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by duaneb 10y ago
I'm assuming there's a reason in there somewhere. Care to share?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Baidu is no as slouch. Most of the Bay Area is much closer to mobile than ai/vr. I don't think we value mobile in the US; many with money are resistant to change. Some people still don't use email and are shocked(!) when reta
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by duaneb 10y ago
I don't follow the link between intelligence and technology. Are you implying smarter people use more?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Really? The last Haskell project I saw on the front page was a c to rust transpiler. Seriously cool stuff even ignoring the Haskell aspect of it. It has its place, just like other languages--on a pragmatic level it is easily the best langua
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by duaneb 10y ago
I mean nukes are reliable too. Doesn't mean they should be used. The culture of lethal force means innocent people die.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I would advise avoiding commenting on how people vote. It is never interesting compared to just watching what happens.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well, cursive was always an approximation of hand-inked separate glyphs and then the printed glyphs. small caps predates lowercase.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Definitely not. It is a pain in the ass to write discrete characters with a quill or a fountain pen, so it's more of a change over time than geography. In fact, I find it more interesting to consider when printing (non-joined letters)
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by duaneb 10y ago
Multi-process is not crash proof, it contains any code execution vulnerabilities to the process that hit the edge case in question.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Who is the right person to decide who "needs" to side-load? The person who decides to explicitly opt in to allowing side-loading. Just don't allow apps, web pages, etc etc to opt-in for you to ensure the technically non-
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Its 90% conspiracy theories and axe grinding from things a decade out. There are 2/64 comments expressing this view. You're being hyperbolic. The main theme recently has been "Wow, I never thought I would like MS again,
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by duaneb 10y ago
The Swiss have had a program legalizing medical heroin, I believe. That's a starting point.
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by duaneb 10y ago
There are recreational drugs, and then there are addictions. I don't think I've witnessed the blasé attitude towards highly addictive substances you have witnessed, except possibly with nicotine. Certainly not in person.
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by duaneb 10y ago
This probably works pretty well for continuing to preserve the artifacts. Our ability to gain knowledge from them will only increase over time.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well, sure. But it's not their engineering talent alone that got them the job—hopefully that is not sufficient. The main reason it helps is to understand obstacles, time management, and communication, not because their job is engineeri
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by duaneb 10y ago
Hopefully they have some ability to manage a product, too. :) That's a skill that engineering helps inform, but a good engineer does not imply anything like time management, market knowledge, people skills, translating between designer
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by duaneb 10y ago
Definitely.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Otherwise all dev work could just be outsourced. The value of American engineers is their ability to a) speak english well, b) show up at the office, and c) swallow large amounts of debt for college to ease hiring. So I'm not sure
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by duaneb 10y ago
Developers are just another means—we're not wizards. We are a commodity, and if you don't recognize that you're in for a hard midlife crisis. Do you really expect to make any money without taking the risk of deciding what to
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by duaneb 10y ago
It's a little too easy for non-technical users to accidentally enable it. The moms & pops of the world would probably never need to side-load.
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by duaneb 10y ago
The fact that installing an app can give people arbitrary access to your phone without understanding WHAT you installed definitely implies Android app installation is broken in some way.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> This is analogous to claiming that microwave ovens increase the risk of cancer, even though we can't detect it. To be fair, the control group would be difficult to say the least. The same is true with the economy. So yea, it'
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by duaneb 10y ago
Until you exhaust your resources. Then you just die. The only thing a free market does perfectly is use resources as fast as humanly possible. Efficiently, of course. Why waste resource you can't profit from?
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by duaneb 10y ago
It's a real term. This is not how the pile depth is decided but a maximum depth.
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by duaneb 10y ago
This is facesioustly reductive.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Yep, you are correct. I was thinking of Linear A.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Liber office has virtually no realtime collaboration, no mobile, and no web app. It's apples and oranges. Libre office is still going to be better for writing long form, and quip is for pairing (a)sync review and ACL management. It is
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well he helped build google maps. That's a decent example of how small teams can create large value over enough time. Another example: the original tablet at Apple was built by one guy. Sharp people can focus on good investments and ge
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Nothing like abandoning a company you built right as it hits its stride.
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by duaneb 10y ago
How do you see that? It seems like a straightforward shot at biting into office market share at $750MM.

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