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by pinaceae 13y ago
i am all for identifying outliers (both on the upper and lower end of the spectrum) and getting them out of the regular system. you're a genius? off to genius school. you're just not capable of keeping up with the progress of the
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by pinaceae 13y ago
let's have some dissenting opinion here. not all kids are equal. not all kids want to learn. in each and every discussion over this topic people bring up quotes by very smart people, like kubrick, sagan, etc. on how organised learnin
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by pinaceae 13y ago
the absolute crazy part? all of that was built by supporting only one platform - iOS. they just released their first android game. what a homogenous environment with easy payment built-in can achieve. even after Apple's big bad cut on
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by pinaceae 13y ago
when shit hits the fan and you need a synchronized effort by many to reach a common goal, the hierarchical organization is the best. proven over thousands of years of human development. past a certain size these hierarchies do not work, hen
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by pinaceae 13y ago
thank you pg.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
only works if you immediately fire all top and middle line manages in the aquired company, lest you import a hostile culture and a lot of foreign politics. HP buying EDS, Atos buying SBS - if you ever talk to employees on the inside you&#x2
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so your bullshit provocation works, congratulations. what are you complaining about, your goal is achieved, smugness and superiority for you. you poor victim.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so where are the other sources confirming this? right now there is a single source of info, which is the woman in question. stories like this are very emotional and very often not exactly following the truth. HN gobbles them up, especially
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by pinaceae 13y ago
the economic impact on those african nations is immense. but the economic impact of those nations is miniscule. that is my point. they do not research, they do not produce, they do not contribute. not just because of malaria, but because of
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by pinaceae 13y ago
please read my comment again, you're missing my point. humanity is voting, through their wallets, who should be treated for what. as an individual you despise it from a moral standpoint, sure, but once you reach the level of treating b
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by pinaceae 13y ago
study from 2003, a little bit has changed since then. but overall, it shows that using the market as a guiding principle for the selection of which drugs to develop works. it frees humans from making morally horrible choices. by being profi
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by pinaceae 13y ago
there are examples of apple flops, but the apple tv is actually not one of them. we're now adding them in conference rooms as it kills the fucking projector cable mess once and for all. printers are airplay enabled, work great. will th
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by pinaceae 13y ago
i am glad to be old enough to remember the time before the iphone. seems like a stupid thing to say, right? but go to any tech forum and it seems like all of it is forgotten already, 2007 is kinda blurry and Apple producing smartphones comp
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by pinaceae 13y ago
win8 has currently a lower adoption rate than vista. winrt is so great no one wants to build hardware for it anymore. the components you cite, sharepoint, sql server, are bought by IT departments that went with windows. once you switch to l
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by pinaceae 13y ago
yet another memo. whenever you see such memos leaking, you know the company is in a bad shape. RIM, Nokia, MS - lots of famous memos, full of corporate speak and calls to action to do something with services, quality, paradigms and fundamen
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by pinaceae 13y ago
I don't get this. At all. The guy is in Macedonia, which might be his core problem. switching to the bay area, the situation is vastly different. We're constantly looking for coders. We had a summer internship program with astound
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Inflammatory headline playing with the common narrative but then the article looks beyond the current Apple babble. "isn't dead yet" is quite a load of BS though in any form. the iPhone business alone, not Apple in full, just
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by pinaceae 13y ago
my point is that the OS here doesn't matter, switching an OS is very likely not enough to be disruptive. say they would have switched to android - so what? now they would gave been on equal footing with samsung, etc, but with no reason
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by pinaceae 13y ago
seems they read about disruptive innovation and tried it with QNX - and fell on their face. christensen is correct in his observations on how disruptions happen, but his proposed countermeasures don't seem to work in a lot of real worl
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by pinaceae 13y ago
VLC is one the most impressive pieces of multi-platform open source software out there. you guys and girls are doing a heck of a job. congrats on all the work.
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Setup of Apple TV via tapping it with an iOS7 device(support.apple.com)
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by pinaceae 13y ago
nomination for the most overused word of the year - innovation. seriously, is any idea now innovation? is it true innovation? or fake? what about disruptive? paradigmatic? enabling? absolutely clear what the headline is digging at (can&#x27
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by pinaceae 13y ago
why do all these bullshit pieces get posted and upvoted. author complains about incremental innovation as not innovative, then offer better batteries as true innovation. same author does not see the iphone itself as incremental to the BB, N
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by pinaceae 13y ago
and to illustrate my point, HN post, a mere 12 days ago: Apple's Windows 95 problem. http://blog.raavel.com/2013/09/11/apple-problem/ "Apple recently unveiled its new iPhone 5s and 5c models,
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by pinaceae 13y ago
most frustratingly this is another datapoint that won't matter much in the current slew of punditry aimed at talking Apple down. just go back to the HN post of the 5s launch event and it's full of doomsayers. seems like apple is g
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by pinaceae 13y ago
apple is clearly doomed.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
really depends on your job profile. it is a big factor in consulting and similar jobs. very job mobile crowd, hard to keep track where they are right now - linkedin makes it easy. self updating rolodex for people that change employers frequ
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by pinaceae 13y ago
the walking dead in action - no good engineer, developer, whatever is still with BB. of course they all left already. left behind is the B and C league, stuck in their jobs for various reasons, incl. Mr. Heins, the accidental CEO.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
"best business-centric OS" and there it is. same idiocy as MS. it's either user-centric or it isn't. BB catered to "business", but that meant IT. the users, managers, switched privately to iPhones. then demande
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by pinaceae 13y ago
if you read his piece, back in 2010, it still was believed that RIM and Nokia could hold their marketshare through BB and Windows Mobile. what mr. dediu did not foresee was the complete ineptitude of two major players to accomplish anythin

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