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by nirvana 15y ago
"My point was only that yes..." You made those points sufficiently with your citation of the origin of the term, which I didn't dispute. It is your comments about me that are problematic, and you've continued them here. Since you spend mo
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by nirvana 15y ago
Volpe- I apologize, as it appears I completely misunderstood what you were saying when you talked about awkwardness. Further it appears that we're not too far apart in our perspective and that you were making a characterization in general
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by nirvana 15y ago
"His statements can't be dismissed as "lies about Steve Jobs" just because you or John Gruber don't like them or think so." Neither I, nor John Gruber have done so. "What is reported in the biography come from multiple eye witness accounts
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by nirvana 15y ago
Further, notably, the 4S for which they could have easily changed case designed if needed, uses this same essential external antenna design. I never owned a 4, but my 4S works fine. Yes, it has two antennas and it also, unlike the iPhone 4
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by nirvana 15y ago
On the contrary, I think your point is very relevant to the issue. One of the most relevant responses. I would like to point out that I'm not claiming that Steve Jobs never lied, or that he didn't use distraction-- a famous example being
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by nirvana 15y ago
You made a specific allegation and I provided three examples with a plethora of historical and technical facts that refute your allegation. I've long been aware of where the term originated, and the common use of it is not based on that or
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've read it extensively. The thing is, people act as if Jobs is the second coming and is, was and always will be the same person. He was young once, just like everyone else. Back in the Macintosh era, he often would come around to anothe
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by nirvana 15y ago
"Your posts in support of Apple are so breathless. I don't want to go all ad hom, but this is a little...much." You're talking to the person, rather than to the point. I'm not the point. "Steve Jobs was a man, and that's OK." Translation:
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm accepting your first part for the sake of argument so we can focus on the second part: "there are many charismatic people around who can make their teams really believe in a mission without any fact at all to backup this belief," I beli
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've been in the same room with both, and I think they are polar opposites. Jerk: Steve Jobs is not a jerk. He's opinionated, and I think many people can't stand that. But at his core, his biggest crime is probably being too honest (e.g.:
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by nirvana 15y ago
The A5 has several integrated processors for specific purposes, specifically relating to audio and video. The Audience chip is likely one, but there are also processors specifically for the purposes of handling video encoding or decoding,
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm critical of John Gruber on many topics, but in this essay he is exactly right. Further, there are many examples, just like the Bill Gates one, where Jobs says something that is true[1] and Isaacson assumes its the "reality distortion f
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by nirvana 15y ago
If those considerations matched my needs, AWS wouldn't look great because I don't want vendor lock in. That's why they're able to charge high prices-- once you build on their platform, you can't easily migrate elsewhere. I want to save tim
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by nirvana 15y ago
I'm sorry to see you're being down voted. For one of my comparisons, Amazon is orders of magnitude more expensive (because I get bandwidth for free as part of the dedicated server package while Amazon charges... even though the dedicated
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by nirvana 15y ago
TL;DR: I have had this experience. Don't try to reason with creepy management. Don't work somewhere that you're not being fairly compensated for (Even if its not cash, it needs to be fair.) They'll never change, and if you let them give yo
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by nirvana 15y ago
Right, I see themes as collections of components. They should be anyway, such that those individual components can be used, mixed and match, the way bootstrap gives you components like shadows, forms, rounded corners, etc. I'm thinking a t
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by nirvana 15y ago
To be honest, I'm not much of an ops guy. So, I'm going with Hetzner dedicated servers. AWS is more difficult for me opswise than dedicated, and with dedicated I get all of the "let the people who know how to run data centers host your serv
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by nirvana 15y ago
FWIW, on iOS, the you're asked for each app that wants access to location services. Further, you can turn this off globally for all apps, or individually for apps in the Settings app. Even further, you can lock down the settings app with
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by nirvana 15y ago
I wonder if it isn't a good time in the webs evolution to come up with or popularize a theme standard, and if bootstrap isn't a good step in that direction. This might help accelerate adoption and popularity of themes, especially open sour
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by nirvana 15y ago
tl;dr: Rails is the killer app for Ruby. Your open source project needs a killer app. I spent several years as a TK/TCL programmer. I believe where Tcl "went wrong" is that it never got attached to a very high profile use case or project
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by nirvana 15y ago
No, it was inspired by Steve Jobs: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-02/bieber-no-steve-...
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by nirvana 15y ago
Interestingly, Homebrew is broken right now, at least for me, given that I've installed Xcode 4.2 and it didn't seem to install GCC (instead installing LLVM) while homebrew recipes seem to require GCC. (or at least homebrew is complaining a
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If someone were to claim that it has no value whatsoever, then that would be immediately rebutted by the act of copying it or tormenting it and sharing it with others. Every person who downloads it shows that it has some value- at the very
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Just because you are unable to be disciplined, does not mean you should project it onto everyone else. You may have jumped in and done stupid things- that's not uncommon- but deciding to give up afterwards, and then claiming that nobody el
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by nirvana 15y ago
Actually, you did. The RFS was to teach people about investing, not stock picking. You've got an axe to grind and you're lying about what other people have said in order to grind your axe. The idea that passive investors beat active inve
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Their incentive is to earn fees for their company first, and then beat the market, second. And yet you advise people to pay them inordinate sums to underperform the market. I love how I'm getting voted down for pointing out simple and obvi
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by nirvana 15y ago
People misunderstand godwin's law. Godwin was right that the nazis would eventually come up- as they did. But the people who say that "anyone who brings up the nazis is wrong" are people pushing a revisionist view of history that denies th
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by nirvana 15y ago
Since the issue at hand involves Turing's homosexuality, there is a tendency to see it in terms of bigotry. But it is not. The real issue is one of morality. The governments persecution of Turing, and other homosexuals, is immoral, becau
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Its really easy. You find companies with trustworthy management and sound businesses, look at their growth, find a reasonable discounted expected future growth, then calculate the net present value of discounted future growth. If the sto
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by nirvana 15y ago
I've done original research where we tested users perception of lag. We tested 5ms, 10ms, 15ms, and up. We found that most people were able to perceive lag in the 30ms range, and so this post is correct when it says that. However, I was

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