokes sound flat.
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by dlss 15y ago
On the one hand, this comment gave me an epiphany (about how some people think) so thanks for putting this here. One the other hand, I can't wait to have downvotes for comments like yours. The epiphany is as follows: 1. There are a lot of p
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by dlss 15y ago
Please bookmark this thread and reread the post (and your response) after you've calmed down. There is a big difference between what Tim was talking about ("constructed a set of financial products with intent to defraud") and what you're ta
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by dlss 15y ago
With the qualifier of "if the mistake is big enough"
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by dlss 15y ago
1. I agree with the usually in this sentence 2. 1-2% monthly => 12-26% yearly, which isn't impossible or necessarily indicative of fraud. Though perhaps you're just saying that if things are too smooth that is a bad sign? 3. Agreed :) 4
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by dlss 15y ago
So quite safe relative to the risk of driving to the airshow?

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