rbarooah

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by rbarooah 15y ago
"Unfortunately the internet can't be truly free". This is true, but there's no reason it has to be paid by selling our attention. I'd rather use money. Google Apps - I'm using local apps - iWork - with dropbox for collaboration. AppEngine
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Are you with abdulla because you are personally ok with the trade Google is asking for, or because that you think that anyone who isn't ok with it is overreacting?
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I don't like Google's business model or the trade they want me to make in exchange for their services. Therefore I am taking my business elsewhere. How can that be an overreaction? Isn't this how capitalism is supposed to work? (I don't u
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The fact is, that was nowhere near enough notice for me to exit all the services I've been using with Google since 2003. I had: Gmail Apps for Domain (3 domains) AppEngine Calendar Reader Analytics Docs Voice Picasa ...and probably a bunch
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Not so if they owe him "$13,860". Having a lot of money and a big legal department doesn't automatically make it easy to get out of unpaid debts. Courts take these things very seriously. If there's a contractual get-out clause that allows A
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by rbarooah 15y ago
A major reason for buying software is because we want to trade money for time. Making the buying process time consuming significantly reduces the value proposition for those who are time constrained.
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Except that they do.
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I'd like to hear more details before a poll would be meaningful. With that kind of money owing, wouldn't legal action be a reasonable option by now?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's definitely a risk. You can actually ask PayPal proactively to review your site to see whether your use of the word 'Donate' is acceptable for them. I did for one of my sites and they were very quick to respond. This still gives you
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Do you know where there is any good analysis of the kinds of adaptations that might be possible to this new reality of productivity?
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True, but it misses the central point that books don't execute anything themselves, and so computers are fundamentally different from them.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I think it's going to be interesting to see how this type heavy UI trend plays out. It's very clean and appealing looking, and it's fiendishly difficult to make an icon set look anywhere near as elegant. However... I personally find words
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Since when could books execute computations that their readers don't understand?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's only logically impossible if you have a binary definition of mental 'illness'.
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If that were true, why would there be a need for Adblock? Google would just stop showing ads to people who don't like them, or would be showing us all such great stuff that we'd be grateful for them.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Only if you assume that being 'dumb' or 'lazy' is predominantly innate and not shaped by experience or opportunity.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Doesn't anyone you know care about anything they aren't paid to care about?
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Is there no room in your worldview for values that aren't imposed by force?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It sounds like you live in a world where people only take responsibility for the consequences of their actions if they are paid to do so.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The web ism't designed this way - advertising companies make it this way.
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'the problem is us' is a useful observation in that clearly humans are vulnerable to addictive stimuli that were not abundant as we evolved. That vulnerability isn't likely to change soon. We can however recognize that activities designed t
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If you ask me for help with your homework, I could recommend a relevant and informative documentary I happen to know about, or I could tell you to forget your homework and play a game, because I'm getting a commission from the games company
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by rbarooah 15y ago
The ad consumers experience an externality to the transaction between google and the publisher. The sum of the game may be negative or positive. Which do you think it is, and why?
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Is that assumption likely to hold?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Economically one might say that raganwald is observing a negative externality resulting from the deal between Google and the publisher. It doesn't cost either of them anything if they interrupt a child's homework to sell them a game of beje
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by rbarooah 15y ago
All of these seem reasonable, if the only goal is to optimize things for Google and the ad publishers. What about the end user experience?
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How about not showing ads in those cases?
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If Google perpetuates a lowest common denominator stereotype, it's their fault whether they use automation to achieve it or not.
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Perhaps the 'machine-learning-and-auction-based-ad network' just isn't a good thing. Is this really the end-state for human civilization?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Wasn't Steve Job's comment driven by his belief that Eric Schmidt used his insider knowledge of the iPhone project to inform the direction of the Android team? It seems to me that he wasn't calling it stolen because it was a similar product

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