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by dublin 6y ago
Always a great story, and more relevant than ever. (IMO, the short story is the pinnacle of literature - writing a good one is harder than writing a decent novel, and this is one of the best ever. Vonnegut nailed it here...
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by dublin 6y ago
"Native" GUI toolkits that do not fully implement pen and touch UI are not really native, are they? Do NOT assume your users are on devices that are limited to 20th century UI hardware! (Win10 can fully leverage both pen and tou
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by dublin 6y ago
Yes, emphatically. The statistics clearly show that deaths from flu and other infectious diseases and lung conditions have dropped to nearly zero over the past several months. This doesn't pass the most basic smell test: People didn
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by dublin 6y ago
Where is that money going to come from, if we've destroyed the engine of the economy? Small business is the engine of the economy, and since they can't afford FAANG's Irish Double Dutch sandwich tax dodges, they actually p
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by dublin 6y ago
A good study would be to compare how these screen-trained toddlers compare with screen-free toddlers (you might have to go rural to find those) in interacting and recognizing things in the real 3D world. My guess is that screenies exhibit
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by dublin 6y ago
This was even true 15 years ago, when I was CTO for a startup that put displays on restaurant tabletops. Even back then ( before the iPhone was even released), we saw that most users tried to touch the screen to control it! People reason
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by dublin 6y ago
Solar is no savior. VERY few people understand solar and how it works enough to even understand that power output on hot summer days like we're having now is one of the worst environments for PV performance. (PV cell voltage is inver
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by dublin 6y ago
It's worth noting that Bezos does exactly this every year (sell $1B of his stock annually). It's how he funds Blue Origin, among other new ventures.
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by dublin 6y ago
You don't fix this by penalizing people that are successful. You fix this by preventing companies from buying all their competitors, or unfairly running them out of business. If we actually enforced existing anti-trust laws, with an
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by dublin 6y ago
And yet, it is the very potential of radical economic inequality that drive the creation of new inventions and innovations that make the modern world possible. Killing that potential is killing the goose that lays all the golden eggs - tha
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by dublin 6y ago
Or perhaps, any claim with a URI and without a physical card in a library card catalog should be treated as suspicious... Just sayin'...
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by dublin 6y ago
+10 for OneNote, especially if you use a modern pen-enabled computer. This may be the best product Microsoft has - it's without question the only reason I pay for an annual Office license. It's a real shame OneNote doesn't
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by dublin 6y ago
FWIW, Awk and a good SyslogNG catcher is a really good old-school alternative to all these fancy expensive tools, and there is pretty much nothing that you can't do with them...
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by dublin 6y ago
Actually, I don't pay for hardly any SaaS or Apps. Microsoft Office is the only exception, and the only thing I really need there is OneNote. (I use Word and Excel, but only because I've already paid for them to get OneNote - ne
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by dublin 6y ago
There are times that discrimination is exactly what you want...
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by dublin 6y ago
Some good suggestions (and a couple I'll have to read...) I'd add the following: 8. "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks (still, IMO, one of the best management books ever, esp. for software and product development.)
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by dublin 6y ago
Section 230 protection should not exist. When this was enacted, nothing like Facebook, YouTube,Twitter, etc. existed, and InfoSeek and AltaVista were the leading search engines...
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by dublin 6y ago
^This^ is the reason that I have watched a grand total of less than a dozen movies on a computer or phone, ever. The experience just flat sucks.
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by dublin 6y ago
Apple makes things insanely opaque at times too: I hate to admit it, but I cursed Apple for years for removing the search function from iOS (which used to be predictably located in the left-of-home desktop/icon pane). It was litera
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by dublin 6y ago
Yeah, there are a few really good things that will soon be lost forever, for instance the classic National Lampoon "Rigging of a Ship" Flash movie. Also, I'm not sure, but I think the absolute Scott Adams classic story of ho
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by dublin 6y ago
Went through both the emotional an financial rock bottom in recent years at least twice. The key is to realize that you, yes, you, were created (yes, you have a creator!) to perform certain works that only you can do. Work on faith (I can
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by dublin 6y ago
And now you're on double secret probation as one who has not only engaged in "hate speech", but had the temerity to protest their notice that you have been convicted and found guilty of hate speech.
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by dublin 6y ago
And maybe this is one of the best reasons why we need to reign in ridiculous copyright laws. First of all, by going back to reasonable terms. In today's world, that should be probably no more than the length of patent terms - about 2
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by dublin 6y ago
Shared whiteboards and a good audio connection are FAR more important than most videoconferencing solutions. Microsoft's Surface line kicks Apple's iPads around the block here, at least partly because the Surface "pen"
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by dublin 6y ago
It would be nice if there were a way to make the exclusion list de the default for all your queries. For instance, I never want to see results from WikiHow again. Ever. Or the New York Times or any of the other paywalled sites...
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by dublin 6y ago
Absolutely agree - this is what Doug Lenat and the Cyc team have spent 30 years building - Doug had the foresight to realize that regardless of how "smart" an AI is, if it doesn't know about how things relate in the real worl
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by dublin 6y ago
So what happened to these guys? I was networking supercomputers at a major oil company way back when this article was written, and it's worth noting that $200 worth of Raspberry Pi and SD card today is roughly equivalent to the superc
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by dublin 7y ago
Hadn't seen some of the links in that post - definitely some good solid info there...
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Wackiness aside, there is some evidence that some wireless technologies can and do present real dangers (e.g., a Scandanavian study a few years back that showed pelvic blade bone density was as much as 30% less on the side men carried their
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by dublin 7y ago
The Macbook touchbar holds a likely never-to-be-surpassed record for "The World's Most Useless Touchscreen". I literally cannot imagine how this UI abortion got to market. To me, the touchbar was the canary that Apple&#x27

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