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by nanairo 16y ago
This is anecdotal, but I know of many people who got jobs from big firms during University's career fair. They were doing things like History, or English language. The reason why the employers were so keen on them was not that they were goi
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think it's sad and I think we are sliding more and more into that mindset. But I also think the situation is brighter than you describe it in some countries. In Italy (where I come from) school is extremely generic, with around 12 subject
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by nanairo 16y ago
Oh, then I am with you. :) I guess I was looking longer term, but I wouldn't be surprised if "don't close the system" is the new "stop messing with what I like". ;)
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by nanairo 16y ago
No, and sorry if I come to strongly. But this "regulated by the market" dogma (and that is what it is) is an extremely simplified which gets repeated over and over again, despite plenty of examples that it doesn't work. Even Adam Smith, the
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by nanairo 16y ago
I must admit that I am always a bit prejudicial when I hear an business person (or a business magazine like this) talking about universities. They seem to view Universities as a business proposal: "How much do we invest? How much do we get
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by nanairo 16y ago
The model already exist: school vs. universities. It is just---and this is just my opinion---that as human knowledge became bigger and bigger, what the people at the edge, pushing the envelope do, is further and further from what a 1st year
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by nanairo 16y ago
It's the usual open for whom argument. Say Verizon creates its app store, promotes it, and removes Google's Marketplace. They also make sure you can't install apps any other way, including the original Google's marketplace. Now, they have b
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by nanairo 16y ago
At the same time developers follow customers. ;) It goes both ways. But yeah, I agree with you. Do it at your peril, and they tried, kept going probably thinking the pros. out-weighted the cons, and eventually after 2 years pushing it, they
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by nanairo 16y ago
I disagree. Apple's stubbornness has its problems, and sometimes it's a pain. At the same time this uncompromising stances are common among those with strong believes and vision. And Apple has those (if you agree with their believes and vis
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by nanairo 16y ago
Well, personally I think there is a difference. I completely agree that it's always good for a customer to complain about the product if there are problems. Gosh: read all the Mac faithful complains when a new MacOS comes out! Similarly if
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by nanairo 16y ago
I am not sure I follow you. Apple's iPhone is still unique in its niche. Of course Android is commoditising the smartphone market, so if you are in the market for a smartphone then iPhone/Android/WebOS/etc... are all comparable. But if some
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by nanairo 16y ago
I thought so too... but now I am not too convinced. Two reasons mostly: 1- Google abandoning the Nexus One 2- Google getting too friendly with Verizon I fear they've moved to plan B. :(
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by nanairo 16y ago
-1 The article answers this line of thought (see below)... and instead you offer no arguments. "And before all of you pros storm the comments with how great it is to root your Android phones, consider the average consumers here. They are th
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by nanairo 16y ago
This is very close to a previous article blaming Google for turning us back into the days of strong carrier control. (can't remember the link, but it was here on HN). And I agree, though I don't think Google did it on purpose. Their main ai
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by nanairo 16y ago
True. But you'll have to agree that such argument have a diminishing marginal return pattern. 500ms vs. 250ms may be great, but what about 100ms vs. 50ms? Once you reach the point my brain is the bottleneck, what's the point? On the other h
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by nanairo 16y ago
True. I guess it depends on your working pattern. Personally I start with the browser's search field, but then (dunno why) if I need to make some changes I do it in google page itself (about 50% of the time, I'd estimate). So I think It wil
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by nanairo 16y ago
It seems a good idea... who cares who you define it in the end. Anyone who likes "release early, release often" will probably agree too. Personally as a Ruby user I am looking forward to all the dynamic goodness that JDK 7 is supposed to br
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by nanairo 16y ago
It sounds like it would be confusing... but they let you switch it off, so all the best to them.
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by nanairo 16y ago
I believe you are right if... HP and Hurd wrote an agreement not to go to work for HP's competitors. Several companies do this, so they may very well have (in which case Hurd is in a world of pain). On the other hand if they haven't, I am n
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by nanairo 16y ago
Am I the only one who feels Mozilla is losing focus? It's not that I think they shouldn't experiment (that's great for a non-for-profit company), but it seems they never really decided where they boundary ends. So from time to time you hear
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by nanairo 16y ago
Maybe it's different in the USA, but having studied in the UK I find the jab at the olympic class sports facilities a bit populistic to say the least. The University is a place with a LOT of young people, so already putting a sport facility
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by nanairo 16y ago
Anyone knows how does duplicity compare to XAR? DAR? Or CFS or 7z?
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by nanairo 16y ago
But you have no idea if the rich will actually invest that money in the country, and if they'll do it now. Currently it looks like the answer to both of those questions is no. As for government spending being inefficient, I know that's a co
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by nanairo 16y ago
I don't think it's the government job to grant everyone a job (at least in the USA, in other countries it is). But that wasn't my point. What is important for a country is the ratio of debt to GDP. Currently if you keep cutting like this th
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by nanairo 16y ago
What? So now mega-corporations are less efficient than small companies and hence we have to keep them? You break up the big corporations and with many suppliers suddenly they need to fight it off in the free market. It will lower prices and
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by nanairo 16y ago
Where does this economic theory come from? If the government cuts expenditures to pay the debt, then more people are without a job or without services. Therefore the economy cools down and the government gets even less money from taxes. At
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by nanairo 16y ago
I would agree with you, if the benefit were shared by society. But in a country like the USA the cheaper, more efficient outsourced productivity helps those who own the companies, and the managers of the company. On the other hand, those wh
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by nanairo 16y ago
I agree. Not sure where the ideas that a country where people cannot afford any goods because they have no money need more tax cuts, especially for the rich. Poor people don't get many advantages from lower taxes because they often don't ha
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by nanairo 16y ago
Mostly I agree. It's a problem in democracy and it has been badly exacerbated by the speed of communication nowadays (TV and Internet mostly). Though I think we completely disagree on the UK example. ;) (I won't get into the details because
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by nanairo 16y ago
I think (1) is always the case with a "brilliant" company (whatever that means). Apple got successes because they didn't shun risk. Often they got it right (e.g. the iMac, dropping the floppy, etc...). Others they got it wrong (e.g. the Mac

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