rbarooah

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by rbarooah 16y ago
Will the government bail out the photo sharing sites when they fail?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It's a problem because unlike other activities finance produces benefits to society only when it well, finances people doing things other than finance. Other activities are valuable in themselves.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
You will when if Google decides they're afraid of your product giving you some leverage and decides to give a clone away for free to undermine it's value and damage your business. Exactly the strategy that Microsoft used to destroy Netscape
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Yes - the fact that it keeps happening does provide support for the grim outlook.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Declaring that lisp is unintuitive when compared with python is like saying Shakespeare is unpopular when compared with Lady Gaga.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
With all the acknowledgement of Apple's role on the history of this, I have to wonder whether they are aware that Apple has been laying the groundwork for doing the same thing since Snow Leopard, and that Lion can already automatically quit
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It's a good analysis. One which points to a bleak future in which all work is done by employees of a few monopolistic corporations that defend themselves against competition by giving "good enough" clones of their competitors products away
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It did eventually disappear from the stream for me, and for me, it look as though there was nobody else around to see it!
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by rbarooah 16y ago
True - but if the technology behind it works, the money will let them keep launching products until one sticks.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I think the point he's making is that they are going to try to figure out your actual real-world social graph based on who you associate with and where. I'm sure that was the killer part of the pitch. If you forget about the photo sharin
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by rbarooah 16y ago
My app store acccount only required a web form. How was it difficult for you?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I think the point is that if you own a Xoom, that tweet is empty.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
So it's not open for the people who bought Xooms then.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not enough, unfortunately.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Can we still call it 'open'?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Wow - the first thing it does is to ask you to give your name and take a photo of yourself, then it shares it with random strangers without warning or asking your permission or giving a way to delete it. Pretty unpleasant initial experience
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The case for associative main memory and storage(dekorte.com)
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by rbarooah 16y ago
In the countries with declining reproduction, I'd be interested to see how rate of procreation relates to income-level. Is it the well off who are not reproducing, or the relatively poor?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Apple's track record for updating iOS devices is hugely better than Samsungs.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Saved time, energy and money by not worrying about it?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Maybe it is but it bears more analysis than just capitalizing the word 'IS'. There are a fair number of costs involved: - Reviewing 350,000 apps x the number of updates. Say 1,000,000 reviews? - Bandwidth and hosting for all apps, free or
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Alex Payne is a self-professed afficionado of minimalism and good design - not just in software, but in physical products. I'd venture to say that a great deal of good design work is done by small studios which would count as 'lifestyle' bu
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Right, because Apple are generally in the habit of providing details of their development plans to anonymous developers. What does 'indicated' mean? Presumably not the same as 'said'.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Where 'throttled' means just as good as before. Occam's razor suggests that they simply hadn't finished the integration work before the ship date.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I didn't call out the whole industry as engaging in deceptive practices as a common occurrence. I do however think there is some deception occurring and that if it isn't uncovered and corrected, it will grow. You did however did claim that
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by rbarooah 16y ago
What's the point? You can google for yourself. If I bring up examples they will be flawed because they are populist and because I don't understand banking as well as you do. The banking system is flawless but you have to be a banker to und
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by rbarooah 16y ago
So you speculate despite not knowing either language or use case? Nevertheless I don't want to be a bad geek so I did some trivial googling: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4064451/luas-gc-and-realt... tldr; LUA's GC isn't magic a
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by rbarooah 16y ago
What the poster misses is that many people don't come to online forums for just polite intelligent discussion. You might as well tell football fans to be quiet so everyone can concentrate on the game better. Is he comparing online forums w
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Yeah - it's ok for banks to engage in minor frauds - only really serious ones matter so we should ignore this. After all isn't everyone entitled to a little fraud now and again?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
You're obviously a troll. You aren't seriously trying to claim that Wall Street firms don't engage in deception are you?

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