ellyagg

49 ms·

451.
by ellyagg 16y ago
I very much doubt he's joking. It's actually subtly insulting that you think he is. Marilyn vos Savant, for one, agrees with that idea. Not that she has any credentials other than being smart, but there's really no better credential than th
452.
by ellyagg 16y ago
I love iTunes. It has all my music in a scriptable database with a wonderfully configurable front end. I've never understood the hostility that's developed over it, other than possibly sour grapes Windows users forced to use it because of t
453.
by ellyagg 16y ago
From my favorite president: If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. - Calvin Coolidge
454.
by ellyagg 16y ago
Every time I go back there it's worse. Sometimes I read a thread on the main reddit and it's virtually incomprehensible.
455.
by ellyagg 16y ago
Actually, I think it's fairly well known that there's a tension between two real concepts of 'freedom from' and 'freedom to'.
456.
by ellyagg 16y ago
I saw a few years ago a study which claimed professional programmers had the second or third highest average IQs of any occupation. Probably depends on how you measure, but you get my point. After 10 years of programming, it's only gotten m
457.
by ellyagg 16y ago
Pretty defensive response. It's hard to see how you could interpret the evolution of Apple's products since Jobs and OS X and the iPod and the iPhone and now the iPad have taken root as anything but extraordinary. You kind of sound like a h
458.
by ellyagg 16y ago
I wonder how many people laugh at inappropriate comments here and then vote them down.
459.
by ellyagg 16y ago
No, it's just that the hypocrisy here is only if you step inappropriately far back from the actual issues and squint. As with everything, the devil is in the details. If you don't favor Apple, then it's convenient to not dwell too much on t
460.
by ellyagg 17y ago
Well, I telecommute, and I like to work in pajamas in front of the TV, take a shower when I feel like it, pop off to the store for some refreshments as necessary or run other errands, and deliver high volumes of quality code every day.
461.
by ellyagg 17y ago
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” -- Oscar Wilde
462.
by ellyagg 17y ago
I knew the car analogy would make some folks defensive because it's so apt.
463.
by ellyagg 17y ago
It was tongue-in-cheek. Like most humor, parts are more or less true.
464.
by ellyagg 17y ago
This is true, but if it's an implied deficiency in the original post, I disagree. Both here and at the blog, there have been many defensive comments along the lines of "well, maybe they're happy with their lives and we shouldn't judge them"
465.
by ellyagg 17y ago
You must not be an Apple fan. Folks around here recognize and appreciate the true value of constraints in design. In the real world, this is often a tough sell. My boss always wants to have a superset of every feature of every competitors'
466.
by ellyagg 17y ago
"Is your business in the right hands?"
467.
by ellyagg 17y ago
I'm pretty sure drunkenness contributed more to being an asshole than clumsy driving in this case.
468.
by ellyagg 17y ago
This criticism is a pet peeve of mine. People use "never" and "always" all the time and everyone knows (ok, almost everyone) that they don't literally mean "never" and "always". For example, in this case he means, "Don't make the mistake of
469.
by ellyagg 17y ago
No, he just conveniently defined the terms to make a provocative statement about the US. Consider the fact that if you intersect the US's population with its per capita income, the US's rank is far and away number 1. You have to do some int
470.
by ellyagg 17y ago
What the author of this article doesn't seem to realize is that populations only become politically liberal as they can afford to be. Child labor laws didn't happen in the US, e.g., until families could afford to survive without child labor
471.
by ellyagg 17y ago
That, plus they obviously they wouldn't alter or remove all bad reviews. That would be brain-deadeningly obvious.
472.
by ellyagg 17y ago
Baffling. So, if you like one thing, you can't express your opinions about some similar thing? Isn't that specifically why we even have disclosure statements like the one he made? If you like, take his review as "this is how far the Nexus O
473.
by ellyagg 17y ago
I take careful note of anyone's biases, even the people I deal with in regular conversations face-to-face. Bias here by definition means systematic skewed reasoning. It's of course TC's prerogative to be biased, but I'll dismiss its analysi
474.
by ellyagg 17y ago
Seems like crowds trample folks at Walmart during Christmas season pretty often.
475.
by ellyagg 17y ago
The article makes a false assumption. He starts by saying that AGW has the ball, but then carries that on through the rest of his reasoning as a proxy for "global temperatures will be 6 degrees higher in 2100 hundred has the ball", althoug
476.
by ellyagg 17y ago
It's a one file install. You can easily run it behind firewalls. It has built-in wiki and issue tracking. You can run it from a jailed host; it requires no access to apache config, it has its own server. You can give users accounts on it. Y
477.
by ellyagg 17y ago
The description of the unlucky person sounds more like me than the the lucky description. I try to avoid using intuition as much as possible and I always make the rational choice as best as I can judge it. Yet, I feel neither lucky nor unlu
478.
by ellyagg 17y ago
Everyone I know prefers amateur porn. I probably wouldn't be interested in a woman who was uncomfortable with what goes in in most amateur porn. Of course, everyone I know is reasonably intelligent. In my humble opinion, you'd have to be an
479.
by ellyagg 17y ago
My favorite: "The new facebook is ok" ... like Facebook turning into RWW isn't all bad. (lifted from one of the sane comments)
480.
by ellyagg 17y ago
48 Laws of Power was pretty dumb, unfortunately. It celebrated con artists and manipulators as the powerful. As I recall from having read it 10 years ago, it strongly suggested Napolean's advisors were the powerful, whereas its dearth of st

More ›