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by snorkel 13y ago
It's not just about product names, but overall Apple's product line is much more narrowly focused. Apple chooses to focus on a few well made product lines rather than a shotgun blast of different variants for every budget and mark
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by snorkel 13y ago
I like the post but I don't care for the click baity headline. Please add a few more words to headline when posting to HN.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Code is not literature because literature only contains the highlights worth knowing where code has to provide the comprehensive instructions for everything to operate. A good code reader should be like a tour guide, and a good tour guide d
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by snorkel 13y ago
Yes, this Edmund's article is a classic! Required reading for anyone about to buy a car.
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by snorkel 13y ago
This is just like the Segway rollout hype all over again. Segways turned out to be real (self balancing and all, except they turned out to have two wheels instead of one wheel) but are very niche. I'd bet drone delivery will also exist
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by snorkel 13y ago
Bah! The termination agreement is just a bunch boilerplate legalese cover your ass bullshit, really. So sign it and take the severance check, then go say whatever you want anyway. It's very unlikely that a company that can't affor
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by snorkel 13y ago
"You need shell access to a remote system using ssh. What file would email to the admin to grant you access using ssh?" You'd be surprised of how many supposed Linux admins have no idea how to setup ssh logins, which says a l
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by snorkel 13y ago
There's a difference between marketing and product design. A marketer should know how to get qualified leads for lowest cost to your app, and then it's your product manager who should worry about making the best impression with ne
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by snorkel 13y ago
https://twitter.com/TheAverageShark
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by snorkel 13y ago
Wait ... how did you do that?!
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by snorkel 13y ago
... one of the prospects was an HR person from a huge Indian manufacturer. They wanted the system NOW and wanted to speak to me. [...] I just needed to build what they wanted. I know startups that charged down the other path, being hyper
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by snorkel 13y ago
I've found that over time bullshitters who produce only noise are weeded out eventually, but there's also the opposite problem of actual producers stay so quiet that upper management has no idea who they are what they do, in which
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by snorkel 13y ago
So don't use non-assertive redundant uninverted comparisons or otherwise use positive conditionals unless the reverse is negative because it might not be clear or unless it is the opposite.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Ahhh, those were the days when your main source of new source code to play with came from print publications.
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by snorkel 13y ago
I don't recall which of the Atari cart game did this (might've been Combat) rather than using space for storing sound effects the game would refer to its own code in memory for a random noise sound effect. So true that back in t
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by snorkel 13y ago
Exceptional engineers can PM their own work. For everyone else there's product management.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Not to dump on UK, but I also find the UK newspapers to be very mean spirited. US tabloids gawk at celebrities, but UK tabloids are out to get them. I would not want to be famous in the UK.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Yes, clearly mainstream news has been turned into an entertainment product. Agree that NPR delivers the news in depth without all of the cynicism and noise that makes mainstream news so depressing, except on environmental issues, that'
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by snorkel 13y ago
You're right. Authors should price their works according to how sobby the sobbiest sob story is per consumer. At least with my approach they would get the book plus bonus material.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Here's the short version. Sell. Sell it all. As soon as you are legally allowed to, sell. Sell all of it. Taxes and maxes blah blah blah just sell it, take the cash, and be thankful.
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by snorkel 13y ago
... And the fix seems so minor, and the bug reporters are providing a patch for it, and they spent more energy arguing against the patch rather than including it. Classic example of developers not wanting to admit when a bug is a bug, and f
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by snorkel 13y ago
.. Or you could give the freeloaders the special edition for free which happens to contain random passages from Alice in Wonderland, pointless diagrams, and lengthy rants about your neighbors inexplicably weaved into the original work.
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by snorkel 13y ago
.. But Doom sure felt like next gen tech to the end user. What was impressive and inspiring about id was how they raised the bar on every major release. I remember how many of my friends had to pony up for 4MB of RAM and a new sound card ju
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by snorkel 13y ago
Very nice, but I'm afraid to use it since I may discover some of my own original riffs are the same melodies already used by Nickleback and Britney Spears, and just knowing that would severely damage my creative ego.
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by snorkel 13y ago
The price of anything, especially Bitcoins, is driven by demand, greed, speculation, and irrational market behaviors. It's people running the price up, not math and science, but people. At this moment those people will be become either
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by snorkel 13y ago
If you're holding a winning ticket then cash it in before it blows away. Don't let greed and past peaks cloud your judgement. Sell now before the sell off frenzy starts.
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by snorkel 13y ago
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. Don't get greedy, just take the profit and be thankful for it.
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by snorkel 13y ago
As someone who witnessed the dot-com boom, I always tell the kids nowadays: sell. sell it all. now.
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by snorkel 13y ago
Composing a 3D scene is a lot like composing software. The objects in the scene are like individual functions that were authored separately for a specific purposes. Some 3D objects can be reused in other scenes, and sometimes it's only
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by snorkel 13y ago
Excellent point. Clear concise code only explains what it does, names and comments should be added to explain why it is needed, how is it being used.

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