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by johnyzee 15y ago
What about the 'bad faith' argument presented in the sibling comment? > [...] Kmart’s discharge was in 'bad faith' and that, even without a contract, such a termination gave rise to tort liability. The court agreed [...]
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Wow, amazing. This has come a long way since the worst demo ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoCJTYgYB0 The way it manipulates stuff with the hands is very impressive, not to mention the 'understanding' required to pour liquid like t
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Google+ sucks so far, and the stuff they are adding does nothing to improve it, just adds more cruft. Lately I am seeing a big "What's hot on Google+" section on top of the feed, showing antiquated Youtube memes from people I don't know. No
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> not a whiff of Flash in sight! How do you handle sound? HTML5 sound is still very insufficient for games at the moment in my experience.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Funny how everyone is mentioned by their first name except Steve and Woz.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Very reminiscent of the anecdote about an early Mac version: The final design had a tiny hole on the front of the cabinet where the speaker was. Steve went ballistic and in spite of huge time pressure and added expense forced a redesign in
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I love how Carmack and Id since its inception has not only defined the cutting edge of game technology, but also repeatedly utterly disrupted industry business models (pioneering shareware distribution, the 'free demo' model, engine licensi
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by johnyzee 15y ago
The problem I have with Patrick's essay ("you are not a programmer") is that it addresses a situation that hardly any developer ever finds himself in. If I go to interview for an engineer position, it matters exactly not one bit that I try
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Jack Welch said something like "I don't care about money, I care about winning. Money is just a way of keeping score." Indeed, in the game of business, it does seem the most appropriate way to keep score. That doesn't mean business is the o
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by johnyzee 15y ago
There's an anecdote that he parked his car so frequently in the handicap spot in front of the Apple office that some jokesters one day changed the wheelchair into a Mercedes insignia. Reportedly Steve was none too pleased.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Since this is so obvious to everyone, the logical conclusion seems to be that things worked out exactly as planned for somebody. I know, "never attribute to malice" etc., but the pattern of banks encouraging non-creditworthy entities to pig
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I didn't mean you, sorry if it came across that way. I am referring to a tendency of over-embellishing that I see a lot on HN and which frankly just adds noise. </curmudgeon>
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> "The sentiments expressed within the above comment could not be more clearly or intelligently stated. Furthermore ..." Best said wearing a fake monocle and top hat. Honestly, college kids trying to sound educated is almost as annoying
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by johnyzee 15y ago
All acquisitions though.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Which technologies does this use that are not ubiquitous? Without seeing the examples, I can't think of anything that couldn't be done with canvas + js and would work in practically every browser. Of course that wouldn't be 'pure' CSS but I
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by johnyzee 15y ago
GP also failed to mention Amazon's little side business, AWS. More than anything else, AWS makes Amazon one of the most visionary and capable companies in the world to me, before even getting into rolling out Kindle and pretty much creating
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Agreed. For all the hype, pre-IPO valuation and talent draining, Facebook has done surprisingly little worthy of attention for several years now.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Here's what I am waiting for: The 360-degree 3D panorama video format. Videos are recorded by holding up the torch-like camera orb which records in every direction. You no longer just watch recordings; you explore them. On a traditional TV,
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I just checked and you are right, it is actually five weeks. Sorry about that. (I have my own business so the rules don't apply to me. Let's just say I have grounds for an epic lawsuit against myself :))
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I give Amazon money for AWS and no customer support in sight.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Kind of ironic given that this was the very thing that Google+ was supposed to do better than Facebook...
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by johnyzee 15y ago
No, our country is notoriously lacking in entrepreneurship, make of that what you will. We do still manage to have a pretty good economic output and some business success stories though, so there might be something to be said for working
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Six weeks here in Denmark and a maximum work week of 37 hours. You have to wonder how we ever get anything done here...
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Great comment and the length of it just goes to show how complex the issue is. If we were to add contemporary issues things would get even more complicated: Zionism and Israeli policies has created a lot of anger against 'Jews'. This has mu
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> "I once asked him if he was glad that he had kids, and he said, ‘It’s 10,000 times better than anything I’ve ever done.’ " Take note guys, this is coming from the guy who practically invented modern computing.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> made sure that the screen is positioned so that I don't look down Guys working on laptops should pay attention to this. Looking down (tilting the head forward, even slightly) means the muscles in the back of the neck now have to hold
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Data lag is actually not bad in Analytics these days. You can choose the current day in the date range selector and, at least for my sites, get data which less than an hour old.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> In our field studies of sit-stand workstations we have found little evidence of widespread benefits and users only stand for very short-periods (15 minutes or less total per day). Other studies have found that the use of sit-stand st
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by johnyzee 15y ago
For some reason this is hardly ever discussed. But I guess we can look to the situation in Argentina which defaulted in 2002. Oddly, there doesn't seem to have been long-term adverse consequences, most investors took a haircut or lost their
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by johnyzee 15y ago
So true. And I can say without a shred of doubt that I wouldn't trade what I have with my kids for ten facebooks.

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