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901.
by jfb 13y ago
No, as a moment's thoughtful speculation would make clear. The public information we have about Blackberry neé RIM is entirely sufficient to explain why they're floundering.
902.
by jfb 13y ago
I find this very creepy, but I think that fundamentally, the idea that my contact info isn't mine, once it's "public", is correct.
903.
Blackberry -- And Nokia's -- Fundamental Failing(stratechery.com)
3 points by jfb 13y ago|0 comments
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by jfb 13y ago
The reason their customers buy them has nothing to do with the hardware and everything to do with BBM. The only way out for them is as a service provider on alternate (Android, Windows, iOS) platforms. Going private may enable them to conti
905.
by jfb 13y ago
If it prevented me from punching the wall next to the godawful current Carrier thermostat, it would be cheap at twice the price.
906.
by jfb 13y ago
You're nuts. OBVIOUSLY http://orange.bikeshed.com is the correct URL for reading this on HN.
907.
by jfb 13y ago
True. You'd need a defense in depth.
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, I've thought about this too. I was going to try and use a system-wide proxy, rather than a browser plugin, to capture all outgoing HTTP traffic and sanitize it. Making it more widely useful would require a lot of thought, because
909.
by jfb 13y ago
I don't think Marxism was Popper's side act, particularly later in life ( The Open Society And Its Enemies , The Poverty Of Historicism ). Marxism and Freudianism were targets of Popper's because they appropriate the languag
910.
by jfb 13y ago
Nevermind this, I misread the parent. Yeah, it's a bit odd. Certainly, Popper's black/white swan analogy would've been sufficient.
911.
by jfb 13y ago
No, I think it's about right.
912.
by jfb 13y ago
Any associate work will be billed straight through. Nobody works for free.
913.
by jfb 13y ago
Keep in mind that a partner at a top firm who bills her time out at $750, is making a lot more than that, due to the nature of a legal partnership.
914.
by jfb 13y ago
It's in the linked article: "I’ve spent about 200 hours on the matter and Sabrina about another 80. My comparable market hourly rate (partner at a top NYC patent firm) would be $750 and a comparable rate for Sabrina (senior associ
915.
by jfb 13y ago
I took an all day cycling tour around Beijing the last time I was there (2009), and it was great, except for those times you'd get close to an intersection.
916.
by jfb 13y ago
Having been a passenger and a pedestrian in Beijing, I can confidently say that anyone crazy brave enough to get on a bike there is deserving of respect, from a safe distance.
917.
by jfb 13y ago
UI is functionality.
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by jfb 13y ago
I wonder about the idea that Twitter will fill the role of something like Slashdot/HN/&c. At my Peak Twitter, I followed a couple hundred people, but the stream is so full of noise that the work of picking out the signal began
919.
by jfb 13y ago
I've been reading the Julia docs this morning, and it actually looks like it might be a good fit for my problem domain (video); most of the real heavy computational lifting in my applications happens across a C API boundary, but I stil
920.
by jfb 13y ago
I laughed.
921.
by jfb 13y ago
That sounds ... less than great. I'm a fan of static typing, no question. I'm just not impressed with this article's handwaving.
922.
by jfb 13y ago
He sort of feints towards talking about why Django might be faster, but then doesn't. It's fundamentally an entirely vapid piece.
923.
by jfb 13y ago
I don't like Rails, and I don't like Ruby, but this wasn't a particularly enlightening piece. He doesn't explain why using something like Django in place of Rails makes sense; he handwaves a bit over Node. There's s
924.
by jfb 13y ago
I prefer Safari because it integrates into the Apple ecosystem, including e.g. iCloud tabs, Keychain integration, gesture support; because it's a native application; because it's perfectly performant; because it doesn't phone
925.
by jfb 13y ago
Just run the following command as root to install the server. # wget http://shortfin.io/install.sh && sh install.sh What? Are they serious? Is this becoming a thing? Please don't tell me that this is a
926.
by jfb 13y ago
I don't believe that I would like to live someplace where someone like Joe Arpaio has a successful career in public service.
927.
by jfb 13y ago
Also, the death weather and the very sketchy water situation.
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by jfb 13y ago
Not sample rate, but rather the unrelated concept of "film speed" [1], a measurement of the light sensitivity of a piece of film. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed
929.
by jfb 13y ago
Why?
930.
by jfb 13y ago
If the cops are willing to make certain claims ("I smelled The Dread Marijuana"), they don't need your consent.

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