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by rphlx 15y ago
It saddens me that the engineers and workers who actually designed and built the stuff will die unknown. Just reinforces that fame, popularity, charisma, self-promotion, wealth, and the ability to "manage" trump deep technical abilities.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Meh. The cynic in me suspects a ploy to get G+ signups.
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by rphlx 15y ago
POSIX is beautiful. d-bus != POSIX.
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by rphlx 15y ago
This is a Beta male view of female sexual selection: "if I can just get rich enough, girls will like me". The truth is that for the middle class and above, social intelligence, wit, charm, "Game", and other characteristics matter as much, o
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by rphlx 15y ago
Well, 6% is the historical average including victory in a war that eliminated almost all of the US' global competition, the discovery and near-depletion of easy petrochemical energy resources, and major technological advances driven by the
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by rphlx 15y ago
Well, non-cash Assets are often valued way above the firesale price they'd fetch in a rapid liquidation. The $4B in goodwill is not easy to extract.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Slavery started when slave drivers realized that they could take everything, then give a little back, reluctantly, infrequently, and unpredictably, and engender gratitude instead of anger in their slaves.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Even with 100% honest taxpayers, the use tax still puts local business at a disadvantage, due to the time value of money. I'd much rather pay later, with "worth less" dollars, than pay now.
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by rphlx 15y ago
I've never seen a UPS truck at a regular gas station. Perhaps they too found some way around retail gasoline taxes.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Or we could just use an AVR or Cortex-M3 with already-open tools. The 1990s called; they want their crappy non-free embedded toolchain back.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Perhaps the real metric should be spending per administrator.
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by rphlx 15y ago
That was a risk in the early 80s. It's pretty much an undisputed reality today.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Or, he simply had enough money and influence to advertise and market his way to success, this time around. I'd imagine the iPad got far, far more publicity than the Newton in its day.
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by rphlx 15y ago
I agree on this point, but I think the overall argument -- that Apple will have a very hard time growing 30% a year in 2-3 years -- is pretty solid.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Even if you are entirely correct, you've only addressed 1/4th of Greenspun's argument. Can Apple also: a) Transition effectively to emerging markets b) Find more industries willing to give them a 30% cut c) Provide a compelling return to in
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by rphlx 15y ago
See also: http://aaplbear.com/ "As a company grows, it becomes harder to provide high % returns to investors."
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by rphlx 15y ago
They just need to stop requiring pointless proprietary extensions to IPSEC, and add support for the open source stacks.
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by rphlx 15y ago
A great point, but not very controversial. Mainstream historians often propose that the USA's late 20th century economic, technical, and military prowess was a direct result of WWII. As far as Japan goes - IMO their population is too old to
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by rphlx 15y ago
One wonders how the creators intend to scale a system where every user needs the entire past state of every coin..
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by rphlx 15y ago
Come on, "Reading HN != Launching" is clearly the optimal solution here.
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by rphlx 15y ago
Security issues aside, another reason to turn off the http server version is that it pointlessly consumes presumably-metered bandwidth.
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by rphlx 15y ago
They "shift code every single day"? Shut up and hire me!
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by rphlx 15y ago
To me, that is the real business model innovation of social/web2.0 - college students will just move back home, saddled with debt, and entertain each other on a site you control, generating revenue for you. Their parents will fund their bas
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by rphlx 15y ago
The displaced worker at the bookstore/recordstore becomes a Farmville-loving, unpaid-content-producing, at-home-living, virtual-goods-buying, ad-viewing serf, kept alive by a wealthy technical elite merely to keep the system running. Welcom
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by rphlx 15y ago
With luck, one day Stephen Wolfram will discover how to write paragraphs with more than 2 sentences, on average. This technology will completely revolutionize the way humans communicate with Stephen Wolfram. He could have easily spent his e
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by rphlx 15y ago
From the twitter spritzer feed, only ~0.05-0.10% of tweets contained "Google+". So the headline seems a little fishy to me, although of course not all tweets contain a "Tweeted news link".
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by rphlx 15y ago
It's nearing a year old but here are some points to consider if you're an apple long: http://aaplbear.com/
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by rphlx 15y ago
Several countries are trading oil directly with each other in non-USD currencies now.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Unless you're Donald Trump!
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by rphlx 16y ago
Large corps are hardly run for employee productivity or happiness. They are run to maximize short term personal wealth of managers, and (less importantly) shareholders.

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