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by nikster 14y ago
Dell customer service was awesome, then turned awful in 2000 or so when Dell left the company. I dont know how it is now but I imagine better again? Dells entire value was solid computers + great service, thats how they got big. These days
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by nikster 14y ago
Dell is a surprising addition, but only logical if you consider that every business partner of Microsoft, ever, was either bought out or killed by Microsoft. I am still surprised people want to be business partners with that company. Watch
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by nikster 14y ago
I think its also about Microsoft and how the company has failed to provide any real additional value over a Windows XP machine with Office 2001. My corporate client is running XP with Office 2003 and I really wish they'd stuck with the 2001
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by nikster 14y ago
Hmmm .. a company that refuses to sell to a potential customer. And that doubles their prices for the government. I guess one cant be too surprised at their downfall....
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by nikster 14y ago
Indeed. No reality distortion fields or elevator firings or questions about virginity. Then again, I suppose all those really crazy things happened during his fist stint at Apple when he was young and restless.
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by nikster 14y ago
When you look at some of the iApps - like iPhoto - i dont think he's irreplaceable. iPhoto sucks and always has. In software design, his influence was definitely hit and miss. Even a genius can err at times ;)
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by nikster 14y ago
I beg to disagree. I was surprised that Apple Maps also get the information granularity completely wrong, that is the amount of data presented at a zoom level. This, and not the data, made the app uttterly unusable for me on a recent trip t
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by nikster 14y ago
Its still always better to go there; it was like this in Burma (before they opened up); and it is like this in North Korea. The more contact there is with the outside world, the quicker things will change. A boycott only helps the people in
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by nikster 14y ago
Hurry up and compile? I think a lot of times features of languages are highlighted because they make it easier or faster do write code. And so it should be. But a huge factor in this is IDE support. Those people sticking to their various fl
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by nikster 14y ago
Much simpler answer: Bugs. If kill -9 does not work, its a bug. The kernel needs to be able to end processes no matter what the process is doing. By definition this should not be about how the misbehaving process was implemented. I imagine
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by nikster 14y ago
True, and very interesting. None of the software currently out could be called timeless. Maybe timeless user interface design has simply not been found yet? Closest are probably the first apps that came out with the Macintosh. But everythin
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by nikster 14y ago
As a UX person I still give MS a fail on Windows 8. Yes it has a clean, aesthetic look. But it lacks usability. And any design that is not primarily focused on usability is best described as Kitsch. Even if it has all square angles. That do
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by nikster 14y ago
It may be important to remember that flatness is not something that came out of Apples labs. To the contrary, the 'clickable' look on buttons was invented at Apple (Xerox had flat buttons). And the reason, surprise, surprise, was and always
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by nikster 14y ago
Throughout the history of computing, the number of problems to be solved has grown faster than the number of problems solved. It's a safe bet this trend will continue as we enter the age of ubiquitous computing.
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by nikster 14y ago
If you cant even read an article about porn then you certainly have bigger problems than the author of said article.
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by nikster 14y ago
Nope. Sex gets better and better. Unlike drinking and drugs.
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by nikster 14y ago
I dont think it makes it better or worse at all, with the exception of certain girls who like to watch it to get in the mood in which case its certainly a force for the better. Putting the "its not good for you" label on it also makes it im
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by nikster 14y ago
Porn is not bad as long as you keep in mind that its a bunch of BS. If you want sex better to spend your time on adult friend finder or similar. Or make a lot of money; theyll never admit but girls like money.
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by nikster 14y ago
Lets cut this BS argument short: Who is driving a car? I thought so. There were no cars, planes, or McDs in the Savannah either yet somehow we cope with those things. Personally I dont think porn comes close what the Romans were actually do
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by nikster 14y ago
I agree with you in spirit even though I would not call it mental illness. I would call it a deep unconsciousness, a complete entrapment in ones mind, a belief that one is in fact ones thoughts. He was liberated only at the time of his deat
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by nikster 14y ago
Wow I liked that decription of the movie better than the movie! Its a huge loss to society that he is gone; if the subject matter was not so grave I'd point to the staged suicide reference.... But it is, sadly. I just want to say the desire
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by nikster 14y ago
I havent given up on getting rich, but I recently thought about what David Deida said: Whatever it is that you really want, imagine you have it, pretend you have it, right now, and think about what would be different. Act like you have it.
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by nikster 14y ago
I can't help but think that ARC has pretty much killed garbage collection. Why use garbage collection at all when you have a static equivalent that works just as well?
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by nikster 14y ago
That might explain its complicated syntax. Better than obj-c but worse than nice languages like Ruby or Python. Also, if they were influenced by Obj-C then why on earth didn't they bring over the by far most useful feature of the language,
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by nikster 14y ago
Its in fact a ridiculously dumb statement. I live in SE Asia and one of my workers here is about Bruce Lee sized but he can lift more, and for longer, than anybody I know. No wonder as he has been doing hard manual labor since he was a chil
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by nikster 14y ago
Read the pragmatic programmer. For starters.
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by nikster 14y ago
Well I knew that machines are extremely ineffective. I also knew they have them there for their impressive looks. What I did not realize is the second reason gyms like machines: Liability.
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by nikster 14y ago
Well thanks for confirming the impression I got from my one and only ever experience at a gym: Not only is it boring but its also a huge waste of time. I remember it took me 2 hours until I felt like I had done something - and the best mach
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by nikster 14y ago
Iceland did what any sovereign nation should do in that situation. They fixed it, and importantly they did it not by bailing out the bad guys but by taking everything from them! Iceland also apparently knew that so-called investor confidenc
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by nikster 14y ago
I think Google probably knew its target market - Americans tech savy enough to know about locked/unlocked phones and subsidized/unsubsidized prices. That's not too many people - but to those people the Nexus 4 is incredible value. What I th

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