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by kemiller 16y ago
I don't think any of us know that until we see it in action.
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by kemiller 16y ago
The app store means * nearly zero worry about piracy* * much much easier discovery process for average users * much higher purchaser confidence (due to b and c) * lower purchase activation energy All of these together mean th
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by kemiller 16y ago
What has he actually impacted? Whose lives are affected, really, by what he did? Facebook, for good or ill, actually affects many people lives, and he was in the news in addition.
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by kemiller 16y ago
More to the point, those grand houses (not to mention, all manor of nice public works like subways in NYC) were built on the cheap labor of people who couldn't dream of owning their own home. The reason that kind of architecture became sca
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by kemiller 16y ago
At least several, maybe all, of those were directly inspired by rails migrations. Whether something automatic, but imperfect (renames, anyone?) is actually better than something explicit but easy enough seems a matter of taste.
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by kemiller 16y ago
They don't collide because the file names include more than just the number. And yes, manually renumbering is exactly what you'd have to do. Timestamps obviate that. Theoretically, you can still have collisions (two migrations alter the sam
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by kemiller 16y ago
Two developers pull code with migration version 4. Each writes a new feature involving a migration. Both get the number 5, which then collides when they both check in. But it doesn't collide at the source level, so you only find out when th
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by kemiller 16y ago
I can see a case for using it as the mute switch. I can't see a case for changing the behavior and not providing any way at all to get the old behavior back.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Sure, that's why they chose it. ;) And rightly so, since they came up with a good idea. But California came up with the iP(ad|od|hone) so it gets to set timing for that.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Here is one: http://www.ecamm.com/mac/printopia/
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by kemiller 16y ago
Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)
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by kemiller 16y ago
This parenthetical caught my eye: "(It is also worth noting that of the 100 Americans named by Forbes, Jobs is one of only seven who made their fortunes on their own.) " My, how things have changed.
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by kemiller 16y ago
It's overrepresented in the startup/emerging company job market.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Well, you know. The C64 had a bigger problem: Commodore.
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by kemiller 16y ago
No, but it was arguably price-performance leader, which the Mac, in raw terms, decidedly was not. I guess the other piece at the beginning was the IBM brand, but that wasn't enough to make it take off like a rocket.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Another factor here is that mobile devices are all a tier or two down from personal computers in terms of the raw number of dollars. Seems like a 15% premium is something people will consider paying if it only amounts to $30, but might not
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by kemiller 16y ago
Three sons implies a wife, or at least a mother, not present in the plane. She must be completely devastated. :(
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by kemiller 16y ago
It seems, from the outside, like Jobs could not have succeeded as well in his second act at Apple if he had not had the tempering of his days in the wilderness at NeXT. He had to learn, just a bit, how to work with people when he didn't ha
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by kemiller 16y ago
It's certainly true, in most cases, that noodling around on your own is no substitute for professional experience. But where are the entry-level Haskell jobs that would get someone that experience? Only route in is academia?
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by kemiller 16y ago
And yet they still don't have my block, smack in the middle of the SF Bay Area.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Anytime a bunch of people who sit on the same side of the table, economically speaking, get together, even socially, it's some flavor of collusion. Just forming social ties with people you should be in competition with is a little suspect.
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by kemiller 16y ago
:set paste Should help with indentation issues.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Few months of vim use is not really enough to see major benefits in raw speed. You have to get not just the basics but the advanced movement/replacement commands in your bones. A click-and-type editor will start you off fast and top out q
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by kemiller 16y ago
Hmm. Description of Nadar caste in wikipedia does not seem to suggest it is a lower caste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadar_(caste) Can anyone confirm or deny?
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by kemiller 16y ago
I think the beef some of us have with Google is that they seem to have left their balls at the door. However much Google is or isn't living up to "don't be evil" these days, I suspect most of us can agree that we'd rather have their rules
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by kemiller 16y ago
So, this is what appealed to me about the XP/Agile/Whatever movement. It crystallized some of the things I already saw working into a framework that had some chance of making sense to the nontechnical people who would (IME) tend to freak o
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by kemiller 16y ago
I'm not arguing that copyright infringement is right any more than I'm arguing trespassing or operating a sewage treatment plant in a residential neighborhood are right, only that they're not automatically "theft" just because they're bad.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Stealing an idea is metaphorical. And generally speaking, I'd say it refers to taking credit for the idea, not simply taking it and understanding it for yourself. Credit as originator is scarce. Instantiations are not.
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by kemiller 16y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. But in this case, it's not some sort of picayune hair-splitting going on. The word "theft" has visceral, ancient connotations for most people. Those with a horse in the much more abstract copyright i
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by kemiller 16y ago
Activities that are actually theft do not require this little semantic pas de deux every time they come up. Sort of like how anything that is actually a science doesn't need to include the word in its name.

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