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by unalone 17y ago
Thanks for that link! I'd always thought Apple crashed sales-wise in the 90s. I stand quite corrected.
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by unalone 17y ago
It's not a competition. The iPhone offers things Android does not and can not offer. It will always have a market. Meanwhile, Android is appearing on dozens of phones, none of which individually will rival the iPhone. They both have a spo
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by unalone 17y ago
His emphasis in that sentence is on quality , not on market-leading . The quality of application design on Windows is dreadful. The best applications are the ones that create an entirely separate interface and run in full screen, and even
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by unalone 17y ago
Gotcha. I'd misinterpreted the remark. Thanks!
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by unalone 17y ago
Neither Android nor Blackberry has hardware or software as well-designed as the iPhone's. One of Apple's major draws has always been its anal attention to detail, which RIM and Google don't share. Google has one of the worst track records r
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by unalone 17y ago
You forgot UPenn, which is the only U of X that is in the Ivies. But that was kind of my point. The names all run together, and while I do recognize some (and not all positively), I don't recognize any outside the United States beyond TU.
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by unalone 17y ago
That's some confirmation bias too: You assume name-brand schools have better education than non-name-brand schools.
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Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality(daringfireball.net)
52 points by unalone 17y ago|38 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
Legitimate American here! Waterloo is that battle Napoleon was in, right? And U of X doesn't ever strike me as reputable unless it's Tokyo University, and I don't think many Americans know Tokyo University either. Outside of England the onl
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by unalone 17y ago
Articles like this make me glad to be working with the stuff I am. I could never handle a field that looks at anything other than portfolio. Reading this gave me the heebie-jeebies.
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by unalone 17y ago
But if Facebook were to speak out actively in favor of either side, it would alienate the other side, which goes actively AGAINST Facebook's mission.
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by unalone 17y ago
In other words: Connections and reputation. It lets you market yourself better and meet people you wouldn't meet otherwise.
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by unalone 17y ago
Oxford and Cambridge are the only two that come to mind, and I know nothing about them but their names.
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by unalone 17y ago
And he was right. Facebook's policy of uniquely targeted ads is unlike anything else on the market, and it will be the future of advertising. It's killer. Advertising doesn't just change every hundred years, but if you don't think Faceb
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by unalone 17y ago
I wasn't talking about that. I also didn't know there was a Hacker News ubermensch. "Equal in rights and opportunity" still doesn't mean much. How can Facebook enforce equal opportunities? And everybody on Facebook is equal. So you're sti
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by unalone 17y ago
Define equality. There're a lot of versions of the word that I don't support. Peace, now, there's an idea I can get behind, impossible as it might seem.
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by unalone 17y ago
That's what I mean by short-term rage. As much as you think people accept you for who you are and what you think, when you express yourself online you realize that most people are awful and immature in a handful of ways. But past that point
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by unalone 17y ago
Looking at it from a broader perspective, Facebook is the promotion of communication manifest. It strives very hard, in fact, to be a neutral medium, in which no one type of conversation is favored over another, so conversation ranges fro
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by unalone 17y ago
I get the opposite reaction. I talk to people I'd never talk to otherwise. It doesn't hurt that I unfriend people I don't like talking to that much. The problem is that Facebook is a constant communication. When you interact with people aft
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by unalone 17y ago
Have we? My bad. I guess I only start to think of work as work once I don't want to do it. Right now I'm messing with theme design, for instance, and if I'm lucky what I'm building will be used by hundreds if not thousands of people, but I'
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by unalone 17y ago
I disagree. While sometimes you might not be willing to get into the good stuff, other times you're absolutely in that mood and get into it without breaking a sweat. I see nothing wrong in going with the flow most of the time. For the last
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by unalone 17y ago
Well, I don't know the author, but from what he wrote I don't think there's too much blame-throwing going on. What I do know is that it's wrong to smirk at somebody who tells you what they want, or to flat-out tell them they're wrong with
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by unalone 17y ago
The question is where worry comes from. Sometimes there's an external force contributing to worry, like having to pay rent or living in an apartment with a rabid bulldog. Other times, the worry comes from something inside, like wondering wh
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by unalone 17y ago
You've obviously not met many porn distributors yet. Because nobody else has said it on this thread, let me jump in and recommend Dungeons and Dragons to anybody that hasn't played it. It's a brilliant game that's cocaine for the imaginatio
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by unalone 17y ago
Procreation isn't productive?
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by unalone 17y ago
It's funny, 'cos you're pidgeonholing the guy while telling him that he shouldn't let people pidgeonhole him.
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by unalone 17y ago
You don't know him. Don't be an ass.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm younger than this guy was in the article. My next door neighbor just went off to college to become a fashion designer. A handful of my friends became poets. A few friends of mine are forming a video game company. I don't see the point i
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by unalone 17y ago
Is that really depression? I think that what a lot of us confuse for depression is really contentment. This guy is happy to live his life as it is, but for the worry that he ought to have a drive.
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by unalone 17y ago
Why not do what's easy? It's a lot more fun, and as you do it you learn. Never assume that just because you're drifting through life you're not growing as a person. I find that I learn and progress just as much in my idle states in life as

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