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by dschobel 16y ago
Capitalism is an economic system. It says nothing about social services or policy. There are plenty of countries with free market economies which provide extensive social services and have very progressive social policies (see northern euro
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by dschobel 16y ago
Ditto Chicago. The fact that every homeless person in the country does not save up the $50-$100 (less than a week's work in a major city) in bus fare and make a beeline for Miami or San Francisco has some scary implications about the depths
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by dschobel 16y ago
Personally I appreciate the client-server design and the memory savings it lends when connecting multiple terminals to the same tmux session: http://www.linuxized.com/2010/05/switching-from-gnu-screen-t... Plus the more liberal BSD licens
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by dschobel 16y ago
Thanks for the link! Chopin's preludes are just staggeringly beautiful.
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by dschobel 16y ago
thank you.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Can someone clarify what a spike is? It doesn't appear to refer to just resource load... "...we spent several hours fanning out that spike to include three versions"
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Law Students Study Michael Jackson's Dance-Move Patent(npr.org)
1 points by dschobel 16y ago|0 comments
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by dschobel 16y ago
I think asking why Silicon Valley almost completely ignores the midwest when there is engineering talent here in spades (I'm in Chicago and we have the population and the top flight engineering schools to, I believe, merit some attention) i
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by dschobel 16y ago
Why didn't people move with 1.9.1 ?
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by dschobel 16y ago
You may have just earned another visit.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I'll quantify it for you. It takes me more clicks and presses to do the same things on android vs iphone.
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Oracle is suing Google over Java. There’s just one tiny problem…(beust.com)
3 points by dschobel 16y ago|1 comments
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by dschobel 16y ago
I switched from the iphone to android and I agree with your assessment. Android's UX is good, iPhone's is great. I have high hopes for Android 3.0 (Gingerbread, due in Q4) which is allegedly going to be a major UI revamp. In the mean time I
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by dschobel 16y ago
Is the voice recognition better than what google voice offers in its transcription service? Because I've found that to be horribly inaccurate.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I agree but a lot of people (myself included) thought Google was large, rich, smart, respected and brazen enough to fight this fight so we were all thrilled when they dropped the gauntlet against the carriers. At this point I'm just dying t
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by dschobel 16y ago
That is frightening logic and factually incorrect. History is full of examples of minority abuse at the hands of the majority. Here is a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_democracy#Oppressi...
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by dschobel 16y ago
They ceded the wireless world to the control of the carriers so it wouldn't be a stall so much as playing dead. And a full reversal is certainly possible, it would imply a short-sightedness which is hard to reconcile with Google's policy hi
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by dschobel 16y ago
If being pragmatic entails giving up the fight (as google has done in the wireless world), count me out.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Principles which succumb to "political realities" or the "spirit of compromise" are no principles at all. I'm still hugely disappointed but maybe it was naive to think a corporate entity could ever have true principles.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Oh I agree and it's my reaction too, "yeah but what problem are they solving? how are they doing it?" That's the extent of my evaluation. And that's also why I'm not an entrepreneur. :) There's a definite mismatch between the valuation fun
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by dschobel 16y ago
Sorry, can you explain what constitutes a "panda" or a "lobster" task?
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by dschobel 16y ago
Part of the difficulty is convincing a strongly technical crowd that companies and products live or die for reasons other than technology. Unless they're solving crazy hard problems, a lot of engineering types are just going to be underwhel
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by dschobel 16y ago
I can't think of any Google product which is as frivolous as FB. Maybe buzz and wave (RIP). People would not take down-time in gmail, analytics, calendar, search, maps, et al lightly.
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by dschobel 16y ago
This is what I would like to know as well. Google employees some of the most respected and seminal names in the history of the internet and I imagine their reputations and principles are worth more than whatever Google pays them. I'm dying
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by dschobel 16y ago
You'll have to forgive some of us for believing that Google was a principled company when it came to fundamental issues such as carrier control of content and services. "Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online
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by dschobel 16y ago
It represents a very real change in position. Everyone thought, naively perhaps, that google was going to liberate the mobile phones of america whether the carriers liked it or not. This then is a non-aggression pact with the carriers showi
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by dschobel 16y ago
Your second point is patently wrong: http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality_letter.html
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by dschobel 16y ago
I think it's shocking to a lot of people because Google has long claimed that "what's good for the internet is good for [Google]". It was something more concrete than just the nebulous "don't be evil". It stood for support of open-standards
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by dschobel 16y ago
SCIENCE!!! </zed shaw>
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by dschobel 16y ago
I watched the first 10 minutes of Jason's speech and he talks about how broken the VC system was with the "pay to pitch" schemes and how he publicly increased pressure on those events until he finally started his open angel forum as an alte

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