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by roc 14y ago
> "if there's a larger point, it's that as an industry we have the collective memory of a goldfish on crack." Which is probably more a reflection of our age-ism and the fact that 'hot new approach' is typically embraced as 'hot' and '
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by roc 14y ago
Of course not. But it isn't the problem either. It's just a PR shrug.
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by roc 14y ago
What else do you want the marketing department to do, when the flagship product they've been prepping to sell has been delayed for so long?
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by roc 14y ago
It seems to me the relevant advice buried in this is: most people need to try before they know . So get a job to pay the bills, so you can afford to try out your passions part time and have some professional experience to help you along
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by roc 14y ago
Which never seems to come around, because the new hardware is so much faster that it can host what were previously problematic server loads without a problem, and you've got a million other things to write. Yet players have a tendency to fi
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by roc 14y ago
> "They are silly because the tech industry trains people about the specsmanship game early on" Yes. Expensively. In time and money. Maybe there's room for improvement?
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by roc 14y ago
If Coulton had rights to create a derivative, he'd be getting legal advice that he has a great (legal) case against Fox, if he's willing to spend the money and time. Though it isn't likely to make anyone fantastically wealthy. If Coulton h
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by roc 14y ago
Would switching from a chemical/biological to a mechanical form of attack against bacteria be expected to produce an evolution of mechanically resistant bacteria? Be they variants that don't have the same properties that cause the nanogel
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by roc 14y ago
> "The doom and gloom doesn't make sense otherwise" But the 'doom and gloom', from Gabe's mouth, doesn't seem to be any more extreme than his stated position on DX10/Vista. As far as I can find, the press are the ones taking his comm
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by roc 14y ago
I was considering Manning's association with WikiLeaks and thus the larger 'free information' [1] online concern as part of his social standing. Because as soon as he became the name behind that leak, it was. As opposed to, say, the less-v
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by roc 14y ago
All the available evidence says "no". This is just how our our system treats absolutely anyone who presents a prosecutor with a chance to shine up their resume. The only reason we seem to be hearing about Swartz, Manning, the Duke Lacross
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by roc 14y ago
If it were about the app store, why does Gabe have nothing to say about the Mac App Store? In my poking around on this, I saw plenty of assertions that this was all about the app store, but nothing is ever attributed to Newell except his la
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by roc 14y ago
It seems I doubly-misunderstood the situation. If Steam can still trivially get its third-party-bought programs onto the metro-styled start screen, the popular reporting on that situation was off. And I can't even find a story where Gabe hi
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by roc 14y ago
It's absolutely clear how "Wall Street" assesses any company. "Wall Street" assesses stocks based on whether they can make money at a given valuation. Full stop. They are not investing. The are not acting as agents for investment. They ar
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by roc 14y ago
It's all about Microsoft's rule that you can't put anything on the "Metro" launch screen unless it's installed from the Microsoft App Store. Which means Steam and all its titles would have to be launched by explicitly navigating to the clas
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by roc 14y ago
It's trivially true that an unequal-but-growing economy is better than a more-equal-but-shrinking one. But that's neither here nor there. No-one's advocating radical changes. No-one's saying we should carve up the golden goose because egg
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by roc 14y ago
The argument the article makes is that the pie is getting better-tasting. That is, because Bob can derive more enjoyment from a fixed volume of the new pie, it doesn't matter that Bob now takes home a quarter-slice, instead of a third-slic
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by roc 14y ago
The first question is bordering on bad faith. It's nigh-on-tautological that technological advances will ensure that being middle class in 2010 is 'better' than being middle class in 1970. [1] But more air conditioning, computers and even c
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by roc 14y ago
I would like to know why you think I believe AT&T is ripping people off. Is it that since I think the situation is wrong that I must necessarily think the party that currently stands to benefit is necessarily evil or shafting the othe
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by roc 14y ago
I thought it was pretty clear that I was speaking in the context of the parent post, about the financial terms of the contract and whether it was reasonable for a network to lock a phone to ensure they recouped their subsidy. Also, the cont
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by roc 14y ago
Except that unlocking the phone doesn't free anyone from fulfilling their side of the original contract. So network interests in recapturing their subsidies don't even enter into it. If I buy an iPhone 5 from ATT and unlock it, even if I p
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by roc 14y ago
Was there ever a time when that was not the case? If it were impossible for the children of anti-science fundamentalists to constitute a sufficient and sane majority to protect science, we'd have almost certainly never gotten to where we ar
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by roc 14y ago
Some small towns definitely still exist, but they're the minority exception instead of 'the way'. That's all I was ever saying. You used to have dozens . It used to just be the way that population centers grew . Now you have a handful
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by roc 14y ago
It's worth noting that it's in Zuckerberg's financial interest should such a No Secrets reality come to pass. Which should give one pause about whether he's giving an honest, objective assessment of the available information. One would exp
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by roc 14y ago
This thing sounds almost purpose-built to enable a gourmet burger food truck business -- a restaurant niche where revenue is largely tied to how quickly a fixed number of staff can churn out food. There's also plenty of inherent down time
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by roc 14y ago
Funnily enough, Michigan. The small towns exist, some moreso than others, but (at least the ones to which I refer) they don't really exist in the same way. The shops and amenities and zoning that used to make them work aren't there in ma
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by roc 14y ago
Count up the glorified open air malls in your area and do a little local history. This can be casually done by noting average home build dates in various neighborhoods. Find a neighborhood with houses from the 40s/50s and note the layout.
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by roc 14y ago
Just to be clear, I was wondering about some other circumstance -- perhaps naively -- because I thought Apple had seen the error in this sort of nonsense, so I wondered if there was some other explanation or consideration. If Apple is indee
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by roc 14y ago
There used to be these things called small towns. [1] One wasn't forced to choose between "20 minutes from anything" and "New York City". Most people talking about the density issue are lamenting the lack of these middle choices. The place
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by roc 14y ago
A quick look shows any number 500px browsing apps still on the store. But they're all rated 12+ or 17+. Which makes me wonder if 500px didn't mark their app accordingly? Or perhaps they used to, but then switched it to a lower rating thin

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