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by jopt 14y ago
Domains are, in the first place, needed so we don't have to remember ip addresses.
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by jopt 15y ago
Do you have a source for that (iOS mostly
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by jopt 15y ago
I subscribe to this as well, but I still think Doyle has a point. Sherlock wasn't talking about neural biology, but about the structure of the conscious mind. In practice, the advantage of an "efficient brain" might not be very important co
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by jopt 15y ago
I agree in principle. The link between the "hard-to-produce factor" and the medium (blog vs. paper) is not in my eyes so strong. There's a lot of overlap and I don't think the generalization is that valuable.
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by jopt 15y ago
Lynx?
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by jopt 15y ago
Sure, but on the other hand press isn't a currency system for rewarding good work. The other apps should have a competitive advantage by not making this mistake.
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by jopt 15y ago
Now that these three have been charged with "paying back what was stolen," all our file-sharing is off the hook, right?
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by jopt 15y ago
Consider what convinced us to develop for their platform. That was their work. Developers don't come to the App Store by accident.
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by jopt 15y ago
Apple do not use slave labour.
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by jopt 15y ago
Use question marks like this: I would like to know how much the author was paid to write this. How much was the author paid to write this?
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by jopt 15y ago
Absolutely agree. This comment may make it sound like the Pirate Bay inspired the Pirate Party. The reality was a little more complicated, given that it involved a third entity, the Swedish "Piratbyrån" think tank. I just thought I should p
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by jopt 15y ago
Hollywood proposes theatre death as a justification for measures like SOPA. Any downward trends, and Hollywood will cry foul play. To Hollywood, loss is political ammunition. To politicians who listen to Hollywood, loss is proof. They're he
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by jopt 15y ago
On the other hand, the most common use for alarm is when you want to be woken up no matter what, which is more common than weddings.
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by jopt 15y ago
For many of us there are always pending alarms. A mute dialog would be a severe pain. To me, it's not such a problem to go into Clock and turn the alarm off if I change my mind about it. I try not to give my device conflicting commands. I w
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by jopt 15y ago
There are pros and cons of this. I would be late for work every other day if the iPhone did "mute" like my old Nokia. Here, this one guy's musical performance was disturbed. I would probably make the same call as Apple: if you set an alarm
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by jopt 15y ago
Simplicity trade-off.
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by jopt 15y ago
That's not the issue here, because when setting an alarm "doing what they say" is to play the alarm. The user gave the device two conflicting commands, and it has to decide which of them to honor.
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by jopt 15y ago
Toggle the switch. Vibrates when going into mute, with a large visual for luck. There is a notification area icon that tells you if you have a wake-up alarm set.
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by jopt 15y ago
This ties back to why opponents of copyright as such call it "imaginary property:" there is nothing about the copy that makes it any worse than the original. We can't recognize a copy because then it isn't a copy, in the information theory
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by jopt 15y ago
In short, most users won't choose ICS just because it's easy to install.
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by jopt 15y ago
Just like the Siri abortion controversy. The error message is written in English and has a personal tone, so we assume the reason for the error is equally intelligent. It makes sense, too — when traditional tools break they are seldom polit
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by jopt 15y ago
And then there's the draft
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by jopt 15y ago
I'm sure there are bad systems. Perhaps they fail so fast that we never appreciate how many.
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by jopt 15y ago
Is that sarcasm?
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by jopt 15y ago
What about design the success of which makes it obvious only in retrospect? I thought that was precisely what IP was there to protect. If the design becomes successful but is still not obvious to competitors, would IP be needed to protect i
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by jopt 15y ago
The author seems to argue that only unsuccessful design is entitled to protection.
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by jopt 15y ago
If anything, it's more worrying for Spotify that these labels are all closely related by genre. This leaves a gaping hole in that specific genre, which is harder to ignore than a few artists here or there.
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by jopt 15y ago
Maybe it's somehow an important proof-of-concept AI challenge, but restocking my fridge does not make the list of things I desperately need better technology for. The driverless cars are old news and space elevators are a niche at best. Wha