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by fnid 17y ago
Do you believe the human condition cannot be explored through nonfiction? Would you entertain the idea that perhaps it may be possible to explore the human condition deeper and more profoundly through nonfiction than through fiction? I thi
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by fnid 17y ago
It's not about having the time or not, it's about what you choose to read when you do have the time. The difference is that when you read fiction, you are in a world, a physical land that is entirely constructed by the mind of the author.
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by fnid 17y ago
It's not real. At best it is anecdotal. It's a story. It's imagination. It's entertainment. It's a very expensive form of entertainment when you value your time.
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by fnid 17y ago
Okay, that's fine, but it's still vendor lock-in. I don't know why it's so hard to understand. If you buy a product and use it and then you can't get out or switch or use the product with some other hardware or whatever, it's vendor lock-i
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by fnid 17y ago
I saw a video with him in it and someone asked about advertising on TechCrunch and he said flat out, "I don't recommend it, your money is better spent elsewhere." I thought that was nice.
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by fnid 17y ago
Very nice! It's such a pain to figure out what is going to happen when events occur. This is going to accelerate complex js development substantially.
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by fnid 17y ago
Both. Arrington gets a bad rap, but I think he's an all right guy with a good heart and the best intentions.
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by fnid 17y ago
Nice work updating that so fast.
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by fnid 17y ago
I think you are simply biased against microsoft and pro apple. What Apple is doing, if they are intentionally not working on ATOM is essentially what Microsoft would be doing if it didn't allow its software to run on apple hardware. Vendor
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by fnid 17y ago
entire industry was based on scamming people, customers would report 100% dissatisfaction across the board Quite wrong. Scammed individuals are notoriously bad about reporting the scam, because it makes them look bad for being scammed.
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by fnid 17y ago
Yep, exactly. That's the vendor lock-in part. Requiring one of your products to use one of your products is vendor lock-in.
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by fnid 17y ago
The problem with this line of arguing is that Apple's entire marketing strategy is about how an Apple is better than a Windows machine. Thus, their product, contrary to what you are saying, is not hardware, it's software. Their ads say noth
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by fnid 17y ago
Please explain how I mis-used the term, considering the definition is: In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in, or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products and services, unable to use a
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by fnid 17y ago
I've seen good performance from AMD. I'd blame performance on gateway before i'd blame it on AMD.
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by fnid 17y ago
So you're replacing vendor lock-in with incompetence. I'm not quite sure which is more likely as there is extensive evidence on both sides of the coin.
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by fnid 17y ago
You are in the valley of despair. You are feeling the pain. It's normal. Don't give up. There's no magic genie, getting F&F money isn't going to make things better. In all likelihood, it will make things worse. I love what you are d
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by fnid 17y ago
Am I the only one who actually thinks this is plausible? First, I don't think all the storage will be on hard drives constantly spinning and requiring electricity. Imagine huge tape spools like in the old days but with 10,000x more data o
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by fnid 17y ago
You think you're working two full time jobs now, just wait until you go to work full time for a startup! Ten months is not a long time. Can you make arrangements with your current employer? Work 4 ten hour days, and one on the startup ( th
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by fnid 17y ago
My first thought is, if he believes that, why doesn't he quit and go full time selling the product? Three months isn't that long, but imagine the opportunity to work full time on your own product. With $2k+ already in recurring revenue, t
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by fnid 17y ago
because google's brand is all about google being different.
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by fnid 17y ago
I hear this all the time and as the builder of multiple AJAX web applications I know for a fact that it does not behave the same way Safari behaves.
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by fnid 17y ago
That's why they have television commercials for chrome? If they wanted to make the web better, why didn't they just contribute to the Firefox project itself rather than inventing their own browser? Releasing, yet another browser only compli
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by fnid 17y ago
The difference is that Facebook has to please the investors, rather than the users. The investors want revenue and they want a good exit. They will be increasingly upset if that exit never comes or it is at a lower valuation than they wan
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by fnid 17y ago
You know why we will never have peace? Because it upsets the status quo. The status quo gives power to many people who have, at present, sufficient power to maintain their ability to stifle the opportunity for peace. It's really simple re
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by fnid 17y ago
Why charge so little? I'd only charge $40 to work in a language I don't know.
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by fnid 17y ago
You only feel this way because you like Google. MS including a browser so people didn't have to FTP one or get one from friends made the world better too. It's probably that decision that helped the web grow to what it is today. I remember
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by fnid 17y ago
Magritte: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=magritte&FORM=IGRE
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by fnid 17y ago
Yeah, that is good. Zdzislaw Beksinski. thanks for sharing that.
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by fnid 17y ago
Why do you like Pollock? Serious question.
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by fnid 17y ago
I switched to geico after progressive said they couldn't get my rate below $100/mo and GEICO did it for about $60 a month.

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