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by quesera 15y ago
As usual, I think 37S is mostly correct here, but they've omitted some crucially important qualifiers. I often wonder whether this is genuine myopia/naïveté, or whether they are crafting a subtext that serves their larger PR and marketing g
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by quesera 15y ago
That's funny, I misread it as "Finance for <i>Greeks</i> -- which might also be a useful, if short[1], article. [1] In entirety: "See Iceland".
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by quesera 15y ago
I disagree with two of your three points: (paraphrasing, fairly I hope) > Objective-C is too much work/too low-level for your app/required because the hardware is limited. Disagree. I wouldn't be disappointed to see solid Cocoa bindings
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by quesera 15y ago
The problem is that he is either being intentionally deceptive, or hasn't used Siri. Dishonesty and/or ignorance from someone of his stature merits a public pillorying, don't you think? Edit: third possibility: he doesn't actually see the d
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by quesera 15y ago
Which, in this case, would be a quarter-inch square of electrical tape.
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by quesera 15y ago
10 or 12 years ago, I saw a guy who built a hay bale structure with an evaporative cooler at Burning Man. It was the first time I'd seen one in real life, and it worked really well (it was a hot, dry year...not all of them are).
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by quesera 15y ago
I've found, when presented with an odd but well-crafted turn of phrase, that it's often most productive to assume that it is an SNL reference of which I was unaware.
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by quesera 15y ago
MBTA is an embarrassment. The cards have serial numbers, but they weren't checked? Seriously? Not even in the nightly audit report? They do a nightly audit report, right? Billsf showed BART how to run an electronic ticketing system 15 years
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by quesera 16y ago
I have respect for both Tom and Sam, but Tom is in his domain here (even if he's only willing to commit to a vague feeling of unease...I trust those feelings from certain people). Nate Lawson chimed in with a list of good points on the othe
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by quesera 16y ago
Tarsnap. Simple, cheap, efficient, honestly secure. I can't imagine storing personal files and photos somewhere "out there", managed by someone else, in readable form. Seriously, how do you Dropbox (etc) fans sleep at night?
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by quesera 16y ago
Indeed. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like it. I have to believe it's intentional -- perhaps a conscious progression of the fluid language. Or maybe he just has a thing against the French. Either way, if anyone gets the
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by quesera 16y ago
Seriously, Ron Conway doesn't know how to spell "entrepreneur"?? If that's possible, it's awesome, don't get me wrong, but it seems fishy.
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by quesera 16y ago
I imagine the user resistance is more due to a) not wanting to pay to join a ghost town, and b) not having significant issues with the quality of community on HN/Reddit (or being satisfied with the local methods of filtering). I wouldn't dr
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by quesera 16y ago
Sure, but we who spend most of our time working on the "invisible" bits on the backend generally don't have the minutiae of our decisions subjected to a whole lot of scrutiny by the average client. In contrast, the cliche is true: everyone
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by quesera 16y ago
I think you're very wrong if you assume that most Mac users also run Windows. Anecdotally, the only Mac users I know who run a VM at all do so for IE testing, or occasionally for some other UNIX variant. Then again, i don't know many peopl
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by quesera 16y ago
1 //Tutorial file HelloWorld.x10 2 class HelloWorld { 3 public static def main(argv:Rail[String]) { 4 x10.io.Console.OUT.println("Hello, World"); 5 } 6 } ...ayfkm? You've already failed.
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by quesera 16y ago
It must be really, really hard to be Dave Winer. All day long, every day. I wish him the best.
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by quesera 16y ago
The comparison between Apple's business decisions and Postel's comments on a protocol implementation is invalid. Other people might invoke Postel's name to amplify their own message, but that's just not what he was talking about. Furthermor
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by quesera 16y ago
Yeah, that's crazy and disappointing. I'm quite sure that if it's legal and not just a bizarre error, it's standard practice for all banks in the US. In my case, I deposited a single large cashier's check (at the teller due to concern abou
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by quesera 16y ago
I once asked a bank rep how this worked, and was told that at the end-of-day settlement, all deposits and credits to the account are processed first, then debits and withdrawals. I believe the bank was Wachovia (now Wells), but it might hav