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by shinkansen 16y ago
Is there a live feed anywhere? I love to watch this thing launch in real time!
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by shinkansen 16y ago
You're missing the point: The difference between 17 and 16 million, is not a statistically significant /majority/, please be careful when quoting, because you missed the most important piece of what I said above. 17 million as compared to 1
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by shinkansen 16y ago
Please see, quoted below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2121525 Now for a quick lesson in grammar, sorry it had to come to this but besides the colloquial instinct, the grammatical roots of 'most' will show, unequivocally, 'most' sh
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> Why are you inventing arbitrary rules for the usage of “most” that have never before existed? I'm not. The rules aren't arbitrary, they're based on the grammatical roots of the word. Your consistent problem is your assumptions, which
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> The usage of “most” was completely correct... This is simply wrong. When dealing with numbers, esp financial data, it is poor form to not make specific analysis in the descriptions of the data. Saying 'Most iOS sales are not iPhones'
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by shinkansen 16y ago
Regardless, saying ~5% is more instructive than simply saying 'most', which might confuse people who aren't reading closely or if it becomes quoted out of context. It's poor form to miss an opportunity to be more specific about data rather
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> I would take it to mean that there are slightly more woman in north america than man. That's a terrible assumption. The problem with 'most' is it doesn't imply an exact number, it could be 0.01% more or 99.9% more and either is 'most'
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by shinkansen 16y ago
It's a majority, certainly. But isn't it more elucidating to say sales are nearly split between the iPhone and iOS devices other than the iPhone? 'Most', at least colloquially, seems slightly misleading to me. The difference after all is le
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by shinkansen 16y ago
I couldn't help but notice the timing too. Steve steps out just as Apple is about to post phenomenal earnings: smart moves on Apple's part I think.
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by shinkansen 16y ago
>　Most iOS devices being sold are, in fact, not iPhones! Pedantic reply: half ≠ most, half = half But that aside, I see your point: clearly iOS can still be influential regardless of the shift in the cellphone market space. What will be
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by shinkansen 16y ago
I agree completely. Compared to any other public apology I've seen in Japan, well his simply doesn't compare. Unfortunately I think he comes off as the insensitive-to-cultural-norms American which actually does more damage in Japan than it
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> In many ways, Job's eventual departure (hopefully based on choice, rather than necessity) could be good for Apple...[i]t won't be exactly the Apple of today, but given some of the…hostile decisions over the last 3 years, it might actu
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by shinkansen 16y ago
I agree, but I think it's less of an internal logistics issue and much more of a public image issue: Steve Jobs is so much the face of Apple as it sits currently, every time there's news about his health the stock fluctuates and that isn't
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by shinkansen 16y ago
Yep, no doubt. If only for this reason, Apple needs to figure out Apple sans Jobs.
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Steve Jobs to take a leave of absence(mashable.com)
3 points by shinkansen 16y ago|1 comments
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> Yes, that's pretty much the human intuition for why no one doubts that White will win. But it is very, very far from a mathematical proof. White will win if he plays perfectly: this is mathematically assured because white has an advan
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> What if we make things easier for the machine? It is obvious to a rank beginner that a perfect game with a rook handicap is a win for the side with the material advantage. No, make it a queen! Surely that must be a provable win? Hm, I
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> I would like to see them be a bit more focused and present themselves more coherently. Same here. I'm happy using the theme, eGTK and the Nautilus mod, but I absolutely agree that they need to find their direction.
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by shinkansen 16y ago
I think ultimately they want to make it a distro, but for now it only seems to exist as a theme.
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by shinkansen 16y ago
I've been using the "eGTK" (Elementary GTK) theme for just about a year now. For my money, it's the cleanest, best designed GTK theme Gnome has yet seen. It still doesn't feel as smooth as I'd like, this due I suppose in part to Gnome and t
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Windows Should Implement an 'App Store'(winextra.com)
2 points by shinkansen 16y ago|0 comments
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by shinkansen 16y ago
> I am assuming the worst possible situation here. I do firmly believe that OS X will eventually be just like iOS... This will never happen. As others have already stated, Apple would lose their developers and because they don't command
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by shinkansen 16y ago
It seems like ever since the conception of iPhone people have worried that somehow OS X will merge with iOS and the desktop platform will be completely closed and therefore dead, leaving only Windows and Linux. I just don't see it. > Bu
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by shinkansen 16y ago
It struck me that that her cells were taken without her consent and that she and her family seemingly did not benefit. I'm not sure how profit-sharing would work in a situation like this or even how much money has actually been made due dir
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Falcon 9 Returns Successfully from Orbit(nytimes.com)
3 points by shinkansen 16y ago|0 comments
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by shinkansen 16y ago
In fact some States (e.g. WA was like this) only allow voting by mail. Potentially disenfranchising perhaps; how do I vote if I'm homeless?
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Follow-up to: Python is now Python 3(voxinfinitus.net)
4 points by shinkansen 16y ago|0 comments