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by joebadmo 15y ago
Looking at the teardowns of the GSM Galaxy Nexus and the LTE Galaxy Nexus [links below], it doesn't really seem like the size of the LTE chip makes a meaningful difference. The power/battery requirements seem more likely to be a factor, esp
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." This seems to apply to several levels of this incident, up to and including this discussion of it. Most, if not all, of the discussion here in both
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by joebadmo 15y ago
FWIW, I was actually pretty well convinced of this by reading Steven Levy's In the Plex .
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Yes, they took user behavior into account and realized that it didn't matter because they have to get into the social space. I think you have the causality wrong. They realized they had to get into the social space and integrate it into t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Who's to say he hasn't already paid his dues? I'm saying it's not about paying dues. I'm saying dues-paying is exactly the wrong attitude. I'm not writing for free out of some sense of obligation to the field. I'm doing it because that's
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Google Can't Break Anti-Trust Laws Because It Doesn't Have A Monopoly(slate.com)
4 points by joebadmo 15y ago|1 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
He takes incredible pictures people want to use for their company and sells it to them. That might work for him, but I doubt it's viable for photographers in general, at least in the future. He has also mentioned that people who give stu
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Using focus group testing in the way you're describing is like the French revolutionary who says "There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them." Google is notoriously one of the most (if not the most) data-dri
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I hope this is and the obvious interest of twitter and facebook to get in on this action represents a crack in the closing web. And in some sense, it always seemed like that's what G+ was all about: a moat to make sure they'd keep get/acces
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This is parallel to a recent HN thread on copyright: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303796 I think photographers (like musicians) face two problems: the amateurization of photography, and the lack of marginal cost of distribution. P
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Totally agree. "You are the product" is such a reductive, partisan talking point that at this point it's actually a pretty good filter for intellectual honesty and critical thinking. I wrote a whole blog post about it here: http://blog.byj
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Now the question becomes: who is the most authoritative on topic X? I think that was Google's project. I think now it's: who is the most authoritative on topic X in a way that's personally relevant to me, even if I have never heard of t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I disagree. Because the things I value are different from the things everyone else values in a vacation. Same reason I can look at the bestseller list in Amazon and be completely uninterested in most of the titles. That's not to say that I
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell Us About the Future of Education(theatlantic.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. I'm not sure why you would assume that AA tries to address or single-handedly solve the problem of primary education. It's aimed specifically at the problem of admissions. Other programs should and do target primary education at large,
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think implicit in your calculation here is that someone let in on AA grounds is inferior to someone who wasn't. But the premise of AA is the exact reverse, in fact. Saw two candidates A and B are born with equal amount of future potential
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Why do you believe a black applicant has higher future potential than an equally or more qualified white applicant? One of the premises of AA is that college admissions shouldn't be about qualifications, at least not entirely. The reasoni
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. That certainty is a sign of ignorance and therefore I am ignorant because I am certain is false because that argument is circularly invalid. This statement: "If you are certain about something, it's time
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'll take issue with a specific point: affirmative action. Affirmative action starts with a premise different from yours: that college admissions shouldn't be about past performance but about future potential. And if there's nothing genetic
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Joel talking about what people used Excel for seems very similar to Clay Christensen's concept of hiring products for specific jobs.[0] I wonder if this was a conscious thing on Joel's part or it's a case of convergent evolution. [0]: http
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Amazon's running a television ad that shows a guy use the Amazon smartphone app to scan a package of diapers and then put the diapers back on the shelf . I'm hard-pressed to see a way for physical retailers to offer any sort of competitive
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This is a case in which the hypocrisy isn't just ad hominem, though. It's not just "you've done things you're now accusing others of!" The hypocrisy makes the author's argument apply to the author himself. That is, the argument the author i
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think it's a more cogent and more substantial point than it might seem at first glance. Anecdotally, I honestly do notice a class axis between iPhone and Android (though there are other axes, too). Just like there was a class axis between
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by joebadmo 15y ago
From what I understand, most Verizon stores, Best Buys, and Radio Shacks have had them in inventory since late last week. A few people have even been able to convince stores to sell them.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It seems likely to also organically change teachers' unions for the better, too. Unions filled with better and more motivated teachers will want policies that protect better and more motivated teachers. As it is now unions filled with bad t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Wouldn't the increased competition fomented by increased wages take care of this naturally and organically?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
While this is great for Louis CK, whom I find to be hilarious and wish only the best, it doesn't strike me as a truly generalisable model. I mean, it's basically a restricted version of NPR's 'pledge' model, right? The copies are effectivel
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Disagreement downvotes... such a shame. I disagree with you, but find your position to be valid and reasonable.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Here's a conversation on twitter with Jean Baptiste Queru, who works on AOSP for Google. It's not completely illuminating, but there are interesting details: http://twitter.theinfo.org/146020135109533696
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Not sure how to interpret this comment. I don't understand why Wallet is a big deal. For users, it wouldn't be much of a difference from Isis. How is this selling users down t he river? What exactly is the good fight on NFC? Every phone th

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