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by sabat 15y ago
The corporations are the roots, and the govt represents the branches. Seeing it the other way around is delusional. If "another provider" is not marginally more beneficial, why would you switch? Or put another way, how would "another provi
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by sabat 15y ago
You can cancel your service, sure. But if you need a landline, then you're forced to go to another provider who does the same exact pricing trick. So there really is no choice at all.
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by sabat 15y ago
Let's hope it stays that way -- I don't want Apple to fail anymore than anyone else. Tim Cook is a fairly dim bulb, though, just a paper-pusher with a bad temper. I hope he doesn't get in the way of those at Apple with real talent.
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by sabat 15y ago
Good point, and I'd much rather believe that this is the reason than something more dire.
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by sabat 15y ago
Actually he did hand-pick John Sculley. And Sculley failed spectacularly.
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by sabat 15y ago
The book was originally set to arrive in 2012, but this month its release was bumped up to Nov. 21, 2011 That's ominous.
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by sabat 15y ago
I will gladly bet $100 on that Apple, without Steve Jobs' help, will create a new product in the coming decade that'll revolutionize Maybe, but skeptics will probably be right to doubt it. Many had similar hopes as yours when Steve was fi
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by sabat 15y ago
We have art galleries (see SF MOMA in particular), but the Bay Area is less about indoor venues and more about the incredible variety of natural beauty that is all around it.
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by sabat 15y ago
Also don't forget: Lake Tahoe area, Berkeley, the East Bay regional parks, Yosemite.
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by sabat 15y ago
Nothing annoys me more than this kind of analogy. People who are trying to understand it can't figure out what a Duck really is in this scenario, and what it means that it's a subclass of Bird. Use simple but realistic classes as examples.
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by sabat 15y ago
could be the first indication that the zero-revenue company is back in style. I'm not sure that "it happened this one time" equates to "back in style".
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by sabat 15y ago
Actually it's just that I'm not a fan of editor modes.
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by sabat 15y ago
You're probably right, but the carriers (primarily AT&T) don't need to be such dicks about it.
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by sabat 15y ago
Except you have to be on a wifi network. Skype works well enough on 3G, though, and connects to Android, laptops, whatnot.
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by sabat 15y ago
True, he did. I was talking about something slightly different -- laziness in terms of learning to interact well with other humans.
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by sabat 15y ago
You're right, I have not contributed to the degree that _Why did. I think you misunderstand my point, though. When you do contribute to a high degree, and people begin to use and depend on your work, then it's not especially cool to just ta
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by sabat 15y ago
I suppose some of it is attributable to Asperger's -- some of it. In many cases, though, I can't help but suspect laziness and a holier-than-thou attitude.
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by sabat 15y ago
You have to admit that his sudden disappearance was a little strange. OK, he didn't want his real name known; understandable. But -- as much as I miss him -- I'll never fully understand why he would shut down most/all his sites and nearly d
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by sabat 15y ago
Its funny that in 2008 - we see posts like "RIP Good Times" - http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/06/r-i-p-good-times-one-year-l... . - and yet nothing - fundamentally - came of it. I want you to be right, but didn't something come of it? Didn
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by sabat 15y ago
The more people say this, the more true it becomes.
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by sabat 15y ago
Greece has defaulted. You're overstating that -- I smell a troll. Greece did not default. China's stock market just dropped 30% False. It dropped 3.9%, hardly a serious problem for the Hong Kong market. After that, Italy/Ireland/Portug
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by sabat 15y ago
What kind of bubble are you talking about? A tech bubble? Based on what -- three IPOs? US is about to have a series of downgrades. States and local munis will seek bankruptcies after downgrades. Hyperinflation will start. Social security,
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by sabat 15y ago
I don't believe that technology has suddenly killed millions of jobs. No, it's fear. Banks are afraid to lend, and so SMBs can't expand. Corporations, sitting on trillions of dollars, are afraid to hire because they think it's too risky. Ca
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by sabat 15y ago
The Weekly World News once reported that a new, deadly computer virus could make your computer explode. Seems sort of prophetic now, given the media frenzy. http://books.google.com/books?id=9ewDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40&#3...
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by sabat 15y ago
I don't know if this is all that crazy. Ambitious, yes, but it's tempered compared to the '90s. Dropbox is doing very well and wants to try and do very, very well.
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by sabat 15y ago
You're a dev/ops guy, I'm an appsec security assessor. I think we just look for different things. Trust me, this isn't just common it's standard practice. Actually I'm a CISSP and was CISO for a major financial web site for >5 years.
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by sabat 15y ago
Hyperbolic.
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by sabat 15y ago
after running this you are one Twitter shortened link away from losing your development machine Who runs an internet-accessible development machine? Maybe I give the rest of the dev world too much credit. you're one of the 80% of compani
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by sabat 15y ago
Except for extreme circumstances (emergency debugging) I wouldn't let this thing near production. For development, it's super-handy, though.
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by sabat 15y ago
Patrick, I love everything you post, normally. In this case, you've misunderstood. This is a development and test tool. If someone puts this into the production environment, he deserves what he gets. For development , this is invaluabl

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