johansch

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   by johansch 10y ago

   I just added something on that via editing, sorry, didn't think you'd be that fast.
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   by johansch 10y ago

   Innovation means doing something new, doesn't it? The last Apple-ish innovation I saw out of Apple was that "magic" touch-pad that just feels like you're pressing it down, even though you are not. What they have done rec
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   by johansch 10y ago

   I'm not speaking as a software developer now. I think it's an established fact that "normal" people love (loved) Apple products because they "just work" (worked). The prettiness is a nice bonus, but they key th
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   by johansch 10y ago

   I think you're missing the point. We all looked to Apple for technical, user-focused innovation.. now all we're getting is a good-looking and expensive things that's best sold in a jewelers shop. I really can't see this
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   by johansch 10y ago

   There is a "too far". When it slides from being an expensive good tool to a very expensive luxury item mostly used for show. It's a lot easier to be pretty than to solve (new) problems. Of course, their watch foreshadowed all
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   by johansch 10y ago

   I think you nailed it. Their 40% gross profit margin is quite infuriating. Particularly since they're just milking the franchise by now, rather than actually innovating.
7. 727.▲
   by johansch 10y ago

   > Even if the person you're responding to on some internet forum is the president of the Foundation For Keeping Software Developers from Being Overpaid ... For the record - they wanted me to be president, but I declined. I am merely
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   by johansch 10y ago

   Let me just point out that you just commented to a comment where I said I had been involved in hiring. And yes, I was in some mid-management level. But I was foremost a developer.
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   by johansch 10y ago

   You're speaking of their open source mechanical design of a rack-mounted PC? Yeah, relatively speaking that is entirely unsubstantial. The mere fact that you're comparing this to the amount of research that goes into radio/ne
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    by johansch 10y ago

    No, it's more the fact that I have been involved in hiring rounds in SV and seen the insane amounts relatively speaking crappy devs are demanding.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    I was really surprised by TSLA not taking a very rough and immediate hit. It took a slight hit after a while though,
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Yeah, seriously speaking. Azure, Rackspace and Backblaze before Google? lol.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Regarding the "easy hipster" part - I exaggerated for effect. That is the perception people have on SV developers, for right or wrong. Meanwhile, I'm from Sweden so I'm perhaps just an outside observer to this spectacle.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    That's indeed something to think of.. but that's not what the poster wrote.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Thanks, that was a lot more eloquent and expressive than what I would have managed. But, yeah, I meant the same thing.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Do you realize that you're basically saying: "shut up with your facts, we've got a way of [easy hipster] living to protect"?
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    by johansch 10y ago

    I think you're mixing things up. a) These companies do love to brag about technical accomplishments. They each have hundreds of product marketing and engineering people for this purpose alone. b) When they do sell, they will indeed dou
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Well, this is going to get them to talk about their progress in this field, at least. :)
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Yeah, I'm going to believe that a company that basically lives on doing A/B testing on engagement in a data sharing GUI (facebook.com) with a hobby in PR-creating "hardware innovation" has suddenly beaten about a hundred
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    Will Paris climate accord and other environmental pacts survive Trump?(latimes.com)

    1 points by johansch 10y ago|0 comments
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    by johansch 10y ago

    That Youtube channel (Lazy Game Reviews) is generally speaking quite good. Recommended.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    I guess my non-native command of Americanese shows again. What I was trying to say: "Wow, it's so awesome that someone who started out with a little self-developed PC game in the early 90s got so rich that he could afford this.&qu
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    by johansch 10y ago

    > I dazzled quite a bit with side scrollers then, and it took me a long time to uncover the possible ways to use the VGA hardware on the 286 and 386 for scrolling -- It was really hard to find information about the VGA hardware registers
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    by johansch 10y ago

    I know this is futzy to ask.. but why downvote this to 0? I think Tim is brilliant.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Spotted the front-end developer.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Quite a leap from building Jill of the Jungle ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IArecoE_c ).
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Frameworks using frameworks using frameworks using frameworks. Also: lots of front-end developers are into personal fame - and because they are front-end people they are also good at web-based marketing strategies. This works recursively :&
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Oops! That's embarrassing, sorry. And great news. Please disregard this then. (In my defense, I believe the main product pages were out of date when I posted.)
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    by johansch 10y ago

    Still no App Engine location in Asia.
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    by johansch 10y ago

    I beg to disagree. I do think that what was designed back then (TCP, DNS, etc) was elegant. It was a great foundation.. but because they were so elegant and good-enough, and because of the Internet hyperscaling in the 90s and onwards, there