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by unalone 15y ago
I think you make a good point. People who are so convinced of their own rightness frequently turn into destructive monsters. But I also think that there's a difference between standing up for your convictions by insisting that people make a
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by unalone 15y ago
Ooh. Is this a story you can tell? I'd like to hear more about this.
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by unalone 15y ago
Forgive me if this is an unfair line of argument, but I've read a number of articles this month about how quickly Android phones become ineligible for an OS upgrade, because so many Android phones mean carriers can push the latest OS only t
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by unalone 15y ago
> But, if Apple win the mobile war, we are screwed as far as freedom and ownership is concerned. Sentences like this are why the phrase "mobile war" should be taken away from all of us and placed on the high shelf next to the cookie jar
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by unalone 15y ago
This is a derail from my initial question, but I'm curious: would you say that studying Japanese, which is so different from the other things you know, has had an impact on how you think or how you look at the world? Or does it feel like le
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by unalone 15y ago
Interesting. I know neither Latin nor Arabic – beyond high school Spanish I'm a one-language person. The way you describe Latin makes it sound like something I'd like to study.
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by unalone 15y ago
Well-said! The great thing about Linux – its killer feature compared to Windows or Mac – is that it's open-source, meaning each user is free to tweak it however they see fit. Ubuntu has been an interesting experiment in whether such an open
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by unalone 15y ago
Is anything ever complete? What does "complete" even mean? On the one hand, you can always tweak. Add new things or take them away or reorganize them. On the other hand, there are always entirely different things you could be doing, and the
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by unalone 15y ago
I'm curious: why Latin or Greek instead of Arabic? Is it that you think they'd be more useful (for understanding etymology/reading original texts)? Is it something about how the languages function? Simple personal bias?
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by unalone 15y ago
One important bullet point this article left out: * Identify a significant social problem, and endeavour to solve it through innovation. Nest has a big page on its site ( http://www.nest.com/why-we-made-it/index.html ) explaining how much e
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't have a Zed vendetta. I haven't mentioned the guy since the last thread about him and _why. That said, I thought a criticism of Zed re: that _why post would be a valid comment, and apparently other people did too. Normally on HN, tha
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by unalone 17y ago
Where're you getting flute music from? I haven't mentioned that here and I haven't mentioned it on my blog. You're going out of your way to troll now. Writing insults ought to be more skillful than just stringing eight or nine unrelated adj
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by unalone 17y ago
Exactly what I'm talking about, Zed. You like pretending that you're capable of instantly judging people, and once you do you sink your teeth in and never let go. So I'm writing a blog in college where I pretty openly write whatever I feel
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by unalone 17y ago
That flies in the face of conventional thinking, which says ideas are cheap and delivery is everything. Unless conceptually you've figured out such an enormous breakthrough that the solution is literally in your hands right now, you have no
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by unalone 17y ago
That's such an asshole attitude to take. We'll ignore that, yes, of course it was edgier when Borges did it, Borges was one of the greatest inventors in the entirety of literature, and that Borges did it for a major literary piece instead o
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by unalone 17y ago
Maybe I've got too much respect for creators of things. When somebody who's made something entirely on their own decides to nuke it, I don't get at all upset at them. Particularly not if it's a matter of them deciding it's not good enough.
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by unalone 17y ago
Stalking _why online doesn't turn into Internet stalking. If I hunt a guy down in real life, but all I do with his family is talk to them and see if he was okay, I'm not stalking them. I'm just contacting them.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm in art school right now, and OS X was my first Mac. Would you mind telling me what you liked about older OS's that OS X doesn't have? I probably missed a generation of great ideas and I'd like to know what they were.
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by unalone 17y ago
Really? I have the exact opposite reaction. Every development in OS X has made itself more subtle. Gradients are lighter, windows are softer... The unified 10.5 theme got rid of what I felt was a kitschy plastic feel in the system, and it c
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by unalone 17y ago
The difference between Zed and _why is that _why never believed in an engineering ethos. I wasn't happy that tryruby is so annihilated. The version they recovered still has issues. I tried using it to get my 14-year-old brother into Ruby, a
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by unalone 17y ago
This, from one of the eulogies, made me grin: In chapter 1, the narrator tells a story to "get you in the mood" for the Poignant Guide. "Here's something poignant to get you started." It's a story about a dog who he found and adopted, name
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by unalone 17y ago
Zed's an idiot. He made up a fantasy about what he thought _why might be doing, and proceeded to insult _why and generally be a jackass without knowing what he was doing. At the time I commented here saying Zed and _why were foils in many w
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by unalone 17y ago
I think that if you set your profile picture album to Friends Only, that still displays your profile picture to other people. I have mine on display for others, but you can't click though to see others.
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Marco Arment: What I Expect(marco.org)
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by unalone 17y ago
Seriously? That's, like, the entire game.
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by unalone 17y ago
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=se... Took me five seconds to find that. Privacy Settings >> Search. How is that hard? http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=photos Another five seconds. Privacy Settings
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm confused why people think Facebook is trying to compete with Twitter. It's simply moving in a similar direction, and taking a few of Twitter's ideas that work for its social graph. Does anybody remember Facebook's original feed, which w
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by unalone 17y ago
Tim's criticisms weren't at all small nitpicks. That's Design 101. I'm not a designer and I noticed the same things he did. While it's true that designers thrive in critique, this simply was not an impressively-designed site.
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by unalone 17y ago
Hold on, now. Are we talking "far left" for American standards, or far left for the real world? Because I've come to realize that in America, supporting things like health care reform and gay marriage get me tagged as left-wing, when in
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by unalone 17y ago
Kind of. More even that the idea of drinking huge cans of caffeine is sort of a dirty idea in and of itself. We've got certain images in our heads about chain smokers and alcoholics, who overindulge themselves in a public fashion; energy dr

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