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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Why not tell them an imaginary salary then?
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
[citation needed]
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I wonder how much was actual Twitter leadership getting greedy vs investors demanding a clear plan for monetization and control.
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Are there any data released on use of chat heads (in Android, the only OS where they can exist)? Personally I love chatheads, they're why I've driven so much of my messaging into FB Messenger. But I would certainly be curious as t
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
How long until someone has gotten this working on a modern PC/Mac/iPad?
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
It's a bit different because (outside of irrelevant Windows Phone and dead Windows RT) the MS app store is optional, just one of many mainstream, widely accepted ways of installing software. Whereas with iOS, if Apple says no App Store
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Isn't that setting up TNR to meet a standard that no journalistic entity (or entity, period) can meet? (that is, being unanimously beloved)
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Montreal has a fairly decent cluster of game studios, does it not? If nothing else I'm hoping they're hard at work making the next Deus Ex game at Eidos Montreal :)
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Yep. Even mighty Microsoft, with no shortage of money, couldn't make Windows Phone work.
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
even if the bootloaders are unlocked, you usually still face an issue with all those non-open drivers to make the phone work right. One annoying example is how Sony's Xperia phones can have their bootloaders unlocked, but Sony keeps th
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
This is correct, although this isn't likely. Replicating the end-user cloud services Google provides is hard enough, but replicating the app store could be much harder since so many Android apps are written to call Google Play Services
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
As long as people work and money is generated through sales, you can make any rules to keep the game in play I hope you would make this into a paper and dub it "The Calvinball Principle" (ahh, memories: https://en.wik
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
just "gaining experience" in damaging the global economy through our own bad policy? I'd argue we've been doing that since Smoot-Hawley, or in the dying days of Bretton Woods ("the dollar is our currency, but your p
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
To this day Google/Waze will suggest I get onto the 101's Octavia entrance by just driving down market and turning right onto the 101, neglecting the very longstanding rule that you have to run the Octavia St gauntlet to get on th
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
There weren't many when it began, but today we have Google-plus, twitter, Reddit, Hacker-news and lots of others That's not the real threat to Facebook's empire. Those are all tools used by people in their late 20s and 30s
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Windows 10 for PCs offers the store but does not require you to publish through it. For now, anyway.
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Or as Socrates put it, "the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" (probably one of the more Buddhist-ish gems from Western philosophy)
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Those numbers seem high given that I personally spend $20 a day on food for all meals (whereas corporate meals are probably covering 1.5 meals per day) and don't get much by way of economies of scale (despite my most valiant Costco eff
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
A nice idea, but in US politics, what should be two discrete issues (attracting skilled labor and managing the inflow of unskilled labor) have somehow become hopelessly intertwined. One is regularly held hostage to the other whenever an att
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
>the crazy extreme right-wing party getting seats in Parliament The BNP doesn't have any seats in Parliament. I assume you might be referring to UKIP?
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
>What's the cause in Japan? Could it be that there's fear over what's happening in Europe, or could it be a threat from China, or something else completely? Threat of China, and the sense of angst that comes from 2 decades
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Also add Palm, BlackBerry, Nokia to that list...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
She probably IS really tired (between the demands of pregnancy and the late-night boardroom fighting). And she's probably dealing with a lot of anger around not getting to do her turnaround. Whether they were working or not, she was su
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
While we're at it, they also bought and ruined my second favorite Android launcher, Aviate!
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Outsourcing the software heart of your business to Microsoft is a surefire win. Just look at how well Nokia did when they outsourced their phone OS business to Windows Phone. (I do wonder if iterations of this pattern panned out better when
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Well said. This is my Nokia heartbreak all over again
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I feel more badly for the people who used and loved the products. Hard to feel bad for people who got a nice pile of money and a cushy job and probably more equity that can turn into another pile of money later...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
At some point SOMEBODY has to mention Battlestar Galactica and the importance of using old tech not connected to "the network" to save the day...
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
Boeing has pretty much perfected that with the 737 series
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by sirkneeland 11y ago
I think that was SAC (Strategic Air Command) which was shut down in 1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command "Following Operation Desert Storm, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the de facto

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