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by pi18n 14y ago
This doesn't show the ineffectiveness of surveys but rather the effectiveness of surveys as a brainwashing tool.
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by pi18n 14y ago
What the hell does Myhrvold know about funding innovation? Dragging innovation back with lawsuits, sure, but funding?
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by pi18n 14y ago
For the record, I despise almost everything about Xcode, but it is still usable and I think the llvm debugger and Instruments work fine enough.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Maybe not, because they cannot seem to get Xcode working right all the time.
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by pi18n 14y ago
MD5 is not the best cryptographic hash... it's weird that they would be so paranoid as to include two hashes but not use something harder to collide with.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Also; engineers should be aware of genetic algorithms which work so well they are used by NASA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna ). Anyone who doesn't understand evolution is a fact is basically being willfully ignorant at th
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by pi18n 14y ago
It's not even news. The sole purpose of TC is to get traffic for web apps that Arrington and other insiders have a personal stake in.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'm so disappointed in you and most of the rest of the world. I'm glad you think the circus was worth what you traded for it, but it seems like a large step onto a slippery slope to me.
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by pi18n 14y ago
While for the majority of authors open source would be a poor deal, for some authors, open sourcing their work is still financially viable. I think to argue that either extreme is necessarily true would be foolish.
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by pi18n 14y ago
You are assuming the IDE makes everyone more productive. For some people that is absolutely not the case. And the idea that you need to use an IDE for a bunch of boilerplate is abhorrent to them. It's hard for a Java zealot to understand th
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by pi18n 14y ago
No there is no significant difference. Both are a choice to be frivolous. At least the gamers don't have your arrogance or cognitive dissonance to think otherwise.
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by pi18n 14y ago
> devoted to a frivolous activity You say that with scorn. And yet here you are, talking about frivolity on the internet.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Forgive me, I meant if the criticism is in response to actual prejudice.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Point one and the latter part of three make sense to me. Point two should be, "it's an ad hominem attack and intellectually bankrupt." This applies if and only if the target of the term is not actually prejudiced. I don't think males as a w
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by pi18n 14y ago
If that's the major reason preventing them from being performant, then I misunderstood the reason for crashing and the reason for poor performance to be the same. Apple should not be complaining about CPU usage. That doesn't excuse Adobe fr
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by pi18n 14y ago
Doubly so if your product crashes even half as often as Flash. That they cannot seem to code for stability doesn't give me any confidence in their ability to code for speed. I heard that they refused to work with Apple to improve its perfor
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by pi18n 14y ago
And it is worth noting that, unlike FarmVille, Starcraft has created a pretty involved tournament scene. Many people enjoy being spectators, there are screencasts with commentators, and top players can make a living winning tournaments. I d
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by pi18n 14y ago
It seems that Google will log you in across all of their services if you log into one. So to use separate names, you would have to be logging in and out whenever you switch services.
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by pi18n 14y ago
The MPAA thinks that Mega is harming them directly under US law. I'm sure that other entities of other countries feel similar about their own laws.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This poster is correct. And, apparently, Drop Box already leaked a number of emails, so it would be nice to have an option to encrypt that also.
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by pi18n 14y ago
brilliant observation
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by pi18n 14y ago
But you cannot represent a company of which you are the owner and sole employee. So when a patent lawsuit appears, you can choose to try and fight it with a $50/hour lawyer... or pay the demands.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Those are interesting interpretations, thank you for that.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Either nobody in particular or Macbeth himself, I guess.
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by pi18n 14y ago
It should be noted that patents are particularly broken for software, since in that field it appears to be quite easy to convince someone at the patent office that a trivial discovery is non-trivial. Also most of it is math and shouldn't be
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think their arguments are wrongheaded also. But please note that this design also excludes a lot of independent repairmen. Which seems fine while you are under warranty, but if you have an old computer do you want one company to dictate t
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by pi18n 14y ago
> Re: Statistics I do believe it. We have governors that publicly don't accept global warming as well. > Re: Education It's not the education but the market that creates "the most vibrant culture and economy". That's why some of tho
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by pi18n 14y ago
I agree with this, your examples should not have been changed. I would like to see the converse -- if the title is the same as an article's but the article's title is linkbait or sensationalized I would like it to be changed to something th
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by pi18n 14y ago
I also think the US education system is "broken" or close to it. Remember the recent polls saying 40% of Americans don't believe in evolution? Something is surely wrong with this picture. It is not until college level that the US performs b
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by pi18n 14y ago
Of course not everyone would agree with me that it is banal, but I have read a number of them I've seen linked here and there, including the above. I didn't find any of them particularly amusing. Nor did I like the artwork.

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