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931.
by endtime 16y ago
I believe you're right, though the 80-20 law is just a very rough layman's approximation of a Zipf distribution.
932.
by endtime 16y ago
Is there any such thing as a non-arbitrary UI?
933.
by endtime 16y ago
Anyone have a sense of how true this is at big places like Google and Microsoft?
934.
by endtime 16y ago
The HN crowd might be turned off, but they have six or seven digits of apps in the app store.
935.
by endtime 16y ago
I dislike Apple as much as anyone, but I don't think they really need advice on getting people to use their products.
936.
by endtime 16y ago
If you're using Java, you've already given up on not killing babies.
937.
by endtime 16y ago
As mkr-hn said, the UI in Office is far better. OOo has also always seemed to have perf issues for me - Office feels much snappier.
938.
by endtime 16y ago
I've used Office too, and currently use 2010. I've also used OOo, and I'm sorry but it's really not competitive. If you haven't used Office since 97 (three or four versions ago) then I don't know how you can justify having an opinion how
939.
by endtime 16y ago
You're overgeneralizing a bit. What it actually reduces to is "if a distinguished but elderly scientist expresses an opinion about something, it's probably possible". The reason this is meaningful is that distinguished scientists tend not
940.
by endtime 16y ago
If I thought there was any chance of them creating a decent competitor to Office, I'd consider donating. Can anyone persuade me this is the case? The "free as in beer" argument doesn't work when you're asking for money, and while I think "
941.
by endtime 16y ago
I'm not taking a position either way - just stating that your suggestion doesn't actually change anything in question.
942.
by endtime 16y ago
Probably at first because it was a common English suffix and/or had a lot of short, readable domains available. Now it's trendy on top of that.
943.
by endtime 16y ago
An electronic signal and a photonic signal ("the light") both travel at the same speed.
944.
by endtime 16y ago
That doesn't solve anything - "to" is still a preposition and the "Who" in your sentence should still be "Whom".
945.
by endtime 16y ago
Sure - the fun of programming (or the relative comfort of a desk job) is a benefit of the job. That's why you're not necessarily underpaid just because a welder can earn more.
946.
by endtime 16y ago
Then why don't you?
947.
by endtime 16y ago
You mean, what's with people smart enough to get into Harvard, studying one of the fields most conducive to tech entrepreneurship, who then see a business opportunity with so much potential that they are willing to leave Harvard for it, b
948.
by endtime 16y ago
There are three options - upvote, downvote, or do nothing. If someone says something interesting/insightful/useful, upvote. If someone says something totally inane, downvote. If someone says something which seems reasonable, but with whic
949.
by endtime 16y ago
No, it is not.
950.
by endtime 16y ago
Pretty sure Zynga pays Facebook, not the other way around.
951.
by endtime 16y ago
Your comment seems like a total non sequitur. Plus, you conveniently exclude successes like Windows XP, Windows 7, Office, SQL Server, Sharepoint, XBox, etc.
952.
by endtime 16y ago
If I were Elop, I'd want to hire someone I knew and felt I could trust to do the job. Elop probably knows a lot of people at Microsoft. Expecting him not to hire a Softie would be tying a hand behind his back.
953.
by endtime 16y ago
I think a lot of it is indeed "M$ bad herp derp" - I've seen about 30 separate comments all making variations on the burning platform/sinking ship would-be witticism, which is clearly not justified if you take an objective look at MSFT sinc
954.
by endtime 16y ago
I wish I'd heard about this before making plans for tomorrow. Is there an aggregator for NYC hackathons etc.?
955.
by endtime 16y ago
From TFA: >The best part about this whole discovery, however, might be that it confirms Steve Ballmer's assertion that the engineers of both companies have "spent a lot of time on this already."
956.
by endtime 16y ago
Wow, I'm sorry you had to do that, haha. Python and C is surely a more reasonable comparison in terms of actual ease of use; I was thinking in terms of "raw instructions" versus "high level abstraction".
957.
by endtime 16y ago
More accurately: Vicarious says it is trying to make its vision system the real deal. Smaller problem, and (at least according to the article) they haven't solved it yet. Of course, smaller and small are different things - this is still a
958.
by endtime 16y ago
>Suffice it to say that I think these "fight clubs" are a trend of men attempting to ape some perverted ideal of masculinity. Like it or not, that's how evolution wired us. That's what used to work. I don't think it's unhealthy to hav
959.
by endtime 16y ago
Agreed completely. The difference between a good ORM and raw SQL is like the difference between, well, Python and assembly, IMO. Perhaps the difference is a little less extreme, but it's similar in spirit.
960.
by endtime 16y ago
Why does it matter where this comes from? It's great technology that will improve people's lives.

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