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by josho 11y ago
The key takeaway is the ever common mantra 'what is your sustainable competitive advantage?'. As many App Store developers have found out, design is not one. Rather, paying for exclusive license to a dictionary, and ensuring his a
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by josho 11y ago
How is Netflix unusable from your home connection, but not through a VPN? Eg. Either way you need to sustain 2mbit stream.
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by josho 11y ago
You forgot that you are the product being sold. This gives fb whole new layers of demographic data to sell to their customers.
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by josho 11y ago
As I understand the author, the implication is that the baseband firmware is closed source. So, it's possible that Google/Apple have done an audit. But, in my experience, and the author's suggestion that's unlikely to ha
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by josho 11y ago
There is nothing to license. Flux is patent pending .
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by josho 11y ago
The answer is yes. Because Disney did it with Snow White, Cinderella, etc. A more recent example is Tangled--all those stories are derived from public domain characters. Don't even try to make the case that Disney wouldn't have m
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by josho 11y ago
> we (or at least I) nonetheless place the bulk of the blame for fraud on the malicious seller, not the hapless buyer. I agree, and find the tone of this thread interesting because it is very much reversed. In that blame seems to be fall
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by josho 11y ago
Civil suit? I'd make the case this was fraudulent behaviour and deserves criminal charges. By way of analogy, if I sold you my car with an added turbo charger yielding a 20% mpg improvement, but had the side effect of causing the engin
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by josho 11y ago
By your logic we should also have tiered rates. Ie. Data in prime time costs more than off peak. The reality is privates companies want to increase their profit, they figure (and have convinced folks like you) that this is a fair way to inc
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by josho 11y ago
I agree, but it's a beta. Constraints happen.
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by josho 11y ago
Start button is where you go to start a program. Hamburger button is where you go when you've tried everything else.. I.e. It's a placeholder for random stuff which is why it's bad design.
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by josho 11y ago
Let's start redefining DRM as what it truly is: Digital *Restrictions* Management
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by josho 11y ago
Go outside and get some fresh air, if that isn't possible step away from your workstation until you are ready to work. You'll come back to your desk feeling refreshed and ready to focus. This practice becomes even better when just
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by josho 11y ago
I think you give Dora to much credit. Yes, the show has educational advisors, but I've always viewed that as a mechanism to gain parents trust to leave their children infront of the Dora marketing machine for 30mins a day. For example
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by josho 11y ago
I know this isn't normal fare for this crowd, but I'm genuinely interested in the perception of Bernie from Americans. As your northern neighbor what I'm hearing from Bernie is what I had hoped we would have seen from Obama.
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Bernie Sanders' Political Revolution(rollingstone.com)
3 points by josho 11y ago|2 comments
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by josho 11y ago
OS X server mail setup is easy. But, if you need to customize anything it starts to get scary, i.e. If you don't change the settings the OS X way then you risk an update blowing away your customizations. The OS X way is a minimally do
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by josho 11y ago
That may be true. But, the Internet existed because of massive multi-decade investment from folks without a profit motive. All of the fundamental Internet protocols were created through those organizations. Look at what capitalism gave us a
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by josho 11y ago
This is the plight of today's journalism. Students are taught to find both sides of the issue and treat them equally, despite the fact that one side has a clear conflict of interest.
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by josho 11y ago
I believe now that apps can get the level of info shown in the article it will become a user privacy issue--making it quite closely linked to security.
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by josho 11y ago
This explains the high cpu usage on lan sync. Using http to send large files. So, it has to constantly encode/decode to send over http. For reasons like this I'm saddened that we never standardized on a secure file transfer protoc
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Joseph Stiglitz warns of Trans-Pacific Partnership dangers(vancouversun.com)
46 points by josho 11y ago|20 comments
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by josho 11y ago
For those that down voted the above is a reference to Orwell's 1984 where big brother watches us all and the above nations are in perpetual conflict to keep the population in line. In light of my understanding of some of the TPP provis
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by josho 11y ago
Startups are about doing things that don't scale--initially . By targeting a few whales you can figure out what strategies work. Once you've validated individual strategies then you can codify them for your millions of other users
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by josho 11y ago
What gets me is the useless numeric desktop naming. I'm shocked that we still can't rename a desktop, eg. TaskXDesktop instead of Desktop 4.
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by josho 11y ago
The key lesson here is that entertainment companies are closer to gambling than outsiders realize. That is, to turn an entertainment company into a viable long term business you need to diversify and reduce risk of new title launches. That&
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by josho 11y ago
> That question has nothing to do with whether we should hate CCTV or not. The question is is do you think it'll be abused. If the answer is yes, then CCTV is incredibly dangerous. You've made several great points, but I would
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by josho 11y ago
I used to feel the same as you, but after years of salary negotiations I began to realize how disadvantaged employees are in the negotiations. In part due to information asymmetry, but also negotiation expertise--or lack thereof. Given the
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by josho 11y ago
I think you are underestimating these folks. They are making it a criminal offence to remove Digital restrictions. It is their way of acknowledging that removal of DRM may always be possible (though looking at Apple's track record I th
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by josho 11y ago
What's wrong with simply: Object foo = ... Not quite var, and it would require the interpreter to do a little bit more work when invoking methods to avoid the necessary downcasting.

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