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by frossie 16y ago
And they're all gonna last a lot longer than any electronic books and always be accessible. [...] DRM? That's at the bottom of the list of drawbacks with e-books for me. "Always be accessible" is part of the umbrella of DRM-related concer
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by frossie 16y ago
Did WikiLeaks apply?
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by frossie 16y ago
The people I know who are aware of e-readers and have not adopted them are holding off not because of presentation issues, but because of DRM concerns ("Once I buy this e-book, will I have the same freedom that I had with the dead tree book
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by frossie 16y ago
I liked the story (paraphrase) about him closing the deal to invest in Foursquare and saying "Okay so give us your checking account and we will wire the money" only for the answer to be "Err, we don't have a checking account".
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by frossie 16y ago
Well the style is a bit know-it-all, but he makes some good points. Main point: An engineer will have a body of work that can be evaluated and tests that can be given [...] However, if you are hiring a CFO, CTO, VP of Business Development
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by frossie 16y ago
They have an ad network to cater to first, searchers come second. I'd like to think that isn't true. But if it was, my point stands - as a searcher, I am willing to go somewhere where the searchers come first. Search is not a lock-in. Ch
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by frossie 16y ago
You know, I keep forgetting about those guys. I have just switched my firefox search to them so I can give them an honest try.
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by frossie 16y ago
My most successful (commercial) project was done without tests, and it is a huge success Kinda like saying: Seatbelts have no value by themselves; my parents drove their whole lives without them and didn't die. The issue is not whether ev
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by frossie 16y ago
Highlight: I don’t think the problem is that people are stupid. I think that people, when given crappy tools, with almost no oversight, no incentive to behave, and no semblance of real identity, often behave stupidly.
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Derek Powazek - Your right to comment ends at my front door.(powazek.com)
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by frossie 16y ago
The title it got this time is spot on though - the animation is really awesome.
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by frossie 16y ago
A name should be just a string. Indeed. The real question is, why are you asking for their name in the first place? Consider these three scenarios: (a) You are an airline, and the name you collect has to match their government-issue ID (b
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by frossie 16y ago
I wish Google will address this, and soon. I wish anybody would address it, and if they did, I would switch all my searching to them in a heartbeat. There is no doubt in my mind that search quality has gone downhill in the years since Goo
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by frossie 16y ago
However, I think it is unfair to attack a Swedish guy (who probably speaks English as a 3rd or 4th language) for saying "small people" when he probably intended to say something like "little guy" or "ordinary people" A misunderstanding th
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by frossie 16y ago
I can see your point, though I think in some (many?) cases "this is not news" stands for "we have discussed this before, and therefore don't be surprised if many people don't weigh in, as the horse has been thrashed already"
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by frossie 16y ago
No dude. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/presidents-v... For the record, even if every ISP in the US agreed to shut down, no the rest of the world would not be "shut down", except for US-based services going off the air, o
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by frossie 16y ago
Oh I see - you are talking about a la carte pricing. Interesting question - as a user my gut reaction is I would be happy to pay $5 for 5 features, of which I only use 3, so that way you get an extra couple of bucks out of me. But, again th
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by frossie 16y ago
Interesting service. I was thinking the other day, what I want is geolocation push notifications to my iPhone. For a trivial example, I have been meaning to ask my coffee shop if I could have some of their empty ice cream tubs. Every day I
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by frossie 16y ago
Hard to say without more details but: If your service has a real professional end user (i.e. someone who will make a living off your service), a multiple tier one seems a better fit. For example look at smugmug - they have their free accoun
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by frossie 16y ago
If only I knew the answer to that question... If one is looking for a specific narrow skillset, the best avenue is to go straight to where people hang out. For example, advertising a mainly perl job on jobs.perl.org. In general I have found
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by frossie 16y ago
A better engineered solution is always a better solution. What he is describing is over -engineering. I am failing to remember who said: the perfect racing car falls apart the moment it crosses the finishing line - all others else are ov
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by frossie 16y ago
It would be nice to have a high-quality link on this with a primary reference. There's hardly enough information to determine what his concern is. For example: "According to Dr Sigman, unrestricted use of computers can cause a conflict bet
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by frossie 16y ago
I wish I could upvote this ten times. I loved the comment about not making your tutorial so easy that it becomes unrepresentative of the level required to use the technology.
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by frossie 16y ago
Yeah, I don't know many systems where I can genuinely say "these guys failed because they provided too many features". It's more of a case that making it without a myriad of features is possible. What attracted my attention was this: I
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by frossie 16y ago
The problem with vitriol is that it becomes performance art. A review trashing a movie is a lot more entertaining than a civil one; but people can forget that the real issue is how to see a good movie. Why should I be more likely to adopt y
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by frossie 16y ago
It is definitely possible, eg. see the Gentoo adopt-a-developer program. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/adopt-a-dev/ But it might be more efficient to just ask for monetary donations from your users and then use it to buy something
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by frossie 16y ago
I have this problem. 99% of my snail mail (by weight) goes straight into the recycling bin. To really make you cry, I live on an outer Hawaii island - so not only the trees died for no reason, but large amounts of fuel was consumed to bring
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by frossie 16y ago
You know this all seems so obvious it doesn't need mentioning, but I am still amazed that in this day and age people still don't get it. My local YWCA just redid their website, and there's all the names of the board of directors and their h
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by frossie 16y ago
Nobody is really "unemployed." Unemployment benefits are taxed as income. That makes you "self-employed" anyway I'm not sure I follow you. Being employed is trading your labour for income; if you are collecting unemployment benefit you ar
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by frossie 16y ago
I suspect the game psychology is quite different. A person looking for a sound editing suite needs a sound editing suite, and the question really is whether to chose Suite A, B or C. A person looking for a game is probably looking for any

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