loewenskind

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by loewenskind 16y ago
>But having a monopoly in the mobile app market does give Apple a monopoly. They don't. Doesn't Android actually have more apps in their app store? It really is what the parent said: the Apple market place is just better, it's not a
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I can't believe history can be completely forgotten in less than 20 years. Here are a couple of links I found with a quick googling: http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html http://web.archive.org/web/20071215231524/http://www.vcnet.c... The
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by loewenskind 16y ago
If we ever get to the point that jobs aren't replaced that would mean that all work isn't needed so the typical rules of capitalism no longer apply. Capitalism is just a mechanism for allocating resources, it's not any kind of moral judgmen
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by loewenskind 16y ago
If last.fm, etc. are providing so much value why are their margins so thin? Are they providing value less than 30% of the cost of the base product?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
You can't possibly be serious. You don't know of Microsoft's long history of copying software that other companies had made, putting them out of business? And three other people as well apparently.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
This sounds a bit hyperbolic. The company that is notorious for doing this is Microsoft.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Personally I would prefer Racket over Guile, but if it starts to keep its promise about becoming the scripting language for linux then I would get more interested. Any link for all the things that have started to happen with it lately for
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I can understand Apple wanting to cut out middle men. I've never been a big fan of middle men myself, for the most part. But the biggest thing that bugs me about this is: iBooks doesn't have any books where I am! I buy all my stuff on Ki
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Simple solution: sell your crops where it is most profitable. Maybe with 11x normal it's still worth it. As soon as it's not, you switch.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>It's deeply disturbing that the people at Apple feel entitled to radically change the rules of the game whenever it suits them. What makes you think that's what they're doing? It could also be that they never intended for their platfo
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Couldn't disagree more. The "all apps should be web apps" movement is just an attempt to return to dumb terminals. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way again, but this time "fat client" apps can just be nicer front ends to web servi
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by loewenskind 16y ago
If people are using apps because they make more money with them, then what is your basis for claiming web apps are superior?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
If you don't have speech without consequences then there will always be things that need to be said that can't be.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Looks like you're getting a bit defensive for some reason. I was using "you" as a generic pronoun (I could have said "one would be" instead but that's more wordy and is IMO less clear).
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by loewenskind 16y ago
You make some good points but I think you're underestimating the power a monopoly can have. It's true that IBM wasn't able to keep their strangle hold on technology, but Microsoft did for a long time. Walmart still stands largely unoppo
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Happy wife = happy life I hate this phrase, it's the battle cry of those who do whatever their wife says and laugh with their buddies about how whipped they are. Marriage is a balancing act. Of course you have to change and give in w
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I agree with PG: just ignore patents when you're small. If you ever get big enough for it to matter than things are looking really good and you'll have more bargaining options.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>You come across patterns like that by doing the tedious work the hard way and looking for short-cuts. This doesn't work for me. After a little bit of tedium my mind quickly switches through "just fight your way through this" and no mo
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>He very correctly points out that people should simply fix the Wikipedia rules then. Everyone is responsible for their own action . You should not follow rules that are bad, you should ignore them or try to change them yourself. "Ju
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Nothing lets the terrorists win more than spending ourselves into a stupor chasing non-existent boogy men.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
What is the point of posting a 10+ year old toy? You could do this same thing in a very wide variety of languages, but since it's useless most people usually don't bother.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Good catch. Windows has never been the king of OS's ever. They've been spectacular at marketing to Corporations, etc., but their OS's have always been "within range" or worse than the alternatives.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
From your moral high horse can you see what the correct action to take is? More useless voting between two parties who take near identical actions? Anonymous did what their target did. It was no more legal or illegal. If you want to pu
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by loewenskind 16y ago
The entire point of a civilized society is to overcome evolution. For consistency, do you at least hate all our technology that lets e.g. babies that would have died 50 years ago lead long productive lives? They obviously had bad genes, r
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by loewenskind 16y ago
That's actually a very cute story. It would make a nice blog post, or Calvin & Hobbes type comic strip or something.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Agreed, both are trade offs. One is not "clearly a winner", it depends on your goals.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
It's not as straight forward as you describe. The "instantly and globally released" nature of web apps is both an advantage and a disadvantage. What if I have a client that needs to keep the only interface for some reason? It's easy to j
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by loewenskind 16y ago
> Ideally, data synced on the web, with clients on the desktop seems like an ideal possibility to me. Or maybe its just me who thinks this way. You're not the only one.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Which further illustrates my point. What is the point of posting 4 or 5 paragraphs from someone clueless about the subject they're talking about?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>it seems to me it is the naysayers who are doing that. At most, the "naysayers" can't be any more than the perl advocates. No one is going out of their way to post articles against perl. We just come out when someone posts yet anothe

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