janardanyri

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by janardanyri 14y ago
Who out there has the tools, time, and expertise to build browser add-ons of general merit but finds $5 and some screenshots to be an insurmountable hurdle? edit: On perusal, I see it's not even $5 per add-on or publish, it's a one-time fee
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Sidenote on marketing: this is probably an amazing screen, but the gadgetmarketspeak designation of "Pure Motion HD+" makes me tune out instantly. The cleverness of "retina display" was that a single explanatory sentence told you everything
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Eh. Nintendo's purpose is to get people playing fun games. Withholding games to get users accustomed to jumping through the hoops of their unlikable download process sounds like two wrongs not making a right.
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by janardanyri 14y ago
It's a healthy dash of guilt by association; these iSuppli reports unfortunately lend themselves to sloppy reporting. This article is a typically wonderful specimen, which crosses lines freely with nonsense sentences like these: "On the hig
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Headline cleverness is a zero sum game. I'd rather have drier titles instead of a psychological hacking competition, and scan for content quality (as loosely indicated by upvotes) and subject relevancy.
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by janardanyri 14y ago
There's a huge, huge difference between: a) a system in which paying a third party to spend their life understanding that system aids in better navigation of that system versus b) a system in which you must pay representatives of the system
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by janardanyri 14y ago
'Whom' is a relic of formal and archaic English. You might as well fight the singular 'they' or ending sentences with prepositions. As per Skitt's Law, you might want to watch your sentence fragments and run-ons. ;) See also: https://en.wi
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Apple charges way more than market rate for storage and memory upgrades. A stick of memory that costs $40 on Newegg might cost $200 from Apple. In the past the sensible option was to buy a Macbook with stock memory / storage and upgrade it
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by janardanyri 14y ago
This is very cool. I love to see the general trend of bigger and more expensive science being bucked here. In general, though, we're still chasing the long tail of knowledge. Nobody's going to build a cutting-edge particle collider, space p
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by janardanyri 14y ago
No, the original iPad was 16/32/64GB, just like the current one. That's why there is no gnashing of teeth. (I have a 64GB original iPad and never have hurt for space.)
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by janardanyri 14y ago
I'm severely distrustful of those stats and the zeal that surrounds them, generally long on ideology and short on rationale. Let's poke at it a bit. Does "long-term discouraged worker" mean that if someone works for a few years in their 20s
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Oh, there's a fair bit of meta-information on the current state of Wall Street reporting and analysis. :-)
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by janardanyri 14y ago
> But what about all of those software businesses that have built on top of the iOS API + App Store? Would you say that they are also taking a massive risk? Yes. Very yes. Any iOS developer with any sense is brutally aware that we serve
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by janardanyri 14y ago
A group of terrorists lucked into taking down two big buildings and so we have to debate whether we can afford civil liberties? The premise should be self-evidently absurd. If we'll kill thousands of Arabs to protect freedom, we shouldn't b
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Variations on this line of commentary have been passed around for over a decade. 'Commoditization' of Nintendo hardware is almost irrelevant; no hardware innovation has gone uncopied for long. The core selling point for Nintendo hardware ha
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by janardanyri 14y ago
"position" "sell" "say" The trouble isn't the branding, it's the building. The iPad is recognized as a quality product because it delivers quality experiences. Microsoft has rightly acquired a reputation for brittle products that will slowl
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by janardanyri 14y ago
This is short by the standard of well-considered material of durable merit warranting serious reflection. It's not short by the standard of contemporary consumable Internet content, which is to be expected, as most of that content is not de
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by janardanyri 14y ago
I did just enough academic research to discover that real progress could be more effectively pursued elsewhere. I would love to explore this; janardan.yri at me.com.
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by janardanyri 14y ago
Humans are not robots. Squishy human elements like motivation, attitude, camaraderie, and "fun" have material productivity consequences, especially in cognition-driven fields like software. "Quality dev hours" are not a fungible resource. I
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by janardanyri 14y ago
The headline is fairly misleading, and the article sloppily mixes actual fact with predictions stated as fact. The reality: 10.8 by default only runs apps which were either downloaded from the App Store, with the iOS-style sandboxing that w
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by janardanyri 15y ago
Don't misread me as a visionless hack. I would never discourage dreaming. My point was not that you are thinking too big, but rather exactly the opposite: that the FSF so often gets caught up in trivial distractions. "Suck it up" does not m
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by janardanyri 15y ago
This IS clear to everyone; it's simply irrelevant. Life's not fair. We all have to deal with unfair problems. Emphasizing the unfairness of your problems only makes the FSF look less "idealistic as in principled" and more "idealistic as in
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by janardanyri 15y ago
Word of caution: I left this open in a Safari tab without thinking about it, and soon found that my Mac's UI was hanging for ~20 seconds every minute or two. Took me half an hour to figure out what was going on.
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by janardanyri 15y ago
This response is telling. Hypothetical Mike Daisey who takes pride in his decisions: "I use a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell the story, and I do so with integrity." Actual Mike Daisey who knows he's full of shit:
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by janardanyri 15y ago
So maybe infants should be more scared of plastic bags than firearms. I'm pretty sure that the commenter in question is not an infant, and thus has little to fear from plastic bags. (Does this really need to be stated?)
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by janardanyri 15y ago
You were downvoted for relatively shallow and reflexive criticism. You're not disagreeing with the article; you didn't read the article. If you genuinely want to know if it's a good article, read it. You're not saving anyone any time by ins
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by janardanyri 15y ago
A fellow staying in the same house as me ran across these guys and was highly skeptical of their operation. It's good to hear that it's actually a pretty cool story. :)
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by janardanyri 15y ago
No, you buy before good news, and sell before bad. (If you don't understand your market well enough to know which it will be, maybe you shouldn't be investing.)
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by janardanyri 15y ago
And that's the trick: AT&T implemented throttling just after all the dedicated iPhone users upgraded to an iPhone 4S and locked themselves in for another two years. Disgusting, eh?
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by janardanyri 15y ago
The rhetoric in this post is ridiculous, especially when you cherry-pick interpretations of his commentary, castigate him for your interpretation, and question his personal affiliations. If your best interpretation of "innovation" is "web s

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