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by mfisher87 12y ago
I think this is common across the board. The exceptions are the HR departments that keep applicants and interested parties updated and answer your questions quickly.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
>Because you can't just say "I'm sceptical" and expect to magically arrive to the correct conclusion. Yes. The idea that "the worldview based on science alone has reaped what it has sown," seems a little sil
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by mfisher87 12y ago
I'm confused then -- why, in terms of correct vs. incorrect outcomes, does skepticism work out so well for those trained in the methods of science, but so poorly for those who are not?
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by mfisher87 12y ago
>Google is another likely buyer, but Google can’t compete with Apple’s war chest? I always thought Google had more cash than Apple...this sounded off, so looked it up. Google's at 64B cash + liquid assets, Apple at 32B. Oh, no, how
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Under U.S. law, that doesn't seem like a stretch to me at all.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Chicago suburb. $120 for 50/10. I have one other option, but I stopped doing business with AT&T a decade ago. I agree this is better speed for the price than yours, but only marginally. Areas with affordable, reliable, fast broad
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Ooo, thanks for the tip on Manjaro. I'm an Arch addict, give me the pure stuff. But I've been looking for a good alternative to Ubuntu Desktop for introducing Linux to newer users. Steam pre-packaged would be a plus for that dem
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by mfisher87 12y ago
There have been conversations in my job where I refer to a 40GB file as "big" and someone else will go "that's nothing." Well, obviously there are bigger files somewhere , but that doesn't mean 40GB is nothing
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Apple isn't in the business of tracking people? http://advertising.apple.com/
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by mfisher87 12y ago
We're talking about physical barriers to entry. Without the money, you can't start the business. If you have the finance, but with a higher opportunity cost, you are still able .
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by mfisher87 12y ago
I wouldn't say it's completely unfair. Using proprietary data/charging cables and changing the design every so often, obsoleting whole generations of products seems like behavior consistent with my criticism.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Most major companies, to me, seem to be following Apple's example and forcing a shorter support lifecycle for each device, expecting users to simply replace their "obsolete" device with the newest one.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
I started seeing obsolete emails early this month for a bug I've been tracking: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8839 It's extremely frustrating to have an issue thread full of ag
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by mfisher87 12y ago
NICE TITLE HN: "The pirate bay down forever (Peter Sunde's blog)" Peter Sunde's Blog: "The Pirate Bay down, forever?"
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Is there an editor on staff at Wired? >Obama wrote his code part of event today organized by Code.org, which brought brought 20 middle school students from the South Seventeenth Street School in Newark, New Jersey, to the White House, wh
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Something can be made obsolete without advancement having occurred. "Oh, let's just change the design of our proprietary charging cable for our entire product suite next generation for zero or marginal benefit to the consumer.&quo
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Yeah, in the universe . More ambitious even than Glorblax, creator of the monoliths. Why does anyone ever continue reading an article after a headline like that? Nothing can follow except a thoughtless a puff piece.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
I know someone at HP who recently got a job on this project. So... it's not a lie?
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Do NOT be fooled. An explicit ban on paid prioritization is the only way to preserve the system we have today. If you allow paid prioritization, there will no longer be a "vibrant" tech sector (as we think of it today) in the US.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
... Why is javascript "critical" here? It's really critical , as in there's no other way to go from viewing one set of text to another set of text on a page without javascript? This site cannot be reproduced without i
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by mfisher87 12y ago
The demonstration that air resistance is the cause of the difference in fall duration is what you gain from this. You don't get to remove air resistance from the equation in any other way. It's easy for an ignorant person to assum
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by mfisher87 12y ago
>I hired people overseas who follow up on everything I do. Can you expand on this one?
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Not to mention putting together a collection of stories like this would give Apple fans a fallacious reference for why everyone should "just get a mac". Sorry, if a Mac doesn't fit my needs, I'm going to use a normal per
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by mfisher87 12y ago
1920x1200 landscape, same issue.
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by mfisher87 12y ago
>"Github has become the de-facto place to put code that you want others to work with," I think maybe you meant to use a more general term like "source control" here. Because that's so wrong to say github is de-fa
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by mfisher87 12y ago
I wonder if today's new reddit users see it as we once did? As a source for learning rather than entertainment. And in two years, will their complaints be the same as ours?
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by mfisher87 12y ago
>You point out one example where it's somewhat separate and I can point out many where it's not. That's great. You SAID "zero". And you pointed out zero examples to defend your statement. I pointed out one exampl
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by mfisher87 12y ago
Someone clearly made a project that works for what they want, so shame them? I'm pretty sure HN is supposed to more about learning and growth than about putting others down to show off your pre-existing knowledge, discouraging them fro
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by mfisher87 12y ago
> I'd like to ask how you would explain the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism to the families of the thousands of people that died in the twin towers. I'm sure they'd be fascinated to hear it. Logical fallacy: Appeal
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by mfisher87 12y ago
I don't think the practice is well known. I've been on HN for a year or something, and have seen reference to the practice in comments a maximum of 5 times. And I think I tend to read pretty deeply.

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