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by nirvana 14y ago
The Free State Project never got the 20,000 signatories that the idea needed, and so it dissolved. Some people, not liking this failure, decided to move to NH anyway, and have perpetuated the "free state project" for the past decade by ign
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by nirvana 14y ago
One of the terms of this agreement is that any Honduran citizen has right of residency in any of these cities (provided they agree to the cities rules, of course.) So, I don't think there will be jealousy that aliens are getting a better de
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by nirvana 14y ago
Is Hong Kong a "Libertarian Utopia"? In some ways, yes, but it probably isn't what people think of when they see that phrase. But that's the idea here-- to import the models that work elsewhere into a new location and let it grow. I hope
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by nirvana 14y ago
It should also cost a karma to downvote someone else, maybe two. Upvotes would remain free. This way downvote might go from "I disagree with your well reasoned contribution" to "this person isn't contributing to the discussion."
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yeah, makes me think the opposite. When you talk about it, it sounds like they don't care about design (or maybe even don't know what design is .) Nokia has made good products in the past, and I do hope they will succeed in out designing
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by nirvana 14y ago
The chart is derived from nonsense too. The article is sourced from an "Analyst". Analyst is a fancy title for a pundit who is paid to have an opinion by some industry figure. In this case, most likely Samsung. These analysts post "repor
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by nirvana 14y ago
I submit that we are talking about a physiological issue, not a preference. Attempting to hit a target in the middle of the screen is more difficult for humans than hitting a target at the very top of the screen. When you overshoot the targ
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm sorry that you consider citing the science behind the decision "arrogance", but I suspect its just desperation to engage in ad hominem.
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is samsung not following USB standards. OS X has perfectly find support for media devices, and has worked fine with every digital camera, SD Card or other card reader, etc, that I've attached via USB in the past decade!
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've been using OS X going back to the betas. I've never seen OS X have problems with third party hardware that conformed to standards. I have seen problems with third party hardware that required its own driver (poorly written generally)
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by nirvana 14y ago
You can't name innovative things amongst a crowd that rejects that innovation can happen. They'll tell you someone else did it earlier, even when they didn't. For instance, cars were not an innovation according to hacker news, because Hors
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by nirvana 14y ago
Right, because the people who use linux don't understand what design is. Look at the responses to my comments-- almost all of them defending linux make comments that show they don't understand what design is. They think it is how it looks.
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by nirvana 14y ago
>You're conflating design with the marketing and support No, I'm talking about knowing that users are faster and more efficient when the menu bar is at the top of the screen rather than attached to windows. Design makes people more ef
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by nirvana 14y ago
That's my point. It's not that a lot of people like it. In fact, whether people like it or not isn't really relevant. It's that this is the correct way to do it. When the menu bar is at the top of the screen, the user is much faster at
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by nirvana 14y ago
Google is not "playing the game" they are abusing the system far more than Apple does. They sued Apple for FRAND patents that, not only did they make promises on to get in to the standard, but that the license for was already aquired by App
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by nirvana 14y ago
You just confused a design patent with a utility patent. Frankly, I've personally not yet seen an anti-patent argument from someone who actually understood what patents were, how they worked, etc. They constantly confuse terms, misrepresen
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is how I felt when first being informed that if I didn't go to first grade (it was a terrible school) my parents risked ending up in jail (maybe extreme, but I believed them when they said that.) School was always about indoctrinating
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think he's right, but I think he's missing a key point. Design. Design is what killed the linux desktop. It never had it. OS X has it. Even windows, crappy as it may be, has it. Before I go on, let me say that Design is NOT "making it
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by nirvana 14y ago
Lets get this straight- this was a completely incompetent interview. It should not take a full day. A half day is a bit extravagant, but acceptable because a company wants to be conservative. Taking someone from programming question to pr
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by nirvana 14y ago
Or, put another way, I'm an ideas guy. So is my co-founder. Both of us have really good ideas, pretty regularly. But that's not my job in our startup-- I'm in charge of engineering. My cofounder does design & marketing, and we split a
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by nirvana 14y ago
A lot of the traffic google gets is people looking to buy e.g.: "refrigerator reviews". Everyone going to google is looking for something, even if a lot of them aren't looking for a product, when they are looking for a product it is to buy
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by nirvana 14y ago
When I've pointed it out, people have told me that political diatribes are appropriate here because "x is relevant to hackers and this is for anything hackers find relevant".
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by nirvana 14y ago
The silicon valley Startup Kool-aid has a false dichotomy: You're either patio11[1], a "nobody" building a "lifestyle business" or you're making the next Instagram. Consequently we have a cargo cult mentality that has evolved. Lets compare
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're absolutely right on all counts. But also realize that while, 4 years ago HN was more diverse in many ways, it still was overrun with "startup hipsters", though they weren't called that. You saw people denigrating others startups as
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've seen a lot of this as well. And the term "dumb money" is right-- there are two causes of startup death in my experience. The first being fights between the founders paralyzing progress. The second being VCs forcing the company to ig
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by nirvana 14y ago
There are two things coming that will cause Apple to be making changes now: First is the economy is cooling off globally. The second is that Apple has major new product opportunities and it makes changes well in advance so that these new p
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by nirvana 14y ago
Repeat after me: Patents do not cover ideas. Patents do not cover features. Writing about an idea or a feature in a computer science journal is not prior art. Star Trek has the warp drive. So, if someone invents the technology to give us
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by nirvana 14y ago
>so that patents are routinely granted for designs, devices, and methods that are already effectively commoditized You are confusing utility patents and design patents. They are very different things, and design patents are intended fo
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by nirvana 14y ago
>Look at the prior art in the patent itself, e.g.: Since the patent itself cites prior art, obviously the patent isn't patenting the same thing as the prior art. >All Apple did was jumble these same longstanding .... was at best mo
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by nirvana 14y ago
Special effects are not prior art. Demonstrating a feature does not give you prior art neither. Patents cover implementations. Two people can invent two different methods to do the same thing. It is not the case that the first patent give

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