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1411.
by mwfunk 13y ago
Well, that's your own fault for having a binary point of view about something. It's plenty newsworthy to people with more bits (or at least people whose MSb isn't whether or not the software someone else is using is proprietary).
1412.
by mwfunk 13y ago
His employer has done absolutely nothing to either make him the face of the brand or mention him a lot, unless you consider a couple of obligatory press releases as being a media blitzkrieg. Your perception comes from people theorizing abou
1413.
by mwfunk 13y ago
If it's getting upvoted, then by definition it's interesting to people. It's not new but it's still relevant, and having a discussion about it on HN 5 years later is certainly new, which was probably the intent.
1414.
by mwfunk 13y ago
I don't think Linux is about anything (and that includes intangibles like "choice" or "freedom"). It's an open source kernel that a bunch of people hack on, that's it. The traditional Linux distro model is about choice, but that was from ne
1415.
by mwfunk 13y ago
Sadly you just described most of the tech press (substitute any competing technologies and companies in step 1). I guess it worked for John Dvorak and Slashdot and plenty of others back in the day. :( BGR seems to be going in the same direc
1416.
by mwfunk 13y ago
I don't think Gruber makes any pretense of acting as an objective journalist at all, he's just a guy that writes about things that interest him. It's true that the things he chooses to write about frequently fall into the "Apple gets this r
1417.
by mwfunk 14y ago
So, since you are clearly a very technically deep and insightful person with lots and lots of industry experience, you are stating with great authority that OS X does not use FreeType to rasterize fonts. Interesting. :)
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by mwfunk 14y ago
I am much more likely to be frustrated by really having a hankering for some McDonald's and everyone else being the sort of people who haven't had fast food in 10 years, if ever in their entire life (pretty much my entire team). I try to ap
1419.
by mwfunk 14y ago
Google Now and Siri are fundamentally different types of applications, one is not a substitute for the other (at least currently). I see stories like this all the time setting them up against each other, and they always read like Apple vs.
1420.
by mwfunk 14y ago
Lifelong geek here, and I can totally understand the appeal of this story. Reading some of the comments is kinda depressing though. There's no "us" and there's no "them". There are groups of people in the world with similar clusters of inte
1421.
by mwfunk 14y ago
Totally. A disturbing number of things on the list are cultural or tribal signifiers rather than things that have anything to do with being someone who can get stuff done, get it done well, and get it done in a reasonable amount of time (wh
1422.
by mwfunk 14y ago
"Most forecasts are pegging them to declining profits and drastically slowing sales." Citation needed, and sensationalist analysts don't count.
1423.
by mwfunk 14y ago
I think Marco is describing two things that I've felt strongly about for a long time: (1) The medium deeply influences the conversation. It just seems like human nature that people are much more likely to speak up to complain about somethin
1424.
by mwfunk 14y ago
Historically the Republican party has been libertarianish, at least in the sense that the guiding principles were minimizing the size and reach of government, keeping the government out of people's lives, and legislating at the most local l
1425.
by mwfunk 14y ago
I can't tell if this is parody, or a parody of a parody, or a parody of a parody of a parody. The tone is very much like the original article, but as if written by a hypothetical Scumbag Steve software engineer rather than an imaginary Scum
1426.
by mwfunk 14y ago
I think a lot of people have experienced the situation where you spend like 10 hours staring at the same code trying to figure out why it's not working, then come back to it the next day and see the problem within minutes. It's like the bra
1427.
by mwfunk 14y ago
Yeah, I suspect all of the comments will either be about why somebody thinks the algorithm is stupid or why they don't think they need a filter on HN or why they think filters in general are stupid or promote groupthink or whatever. The aut
1428.
by mwfunk 14y ago
Ah, the irony. :)
1429.
by mwfunk 14y ago
I guess it comes down to your perception of how bad comments are, generally. Like, for a given comments section, what percentage is "that's interesting, I'm glad I read that!", what percentage is ignored, and what percentage is "I fear for
1430.
by mwfunk 14y ago
No, he's got a complaint, verifying the "valid" part requires digging into what he wrote and really thinking about it. The emotion and opinion part makes readers not want to do that. But yeah, it doesn't help the comments either. :(
1431.
by mwfunk 14y ago
I'm as guilty as anyone of going deep on various editors and really getting into the weeds of editor automation, configuration, and learning obscure hotkeys and commands. Vim and emacs in particular are great for this. But after many year