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901.
by roc 14y ago
The problem of desktop performance gain isn't that the gains aren't there, it's that people aren't buying them even when they are. People aren't buying 6GB of RAM, let alone 8. They're not buying SSDs for their desktops, even though those
902.
by roc 14y ago
> "The problem I have with these sorts of social structures is that it assumes that one person out of a hundred is some how "gifted."" The point of DE-style positions is to get demonstrated great engineers out of the org chart, to f
903.
by roc 14y ago
Yes, it's quite a bit like that old saying about pornography "I know it when I see it". But that hardly changes the point that there is no reform that can both prevent such suits and protect our interests as consumers.
904.
by roc 14y ago
Competition is great. But there's a point where the "copying" that we as consumers like and benefit from crosses a line and becomes a shameless "knock-off" that we as consumers truly do not benefit from. It's not at all clear that Samsung
905.
by roc 14y ago
I think you're confusing two largely-unrelated issues. Whether products are developed according to what users want vs what builders want has almost nothing to do with bazaar vs cathedral. Indeed, many bazaar-style projects (the linux ecosys
906.
by roc 14y ago
It's a phase. Like the bitcoin stuff. It'll taper off.
907.
by roc 14y ago
Sure. That's why they get away with selling bad coffee. If you're going to load it up with sugar and cinammon and whipped cream and three shots of caramel the quality of the coffee is largely irrelevant.
908.
by roc 14y ago
> "remember that quaint concept?" I'm American. It's been a while. My hat is truly off to Ecuador and its people if they're taking the altruistic route.
909.
by roc 14y ago
> "If AuthenTec was developing a technology for Apple’s new products, would the deal need to have been completed “quickly” if it wasn’t going to be used in devices launching later this year" Isn't presenting and cultivating a sense of
910.
by roc 14y ago
Or that they had developed some features based on an Authentec license that they only recently decided to make into differentiation points by buying Authentec and thus making it more difficult for competitors to keep/catch up.
911.
by roc 14y ago
Beyond the strict money value of those shares, Microsoft gains business value from being a large and influential investor in Facebook. That can make up for quite a bit of strictly monetary opportunity cost.
912.
by roc 14y ago
Can they not put him in a helicopter with a diplomatic courier or minor embassy functionary and fly him out to a boat in international waters? (Edit: I see now that was already discussed below. nm.) That asked, I tend to agree that the most
913.
by roc 14y ago
If "we" are "people who buy Apple products", then "we" want Apple to design their own connectors because their tightly controlled accessory ecosystem has resulted in convenient and dependable third party products. Not unlike the situation
914.
by roc 14y ago
For page views? We're long past that point.
915.
by roc 14y ago
Purveyors of "premium copy-protected video" use Flash on the desktop because the process of distributing, installing and supporting PC software is a giant pain in the ass, fraught with problems and security risks, to the point that users no
916.
by roc 14y ago
And, as with otherwise normalized marijuana and cocaine, we'll probably still be looking the other way as kids in 2033 continue to get prosecuted, and futures continue to be ruined, for the grand crime of having been caught doing something
917.
by roc 14y ago
You have to email privacy@quora.com I also deleted my account when news of this nonsense non-feature hit. And their disabling it doesn't earn them back any points in my book. There's no way to honestly make that move as a mistake. There'
918.
by roc 14y ago
> "My most important point about "folders" is just that we should avoid referring to these new systems as such." Fair enough and I absolutely agree. Though be prepared for users to refer to them as such. And as to tag hierarchies -
919.
by roc 14y ago
There's a huge difference between sharing what people have explicitly interacted with (making a comment, clicking "like") and sharing what people have passively viewed with no explicit action on their part.
920.
by roc 14y ago
It's not about whether users aren't smart enough for tags. It's whether tags work the way users want them to. Tags are for organization. People like to organize things in terms of visual hierarchies and landmarks. Raw tagging systems are
921.
by roc 14y ago
Eventually users might get to the point that the hierarchy is unnecessary. Surely it's more efficient to type out "2012, foo, xyz corp, alpha". And it's certainly easier to type out a few tags than navigate a few trees to do a search. But
922.
by roc 14y ago
The ideal implementation of tags (at least during the transition) is tags as pseudo-folders. That is, you drop a document into "Projects"->"2012"->"Foo" and the flexibility of tags is simply hidden away until needed. When it is nee
923.
by roc 14y ago
> "(Yes, I understand that there are ways to get those too)" And at the point that someone can get a passable fake ID in your name, you have far bigger problems than their social-hacking an online service account.
924.
by roc 14y ago
Or use a tool like 1password to generate and store the 'answers'.
925.
by roc 14y ago
The whole endeavor is lousy. With regards to 'success', for most people the education you get in college is secondary. What's of primary importance is networking and having that degree on your resume to get you in the door. [1] But network
926.
by roc 14y ago
The limiting factor is the testing and integration, not the new technology. if it takes X years to do sufficient radiation and integration testing on new technology, you can't possibly include any technology "newer" than X years old. And tr
927.
by roc 14y ago
Right. We attempted to put a self-sufficient colony in the American Southwest and still failed. Surely it's fair to extrapolate our inability to succeed there into an inability to succeed in a far more harsh and remote locale. Keep in mind
928.
by roc 14y ago
We can't even put a self-sufficient colony of people in Antarctica , where we don't have to worry about the lack of atmosphere or radiation shielding.
929.
by roc 14y ago
> "People will get sick of the randomised takedowns," They haven't yet. And what rival content host has a better system? I'd like to think people would demand better. But when it comes to free services, they generally don't.
930.
by roc 14y ago
*for any news story not involving a pretty young white woman.

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