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by serhei 18y ago
There is actually a consistent inverse correlation between development level and fertility rate. Economically affluent countries have lower fertility. This suggests that improving the standard of living is the most, perhaps the only, humane
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by serhei 18y ago
You've been roped into a constructivist education! In plain English, the people who make the OLPC are trying to nudge kids into doing something similar: specifically, while you just think you're playing with a cool toy, you're being encoura
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by serhei 18y ago
> looks like a ">" with 3 horizontal lines to the right .. and to think that earlier in the Mac's history the mantra for GUI design was "a word is worth a thousand pictures" (see: http://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html )
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by serhei 18y ago
Here's my count of how well they fixed the "places for improvement" Steve mentioned in the keynote: 1. (3G) Done, though the other use of 3G they don't have covered is multimedia. (Their ad copy for the iTunes store still instructs you to "
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by serhei 18y ago
... no! Then instead of 10 committees of 20 people, they'll have 1 godawful app designed by 1 ginormous committee of 200 people!
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by serhei 18y ago
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/12/entertainment/et-pix...
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by serhei 18y ago
I think that ultimately the problem is that Steve's successors have to fill his role of "creative asshole", but an individual with an ego as strong as Steve's simply won't get high enough in Apple to become anything close to a successor, be
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by serhei 18y ago
For many people, that hole is now filled by computers! (Read: forum zealots.) Thus, things like Digg will be a huge factor in the creation of world peace! Or something!
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by serhei 18y ago
Mozilla, actually.. but Mozilla was still so ugly (and therefore Old School) that only a nerd could love it; certainly the nostalgia is rushing back. I remember someone literally asked me: "WTF is that browser you're using? It's so damn ugl
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by serhei 18y ago
> 2) Moved to an original IBM Model M and a PS/2 adapter.. Great, except for the immediately apparent fact that there was no Windows/Command key, thereby making it incredibly useless for a Mac power user. I use an old keyboard through a
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by serhei 18y ago
"The only thing Rails codes dislike more than Java is SQL" Familiarity breeds contempt, doesn't it?
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by serhei 18y ago
OS X menu bar, Safari with address+tab & bookmarks bar, OS X dock.
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by serhei 18y ago
Ability to change zoom level would be a plus, and then making the size of the whiteboard conform to the size of the window (the whiteboard doesn't fit in a browser window at 1024*768; not essential but annoying).
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by serhei 18y ago
I think that's how you should write software in general. Write tiny prototypes that you can rip up and change on a whim, and aim for making something so fun/beautiful/useful that it would become a crime against creativity not to turn it int
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Jwz's old rant about how the Web should scale down gracefully(jwz.org)
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by serhei 18y ago
And let's not forget that they essentially created the tiny, cheap laptop market. People like ASUS and Intel were scared of them. If the entire project has turned out to be "a con" and jack shit has ended up being done for children, you h
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by serhei 18y ago
> First, let’s get the obvious difference out of the way. Mathematics is largely a theoretical field. Sure, we can often apply it to the real world, but where’s the fun in that? The goal is not to produce products for ordinary people, b
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by serhei 18y ago
You could argue both ways about 37signals, since if you consider Rails as one of their products, they are becoming pretty big through that. Considering the arguments made in Be Good, one can take the point of view of a startup being a start
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by serhei 19y ago
I think about it, and I realize that Cisco et al. were essentially making money without producing corresponding wealth - a sort of bubble waiting for someone to come along and pop it.
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by serhei 19y ago
From what I've seen of the Apple community, they seem to have a fairly easy time swallowing the not-so-savory things Apple does, with reasoning like "they need to maintain the user experience" or "they're a corporation, tuey need to make mo
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by serhei 19y ago
The ability to quickly learn new things like monads and mod_rewrite.
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by serhei 19y ago
Surely that doesn't mean that in your earlier comment being a startup founder is satisfying and functional in a way that is not good and right.
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by serhei 19y ago
Satisfying and functional is good and right. Are you prepared to argue otherwise?
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by serhei 19y ago
http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html
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by serhei 19y ago
Use OpenID, perhaps? Add a ClickPass widget?
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by serhei 19y ago
So what happened to change that?
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by serhei 19y ago
In some ways blogging makes the succeed/fail proposition read as "create original and substantive content or fail" (because people will otherwise be able to point to your crappy blog as a sign of general incompetence). And when you get into
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by serhei 19y ago
Just put on the "Mighty Draughts of the World" sensory playlist.
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by serhei 19y ago
"Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages:" http://codeulate.com/?p=12
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by serhei 19y ago
... make way for return of The Look And Feel Lawsuits ... Remember when the GUI was copyrighted?

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