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by gress 11y ago
Do you think that this sentence: “Haha, yea. I’ll say, ‘all I had to do was find a bunch of fucking nerds to build it.’” has anything to do with Billy's attitude towards engineers?
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by gress 11y ago
No, Billy hid his pre-existing company from the team. Bobby doesn't have himself to 'blame' for this deception. It's perfectly valid for him to respond the way he has.
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by gress 11y ago
The author is upset at a blatant attempt to take advantage of him. Isn't that appropriate?
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by gress 11y ago
And what did you think of Bobby's emails? All just fine to you?
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by gress 11y ago
Bobby is entitled to his own work, and an aura of 'peevishness' is more than appropriate when faced with someone who is trying to dishonestly bully him out of it.
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by gress 11y ago
Both
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by gress 11y ago
It is a little more open than iOS - that's the problem. It isn't really open - just a little more than iOS. Apple was never going to make an open system, but Google could have done.
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by gress 11y ago
The 'leveling' power of the web is an illusion. The web is controlled by those who have the resources to develop and distribute web browsers, which is a tiny elite at this point. The leveling power was never about the web - it wa
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by gress 11y ago
You don't think they thought of that?
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by gress 11y ago
The problem is there is no utility function and choices are path dependent.
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by gress 11y ago
It's only literally impossible in an abstract mathematical world where the rule is somehow manifest as a law of nature. In the real world, the rule can be nothing more than a belief that is applied by individuals in their decision maki
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by gress 11y ago
No. Psychedelics can be a useful way to get some of the insight that meditation can also provide, but meditation practice over a sustained period changes the brain, so that more positive states of mind are available all (or at least more o
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by gress 11y ago
Are you suggesting an immediate pardon for any crime less serious than kidnapping or slander?
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by gress 11y ago
In addition to the many iPads, I have seen a few surfaces in the wild, and a few years back, a few android tablets, but never a non-surface Windows tablet. They may be on sale but that doesn't mean there is a market for them.
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by gress 11y ago
The definition of a monopoly is not capturing 100% of the market.
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by gress 11y ago
How do you justify the criticisms you actually did make?
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by gress 11y ago
Protectionist as this move indoubtedly is, it seems as though the allegation is actually true.
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by gress 11y ago
Saying that more black people would be doctors if they complained less is absolutely racist. Do you not see that? You claim oppression is fictional - so I guess it's possible you don't. You say you are pointing at the opportunit
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by gress 11y ago
So your response was to write a comment filled with obviously racist invective attacking black people in general. Quote: "Maybe if they spent more time DOING things and less time complaining about white people there would be more futur
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by gress 11y ago
Are you saying that everyone in management and engineering had been replaced and Blackboard is essentially a startup which happens to have inherited all the exciting contracts? If so, then maybe you stand a chance. Otherwise, I'm sure
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by gress 11y ago
You really won't. This isn't mean to be a knock on you, but even the CEO probably can't fix this. Do some research on distruption theory and you'll discover that your company is built to withstand the very kinds of cha
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by gress 11y ago
Nowhere did I claim that the USSR was perceived to be a war machine. You have not read the comments properly.
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by gress 11y ago
Computers are perfect at understanding high level programming languages, but you cannot program in English. All programming languages, including machine code are designed for humans first and computers second, within the limits of what we k
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by gress 11y ago
Please stop with this obsession with sources, unless you have sources to the contrary. I never claimed that the USSR was a war machine. I was simply explaining why the complex had to pretend that it 'wasn't only that', as re
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by gress 11y ago
That isn't a bold claim at all - there was a cultural battle on the world stage between the USSR and the US as to which had the better society. Being perceived as nothing but a war machine would have lost that battle for the USSR.
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by gress 11y ago
If your argument is that the ability to run android apps gives surface an advantage over iPad pro because of access to non-pro tablet apps, this makes no sense at all. The iPad has a better library of non-pro tablet apps by far. The only q
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by gress 11y ago
The author wasn't around when MacOS was new, otherwise she'd remember that the things she thinks are obvious are just conventions that people had to learn. Easier than a CLI, but something to learn just the same.
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by gress 11y ago
The discussion here is about the availability of software for Pro tablets - specifically the iPad Pro, and the Surface Pro 3. You have correctly established that the Surface Pro 3 can run Android apps very well. I was curious about why it&
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by gress 11y ago
Irrefutable Data: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2015/02/09/apple-ha... Android is simply not dominant.
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by gress 11y ago
The numbers don't lie, but you are focusing on the wrong one. Loss making businesses by cannot be dominant. Samsung is the only profitable Android maker and it is collapsing while Apple continues to grow.

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