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by funkah 15y ago
Yeah, in the long run we'll all be dead.
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by funkah 15y ago
I've never been a fan of foo and bar as example names. Particularly in code examples, I can never keep them straight because the names are meaningless. Anyway, we already have example.com for this purpose.
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by funkah 15y ago
It would be cool to see whether they use all that design talent they've been snapping up on this project.
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by funkah 15y ago
Oh, it's snarky. But not for that reason.
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by funkah 15y ago
The less time wasted thinking about this sort of silliness, the better.
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by funkah 15y ago
Oof, those charts could be a lot better. Someone get Horace Dediu in here.
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by funkah 15y ago
This sounds terrible. I would be very unhappy with my life if my job involved regularly receiving emails like this.
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by funkah 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about Gruber, he doesn't really do advocacy like that. Sure he thinks the iPhone is really great and all, but I don't see him telling people to develop for it. They already are, he doesn't need to.
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by funkah 15y ago
Actually, it sucks. Don't equivocate.
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by funkah 15y ago
On the one hand, I agree that the experience of using something is all that matters, and only a handful of specs (like storage capacity) actually mean anything. On the other, I'm kinda not looking forward to the upcoming glut of Kindle Fire
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by funkah 15y ago
The first thing that struck me about this is how word-dense the page is compared to current newspapers.
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by funkah 15y ago
> Be human, tell other people to fuck off when they are bothering you > lack of verbal communication skills
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by funkah 15y ago
The live-tweeting thing was strange. It's funny that two fairly naive young people in a Burger King are deciding the fate of their marriage, in that it's so absurd. I do think there is humor there. But something was off-putting about how fa
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by funkah 15y ago
Working for a startup (or hell, founding one) seems like an enterprise in which a person can get screwed 8 million different ways, and I only understand about four of them.
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by funkah 15y ago
Daniel Jalkut has posted his own take on the situation [1]. I appreciate it, because whenever these situations pop up, they quickly devolve into "tech is full of unprofessional assholes" versus "stop being such a baby". He also provides som
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by funkah 15y ago
Maybe HNers are just better at keeping their mouths shut when they don't know anything about a topic.
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by funkah 15y ago
I basically feel the same way, but I used WP7 at SxSW this year and it was a very disappointing experience. Even the apps that they were demoing to show how great WP7 is crashed with ugly "NullReferenceException" dialog boxes. (Crashing is
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by funkah 15y ago
It is occurring to me now that mastery of software development probably involves knowing how and when to invoke "whatever works" wisely.
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by funkah 15y ago
No, more like around 2pm or so. I realize this doesn't work for everybody, but I wanted to point out that there is a solution to this issue which does not involve clamps or LEDs or anything of the sort. I mean, the article has pictures of a
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by funkah 15y ago
Um, I just put my computer in front of a window. I like watching the sun come up and go across the sky as the day goes on.
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by funkah 15y ago
> Does Apple really think it will have a monopoly in the years ahead? Huh? What does that have to do with this at all?
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by funkah 15y ago
It looks like a big mess of jumbled ambitions. Microsoft needs to learn to keep it simple and design things that will actually be useful.
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by funkah 15y ago
In that case he should stop paying attention to Kottke too, problem solved.
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by funkah 15y ago
Gruber is so openly contemptuous of Stallman that I find it hard to believe that Winer is focusing on Kottke instead. In the episode of the Talk Show you linked to, Gruber's co-host Dan Benjamin keeps trying to rein Gruber in from being unf
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by funkah 15y ago
Any quoting is going to be selective. What is he going to do, quote the whole thing? Also, Kottke's whole deal is curating unusual, interesting stuff on the web, and I would say this rider is definitely both unusual and interesting. This is
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by funkah 15y ago
"miked" ass --> About 769,000 results. What is the point of this, exactly?
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by funkah 15y ago
Kottke called Stallman's rider (the whole thing) "crazy and amazing". Then he quoted the parrot thing, probably because it tickled his fancy. I don't agree that that constitutes "ridicule", in Winer's words.
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by funkah 15y ago
Huh? What does Tumblr have to do with anything?
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by funkah 15y ago
I've noticed some people can't let go of this, so dedicated are they to the idea that Jobs was a charismatic but otherwise worthless manager type. That he was all flash and no substance. A bullshitter. That's too bad.
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by funkah 15y ago
One of the early comments says that women don't study engineering because of stuff like this. While I agree this attitude is a problem and the joke was tasteless, is that really the reason? I just can't see a young person rejecting a field

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