jammur

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by jammur 16y ago
I'm not sure it's reasonable to use the monopoly argument at arbitrary level of granularity. For instance, while Apple has a monopoly on iOS app by definition, Ford also has a monopoly on Ford cars. Monopolies are only a problem when there
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by jammur 16y ago
I'm fairly quick to defend Apple, because a lot of the flack they take is BS, but in this case I'm really struggling to find the upside. Richard says that their 30% would account for a tiny sliver of Apple's overall revenue, but lots of tin
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by jammur 16y ago
What's that, Mr. Doe? You found a weird lump on your balls? Better keep that to yourself. You wouldn't want anyone thinking you're a doctor! Better not make that research for small claims court TOO thorough Mr. Smith. You wouldn't want anyo
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by jammur 16y ago
I'm wondering if the part about Apple not letting customers have access to media that was purchased outside the App Store (e.g. Kindle books) is just an off-the-cuff remark made by some Sony executive who was mad about Apple not letting the
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by jammur 16y ago
He's probably referring to the last paragraph of this: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...
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by jammur 16y ago
So pumped Textmate 2 is finally coming out. I was just about to switch to vim too.
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by jammur 16y ago
I think you might have missed the point of the post you replied to. The point is that sometimes you don't need data. For instance, in the fashion world, one might notice a trend of people wearing a certain style of jeans. Nobody is going to
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by jammur 16y ago
What experience is this based on? In my 6 years experience using a Mac as my primary machine, I've never had a higher rate of problems installing open source software with the default build scripts than on Linux. Also, there's Macports, Fin
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by jammur 16y ago
Because when you pay attention to what's going on in a community, you notice trends. In the open source community, most notably the web development community, there has been a trend of moving to Mac.
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by jammur 16y ago
This is always the major problem with Mac detractors. It's clear that they have little to no experience actually using a Mac for any extended period of time.
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by jammur 16y ago
You took that statement completely out of context. Your comment show much more bias than the author. If you had read the article with any sense of objectivity, it would have been clear that the author actually makes a subtle case AGAINST Ma
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by jammur 16y ago
I think the point of the story may be that you can't wait for the hard problems to come to you. You have to go and look for them. Ashton waited at the furniture company hoping that one day he would be presented with a problem that would gai
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Ask HN: Should we demo a half-baked product?
4 points by jammur 16y ago|5 comments