mikedouglas

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by mikedouglas 17y ago
A lot of users are lost in the functionality of modern desktop operating systems. For Apple, this means a worse experience and lost content sales. For Google, this means lost advertising dollars. It makes sense that both companies would eve
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Avatar was shot in 3D for more than purely artistic motives.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
True, but 2D Boy should also be the exception when it comes to these "charitable" payments. They're a small indie game shop that produces top value content. How many of those >$1 payments would've disappeared if this was EA?
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
What changes to copyright law would decrease piracy, yet still incentive content creation? I'm genuinely interested if anyone here has any ideas; it seems like a very difficult problem.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
> I pirate because I would never be afford all the things I want or use. That may apply for you, but seems empirically false. Take, for instance, 2D Boy's recent "Pay Want You Want". The plurality[0] chose to give $0.01 (the lowest poss
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
If I read everything that came up on HN because it could possibly be useful, I won't have much time to start that business. For worse or better, we all have certain filters that every once and a while have a false positive. I was just elabo
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
But the context never matters as much as most people think. I know a few people who have completed 1-3 of your list. None of them made the business into anything approaching VoodooPC. Why? Did this particular 17 year old just get lucky? If
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Every link from mixergy.com seems to follow that same format, too. "How [Someone Just Like You] Made [Large Sum of Money]". Why make your site sound like a late night infomercial? Maybe there is decent information about starting a successfu
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Microsoft deeply needs a change at the top.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
The latest numbers I could find place Google's search market share in China at 19.8%[0]. Sadly, I think 19.8% of China's internet users is much, much larger than the number of people who decide search providers based on the ethical record o
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Since when is it theft to make a literary reference?
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Does it, really? Most of the optimizations mentioned in the article (compression/obfuscation, module system, yslow integration) or in these comments (debugging, refactoring, auto completion) are all available/possible in javascript alone. W
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Was the personal attack at the end necessary?
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
That's true, and a much better reason than data loss.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Just because I have control, doesn't mean the data is safer. It's the practical realization that Google is likely to have a more recent, redundant backup of my data than me. The amount of effort to ensure that P(losing my backup) < P(go
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
The Android system of notifying the user exactly which APIs are being used by an app, prior to install, seems like a step in the right direction. The talk mentions that class unmarshalling, encrypted payloads, and other tricks that make t
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Ironic that a talk that mentions distortions in the press around security issues, would be linked to by such a horribly written hit piece. It would be nice if a mod could replace the original link with the pdf above. The talk finishes with
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
You can always blame pilot error for a problem, but if there is no pilot then it is the airlines fault for either not maintaining the system properly or for selecting the system in the first place Great observation. The primary advantage
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
For those in the aerospace industry, are we seeing any movement towards unmanned commercial airplanes? Are the impediments mostly technical or social? Any rough timelines?
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Forgot about that. Looks like soft references are tied to the JVM as well (IKVM emulates them by waiting until a full run to collect). http://github.com/fanatico/clojure/commit/aa78d57476806df10f...
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Sent a patch to Rich, so we'll hopefully see it in the official implementation.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
While I think the constant pressure to reform is generally a positive force, to hear that AP placement in math and sciences is triple what it was a decade ago is a nice reminder of progress.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
ISPs can, but they can already traffic shape, so that isn't really a weakness. Malicious clients can't because the throttling is done per-socket.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
The article is a little light on technical facts. The previous Bittorrent protocol used TCPs congestion control. Any reason to believe that their UDP+µTP replacement will outperform it? Edit: found the draft RFC: http://www.bittorrent.org/
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Average matters in the sense that I don't know which new application I might be using in six months. Usually my computing experience is dictated by the worse interaction that day. If I have to deal with a text editor that uses tabs when I w
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
When has Apple sued another company for patent infringement (not including countersuits)?
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
From the article: [Netbooks] are cannibalizing Windows PC sales at an alarming rate. By comparison, laptops commanded higher margins and average selling prices when their popularity started to increase. PC manufacturers --
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
This was an issue recently with the Google Book Search deal. Even though the books were out of copyright or orphaned, Google owned the copyright to the scans, and would only give a non-transferable license back to the universities.
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Here is a one-liner that's quite useful: (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook (lambda () (font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("\\<\$FIXME\\|TODO\\|BUG\$:" 1 font-lock-warning-face t)))))
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by mikedouglas 17y ago
Great idea. mike.douglas <at> gmail

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