jedrek

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by jedrek 11y ago
I don't know how calculated it is, it seems it's one of those things that developed and people smart enough to realise what's happening decided it's a-ok with them. But, yeah, the disconnect is huge. I've seen Ameri
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by jedrek 11y ago
Congress has a shitty approval rating, but the most representatives get voted into office by a decent margin. People hate everybody else's reps.
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by jedrek 11y ago
> Hackintoshing has proven to be quite elusive I've been using a hackintosh since 2008. It's literally never been easier to get one up and running.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Very true. I was overjoyed when I had 400-600 readers on my blog back in 2001, I still get interviewed for being one of the first bloggers in my country back then. Now I have more followers on Instagram and it's like... whatever, it&#x
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by jedrek 11y ago
So I can't download the software? Cool, I won't.
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by jedrek 11y ago
> Prisoners of war ended in Siberian gulags for centuries, while the GDR was constructed at home. I think you mean decades?
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by jedrek 11y ago
Does that run OS X?
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by jedrek 11y ago
What's funny is every major city I've ever been in has had ultra-short term, private apartment rentals. AirBNB just made it extremely popular and easy to rent a room or your flat without putting a lot of work in.
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by jedrek 11y ago
That's a very... nice way of putting it. One thing I've come across is employers who talk about having "unregulated hours" - you can come and go as you please as long as the work is done! Quickly, you discover that there
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by jedrek 11y ago
I have a friend who does hiring in Berlin for a tech company. He's complained about not being able to find full-time employees. Lots of talented people, surprisingly few want to be locked in for 40-50h/week, especially when they h
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by jedrek 11y ago
I know couples working retail in small town America who are 8 years into their $45000 mortgages vs my buddy who was paying 60k a year in rent in SF.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Is television profitable if TV ad $ goes puff? No.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Source?
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by jedrek 12y ago
It really bugs me when people talk about Big Pharma pushing pills, cause really, 8-9 times out of 10, it's patients begging for pills. Are pharmaceutical companies angels? Fuck no, neither are doctors, but if nobody was buying, they wo
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by jedrek 12y ago
It's amazing how quickly people forget why Flash became so popular: up until Mozilla Navigator got up to around 0.6, all the browsers out there sucked. Navigator 4.x had document.layers, pretty much every script had to be re-written tw
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by jedrek 12y ago
I think people have a completely idealized idea of the past. Yes, by 18 you had a career: you were a farmer or you'd been an apprentice for some time. Your formal education had probably been over for quite a few years. That was 100 yea
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by jedrek 12y ago
I'm going to assume you've never stayed in a European hostel.
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by jedrek 12y ago
Also: warrantees and exchange policies. It's funny, so many American consumers complain about having to pay for car or health insurance, saying that people should pay for what they use... but they would be livid if a store dropped pric
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by jedrek 12y ago
It might very well be that only having two user-facing products is what allows them to concentrate on their UI to this degree.
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by jedrek 12y ago
The reality of the human condition is that many people want to be "under" someone. Having complete freedom is both time consuming and exhausting. We already spend an inordinate amount of time making choices, it's nice to have
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by jedrek 12y ago
My GF is with nju (and I'm moving to them soon), for $13 a month she has unlimited calls, texts and 5gb of data. Sweet setup.
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by jedrek 12y ago
Spot on. A Rolex submariner weighs about 135g. Let's pretend that all but 35g of it is gold (it's less, but w/e). So we're at 100g of 18k gold. Now, 18k gold is 75% by mass, equal to 75g of 24k gold or $2900. The cheapes
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by jedrek 12y ago
You're referring to the Adventure Game Interpreter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Game_Interpreter
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by jedrek 12y ago
Apple laptops have been limited by a lack of docking ports, which is my favorite use case for having a work and home workstation. Now, instead of hooking up a power cable, monitor cable and USB hub, you slide one connector in. How is that b
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by jedrek 12y ago
Once you get past pencil pushing jobs and jobs that don't require more than a week of training, interviews need to stop becoming interviews and need to start being conversation. It needs to stop being, "will they give me a job!?&q
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by jedrek 12y ago
Mostly 20-30 somethings with tons of free cash laying around. Obviously, there are more than a few of those around.
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by jedrek 12y ago
> I believe engineers over-rate the cost/feature-consciousness of consumers and under-rate brand consciousness. I agree. They also tend to discount the value of an ecosystem around various high profile electronics goods. Apple and g
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by jedrek 12y ago
All fatalities, walkers accounted for 143 of them. :(
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by jedrek 12y ago
About 150 pedestrians are killed in NYE annually, that's one every other day in a city where relatively few people own cars.
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by jedrek 12y ago
Ok, but we're talking about a website, where the toolset is limited by political decisions, not technical ones.

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