georgemcbay

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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   The true fallacy of thinking someone is going to steal "your" idea is in thinking the idea is uniquely yours in the first place, especially if the idea is more of a concept or an entire product rather than something very small like a new fe
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   Looks like these are back ordered until March. Bummer. I was considering jumping on the 27" Korean monitor bandwagon a few months ago when it was all the rage and decided to wait and now it seems like the prices have gone up across the boa
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   Video posted to HN -> in comments request for gif -> gif made and posted -> techcrunch writes story about said gif -> techcrunch story makes HN front page. my head asplode.
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   I wonder if Rick Astley's CDs are eligible for this. I'd like to think more than a few people accidentally rick-rolled themselves long after rick-rolling some friends in real life.
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   Maybe but it would be something of a miracle. I can't really think of any cases where some web service was loved, and then hated and then managed to restore its reputation. Watching a formerly great service crash and burn leaves a bitter t
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   I was so ready to be the critical complaining guy in this thread... animated web pages are one of my top "don't do things just because you can" pet peeves. But the animation here is actually fine, it isn't hindering my access to content, i
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   For services the best thing to do is to start at what seems to be high (but not so outrageous that people label you a kook) and scale back as needed. Nobody will complain if next month's bill is smaller than this month's. For actual shippe
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   As a frequent Trader Joe's customer, it seems like supporting them for something like this would be a bit of a nightmare because the items they carry are constantly changing based on regional supply and demand.
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   by georgemcbay 14y ago

   Wireless communication is widespread enough that I don't think it matters too much where Watson "lives". The inputs and outputs required from "him" (for questioning, anyway, not for training) are tiny, so bandwidth isn't much of a concern.
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    Might as well just let Watson loose on 4chan/b, then he'd really start rustling people's jimmies.
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    software engineers are going to be replaced by programs that software engineers write, it is just going to take longer.
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    "That's a good thing. It frees people up to do what they want with their time." I agree with your premise. IMO, socialism, like or it not, is an inevitable result of a highly technical society. This is a good thing in the long term but it i
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    That seems like a very different situation to me. Like if they were all just consensual swingers that's fine with me. Not my thing, but to each his/her own. But based on what the guy wrote it doesn't sound like that is the case at all.
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    I'm not talking about things that are "kinda legal", I'm talking about situations where: Guy uploads item that is clear to anyone with a brain is fair use. Studio X files DMCA to Google. Google automatically disables the video Guy fights to
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    Here's another interesting question: What if everyone else finds out the the employee had an affair with the boss and the boss knew and the boss didn't fire him? I'd honestly have trouble respecting the boss in that situation. This holds e
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    To be completely blunt, if someone has to ask a question like this on stackexchange and he didn't fire the other guy immediately (or at least after consulting a lawyer to cross the Ts and dot the Is), I'm not entirely surprised that he isn'
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    Hostile content providers also happened to Netflix. I got a peek into how the studios feel about Netflix while at a previous job and they all see it as a snot-nosed punk that is acting to ruin the value of their precious content. They are
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    I saw the 2D-only version and there wasn't anything particularly jittery about it. It had the usual special effects issues with physics of unrealistic things looking, well, unrealistic (especially apparent in the dragon attack and the lo
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    "There's a lesson here. Somewhere." The lesson is: just summarize the main points of the article (even reusing the article's own analogies) to get the top post on HN.
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    "Sad to say but I've never heard of Excite & Everquest." Exactly! "As for MySpace, Facebook (& Twitter) destroyed that game/competition a long time ago." Yes, just like Myspace destroyed Friendster. Do you see where this is going?
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    That's not a dealbreaker, though. Having a virtual frame is fine, especially if it were designed to display content like the current time, notifications and maybe feed data. You could still use the capacitive surface in that space to suppo
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    What's out there that can beat Excite or Myspace? What MMO could possible compete with the mighty Everquest?
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    "So do you think that these companies will always be the best? Always be tech giants?" That's an odd question. If you asked it 5, 10, 15 or 20 years ago many of the names would be different. Sun, SGI, DEC, Myspace, Lotus, AOL, Palm, RIM,
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    Google is full of smart people, certainly they could set up a system in which some videos are manually flagged as controversial but allowed specifically for situations like this, particularly in cases in which previous take-downs were succe
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    "Nobody gives 100% raises every other year, but the market as a whole seems to be quite happy to do exactly that." 100% raises every other year? I should be making $30,720,000 a year by now! Gonna have to have a chat with my boss about thi
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    Pretty sure this gets me downvoted to hell, but... Things are worse than you say! Everything is not just abstracted, but most things are abstracted half-assedly. And we've raised a generation of people where the majority (though not all) h
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    That was painful to read. I dislocated my right shoulder in a snowboarding accident a few years back (though nowhere nearly as bad as described in the article, certainly not a shriek-worthy dislocation). I've since re-dislocated it numerou
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    The Steam "box" is unlikely to be treated as much like a true console by developers when it comes to hitting the metal because Valve is still very much committed to the PC market and their public statements about TV gaming suggest they see
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    As copyright owners they can change the license going forward, but that doesn't retroactively change the license for previously released versions. eg. Vert.x versionX+1 could be modified to have a new license that doesn't allow forks and th
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    by georgemcbay 14y ago

    I don't think those experiences are at all comparable. I'm a compulsive scanner, I can usually impress people by my ability to quickly scan pages of text without really processing any of it while finding a specific word or phrase. Infini