ericdschmidt

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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
It won't be long before most people have only one computing device: a very powerful smartphone. When used as a mobile device, the interface looks like iPhone/Metro. When you are at your desk, you dock it and the interface that pops up on yo
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
I'm sure virtually everyone would like to know about everything if they could. But they know they can't; they have to make choices about how they spend their limited time. So they would be delighted to learn about TVs and computers and VCRs
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
At my local supermarket they sell 32oz cups of Chobani (in vanilla and plain). Because of the bulk, price per oz is only slightly more expensive than the cheapest stuff they have. And it's really nutritious: 16grams of protein and only 13 g
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
Bravo!
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
could have been a field trip. could have been free ice cream day. maybe there was a deal for students. and yeah, people everywhere like crap.
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
It's almost definitely a joke. It's ridiculous. Would never happen.
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
The United States has one of the very highest GDP (PPP) per hour worked in the world. Been that way for a long time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP... . It makes sense, given our massive capital stock. So wor
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
I don't think what Facebook did was unethical. It's certainly legal. They catch a lot of flack over privacy issues and they want to remind the media about their competitors' privacy issues and influence them to cover those more, so that the
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
A tech journalist wrote about it like this: "That’s what we want to do for others- we want to enable them to come together for a common purpose to help humanity. We see different parts of technology as different elements that come together
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
He was definitely talking about other people at his job, or at least in his profession. He was explaining why he didn't leave the profession. I would quote the article but it's down.
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
This is a response to a bunch of the TL;DRs I've seen. He doesn't resent the people he mentions in the article because they're happy or having fun. He points at specific behaviors and elements of the culture that he doesn't like and gives e
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
So many people have posted comments that suggest they didn't read the whole article. Towards the end of the article the author explains that many of his peers do not participate in the particular form of the culture that he finds so distast
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
Ah, well first off I thought this event was just something these guys from his job organized, like, at one of their houses. But still. Even for a large event like that, the language he quoted in the article was kinda creepy. I of course agr
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
I don't think the author would mind carpenters getting together to work on their craft, or working on their craft privately. He says in the article that the basic idea of programmers getting together sounded good to him. Rather, he would be
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
Nothing is wrong with wanting to change the world. But you don't find the language being used rather creepy? It really does sound like delusions of grandeur. For a one-day event? There is nothing wrong with wanting to change the world, but
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
The author was fine with the idea of a social event for software engineers. Until he read more about it. But then I kept reading the article, and it became more disturbing. A tech journalist wrote about it like this: "That’s what we want t
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
I agree, there's certainly nothing wrong with practicing your craft during your free time, especially if you enjoy it. But I appreciate the author's total candor. I find the mainstream "geek" culture unpalatable, myself. Of course that's no
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
This isn't a fair summary.
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
ctrl+w is fastest way to close tabs anyway ctrl+tab to cycle through tabs
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
"Does anyone know of any products launched by big companies (Google, Microsoft etc.) that did go big?" IE, GMail, iPhone... Or, restricting to websites: GMail, G cal, G reader
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by ericdschmidt 16y ago
Your story is very similar to mine. Except instead of music I was interested in film and comedy.