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by sprout 16y ago
That's the point of open source. Take what in the hands of a single company would be a monoculture and turn it into a vibrant market with lots of choice. Yes, of course it wins. It's a better development model.
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by sprout 16y ago
It seems like Windows Phone 7 should take away market share from Android, but there's one key problem that I think will prevent Windows Phone 7 from doing that: Internet Explorer. IE is a resource hog, and has horrible standards support.
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by sprout 16y ago
From the bit of Bioinformatics work I did in college, that actually seemed a problem rather than a boon. Genes are not ascii sequences, and Perl is not really made to manipulate them. Perl is however an excellent scripting language, and tho
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by sprout 16y ago
Especially if your business is web-based, you should probably be thinking of your designer as a team member, not a vendor that sells something called 'design.' It's really not that simple.
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by sprout 16y ago
That's a tautology though. You're using the method of apportioning contribution to GDP (wages) to prove that GDP is being properly apportioned. There's evidence of your position, but it's hardly obvious. Personally I believe it to be incorr
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by sprout 16y ago
The top 10% of Americans hold an ever-increasing share of American GDP. So I suppose to be a little finer-grained, upper echelons of society overpay themselves and underpay the majority of the labor market, even as they benefit from the fru
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by sprout 16y ago
Personally I think looking at higher ed is looking at the wrong side of the equation. We're not in an education bubble, but a "bunge"[1] if you will - the opposite of a bubble - with regard to labor prices. In other words, people aren't ove
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by sprout 16y ago
Not to mention "Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid" he explicitly says it's a parody, and silly anachronism and poor design choices are pretty standard for parody. If I were doing that film today, I could see using Comic Sans for the newspaper.
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by sprout 16y ago
I was working on updating a backup script, and it had the same function written ten times, with no arguments, entirely for the purpose of calling it. No closures, just pointless repetition. Also, about half the lines of the script was other
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by sprout 16y ago
>They made consumers re-purchase music How many people actually bought PlaysForSure music? I don't really see how that's a huge deal. You could still use all of your existing MP3s, DRM-free AAC music from iTunes, and WMA files from Wind
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by sprout 16y ago
Hardly. They offered a very solid competing vision for what an MP3 player should be. It was a risky vision, involving a subscription and the innovative ability to share songs you haven't bought legally, wirelessly with the person standing n
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by sprout 16y ago
Actually, from the two people I know who actually owned a Zune (and from Jerry Holkins: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/5/15/ ), Microsoft did in fact 'get' the iPod, and outdid it in a lot of ways. Microsoft just has shitty marketing. Bu
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by sprout 16y ago
>he did wrote code It's 'did write.' Just FYI, in case you're not native and that wasn't just an auto-complete gaffe.
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by sprout 16y ago
Funny thing about paywalls is that they require even more intrusive tracking.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm glad they've fixed that. It took me like 5 minutes to find the compose button the first time I used Gmail.
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by sprout 16y ago
Anywhere minor modifications to the firmware could cause serious injury, it makes sense to restrict access to the firmware, because the firmware is a very small part of a hardware system that has been well-tested for safety. This makes the
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by sprout 16y ago
I fail to see how what you just said is substantively different from the advice prevented in the article. The article was about how to best keep a graphic designer happy. If you prefer compromise, just bear in mind that you could make thing
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by sprout 16y ago
I believe you mean C-x C-c vim [RET] Though personally I've never found it that useful.
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by sprout 16y ago
I really think tablets aren't all they're cracked up to be. They're just touchscreen netbooks with a sub-par input method. (Touch keyboards cannot match hardware.) I'm quite content with my Dell Mini running Ubuntu. It does everything I nee
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by sprout 16y ago
That's one place where plain English works fine. Glob matches a glob of characters.
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by sprout 16y ago
Your comparison of the microwave to the iPhone is just false. The point is that if the software is simple enough that it's pretty obviously bug-free, and you have no reasonable need to tinker with it, there's no reason you should need the s
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by sprout 16y ago
Google's bicycling directions automatically highlight bike paths. You should try and integrate that.
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by sprout 16y ago
It's not unreasonable. The [I Do Foundation]( http://www.idofoundation.org/about/faq/ ) charges 8%, and they are a 501(c)3 nonprofit. A lot of that is credit card processing fees. That said, I won't encourage charitable donations through
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by sprout 16y ago
Are you a nonprofit?
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by sprout 16y ago
If anti-authoritarianism isn't in your blood I'd say you aren't the target market.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm looking at those posts, and only two of the linked studies actually analyze font in conjunction with color. And the link is dead, but one of the comments to Atwood's blog suggests that he didn't read the second study as closely has he s
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by sprout 16y ago
The thing is, there is a substantial bias that aids poor people in general, not in the admission process, but in the process of actually going to school. Even though the private colleges have price tags up in the $40k+ range, the average
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by sprout 16y ago
Are you reading black-on-white or white-on-black? Google recently updated the Android maps application so everything is white during the day, which really annoys me. black-on-white is kind of obnoxious and wastes battery unless you're in fu
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't want to imply that I'm at a higher level of Emacs proficiency than you (It's not at all that simple. http://www.bemroses.net/images/curves.jpg ) But once you get past sqrt(15i*π)/2 emacs mastery, you stop using the menus and start
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by sprout 16y ago
For a second I was actually hoping someone leaked Google's internal stack and all of it was GPL.

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