powrtoch

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by powrtoch 16y ago
Doesn't contribute anything useful to the discussion. If his intent was actually to provide valuable feedback, he could send the author an email instead of leaving snarky comments on another website.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Whenever I read a blog post like this, my reaction is "can't we just agree that both are crucial and have that be our answer?" Even if one day someone establishes a sound mathematical proof that design is more important that engineering or
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"You can bend over, too" was a pun.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Surely I'm not the only one to notice that apparently Facebook users number "500 people and growing"?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Seems to stop after a minute or two...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Most likely everyone commenting was compensating for error, as the author primes you by telling you about the error before asking you to guess. If he had written that people tend to grossly overestimate, I bet you'd have a very different
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by powrtoch 16y ago
500, I remember coming up with an "average nonzero cell" estimate and then multiplying it by my estimate of how many of these there were. All done in under 5 seconds, a side effect of which is that I don't really remember what process the f
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'd be interesting in knowing how this was caught. I was under the impression that this sort of thing goes on pretty often. I certainly don't assign a particularly high credibility to anonymous online rave reviews.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sounds like Atwood's Law: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I disagree, I think that techniques like this do contribute to killing IE6. The reason that corporations don't upgrade their browsers is pretty simple: they don't have to. As it stands now, IE6 is "good enough" for their employees to do wha
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The ultimate end of all this is when he uses Minecraft to compile and run Minecraft.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Timing is great in Opera. Even though it seems like this basic idea "comes out" twice a month, I still waste 10 minutes being hypnotized by it every time...
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I really wouldn't consider Chrome OS a threat to Windows. It's geared toward a niche hardware market (netbooks), centered on a paradigm that almost no one really understands (cloud computing), and underneath it all it's still Linux (which h
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Surely it's worth noting that the cases he offers as evidence are cases in which we expect eventual proof . The "AngelGate" as he describes it is illegal and if it were true would necessarily go on behind closed doors. Everyone involved wo
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by powrtoch 16y ago
If I may restate this: You're on the article page, therefore we can reasonably assume you want to read the article. Being on the opinions splash page however does not lead one to conclude that you want to read every opinion in the paper. An
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The metaphysical solution: can a card be face up if one can see it?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't know if this can even be considered a political story. I expect it will have all the political potency of an Improv Everywhere skit.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Dunno why you were downvoted, my fault for not clarifying: I just meant 2 buttons is superior to 1. I make no claims about other button counts.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
You say "on a laptop" in the general sense, leading me to wonder if you've tried Mac trackpads recently. I used to feel just like you do, but Apple's trackpads honestly are vastly superior products to any others that I've used. I know this
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Be that as it may, it's still not, in my experience, a good mouse. Nifty idea, cool looking design, but I found the ergonomics of it really uncomfortable. It's just awkward trying to move the thing around at all compared to other mice, and
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's exactly what happened with IE6. You can debate whether IE6 was a good or bad thing in this regard, but it still happened .
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Just because it's meaningless the day it hits the shelves doesn't mean it will be meaningless forever. As the XP users are slowly forced to upgrade, the market will lose IE6/7 users and gain IE9+ users. It's not a license to ignore IE7 righ
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Simple enough isn't it? They don't benefit now from using it over Safari. They benefit from it just as a promise from MS that they won't screw up the web just to sell more Windows PCs. As long as it's relatively easy to obtain IE for Mac,
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I would fully expect a higher percentage of "fanboys" in the population of IE9 users, given simply that IE9 is just a beta. The crowd is basically limited to technophiles running Windows. Not that this is the same as "fanboy", but I would e
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I realize it's a different piece of hardware than the one he's describing, but it's still at least a little funny that the picture toward the top has him drawing on a device running Mac OS.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Poor naming: "Google me" is already a verb phrase. If the overlap was intentional, I don't think it was wise.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'm starting to really get tired of the pattern "make an assertion, offer one anecdotal point to support it, plow on forward". It reminds me of how they taught me to write English papers (high school and non-major college). You can make wha
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I read your reply earlier and didn't quite get it, but I think now I see your point. My response would be that it's okay to unequivocally declare a class of arguments as wrong. "Wrong" in the sense of a bad argument that doesn't hold up,
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sigh. Alright, last try, then I'm done with this time-sink discussion. Forget racism. I said nothing about whether "racist" was an appropriate term for the kinds of people he has in mind. The problem is in equating "the people I have in min
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'm not complaining about the type of racism, but the general trend of presupposing that all arguments against you will be of a certain misguided type and therefore illegitimate. Like if I said "Mac is better than PC, and if anyone disagree

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