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by generalk 15y ago
For me, the main pro of a desktop computer is that you can expand absolutely everything. Upgrade the motherboard, the processor, the optical drive (or leave it out entirely.) There's also the ability to drive as many displays as you want, b
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What a lot of folks might not get is that there isn't one thing that can be called "contributing to Open Source", which is why setting that as a goal is somewhat vague and difficult to accomplish. If you can find a project that you want to
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by generalk 15y ago
No, they kept me available for jury service for two weeks. 10:00am: show up at courthouse. Get some free coffee, sit in the juror's assembly room. 12:00pm: Lunch break 1:30pm: Back from lunch. 3:00pm: If courts needed no jurors, go home. Do
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by generalk 15y ago
> The secret is to surround yourself with people who don't > have the same agenda as you Absolutely. I was called for Jury Duty a few months back. No courts ended up needing jurors during my two week service, so I ended up
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by generalk 15y ago
> But Blu-ray did win. For interesting values of "win." It's the format that's being distributed (as opposed to HD-DVD), but DVDs are still the more common format. (No statistics, just comparisons of DVD and Blu-ray sections at
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by generalk 15y ago
> So you're saying that physical media is better than a USB cable? I'm saying that no reliance on a PC is better than reliance on a PC. > If you want to backup your device, you still need a separate entity(either a cloud
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by generalk 15y ago
I don't understand what your argument is. Let's restate: iOS requires that you connect your device to your PC in order to activate service, update the OS, and to manage media on the device. This is onerous and unnecessary. Android doesn't r
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by generalk 15y ago
You do understand that gambling online isn't illegal in the United States, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIGEA UIGEA "prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with the participation of another pe
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by generalk 15y ago
> How is this any different than plugging in a USB cord to sync? It's device independent. You can wipe the device or switch to a new one without waiting for a full sync of your potentially large media library. "Cutting the cord"
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by generalk 15y ago
There's no sane reason that an iOS couldn't do cloud syncing as reasonably as Android does. To Gruber's points: > getting your stuff onto your new iPad Apple will never do it, but Android devices commonly solve this by using an S
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by generalk 15y ago
This is ridiculous. Most people experience fear and anxiety when approaching risk, even if it's a risk they're absolutely willing to take. This whole "fear means you're not ready" meme only discourages people experiencing normal human emot
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by generalk 15y ago
> It's interesting that rails is headed toward whitespace > significance in all its file formats, yet the most apparent > difference between ruby and it's main rival Python is that > whitespace is not significa
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by generalk 15y ago
Which minimalist shoes are you using? I've been looking for good recommendations.
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by generalk 15y ago
In all seriousness, what would that tool do? There may be a market for an app that will allow you to consume/manage your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc, from one central location.
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by generalk 16y ago
> I'm sorry, I know it's fun to bash on managers but they exist for a purpose The point is that it's possible to run a company where managers don't have a purpose and aren't necessary.
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by generalk 16y ago
> Writing software quickly is much more important than writing it well. I would say that releasing software is more important than continually delaying for amorphous "quality" concerns, but this is backwards. You want to write quali
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by generalk 16y ago
Near the end I mention that taking VC absolutely counts under "accepting money for a service."
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by generalk 16y ago
> What if somebody jots down an idea on a napkin, spends the next few months of nights and weekends creating a first version, gets ramen profitable, quits their day job, hires a dozen workers, and sells to Google for $20 million. Then
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by generalk 16y ago
Of course, but this is printed in Forbes. The more that the non-tech crowed sees that publishers can succeed without customer-screwing DRM, the better chance other publishers will follow suit.
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by generalk 16y ago
Which is the right way to discourage large-scale piracy. If I put my copy of an O'Reilly ebook online for anyone to grab, it's obvious the copy floating around is mine and I'm a jerk. But I can still give a copy of the PDF to a few friends
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by generalk 16y ago
I can see this being replaced with something automated. As it stands it smacks of "hacker put a text input field to test functionality and it works." I mean, worst-case, they could screenscrape the user's page and pull the Atom URL that way
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by generalk 16y ago
I'm noticing a lack of Android-ness with the Amazon apps. For example: I just downloaded the Amazon store on my Nexus One and started downloading Angry Birds Rio. The first thing I noticed is that, while downloading, there's no ongoing noti
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by generalk 16y ago
I'm using it on my AT&T Nexus One right now. Maybe there's some restrictions on actual AT&T-branded/subsidized handsets?
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by generalk 16y ago
> The point is not that we are superheroes for knowing how to program, but rather than learning to program is so cool that it's like having a super power, for what it enables you to build and do Programming isn't a super power. It isn
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by generalk 16y ago
No, there's probably not a patent encumbrance. IANAL. But there's so much more that makes it more than just a technical problem. Ask your random 40-year-old working in a non-tech industry if they've heard of Twitter. Now ask them if they'
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by generalk 16y ago
I'm confused, why would JSON vs. Atom make a difference in this case? What does Atom get you that you can't also do with JSON?
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> Your opinion is a fact, imo This doesn't parse very well to me. As far as your main point, I disagree. The /playlist/:playlist_id/:song_id/:index thing doesn't seem very good, no. But, if you kept an id that mapped songs to playlists
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by generalk 16y ago
I saw the commit. It wasn't a bunch of files, it was a single file's copyright, replaced.
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by generalk 16y ago
You know, you're probably fine if you always assume there's only one body tag. That said, I've seen this and worse when looking at the output of highly-paid web dev departments at large companies. One site we recently saw had five opening
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by generalk 16y ago
Wrong. 1) Innovation is the wrong word: Facebook, Google, and Microsoft weren't "innovative" ideas. Social networks, search, and software were all things that people were already doing. They were successful due to a multitude of factors inc

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