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by ellyagg 17y ago
I think the "can't marshall any evidence to support this claim" is pretty critical here, because the vast majority of developers who actually write software for the Mac have loved it since OS X came out. They've loved Cocoa and they loved t
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Or you complain and embarrass them by adding your voice to the chorus of bad customer service stories extent, and they gradually develop a negative image that tarnishes their "do no evil" mantra a bit and weakens their credibility for when
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by ellyagg 17y ago
In real life, virtually no one uses true ad hominem. No on says, "he is a jerk, therefore he's wrong." In my book, using insults and connotative (negative) language rather than strictly denotative is on the ad hominem scale. It is absolutel
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by ellyagg 17y ago
When gmail was launched it used exclusivity to vastly improve its desirability. I'm 100% certain exclusivity can be used to sell virtual goods. You just have to figure out how to harness it.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
True, although I have to wonder if she couldn't have figured it out easily under less stressful circumstances. What's baffling to me is how anyone could think interviews are a good technique for identifying job talent. Many, many (most?) pe
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He traded off his fame in a spectacular way that I don't see the truckloads of other famous people doing.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I would have thought Theodora was a female name...
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Well, it's not research, but G Gordon Liddy's autobiography Will shows one person's regimen for successfully developing a high degree of willpower. It might be a little over the top, though. For example, while in prison he burns a hole thro
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by ellyagg 17y ago
For one, he repeatedly makes a point of dcurtis' age. That's not really appropriate.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Disobedience? What a very, very odd thing to bother you. Disobedience of what? The cult of conventional business wisdom?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Hacker News' purpose is not only to bounce ideas off of other startup founders, so if you're reading that signal meter, it will naturally be a bit noisy. From the guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That
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by ellyagg 17y ago
If it's better everyone will do it, and they're right back where they started.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
And you're making a run for his title...
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Elsewhere I've seen him claim that he can make new predictions about the natural world based on his theory, which suggests it's falsifiable. Sadly, the true nature of the universe and all existence doesn't have enough bearing on my life to
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Do you read scientific journals much? Papers are usually filled with long, grammatically complex sentences full of obscure technical jargon. Given the subject matter, it seems a bit silly to hold the author to a different standard.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's disappointing that the highest rated comment is essentially ad hominem. I've been aware of the CTMU for many years and was hoping smart folks would engage his ideas. Sadly, it appears the intellectual insecurity here is as great as tha
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Well, no kidding. Which was part of my point. A summary of someone's views is not a substitute for the real thing. This is true for Ayn Rand as well, but folks who hate her don't like to admit this. (Disclosure: I'm not remotely a Randian.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
> tedious, sermonizing, simplistic and unconvincing Astonishing. You weren't able to finish a long, wordy book describing a philosophy you don't agree with? > She could have distilled her viewpoint into a couple of paragraphs Wow, y
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's a little creepy that women are 100% unanimous that feet are creepy. Is it just male feet? That'd be even creepier.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He says that the legislature has more important things to be doing right now. You may not agree, but time is limited and governing is also about making the best use of time. He appears to believe the legislature is using it poorly.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Ahh, candy arbitrage. That was a great opportunity when I was a HS freshman. I had resellers and contracts and everything...until the stupid administration called me into the office.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Pretty brilliant, really. Google doesn't want to be the gatekeeper, but they don't want anyone else to be the gatekeeper either.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Haha, you're not likely to find anyone sympathetic to that perspective in this forum. Anyway, Apple has a fairly explicit leftist worldview itself, and it's never been a policy of SJ to be all things to all people.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Actually, I'm not sure I agree that the novelty would wear off, at least not completely. Interfaces matter. People like feedback. People like multisensory feedback even more. Studies have shown that there are ways to design interfaces that
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Thanks for ruining it for me, pal.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Unfortunately, like google, apple has never been big on customer service, of which this is a sort.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Right. In the average case, you have almost as much opportunity to money manage, etc. as a professional and thus wind up with big savings. The bonus is that you increase tremendously your chances of becoming rich in a shorter term. Plus you
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Straw man. Nothing is guaranteed to make you rich. Entrepreneurship certainly has vastly more potential to make you rich. And if we're not talking about being rich strictly, but are implicitly including a quality of life component, well, th
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I was wondering that too. I'm not extroverted, but highly entrepreneurial. Honestly, I'm not too big into new experiences, either. I just like solving problems and making money.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
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