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by vegabook 12y ago
I am a little weary of the hype around a language whose unique selling point is speed. Where else in Julia is there significant innovation versus Python? The latter seriously has it all when it comes to scientific computing, and if anybody
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by vegabook 12y ago
First of all this is analogous to the irritating tendency of car manufacturers to "tease" models ahead of time. This may cut it for the average consumer, but here you are targeting the developers, and a straightforward, honest app
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by vegabook 12y ago
This is going to be H U G E. Stats about one's own selflessness etc would be really cool. Or even aggregated stuff. X% is selfish, Deciles of goodness etc.
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by vegabook 12y ago
Okay nobody seriously looks at Apple as a panel manufacturer, unless you (and Apple) are referring to the fact that the company has a stake in Sharp. The plant and expertise required to build panels is clean room stuff that AAPL just does n
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by vegabook 12y ago
auto-correlated downvote trend on a perfectly reasonable point: AAPL is not very innovative as Dell is launching the same monitor. Sure the driver logic might have been the subject of some consulting but if anybody thinks it will not appear
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by vegabook 12y ago
Ready Steady (govt) Grant! "Partners in industry and goverment". Translation: 10 years to product (but hey, prototype in 5) so please give us lots of dough. It's the technology of the future and always has been.
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by vegabook 12y ago
yes I can see the need to manage the narrative. But this is bad management of the narrative, because a clearly emotional CEO is letting his anger show, instead of, as you clearly point out, being dignified and making a concise statement of
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by vegabook 12y ago
This is an ugly affair, like firings always are. Perhaps an "official" response was necessary to "manage the narrative" as someone above commented, but I can't help but agree that the mud is rubbing off on the CEO h
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by vegabook 12y ago
Most importantly, none of these statements should be made in public. The company stands to gain much more with a dignified silence and a personal explanation to the hapless individual, than by wringing the dirty laundry out in public. That
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by vegabook 12y ago
30-50 years is surely "forever" even in snail mail terms. 1000 years? Wow now we're talking about an era-defining technology for civilization itself! I'm going to go with your lower bound: if email lasts largely unchange
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by vegabook 12y ago
Any favourite books/resources on the above?
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by vegabook 12y ago
ah but descent is such a luxury! Zen comes only from knowing when it is time to ascend the gradient, there to find new descending vistas that made the old valley look like a mountain! would that all problems were so conveniently convex.
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by vegabook 12y ago
yep I'll acknowledge that, yet iCloud is still sluggish and unreliable. That won't cut it with big business for whom IBM's availability guarantees and service level agreements are much more rigorous. I don't think anybod
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by vegabook 12y ago
IBM has always pitched availability and throughput for multinational-class computing. This is something Apple has singularly failed at, just look at iCloud which is still sluggish and lacking in robustness. It seems to me that Apple user en
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by vegabook 12y ago
Clearly the point is that Amazon is also a global business, and therefore, through economies of scale, is able to dominate businesses that are small or purely local. Moreover arguably it has monopoly power, exacerbating the issue futher. It
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by vegabook 12y ago
Can we try to keep (the deeply discretited) Hayek and the Chicago school, not to mention over-complicated philosophical jargon out of the argument? I would content that you should liberate yourself from the received wisdom of your philosoph