lorddoig

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by lorddoig 12y ago
Nice designs, but my eyes almost fell out of my head when I saw the pricing. The regular price of the mid-tier is double the price of the highest Adobe Creative Cloud package!
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Interestingly that crazy looking magic roundabout serves a purpose. The (seemingly correct) theory was that such a setup would slow people down and make them cautious, thereby dispensing with the need for traffic lights and allowing safe s
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Presumably UBM is willing to sell the brand? I can't say I'm terribly familiar with Dr Dobb's but it seems a terrible shame and quite inefficient that something in such high demand can't find a way to survive. Feels li
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by lorddoig 12y ago
When did stealing other peoples' life work segue from a guilty necessity to a noble cause? I missed that.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Does anyone know what percentage of traffic is JPG/PNG? My curiosity wants to try to put a dollar-value on the potential global bandwidth savings.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Because they keep proving it over and over again? (at least in certain problem domains they do.) Government activities are generally important to a lot of people, if not because said people are direct consumers of the alleged benefits then
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Isn't it interesting that governments can get their act together and come up with big distributed systems crunching tens of Gbps in real time but still continue to implode spectacularly when it comes to large-scale webapps (e.g. Obamac
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Of course tents are not a long term solution, but vagrancy has been a problem for centuries and we still haven't solved it despite much chatter just like this. My point is that assuming we can't do anything substantial/long-
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Why are tents such a bad thing? If it comes down to a choice between waxing lyrical about hopelessness or buying some tents in bulk then it really seems like a no brainer. It's a band-aid for sure but it's better than this, no?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Good point - that could definitely be worth 20% when done properly. But I can't help think of eBay which does all that and still feels like a hella rip-off. My last eBay run had some international sales and when I did the final sums,
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It's outrageously stiff and, if anything, is a signal that selling services online by non-tech businesses is a still massively underdeveloped market.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Fully agreed. A low(ish)-level, non-JS API to the sea of DOM "primitives" inside blink/gecko/webkit/etc. suitable for targeting in an FFI-like manner by any language is the standard I'd like to see. We don&#x
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Nothing - I was talking about this: <input name='kids[1]' value='Thelma'> <input name='kids[0]' value='Ashley'>
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It amazes me that we're now at the point of standardizing sticking array references inside strings and yet we're still not having a serious discussion about what comes after HTML.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
This is satire, right?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
In the UK, unbundling has had a very limited effect on pricing when compared to straight-up nationalisation. Excluding Virgin's cable service, the last-mile infrastructure is wholly owned by BT Wholesale which, despite the name, is &qu
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I'm of the opinion indifference is a temporary state of mind that, when encountered, forces one to decide one way or another. If it wasn't, the binary question "would you like to buy this" is unanswerable, as if in some
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by lorddoig 12y ago
> If the goal is to maximize overall (combined consumer and producer) surplus The goal is to maximise wealth in the whole economy in such a way that gains incurred by one agent cannot come from harm incurred by another (Pareto optimali
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Yeah I get that. It's worth pointing out that I'm talking largely from an academic stance and what I'm saying doesn't really apply to shitty implementations. The theory is compelling and the reality is always different
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by lorddoig 12y ago
This is true for any case in isolation , but for all consumers in aggregate there is no other way to do things that ensures an increase in everyone's wealth. Any kind of flattened pricing structure will always harm some consumers fo
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by lorddoig 12y ago
They both do! Value != money. You don't need to subtract a penny to make it so. The value of the product for A must be greater than $13 or A won't buy it. The value of $13 cash must be greater than the value of not selling
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Game theory doesn't come into the optimality of this. Sure you could write out a single sale as a game between producer and consumer, but it's a long way around to get the same numbers out. An iterative game to buy something - w
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by lorddoig 12y ago
> This is where you're wrong. Not everyone is as happy as they could be. If there were no price discrimination then the theatre would make more money charging £7 to all 20 adults and 10 students (£210) than charging £10 to only the
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The only way transparency affects the optimality of a price discriminating system is possibly by screwing the whole thing up by creating resentment. This doesn't happen so much for cinema tickets as children/students/OAPs ar
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by lorddoig 12y ago
> Unfortunately, the business logic underlying much of this personalization remains a mystery. Price discrimination appears, at first glance, to be about maximising profit, but really it's about clearing the market . Say you'r
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I dread to think how much electricity it cost them to brute that vanity URL.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I wouldn't dare expect this to exist in 5 years, but I hope maybe it's an issue slightly closer to the front of our minds. We really don't need, or even want, a wholesale replacement of the browser internals - the rendering
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It's not a concept I'm peddling, it's an observation. Back in the day the browser was a document browser - like a read-only, network-enabled version of Microsoft Word. It's goals have changed immeasurably, but the techn
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Hopefully 5 years is long enough for us to stop and take stock of the inevitable destination of the browser: an OS in a VM. With any luck we might finally realise that we're not dealing with "documents" anymore, that HTML, JS
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by lorddoig 12y ago
There's a wonderfully entertaining moment around the 16 minute mark when Lorinda Cherry demoes a talking calculator with pipelines. Not satisfied with it saying "five" after evaluating 8-3, she commands it to raise 2 to the

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