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by increment_i 10y ago
Its funny how many 90's sitcom episodes were based on this exact premise - the uncertainty of someone's location, not being able to contact them, etc. It was a major problem back in the day.
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by increment_i 10y ago
I agree in one sense. Classic American network TV is absolutely abominable. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would get this bad. Nobody I know is watching the big American networks anymore, it just does not work at all. On the othe
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by increment_i 10y ago
I was a kid in the 90's so I remember keenly the unmistakeable technological shift. People started saying "information highway" an awful lot. And I remember the first time me and my friend used dial up networking to play Doom
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by increment_i 10y ago
You would be correct to believe that.
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by increment_i 10y ago
Would have to agree there. The salaries in Toronto are far, far lower than a comparable on the US West Coast. If you can get a public sector job at a university though, you might be laughing. Although, public sector jobs will suck the creat
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by increment_i 10y ago
Turning down Russia I can (sort of?) understand. The last conservative government was keen on playing hardball with the Kremlin over Arctic sovereignty - seems there's no reason to back off that stance now. Turning down American help w
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by increment_i 10y ago
Not to mention the subtle social engineering I caught on my visit - a little mail icon on the navbar, made to look like I have (1) new message.
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by increment_i 10y ago
Suburbia exists because people want a quiet, relatively safe place for their kids to grow up. I didn't realize this until I had children myself. I remember reaching my teenage years and cursing the dull, boring, culturally bankrupt sub
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by increment_i 10y ago
While that's an interesting edge case, what I probably should have said is that pizza and beer is something adults expect to exchange money for, as opposed to apps.
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by increment_i 10y ago
Is it possible that you now (like most consumers) have been conditioned to expect apps to be free? Meanwhile, nobody expects anyone to give them a pizza or a beer for free.
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by increment_i 10y ago
Again, something software devs catch right away, that the layman often doesn't.
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by increment_i 10y ago
One possible explanation is the peacock feathers effect. People come into your home and go "Oooh, what's that?". The homeowner now has a chance to stand out from her peers. Interestingly, most of the scrutiny of these early e
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by increment_i 11y ago
par·o·dy ˈperədē/ noun noun: parody; plural noun: parodies 1. an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. While splitting hairs can be fun, for all intents and purp
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by increment_i 11y ago
Nest is a cool product, but it might be just slightly ahead of its time, by a hair. Maybe the future generation of homeowners will be adamant about having a high tech touchscreen interface for their HVAC system, but for most people I know,
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by increment_i 11y ago
Its truly an amazement - I can't think of another field with such advanced, accessible tools yet such a shitty market to enter than the games industry.
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by increment_i 11y ago
PT Barnum - the pg of the 19th century
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by increment_i 11y ago
I'm inclined to agree. Google probably does not want to be the company that creates Terminators for the Pentagon. Watching the last BD demo on YouTube, watching that humanoid stomp through the forest, I couldn't help but joke how
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by increment_i 11y ago
A highly reliable, rock solid robot nanny would easily fetch 30k and sell millions. This must be, what, at least a century away? I'm probably venturing into Jetsons territory here...
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by increment_i 11y ago
There's also another likely natural response: 3) Rebel
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by increment_i 11y ago
But..isn't that what you just said you wanted?
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by increment_i 11y ago
Whenever these kinds of JS commentaries pop up on HN nowadays, I notice two distinct camps of commenters emerge: Those who are obviously steeped in the JS scene and are delighted to argue the finer, more sophisticated points of it, and thos
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by increment_i 11y ago
How can a third party commercial 3D engine be a layer to writing your own 3D engine?
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by increment_i 11y ago
True, but again this ties into the first point about the marginal cost of producing apps being basically zero, thus they hold little value to anyone. Especially when the stock OS apps do nearly everything the average, non-niche consumer wan
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by increment_i 11y ago
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Once the initial novelty of app stores wore off, only the shitty economics behind them were left to bare: - The barrier to entry is so low as to be non-existent. We haven't seen a mass distrib
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by increment_i 11y ago
I had a similar experience with Bluemix. One of the biggest turn offs though was the ridiculously convoluted website for IBM's cloud services. Some serious streamlining is in order there. I had no idea where to go or what to do to get
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by increment_i 11y ago
Hi fellow Hamiltonian!
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by increment_i 11y ago
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. People always remember the truly great games but seldom remember the countless bargain bin cartridges they popped out as a kid after muttering to themselves, "Wow, that sucked."
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by increment_i 11y ago
Is it really though? I'd be more surprised at the scenario where the average hacker read this piece and didn't immediately make the mental connection to "Oh, he's talking about the Thiel thing."
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by increment_i 11y ago
One of the greatest games of all time for sure. It's a pity that they also dropped the ball on a decent mobile version too - seems like the medium could lend itself well to a well designed turn based strategy.
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by increment_i 11y ago
A valid point, but why should the pessimistic outlook be any less likely than the utopian one? Are you sure that a major missing link between where we are now and a prosperous future for everyone is the fountain of youth? Sure, the HN'

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