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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
When classifying assholes, there's no rule that states only one party can come out the asshole. Nobody won in that situation.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
As I told pg, my opinion of you impacts Svbtle so minutely that it might as well not even exist. But , it is still my opinion of you . Let's be honest, Dustin, that article was from 2009. It wasn't exactly written in the '80s when you wer
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I don't like Dustin Curtis as a person, based on prior history (i.e., American Airlines, presumption in his articles bordering on know-it-all after accomplishing little, and so on). You might find that the majority of the haters you're talk
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Modern 3D engines usually contain some not-insignificant amount of assembly for performance reasons. It'd require almost completely retuning, probably, undoing years of ideas since ARM is an entirely different architecture. Wouldn't hold yo
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I inherited my Rolodex from the writer I replaced. Then you just add to it over time. Meet new PR guy for WhizCo at an unrelated story? Another card for the Rolodex. The savvy PR people will reach out to you without prompt, as well, which c
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
The contacts that journalists have can usually give a quick off the record "that's not correct" and kill a story like this. Perhaps an on the record quick statement, or a callback within a half hour or so once the appropriate people are con
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
That's a disingenuous distinction. By blogs I'm not saying the technical amalgamation of components that make a "web log", I'm saying the "typical news sources" that are cited on the Web these days. It's not about the genre, and you're ov
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
The page that was linked means the URL the blogs gave as the link. Click Gizmodo's link here[1]. So, yes, the link is down. [1]: http://gizmodo.com/5973730/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolu...
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Former investigative journalist here, though I'm not entirely sure what that has to do with the topic at hand. You'll notice, if you read carefully, that I didn't say anybody was forcing me to do anything and instead I took issue with being
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
If it is the price "we" paid, I didn't agree to pay it. I'd much rather read a slower source that, you know, doesn't libel people at the drop of a hat and without apology. I honestly wish, as damaging to the free flow of information on the
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I agree, but the entire premise of the blogosphere makes it worse. Ethically gray publishers like Gizmodo make it even worse still . Traditional journalists would be smart enough to check with Adobe for confirmation before telling the wor
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Anybody can have a blog on Forbes, and it's not Forbes the editorial team publishing them. It's sad that Forbes hinged its brand on the occasional piles of malarky that are published on those blogs, especially since you're using the "It's F
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I never advocate changing titles, but this one is in need of work. It took me a bit to realize what was going on. Also, this seems like a non-issue. As I understand it, they've built a version that doesn't require activation and takes a spe
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I interviewed at a New York financial services company that expected you to write Q on the whiteboard during the interview. That'd normally be fine in that market, I guess, but this was for a general operations and systems administration po
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me, aside from I was too stupid to realize that the word Director doesn't translate among different organization charts. Is that accurate? I'm glad it was obvious for you? I'm not sure how to reply to
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Really? I know less about the GOOG organization than I thought, and I stand corrected. Thank you for correcting me. Who is in charge of the engineering organization? A SVP? I would have assumed a Director of Engineering would have reported
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Thank you for being reasonable in your response, and I'm glad that you've taken the comment to heart. I agree with another commenter: I think this letter would have been better left closed. I had the privilege of meeting Ray Kurzweil last y
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I, and by extension, you, are assuming it was a misconception at all in the first place. My jury's still out. Could be a "his views on AI will permeate Google as a whole, too, who happen to be in a position to execute on it" sort of thing,
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
There's a difference between believing in something and explaining it, which I would have loved to read, and openly criticizing Larry Page's hiring decisions because you disagree with the hire's views. How would you feel if you got hired so
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
He joined Google as Director of Engineering. He didn't join Google as Director of AI Research. Yes, we all read that Ray's intended project was what got Larry Page to hire him, but Director of Engineering over an organization of thousands o
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Food for thought: the only reason traffic jams happen is because humans are imperfect creatures that can't maintain a uniform speed (barring a total-closure collision or some other abnormal event). Imagine the impact on humans if traffic ja
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
To be fair, Apple isn't doing a lot to undo that misleading. His anecdote isn't the first I've heard.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
In theory, screen will absolutely add latency because it's another indirection terminal (your input has to traverse SSH, then SSH's terminal, then screen's terminal, then your process, then back). Again in theory, that addition should be fa
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
As a possibly-incorrect point of pedantry, I don't think New Line holds the "rights", though they distributed the film. Doesn't United Artists hold the rights? To be frank, I skimmed Wikipedia before leaving this comment, and I remain unsur
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I think people hating on The Hobbit were just mad they ran out of popcorn before the third act. It's a valid criticism that the film does run a little long to not have a definite conclusion.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
You make a good case, and I don't disagree.
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Allow me to clarify that the reminding of Herbert that Tolkien triggers for me is not based upon the quality of the work -- and I think you and I are going to agree on how bad Herbert's is -- it's only the territorial and overbearing defens
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Yeah, it's Middle Earth's Bible, which is part of the reason why I disagree with its existence. Some argued that elder Tolkien would not have published his notes and thoughts in that form, and it dilutes Tolkien's published works of their a
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
Unlike The Matrix , The Hobbit was created knowing it would be the first of a trilogy (early in production, a two-part series). As such, it spends all of its frames laying the groundwork for the next film. One reviewer, I forget who, des
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by jspthrowaway2 14y ago
I find it hard to have sympathy for Christopher Tolkien, who hasn't exactly been a model steward of his father's imagination. I'm reminded a lot of Brian Herbert, who really hit left field with the posthumous Dune stuff. Given some of h

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