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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sure. How do you measure it? The way capitalism measures it is by how much people are willing to pay for it. Seems to work pretty well, or at least (to borrow Churchill for my purpose) less badly than any other system. The upshot of this sy
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I totally agree with you on the typography, though at this point I've gotten used to it. Could you elaborate a bit on your reformatting? Does typesetting it in LaTeX make each page a fixed width? Do I understand correctly, then, that you wo
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"before copyright, full-time artists either had wealthy patrons (Roman Catholic Church, the nobility) or lived in poverty? Copyright made it possible for an artist to make a living without having a wealthy patron." Even if the former is tru
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by joebadmo 15y ago
One of the important points I've heard Clay Christensen make is that incumbent companies often get destroyed (disrupted) by small players not because they're incompetent, or even because they're making bad decisions. Each decision along the
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by joebadmo 15y ago
As a 3rd gen Kindle owner, I don't really see how this product/experience could be meaningfully improved until color, full-motion, hybrid reflective/backlit screens (like Pixel Qi and Mirasol) are good and cheap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by joebadmo 15y ago
1. "we both know that taking somebody's work, for nothing, against their wishes, is not cool." I'm really not sure I agree with that. "Civilisation is built on mutual respect of rights." Which rights are you talking about in this case exact
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Ah, so it's two separate arguments, a moral one and an economic one. 1. I disagree. I'm curious as to the precise moral dimension you're talking about here. 2. You're kidding yourself if you think you can stop it, or that by plugging your e
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sure, if they can get that to work. It's not the way I would try to provide value if I were an author. The point is that artists need to deal with the realities before them and stop listening to the lies that industry tells them. You again
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Totally agree. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the onus is on 'intellectual property' proponents to justify their position, instead of vice versa. It does not seem obvious to me that people have a natural right to ma
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Piracy will be a problem because marginal cost of distribution is ~0. There's not that much money to extract from distribution anymore because the industries are not providing that much value. They only really provide value to the few artis
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I keep seeing this argument and I keep not understanding it. Is it an economic argument? What is the economic point? The economic point to me seems to be that musicians were previously making money on inefficiencies that streaming services
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think it was Protect IP, not SOPA, that he's co-sponsoring. Not that that's any better, but just trying to clear up the facts. Also, I thought it was Joe Lieberman that was calling for the "Flag terrorist" button. A quick Google for "Al F
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Let’s Stop with the Siri Baiting(tidbits.com)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The late Sheldon Brown is my go-to resource for all things cycling: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html (Plus his website is awesome.)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that there is too much focus on "intuitiveness," but I'm neither a programmer (I'm working on it) nor a sysadmin, and I'd like a more robust user interface too! I have a lot of work to get done, and I'm willing to learn a different
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I work at a federal agency and our browsers just got updated a couple of weeks ago from IE6 to IE8. While I'd kill for either Chrome or FF, I have to say: I never thought I'd be so happy about IE8.
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No CarrierIQ on Google flagship devices(theverge.com)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|1 comments
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An Amateur’s Lament(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This trope is so tired. If not totally wrong, it's at least misleading. http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9910020865/you-are-the-produc...
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Digital Holdout Ray Bradbury Brings Fahrenheit 451 To E-Readers(wired.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yet they continue to make improvements to Google Reader, based on user feedback. For example, I just noticed yesterday that they gave each item a container with borders and margins, which makes it much more pleasant and separates the conten
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The reason I never noticed the increasing subordination of google reader (a product I use daily, or even hourly), is because I have other shortcuts for products I use that frequently. In fact, it's a little strange to me that someone would
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree with other commenters that it looks sort of like a start menu. Which indicates Google's commitment to replacing traditional OSs. I wonder when we'll see the Google bar integrated into Chrome.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have no preference for Ruby in particular (I've been learning Python), but that definitely looks like it's worth checking out. Thanks!
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sounds like an amazing opportunity! If you were in Portland, I'd seriously consider quitting my job to dive in. I'm a non-programmer slowly trying to teach myself in my off time, but it's slow, lonely, hard-to-stay-motivated going. I've con
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Apple has now integrated Twitter as deeply into iOS as they ever did with any of Google's services. I think Apple's ethos with using Google was simply to use the best thing available for search and maps. That was Google. Google's entry into
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I disagree. Ads can be detrimental, sure, but they're also in many ways complementary to digital, frictionless distribution. For example, ads encourage sharing. With a paid product, you have to gate access. But then there's a sort of impl
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I've played with another $200 Android tablet. It wasn't bad. It was terrible. Awful. I wouldn't take it for free. If the Kindle Fire is as bad as that, then this review wasn't nearly bad enough.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Not an unfair review, but seems like he missed the killer feature: price tag. Which should also color your expectations of the device. I don't think there are many people wouldn't rather have an iPad, or maybe even a Honeycomb tablet, but $
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This strikes me as a transcendent work. It's one of those amazing artifacts in which the structure reinforces the special insight of the subject matter. I'm referring to the sort of fractal way in which each nested story builds the theme th

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