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by polemic 14y ago
Of course, you might just find that 80% of the users you have left still only use 20% of the remaining features, so you should naturally recurse until you've left with just an empty <html> tag.
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by polemic 14y ago
You're saying that because men and women are different, it is ok to be sexist. I'm saying that is false.
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by polemic 14y ago
1. Men and women being different does not make sexism ok. Flippant comments like that are unhelpful (at best) and downright malicious (at worst). 2. Exceptionalism ( 'it is distinctly different from other "professional" fields' ) is a "code
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by polemic 14y ago
See http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/dotcom-search-warrants-declared... or http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00201/court-dotcom-wa... or an image of the judgement http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1206/CIV201240419282806201... To quo
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by polemic 14y ago
Crashes the tab for me: IE 9.0.8112.16421, Windows 7 Pro (v 6.1 Build 7601: SP 1)
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by polemic 14y ago
http://thobbs.github.com/blog/2012/06/17/you-should-downvote...
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by polemic 14y ago
And let's be honest, referencing Avatar , Minority Report and moral philosophy (!) raise a few red flags about the quality of the argument too :D
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by polemic 14y ago
Either the author does not know the meaning of the word "Luddite", or is making presumptions on what people value in technology. Kyle Wiens was clear: Apple was experimenting with two divergent strategies - small, portable and inflexible vs
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by polemic 14y ago
Thing is, they weren't horrible. By and large, they were pretty good. That's the strange thing - the council really didn't have much to hide here.
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by polemic 14y ago
We've distributed our machines between availability zones. We lost a machine with the latest outage. Application impact to our users? None. No point bemoaning a lack of decoupling, if you don't actually use it.
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by polemic 14y ago
Yeah, it's like watching the Wright Brothers take off for the first time at Kitty Hawk, and complaining that Wilbur looks a bit silly lying down like that.
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by polemic 14y ago
I just wish everyone didn't take the opportunity to also tap into the 'post to you activity stream, spam your friends' goody bag at the same time. Use FB by all means, but don't fail the auth if the user declines the extras.
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by polemic 14y ago
Ug: > "Sounds like a market begging for disruption." (in comments) There have been 'disrupters' at work for many years now. I wish people wouldn't assume that (a) this sort of market distortion hasn't been noticed for years, (b) leve
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by polemic 14y ago
This is not about "is there a God or not". It's about the question of why rational beliefs are so easily overridden by 'common sense' or religion. As a counter-point: why does America , a liberal western democracy, still believe in God so
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by polemic 14y ago
> Yes, but it doesn't take lots of experts and billions of dollars to build an API, I would think. Refer (3) in my original top post. This is something they would prove remarkably adept at achieving. > ...but where would they be
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by polemic 14y ago
> Only recently have the govies started thinking about how their data can be useful to the general public The problem is that they can't anticipate how their data is most useful. Release and let the users decide. > But I hope one
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by polemic 14y ago
It's quite one thing to form agencies with specific science and engeering goals (Manhatten Project, NASA) and populating them with experts and billions of dollars, quite another to expect the same results from other departments without that
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by polemic 14y ago
A couple of points. Whenever you put the word 'government' and 'innovation' into the same sentence, you need to check your working. Government is, by and large, terrible at technical innovation. And innovation by mandate will, predictab
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by polemic 14y ago
> Hmm, not sure API vs data is productive to see as a dichotomy. It's not, necessarily. An API provides a [very] limited view into the data. A view selected by the publisher. That's part of the problem. > I'd ask not for data ove
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by polemic 14y ago
I'm reminded of this recent post by James Fee, talking about geodata, but I think it applies to the general case: "... The question was APIs or downloads... Personally, I believe [data] is one of the best ways for citizens
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by polemic 14y ago
I'm not a hacker, so I can't. FYI I'm referring to 'trying to break into a system, possibility illegally, with time pressure, hackers', rather than HackerNews hackers. Which I thought was reasonably obvious from the context. If you're actua
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by polemic 14y ago
Except I would refute that users are as aware of Lobster as the author might think. Comic Sans shows up everywhere . Lecture slides, shop signs, product packaging... it (was|is)? ubiquitous. Now, Lobster might twig in the minds of typograp
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by polemic 14y ago
I agree, except: hackers ⊈ developers Hackers are not optimizing for performance or readability. I've watched a few penetration testers at work - they have to have a very broad knowledge base and work at speed. They're not sitting
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by polemic 14y ago
Should also ditch the animations. I know, they're pretty, but it just. slooows. eveerrryythinnn [connection closed by client]
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by polemic 14y ago
On the flip side though, isn't this a matter of scale? What if: Facebook is not building a website - it's building a sub-section of the internet; a private walled garden for it's enormous userbase; an ecosystem of subscribers to rival the v
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by polemic 14y ago
Well, it is profitable - the question is whether it's $100 B profitable.
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by polemic 14y ago
Agree with just about all of that. > "Their mobile presence is at the behest of Apple, Google and (arguably) Microsoft." A majority of non-techy types I know bought smart phones because they "do facebook". There is a deeply symbiotic
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by polemic 14y ago
I have no idea if Facebook is valued correctly or not, however I think this misses a vital point. Facebook is not nearly the same as other web ventures. It's ability to target ads seems secondary to this: From http://www.kenburbary.com/201
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by polemic 14y ago
> "One of the arguments which gets dragged out every time is that they are role models, and as such should be doing their very best to create a welcoming environment for everyone... Bullshit" +1 So called "rock star" developers, parti
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by polemic 14y ago
It looks like it's a solid body guitar. Also: > "Since the gTar is entirely digital, it doesn't care whether the strings are in tune or not." I can't even see any pickups, so I'm guessing it simply checks what fret you're holding and

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