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by jotux 12y ago
>Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often. If you want solid support for old products, stick with Microsoft, and accept that their products can be clunkier because of deliberate choices to maintain backwards-compatibility. T
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by jotux 12y ago
Please link to a comment that says something remotely close to, "So what? Just upgrade. Simples"
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by jotux 12y ago
>It's dumbfounding how people here are simply shrugging this off and posting "So what? Just upgrade. Simples" type comments. Zero people is dumbfounding to you? Because that's how many people are saying that.
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by jotux 12y ago
Which was a response to: >Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often. If you want solid support for old products, stick with Microsoft, and accept that their products can be clunkier because of deliberate choices to maintain b
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by jotux 12y ago
Do you legitimately see these comments are being apologetic towards apple?
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by jotux 12y ago
>many comments here are saying that people should just upgrade I don't see a single comment in this thread that says that.
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by jotux 12y ago
Thanks for your hiring post article -- it's one of the best things I've read about what interviewing should be and I've shared it with countless friends and colleagues in the last month.
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by jotux 12y ago
>A good rule of thumb is to hire only people who are better than you. Reminds me of another adage: >Never be the smartest person in the room.
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by jotux 12y ago
>It would certainly hurt the content creator more. I think you could make the argument that you affect the content creator to a higher degree (larger percent of income) but I suspect you affect the ad company to a higher dollar amount. N
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by jotux 12y ago
>The ad industry has spent years cultivating a 'fuck you' attitude where they would do everything that was within their technical capabilities to spy on people and shovel ads on top of them. To now suddenly be concerned about t
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by jotux 12y ago
>But its the content creators being punished, not the ad companies. It's both, right?
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by jotux 12y ago
Japan got over the ickiness of insects a long time ago: http://aeon.co/magazine/society/why-the-west-fears-insects-w...
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by jotux 12y ago
>Lobsters, shrimps or mussles are actually delicious, and are thus expensive. Insects or dog/cat meat on the other aren't Deciding something is delicious or not has more to do with culture and upbringing than actual taste.
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by jotux 12y ago
>meritocracy Has anyone ever seen an actual meritocratic work place? Eight years working and I'm convinced that it's nearly impossible for small organizations to implement and outright impossible for large organizations.
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by jotux 12y ago
We'll split H into three parts: |,-, and |.
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by jotux 12y ago
"If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right" http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WILSON%...
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by jotux 12y ago
Here's an email exchange I had with someone who bought a domain from me: Buyer Hi there, Is the domain-name.com domain for sale? Cheers Jotux I have future plans for the domain but I'd considering sellin
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by jotux 12y ago
For the uninitiated this is considered, by many, to be the electronics bible. Sort of a TAOCP for electronics and circuits. The last version came out in 1989 and we're finally getting an update this year.
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The Art of Electronics, 3rd Edition, to be released April 2015(cambridge.org)
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by jotux 12y ago
>It's getting a bit out of hand where every single statement online is now getting a [Citation Needed] afterwards I wasn't asking if there was evidence just to be annoying, I was asking because the statement was exactly opposit
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by jotux 12y ago
>populated by children with parents more heavily involved in their upbringing Is there evidence to back up this statement?
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by jotux 12y ago
SATA DIMM slots are already available: http://www.vikingtechnology.com/satadimm-ssd
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by jotux 12y ago
From my bookmarks: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ev... This was on hn a while ago and spurred some really interesting discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by jotux 12y ago
Every dictionary I can find defines decimate as "destroy a large part of." A few of them mention the 1-in-10 definition as obsolete.
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by jotux 12y ago
I recently saw an episode of "Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown" where he visits Colombia. He talked to locals about the drug trade and one person he interviewed made a very good argument that stuck with me: Many people see drugs a
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by jotux 12y ago
>I wish this kind of data was frequently mentioned throughout the year in mainstream media. Except bad news is what people want to see and it's what makes money. If you try to shift your news reporting away from crime and gore it ki
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by jotux 12y ago
Similar but a different perspective: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-tra... I personally strive to never, ever, say that I'm busy.
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by jotux 12y ago
It also makes dealing with voicemail a great deal better. I despise voicemail at my work because I have to call a number, listen to the message and clear it to make my phone stop blinking. On my cell phone it just pops up as a text message,
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by jotux 12y ago
The arduino hardware is so trivially simple I can't see how anyone would see this as a problem. What you're complaining about is a non-issue.
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by jotux 12y ago
>Throwing a half-documented Eagle file over the wall doesn't count. The eagle sch/brd files are the source. >If they really want to open-source the design of the arduino, they'd publish an official Bill-of-Materials for

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