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by sprout 16y ago
A lot of us have worked tabbed browsing into our workflow to a degree that the difference between 1 millisecond load time and a 5 second load time is negligible, since I'll spend enough time on the first tab to let the rest I've queued load
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by sprout 16y ago
I agree with you in general, but I'm not so sure when we look at something like Madoff where money literally vanishes. That money, as you say, represents an actual value that did not actually vanish. It's rather hard to say where it went, b
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by sprout 16y ago
I can understand it, but I too prefer my Droid's keyboard.
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by sprout 16y ago
It still makes sense to go with a physical keyboard if you're strapped for cash. Touchscreens big enough and responsive enough to handle a soft keyboard do not run cheap.
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by sprout 16y ago
Thus the "trying to" bit, as in, they haven't done it yet, but are getting there.
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, I think there are more fortunes being made in an ethical manner than there used to be, this much is true. But where I think the real losses to society come from are inheritance, and what you might call the "soft inheritance" that com
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by sprout 16y ago
I find the color scheme of his blog somewhat ironic. It looks fine in grayscale but it is absolutely painful to read that red on that yellow. Textbook case for built-in readability if I ever saw one.
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by sprout 16y ago
>Also, the problem with ignoring people who set out to murder you is that it shows an unwillingness to do so. Terrorism is not about murdering people. It's about pushing people like yourself to overreact.
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by sprout 16y ago
Seems to be going great for Norway.
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by sprout 16y ago
PO boxes provide stability should your physical address change, so there will always be a market for them.
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by sprout 16y ago
I read "famously aggressive little country" with 'little' as a diminutive, not necessarily a literal description of size. I could easily see myself referring to my native USA with that phrase.
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by sprout 16y ago
No, I think that's specifically the point I take issue with. An educated polity is a social necessity in a democracy - and we are failing at creating an educated polity. So there's no question to me that educating people stands the test of
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by sprout 16y ago
No, Google isn't so open at times. That said I don't think this is a good example. Is he really suggesting that Google create and maintain a separate API in addition to the ones that they already offer? SaaS is a fundamentally different bal
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by sprout 16y ago
Generally I think we've evolved a lot more than orthodox thinking gives us credit for since the agricultural revolution. We still have some vestiges of our hunter-gatherer roots, but most of us have had ancestors cultivating crops for mille
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by sprout 16y ago
They don't want a third-party app to become a key part of the iOS experience because then when it is ported some of the Apple sheen would likely rub off on Windows/Android.
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by sprout 16y ago
No, you missed the key, which is that if a company makes a killer iPad app, porting it to Android and whatever variant of Windows CE Microsoft finally decides is worth putting on tablets will be trivial, and the iPad will just be a fashiona
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by sprout 16y ago
Heh, I figured out it was the cookie, but as I had just created a second account I thought it was some sort of auto-ban for daring to create a second pseudonym.