jowiar

15 ms·

91.
by jowiar 9y ago
Microsoft absolutely did get slowed down by the government. Badly. It would have been illegal for them to integrate the way Apple did with MacOS, long before iOS rolled around. The role of the government is to correct for market failure. A
92.
by jowiar 9y ago
Last time I went to Chelsea Market I got the feeling of "Nobody (local) goes here... there are too many tourists and the experience walking around here is miserable" Times Square-esque
93.
by jowiar 9y ago
I'll take it over nothing, though. I'm generally a fan of documenting when you do something and don't like it, though it's generally useful to use something a hair more constructive. At the very least, though, leaving a
94.
by jowiar 9y ago
Ate it on a recent trip to Finland. Absolutely delicious — probably closer to bison than deer from a culinary perspective.
95.
by jowiar 9y ago
Taxis in cities with decent taxi systems, in a neighborhood with decent taxi coverage, hailed by waving your hand on the side of the road are fine, and getting better by way of competition. I have no qualms with taxis in, ie NYC or DC. Tax
96.
by jowiar 9y ago
Regional domestic travel in the US is shit — it’s not particularly profitable, and ends up with many monopolies. Flying between major cities/hubs is generally comfortable and efficient, albeit a hair expensive, but trying to go anywher
97.
by jowiar 9y ago
But ideally, "I was just following orders" should not be an excuse. Part of the reason we need proper professional accreditation is so that engineers can say "No, this is wrong.", and the CEO can't say "you&#x2
98.
by jowiar 9y ago
The latter. It is a moral failing to build/market a product with failure modes that expose unconsenting victims to consequences they did not sign up for. And "we were just following orders" should not be a defense, either.
99.
by jowiar 9y ago
That's complete BS. If he was running a little neighborhood place selling dinner for $30, I'd buy what you're saying. But he's not. Google "Le suquet", and in the Google tagline, you get: "Le Suquet at Lag
100.
by jowiar 9y ago
This is every Stephenson book. Snowcrash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and The Diamond Age also fall victim to similar problems. He is a fantastic world-builder, but eventually he runs out of paper and needs to make things resolve, and the pacin
101.
by jowiar 9y ago
That level of obsession is necessary for ensuring that every non-professional eater is receiving the meal they expected. What is the difference? “I’ll put on a show for the critics, and mail it in for everyone else”? Or “The quality we’re d
102.
by jowiar 9y ago
But Yelp isn’t the go-to destination for answering “Where can I find a once-in-a-lifetime caliber meal”. And what this chef wants is to be able to lock in his reputation at delivering said caliber meal without any checking as to whether he
103.
by jowiar 9y ago
You are nailing his actual opinion better than anyone else on here. No need to apologize.
104.
by jowiar 9y ago
The thing that Michelin’s review process does, though, is it pushes very heavily towards “consistent excellence”. And if you’re charging well into 3 figures for a meal, that is a reasonable expectation. If the chef opened a place where he w
105.
by jowiar 9y ago
The US takes active efforts to prevent USD being used in illegal activities. That's not to say that it isn't, but there are legal red flags if you try to haul a big pile of bills through customs. Cryptocurrency's entire use c
106.
by jowiar 9y ago
Interestingly, I have been traveling in Ireland recently, and well over 90% of my transactions are Apple Pay.
107.
by jowiar 9y ago
TouchID also is problematic if you're wearing gloves, which people who don't live in San Francisco do during non-trivial portions of the year.
108.
by jowiar 9y ago
All the other tech giants are in the business of selling your data to advertisers. Apple is in the business of selling their stuff to you.
109.
by jowiar 9y ago
Doing something like that is illegal if you have a monopoly. Apple doesn't (or even majority market share).
110.
by jowiar 9y ago
Or a preexisting supply of houses. It may not mean low costs that will last forever, but it will hold prices down in the short run.
111.
by jowiar 9y ago
Deeply deeply disagree (and my background is CS/Software Engineering+Public Policy). She has way more attention to minute policy detail than anyone who has been elected president in the past few decades. And the knowledge of detail is
112.
by jowiar 9y ago
Not splitting the community because the guy is an asshole is still splitting the community between "people who will put up with the asshole" and "people who leave the community because of the asshole". This gives the peo
113.
by jowiar 9y ago
The biggest pressure against polymaths is the structure of the modern university. From department organization, mentoring, battles for funding, it is very difficult to find an encouraging environment if you don't stay within a narrow n
114.
by jowiar 9y ago
The problem for me with Simple is that whole they tend to be very good at providing support or technology, but are pretty bad at being a bank. They're unreasonably restrictive with regard to using your debit card abroad, and the lack o
115.
by jowiar 9y ago
He doesn't qualify his statements, though. In my view, one of the most offputting parts of the nerd worldview is "I don't like it therefore it's shit". This juvenile lack of empathy is at the root of a lot of confli
116.
by jowiar 9y ago
Running on BSD and Mercurial? Wouldn't have made a lick of difference for most of us.
117.
by jowiar 9y ago
I don't much care whether Linus individually has the justification to be an asshole or not. The problem is that Linus being an asshole causes many other engineers to think it's ok/expected/encouraged to be assholes. All
118.
by jowiar 9y ago
Maybe, but solving truly big problems relies on people working together. Linus (and the unfortunate proliferation of jackasses who emulate him) do more to hinder progress than help it.
119.
Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale(npr.org)
1 points by jowiar 9y ago|0 comments
120.
by jowiar 9y ago
I imagine the way forward in that space is the watch. I wouldn't be shocked if the prices come way down this fall. If the use case is athletics, Apple could hit that market well if they drop below $200.

More ›