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by ebbv 10y ago
This just isn't true. Every site I've ever seen get above a certain threshold of popularity has its comments site turn to utter garbage, if it wasn't terrible already. The problem is that once your comments section quality re
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by ebbv 10y ago
The previous 13" rMBP was already close enough to the Air, IMHO. And MagSafe has literally saved my laptops from destruction dozens of times over the years. The TouchBar is a stupid gimmick. These new MBPs won't have the shelf lif
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by ebbv 10y ago
You seem to have bought into the internet myths about Lithium ion batteries. What you claim just isn't true. They do degrade over time but your figures are nuts. My four year old rMBP has barely degraded at all and my 2.5 year old Niss
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's a pretty nuts assertion. Alexa is doing well for the sector but the sector is still incredibly immature and the general public is barely aware of it. That's not enough of a market dominance to really say they own it.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I just explained that. He misrepresents the data by presenting it as an either or (either we fight climate change OR we fight poverty) when it isn't. That misrepresentation distorts how you interpret all the data in his talk. I'm
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Pointing to one inherent "truth" in the data is far more effective in convincing people than "it's complicated". Yep and this is my biggest problem with populist "thinkers" like Gladwell and Rosling.
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by ebbv 10y ago
His famous TED talk against doing anything about climate change (a position which I think he later rescinded?) and instead focusing those funds on health and poverty reduction instead is littered with it, and based on a false assumption to
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by ebbv 10y ago
My problem with Rosling is that he furthers one of the problems with our modern discourse; the assumption that a given dataset inevitably leads to one conclusion. It's not true. I wish it were but it isn't. The same statistics abo
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is my biggest problem. This article is a really long tutorial on how to make an iPad sorta kinda do the things my Mac already does out of the box. Why? There's never a convincing argument why I would want to do this.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Specifically the second "their".
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by ebbv 10y ago
> >"home broadband" > Just a refinement of the web. What? Not remotely. It enables the web but the underlying technologies are totally different. Home broadband also enabled a lot of other things. Your statement makes me
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by ebbv 10y ago
No, they aren't. Kinect was using motion tracking and stereo vision technology that already existed. They just refined it and it was clearly a dead end. Also it was just a "me too" response to the success of the Wii. Surface
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by ebbv 10y ago
I just can't agree with this conclusion. Microsoft has taken some great steps since Nadella took over. Doing more projects aimed at regular developers and taking baby steps towards open source, but that is not enough to be a leader. In
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I wanted to enjoy this, I love Mario games, but I don't like it. The gameplay is annoying because it's all about executing jumps properly, but when you mess one up you have to start the whole level over
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by ebbv 10y ago
No offense but I really don't think it's a good idea to teach beginners a language with such a goofy syntax. It's fine if you want to make a language with a unique and "innovative" syntax. But beginners are best ser
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by ebbv 10y ago
Of course. The MPG indicator in your car will change if you start flooring your accelerator. That doesn't mean you get rid of it. The reality is the new MBP w/Touchbar have worse battery life than the previous generation and peopl
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by ebbv 10y ago
I learned as a kid that moving the mess into the closet doesn't count as cleaning.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Really? We're calling it a "hit" already? How many have they sold? I don't know anyone who has one, and most people I know don't even know it exists. Once again Peter Bright being the ultimate Microsoft shill. (I kn
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by ebbv 10y ago
Uhh it's a new product record rates doesn't really mean anything.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Seems to me like you haven't learned the right lesson. Small sample sizes can still yield useful results. It depends on the nature of the study. Instead of closing yourself (and the rest of us) based on a fairly arbitrary criteria, you
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's an advantage for them but it doesn't seem like an advantage to me as the user. If they change their sources behind the scenes, what I get as a user would probably change drastically. Google was great originally because thei
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by ebbv 10y ago
Isn't DuckDuckGo Bing behind the scenes, though? That doesn't seem that much better to me. It would be nice to have a truly independent, startup search engine but it's a really big task for a fresh company to tackle.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Arnold: I am not a self made man. Don't call me that. Nobody is. You: Good article. Arnold is a self made man. /facepalm
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by ebbv 10y ago
Except it didn't. It's only unexpected if you're ignorant of what it means, in which case any number is unexpected. You could literally write this same inane blog post about dozens of different common phrases in binary, start
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by ebbv 10y ago
From the title I was expecting this to be some math post about strange factors or something. I was really disappointed. Is the youth today really fascinated by merely translating ASCII strings into numeric translations?
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by ebbv 10y ago
You said you were charged over $1,000 and that this went on for six months. All it likely would have taken is a letter from a lawyer. The cost of having a lawyer send a letter isn't that much unless you're only considering super e
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by ebbv 10y ago
The BBB does nothing. It's just the Yelp of the past. They don't help mediate disputes they just extort business owners. If the owner pays enough money they can get rid of negative reviews. It's crap. The only thing that will
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by ebbv 10y ago
I understand the motives behind this decision but after deliberating for the last two hours I have to say I think it's a bad decision. HN should stand up for values it believes in, not just tech as if it exists in a vacuum. If HN belie
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by ebbv 10y ago
Literally nothing. Reddit is a cesspool and especially when it comes to technical topics it is absolutely abysmal. Most of the people spouting off opinions about technical topics on Reddit are totally unqualified to do so. People who work a
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by ebbv 10y ago
On top of that, calling them category defining and comparing them to the iPhone is kind of crazy since they are niche products so far. Nobody I know has an Echo. The few people I know that have Chromecasts bought them only because it was a

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