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by jjindev 13y ago
In a multi-computer household you may want a computer (or many!) which specifically do not have your important information. (I don't even let my phone know my "real" email address.)
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by jjindev 13y ago
I am pro running, but anti-marathon. One resembles normal daily activity, the other a major survival event.
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by jjindev 13y ago
All currencies rely on belief (like those flats in Monty Python). It is possible that gold could lose global belief, but unlikely, given the long history of belief. The US dollar too could lose faith, but again, a pretty good history of t
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by jjindev 13y ago
I suspect this will be a long-tail answer, but what the heck: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall It is not a perfect book, but it did get me running, and in that sense literally changed my life.
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by jjindev 13y ago
Isn't it possible that the Pros are a ... dividend ... for faithful Apple fans? I mean, does the Pro line even have to be a money maker? (I agree with others that the people who need this kind of machine are rare these days, but why
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by jjindev 13y ago
Couldn't it be that early Teds harvested low hanging fruit? By that I mean a backlog of 20 years worth of under exposed idea people? Once you've done Frans de Waal (etc.) you can't just go find another.
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by jjindev 13y ago
To restate, C++ programmers are doing C++ because they are trapped in a corner world where they must suffer for speed. Go's architects think they've got a band of problems where ... you just don't have to suffer so much. &q
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by jjindev 13y ago
The narrow definition of disruptive technology is probably something like "a new entrant who through a low cost product, depowers much more established and high end players." That's a bit different than just trying to be top
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by jjindev 13y ago
Christensen did good descriptive work in his early books. Disruption was a thing. He tagged it, studied it, and described it. All that was very helpful. I actually am sympathetic to his later prescriptive works, I think they are seeking
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by jjindev 13y ago
On most days start-up programmers think about carving out a solution for a large enough serviceable, available, market. Time to market matters. Mark it as an open issue and move on. Etc. On other days, programmers are advised that it is
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by jjindev 13y ago
I drove up the I-15 a couple weeks ago, and was surprised that when I hit northern Utah I saw a couple tech-recruitment billboards. We don't have those down in Orange Country.
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by jjindev 13y ago
wasn't /usr the original /home? as I understand it, it grew and became a system directory. with /bin as the original bin.
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by jjindev 13y ago
I feel like I did my best work when I got up from the keyboard and walked around the office, maybe got some cookies, and thought of the big simplifying idea. And sure, I have no problem banging good ideas into a commodity PC running Linux.
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by jjindev 13y ago
If we stick to "economics" without even going to "well-being," I think median net worth is the best bet. But you know, governments find it easier to "book" corporate profits as part of GDP and call it a day.
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by jjindev 13y ago
It was shocking for me when I first encountered people who make $200K+ and didn't know where all the money went. I too presumed that being "savvy" was somehow linked with high income. I now know it is not that tight a bindi
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by jjindev 13y ago
It is a dilemma for the sort of developer who would not drop thousands in an app store (or even hundreds). Android becomes best for personal use, while iOS becomes best for finding spendy customers. (I certainly feel this. Ubuntu/Andr
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by jjindev 13y ago
So um, Euler owns "Largest prime factor" now? Seriously the web is big, github is big, Euler is pretty big. Overlap is unavoidable. The [thing,] I'd think would be to ask for no direct linkages. "Go ahead, share your
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by jjindev 13y ago
While the author attempts to view the world as a user, I think many of his bad experiences are early adopter woes. Given that most people didn't have smart phones in those early days, I'm not sure ancient history matters. In the
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by jjindev 13y ago
Everyone mentions Nike, but no one says Garmin. Perhaps it's just my background, but I see the influx of phone and phone-connected solutions as eating Garmin's lunch. Their solutions (including wearables) still probably have the
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by jjindev 13y ago
It would be interesting to live in a world where you couldn't show off your logo at ... I was about to say "Starbucks" but I should say ... the coffee shop. This isn't to indict any particular brand, but when a brand is
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by jjindev 13y ago
Could the coupon box "train" customers to jump on deals when offered? Perhaps that is the seller's hope, and that it is about a relationship and revenue stream into the future. (I'm not saying this "training"
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by jjindev 13y ago
Jared Bernstein answers Barry Ritholz on related themes today: http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/economics-as-market-failure/ It's really hard to tell, especially outside the field, whether someone's computation
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by jjindev 13y ago
Apple illustrates a segmentation rather than a convergence. Tablet, notebook, and workstation are breaking into distinct bands of performance. In their world a tablet is for a guy who wants a couple cores (with long battery life), noteboo
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by jjindev 13y ago
The way I've interpreted Ubiquitous Computing is that you walk into a room, and there is a computer. You pick it up and use it as casually as you would a magazine or a pad of paper. You've done a valid experiment, but I think it
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by jjindev 13y ago
"rather than replacing one dynamic library" Library and version management at Integration (and before test) simplifies the question "what version are you on?" There is one answer, which for many environments may be usef
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by jjindev 13y ago
Microprocessors evolved while chasing minicomputer features, which in term were shaped by C/UNIX sorts of ideas, which expanded and fed back. That was a very successful co-evolution. COTS supercomputers beat specialized hardware and
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by jjindev 13y ago
I was speaking from a US perspective. I think we lag. We probably could import that tech of course ... and I was really grasping for under subscribed fields. Any other suggestions?
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by jjindev 13y ago
Robin Hanson and Tyler Cowen have had a lot of interesting discussions on the role and extent of "signalling" in higher education. I think Hanson takes the extreme view that it is mostly signalling, rather than skills (human capi
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by jjindev 13y ago
Yes, and, it's an "attention economy." I call a field "fully subscribed" when it has enough money and researchers to make full progress. It's over subscribed when you are far into diminishing returns. And of
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by jjindev 13y ago
I don't see a link to Rob Pike's other contribution, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf It's really a very good piece, which I'd summarize as

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