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by tygorius 16y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear. I wasn't trying to pass anything off. Someone posted a link to paper - I read it and wasn't impressed with the reasoning. (And less than impressed with the over-reaching metaphors.) I do disagree with the author's appa
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by tygorius 16y ago
I've read the paper, but I still find the grand metaphors like "Post-Linnaean" a bit of a reach. If you want to say that we've reached a point where few languages are pure in their approach (functional, object-oriented, etc), fine. If you w
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by tygorius 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's nuts to describe streaming video or music as "using the cloud"? Doug Engelbart demonstrated video conferencing back in 1968, was that using the cloud as well? Sheesh.
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by tygorius 16y ago
When FairPoint doesn't perform its obligations under contract, that's presumably something for the New Hampshire authorities to pursue, as they were the other party in the contract. How is that a federal responsibility? since we're not a d
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by tygorius 16y ago
Interesting. The only Microsoft USB plug I have these days is one of the wireless stubs, where the logo is the only clue. I have noticed that some Logitech products have a concave top, presumably for the same tactile feedback approach. Of c
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by tygorius 16y ago
Oh, that's just Crazy Bob talking. If that had really been Apple's strategy, they wouldn't have alienated so many customers in the way they killed the xServe line last year. If they had really wanted to keep their toe-hold in that market, t
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by tygorius 16y ago
Oh, it's not so bad once you take advertising sub-clause of the spec into account. That's the hidden clause that states the USB logo will be on the top of a properly-oriented plug unless you're Microsoft or Logitech, in which case your co
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by tygorius 16y ago
Changing the rules once you have a large installed base is always a delicate issue. How many current iPad owners knew their Kindle app (and others) might be deactivated by Apple in a couple of months because Apple decided it wanted a 30% cu
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by tygorius 16y ago
a very short time at a company Well, the author says it was two years, which doesn't seem like a short time at a company these days. And part of it was in 2007. I'd say he was well situated to understand things like the company's usabilit
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yep, brand name recognition and usage is not at all the same thing as brand name loyalty. As mentioned in a previous thread, Nokia's market share has been dropping at the same time as the absolute size of the market has been growing. Someho
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by tygorius 16y ago
Interesting that in the previous Lisp vs Python discussion [1], the original article noted that (f x) could mean a lot of things, to which at least one comment retorted that in real code you always have a context, so there really isn't any
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by tygorius 16y ago
Nokia’s problem is not, and has never been, that it lacks for creative, thoughtful, talented people, or the resources to turn their ideas into shipping product. It’s that the company is fundamentally, and has _always_ been, organized to tr
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by tygorius 16y ago
Vigilantism is frowned on Frank Miller directly addressed that point in "The Dark Knight" comic series. At one point Superman is remembering a past argument with Batman, and (semi-quote from memory): "And then you laughed that scary laugh
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by tygorius 16y ago
Indeed, using only a few of those tactics... "A retired Indian Gorkha soldier recently revisited those glory days when he thwarted 40 robbers, killing three of them and injuring eight others, with his khukuri during a train journey. He is i
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by tygorius 16y ago
Agreed. This was a cartoonish version of Feynman I found rather pathetic. It is missing the recurring themes of learning and experimentation found in real Feynman stories. Either the old barometer story or the manhole cover story are far su
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by tygorius 16y ago
their primary property is light production, heat is a secondary feature Hmm, not necessarily. Back in the days when this problem was originally offered incandescent bulbs were by far the most popular light source for facilities, and if yo
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by tygorius 16y ago
Never having seen the code, I can't say for sure that there's no Symbian OS code in the S40 series devices. I can say, however, that there's no Symbian OS access for developers in those devices. The S40 phones are semi-smart -- they allow J
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by tygorius 16y ago
Can you start going to the gym and get stronger than your friends who don't go? No. Presumably your circle of friends consists of people who are already physically active. Even so, I doubt your assessment concerning strength training. Loo
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by tygorius 16y ago
Interesting that, in these secular times, a stated reason for not doing a RC a week before shipping is that Easter weekend would overlap the crunch. Not that it makes it that different from previous releases, but with the Unity UI shift a
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by tygorius 16y ago
There's a difference between significance and buzz. Netbooks were refinements of the laptop at a better price point. I don't think either category is going away anytime soon. Heck, given that even netbooks let you drive a desktop widescreen
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by tygorius 16y ago
Interesting that your chosen alternative was a laptop rather than a netbook. Along those lines, if you think in terms of the evolution of personal computers as desktop -> laptop -> netbook -> tablet, that last step is a puzzler.
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by tygorius 16y ago
No, stagnant would imply things were stable and they're clearly not. You can make an argument that Symbian OS was successful in the past , but the trend in the GigaOM chart you linked is pretty clear: rapid decline. In 2007, Symbian was ar
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by tygorius 16y ago
Agreed on all your points. Given that this rumor has been around since last year, I'm inclined to think of the iPhone Lite as a contingency plan and/or leverage for negotiations with AT&T and Verizon. Revealed properly, a gun doesn't ha
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by tygorius 16y ago
This highlights one of the weaknesses of the list -- the apparent lack of an editor. Whereas shou4577's comments explains the book's strengths and target audience, the original submission's description was so concise as to be near useless (
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by tygorius 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of Butler Lampson, but I must confess the thing that most struck me at the beginning were the machine specs in contrast to today's machines. 48-64K of 16-bit words with a 10 MB hard drive, woohoo! The display size and orienta
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by tygorius 16y ago
Perhaps. Or perhaps the agent had already told him obliquely and the author didn't want to hear it. We know from the story that the agent had previously done his job -- selling the author's books for increasing amounts of money despite decl
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yeah, it's nice, but it's also a total non sequitur. At the beginning of the piece he says his first book was a success and he wrote the follow-ups trying to recapture the good feelings -- apparently without success. Books take a lot of eff
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by tygorius 16y ago
You're assuming it's a big mystery why no one wanted his book proposal or that the agent hadn't previously covered this ground, neither of which is stated in the post. (Plus, this is an author who admits he's lied about his contract numbers
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by tygorius 16y ago
Call me crazy, but I strongly suspect that the feedback system virtues that helped Stack Overflow contributors develop their writing skills will not manifest on writers.stackexchange.com. Many writing queries fall into the taste or referenc
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by tygorius 16y ago
Blatant? Sure. But hardly out of the ordinary when it comes to blogs. I don't think it's tasteless, but de gustibus non disputandum est, which Phillip K. Dick so eloquently translated as "Those people can have bad taste and I don't care."

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