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by jbjohns 15y ago
Why? Google is some outside entity from another country. Do you find it hilarious that I discipline my kids but it would probably result in a physical altercation if someone else whom I didn't place in authority (explicitly or implicitly
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I really, really hate this attitude of searching high and low for anything remotely resembling hypocrisy so we can condemn any and all action. It's not only counterproductive but intellectually slothful. It's lazy because the answer is so
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by jbjohns 15y ago
So you want little guys who are struggling for market share to risk it all for a fight they may not win in the end (and if they even survive, this losing stance could be held against them)? Companies like Google and FB could shut their ent
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by jbjohns 15y ago
People are lazy creatures. If something happens that inconveniences them in some way they will first hate the thing that caused the block (i.e. Facebook itself), but once they see that the initial target won't move they will hate the other
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Sometimes you have to show people why their way is wrong by using it on them.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
IMO, the problem is that the guaranteed short-term profit strategy (MBA?) has infested Hollywood. These days they will only make a movie that has already done well. That means sequels and remakes. Every time you think your seeing an orig
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Any of those groups can do exactly that and we can't stop it. We may as well use it to our advantage when ever possible.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I don't know about the other two, but the first one is a huge steaming pile of BS. First of all; Apple could have also charged less if they made such a limited device. And second, they do charge about as little for the iPad as they can,
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Do those statues cross international borders?
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by jbjohns 15y ago
pg one wrote in an essay about how if you manage to stumble onto something tabu you probably found something interesting (heavily paraphrased). A lot of people are seriously offended at this article.... just sayin'.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Actually, it's not the US that's blocking you. It's your own country . You see, some company in your country bought the rights to that media and plans to repackage it (maybe dub it) and play it to you with their own commercials. They do
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I totally disagree. In fact, I would say the only thing that's saved us thus far is that those in power don't understand technology. If they would have been able to see what the internet was capable of, they would never have allowed it
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by jbjohns 15y ago
You have a pretty low opinion of people who've managed to make large sums of money. If they're as stupid as you think, maybe that money would be better utilized by people who aren't?
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by jbjohns 15y ago
So what? New ones also spring up and sometimes the new ones are big enough to eat the old ones. From what I can see, the market is in a continuous state of expand->consolidate->repeat.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>Companies are ridiculously over funded, and VCs are doing a disservice to their investors as well as to their portfolio companies by giving more money than they need. No they're not. They're following the market. If they were doing a
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Good. No one has the right to having employees. If you want employees, you pay what it takes to attract them. Parker is trying to manipulate the market here to get prices down to what he wants to be paying.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
It's a self-serving argument. A bigger overall impact is more likely when there are tons and tons of smaller companies out there trying ideas (i.e. the chance of one of them hitting the next big thing). If all these engineers just go work
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by jbjohns 15y ago
No. You realize the market no longer values your product enough to pay for it, so you drop it and move to something else. When enough farmers do that the price will come up again. If a software company can't get enough value out of softwa
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Thanks for the tip on Divvy! That's really nice.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>My last job paid $9.10 an hour and I was expected to review my email daily as well as visit the company website occasionally to do these little quizzes and courses. You had to do your company training on your own time? This is ridicul
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I don't trust these cost-of-living calculations. Every time I've lived somewhere with a supposedly great cost-of-living I've felt poor (had to conserve my money) and every time I've lived somewhere with a supposedly bad cost-of-living I've
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Thanks for your answers. Does this mean we have to maintain different versions of each app or is it reasonable to say nothing earlier than 4.3 is supported [1]? [1] Full disclosure: I haven't released my first app yet so I'm wondering if I
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by jbjohns 15y ago
But will apps made with Xcode 4.2 and ARC run on older iOS versions? I mean, my understanding was that ARC was a compile time thing, so there should be no difference in an ARC app and a non-ARC app (except the ARC one probably has less bug
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by jbjohns 15y ago
>And finally, it's the US people who are at blame So you've just come full circle. The government will continue to do what they're doing and the people will continue to not care. What good does it do us to put responsibility on those
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Well, after 10 years, isn't it clear that Google users will not and cannot have any effect in it? Why is it always best left to those who can't or wont do anything about it?
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by jbjohns 15y ago
You think a person should have to consult a lawyer before changing jobs? That's insane. It's bad enough with health care concerns.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
You admit that you don't understand SELinux so could it be that you hate it because you don't understand it? The fact is there are a lot of things that SELinux makes easier. In SELinux you have your services run in contexts and you can s
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I would love for SELinux to be easier, but as far as I can tell it's the only game in town. I would never put anything internet facing that wasn't SELinux. Normal unix rights are simply not sufficient. Once you break into a program you c
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by jbjohns 15y ago
Well, as bad as this is, it is probably the best that it happens a few more times very visibly. Until people are aware of the dangers and do something to fix it.
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by jbjohns 15y ago
I'm sorry but this is a horrible argument. Granular security is critical to having a system that can actually be locked down. Which is why SELinux support is built into the kernel now.

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