pedanticfreak

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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
One could say Wave failed because of a lack of users. Especially users meaningfully connected to each other. Really it doesn't matter if the software is shit. Millions of people flock to crappy PHP forums all over the world. Facebook has th
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I would liken it more to elaborate geocentric models of the solar system. Sure, they can explain the data. And they can make accurate predictions within a certain margin of error. But then there are the cases they can't explain or predict a
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I am not an economist, but I think economists have been doing a lot of catch up lately. Traditional economists have tended to see people as rational agents, whereas more recent behavioral economists are showing how people are pretty univer
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Sony may not meet your standards for always being in the spirit of open source. But they do use a lot of open source and have shown a heck of a lot more support for open source and open standards than other device companies. Besides. Compar
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
You make it sound like it would be prohibitively expensive to add a cellular antenna to something. A DSi today costs $150 on which they presumably make a profit. Cell phones typically cost $200 and come with hundreds in carrier subsidies. I
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Perhaps there will be a WiFi-only version for the kids. Although I'm seeing younger and younger children get not just mobile phones but data plans as well. I think the phone's success depends greatly on how well Sony can leverage its game c
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
1) Sony uses open source, they do like it. PS2 and PS3 could run Linux. 2) Sony-Ericsson already makes the Xperia line of Android phones. The Playstation phone is the same thing, with buttons. 3) Sony has another strategic partnership with
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Hopefully the Playstation team is able to finally give a good skin to Android. I would say I have faith in Sony making buckets of money selling emulated Playstation games, but the PS3 Store has been a disaster. They had every opportunity to
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Is this an argument in support of Google complying with the search warrants or just helpful advice for your serial killer buddies?
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
While I can certainly concede 140M might be low, I think we might also be talking about different things. I'm talking about unique people, not page hits or sessions or cookies, and 140 million was a good enough estimate to make my point: Th
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Considering Google gets 140+ million unique visitors, that's less than 0.0064% of all users? Color me unimpressed. Now if you told me personal information was being offered WITHOUT a court order, then I'd be more concerned.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
The problem is not whether the latest version shipped with the installation disc. It's how quickly it got put up on Software Update. Lots of products have downloadable updates on the day it appears. Flash should have been a required update
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
This is potentially a step backward for security. Apple had the right idea of providing Flash and Java through the System Updates mechanism. They have just historically failed to be timely with security updates. Putting security updates in
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Errors and unchecked Exceptions in Java should not be confused. An Error is typically reserved for the runtime environment for a "this ship is sinking, abandon all hands" kind of unrecoverable error. More properly Exceptions in execution th
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Except you'll need to submit your app to Apple for approval by Oct 20 if you want to actually sell a copy by Oct 31. That said, I wonder if it's possible to make a "this does nothing" game in 10 minutes and still sell one copy for $1 assumi
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
Is anyone else bothered by the economist magazine's lack of bylines? It's like 4chan for free-trade capitalists.
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by pedanticfreak 16y ago
I have not worked on mainframes per se. But I was once tasked with investigating why a particular project to replace a mainframe process with a modern Java one failed. Basically, the mainframe is FAST. Everything is simple there. The proces