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by tesseractive 13y ago
They were kind of the definitive site for general information in the 90s, so many millions of people who started using the internet in the 90s got used to going there for news, sports, finance, weather, and some of their other verticals, as
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I remember I was the lead developer at a small software company, and we had an annual user conference with some training sessions. As the "big picture" software person, I didn't have to lead "how to use the software&quot
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by tesseractive 13y ago
You have a good and reasonable argument, but I'd like to offer a couple of counterpoints. 1. In other contexts, the sheer perfection of their 1.0 products are exactly what Apple is judged so successful by. As with the commentary on the
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by tesseractive 13y ago
King County Metro definitely has peak and non-peak fares. I don't think that's all that unusual. Also, it's not a mass transit system, but the 520 Toll Bridge in Seattle uses this to price tolls. It was the first time I'
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by tesseractive 13y ago
> Reducing contrast is really a problem in my opinion for users. The most terrifying example, in my opinion, is the team selector on the InfiniteHoops app. It keeps the skeumorphic 3-dimensionality of the old selector, but strips out all
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Here's a second try. Imagine that lots and lots of people own shares in the mineral rights to various oil fields. Oil is at a really high price, all those rights are being traded for tons of money, and they're assets collectively
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Adding demand and thereby liquidity to a market creates a windfall that wouldn't have been there otherwise. Whether it's because you were sitting on a bond that was impossible to sell and now you have money because you sold it, or
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Which is a sort of capacity to absorb the extra spending and acts as a downward pressure on prices.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Ten years ago, a report like this would have been greeted with something like "Detroit is in decline? In other shocking news, it's raining in Seattle." The vast majority of people don't care about long, ongoing stories t
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by tesseractive 13y ago
If the place is a completely unsafe wasteland occupied primarily by the indigent, I don't really understand why a one-bedroom studio would be particularly expensive. In fact, I would expect substantial vacancies and many affordable opt
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I'm not an economist, but my understanding is that the quantitative easing that Bernanke has been using over the last few years is more or less equivalent to raining money from his helicopter, only into financial markets. Runaway infla
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand how we can simultaneously be resorting to violence too quickly and also swinging too far in the other direction. I could be mistaken, but the former sure seems like the more pressing problem in practice. Are t
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by tesseractive 13y ago
The fact that you can point to some credential that asserts that you learned something doesn't speak to your ability to actually use it effectively[1], much less achieve business objectives by using it. Also, the people who you believe
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Actually, where the consequences of bad code are known to be drastic, a lot more time is spent on code quality. I worked on factory software at AMD for a while in the late 90s and early 2000s. The adage around there was that if the fab wa
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I read it pretty carefully. Unless I really missed something, what it says is that 1/3 of women "admit to watching porn," without specifying anything about frequency. It does not that 1/3 of overall ad impressions are se
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by tesseractive 13y ago
The total reach of all porn is quite broad, but I strongly suspect that the number of impressions skews male, possibly by multiple orders of magnitude. (Yes, I made that WAG up with no evidence whatsoever, so I'll be more than happy to
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by tesseractive 14y ago
And yet "try not to be an asshole" is still good advice.
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Which would be why I was commenting on what I thought of the form factor, i.e. the physical dimensions. If someone read that as implying that my netbook was slow, therefore a MacBook Air would be too, I have to question their reading compre
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Android doesn't have nearly as many tablet apps for full-size tablets as iPad has, but it definitely has an app ecosystem. Windows RT is starting almost completely from scratch -- like previous marketplace failures like the Playbook and the
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by tesseractive 14y ago
I had a netbook that size. I liked everything about the form factor, it was just cripplingly slow.
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Well yes, if I loaded up Android on there, I'd be running Linux from a OS design standpoint, but there are some pretty important practical differences in what apps run on Android and what apps run on Ubuntu or Debian for ARM. People have po
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Well, there seems to be a market for Chromebooks. I can't imagine they're intended as tablets since they don't have touchscreens or anything, so I guess they'd have to be laptop substitutes. Of course, Chromebooks start at half the price of
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Does Linux run well on touchscreen type devices these days? I haven't really kept up with developments there lately.
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It has an awful lot of affordances to make it look like it might be a laptop replacement -- the keyboard covers, the desktop mode, Office. It's obviously not suitable simply as a laptop, nor is it a very credible straight-up replacement f
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by tesseractive 14y ago
A hypothetical ideal business in this segment would find a way to profit off of attracting people interesting in sampling new businesses for long-term patronage rather than making its money off of the price sensitive. The idea would be that
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by tesseractive 14y ago
This. You could believe that Mason was acting in a completely earnest fashion, but was too naive to realize he was being manipulated by Lefkofsky. As Excutive Chairman in a non-operational role, Lefkofsky is under only a fraction of the unp
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Other examples: Hide away your email and other interruptions until you're explicitly ready to go look at them. Out of sight, out of mind. Multiple projects. I have a legacy app I support and a new-development project I spend most of my time
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Term limits simply put even more power in the hands of unelected legislative aides, because they become the only people with the tenure to understand the issues involved, let alone the particular wording of the bills. It's already the case
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by tesseractive 14y ago
I understand why this is downmodded -- software patents as a whole are pretty awful. And I think we can just about all agree that the patent office is incapable of sifting through requests on its own. But askpatents.com looks to me like it
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by tesseractive 14y ago
Actually, it might be worse if he found things to do.

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