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by warcher 10y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Japan was gonna take over the whole world. They did great, by the by, but hit some real cultural problems and stalled. Still doing fine, but definitely plateaued. I'd expect China to do something
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by warcher 10y ago
Uh, you live at the absolute pinnacle of human civilization. There has never been a period more peaceful, informed, just, or prosperous than right here, right now, today. Quantifiably so. There's no close second either. The fifties
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by warcher 10y ago
Neither nature, nor the market, tolerates exponential growth.
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by warcher 10y ago
No way, we were field testing two alternate societal modalities, fascism and communism. Didn't work out, for different reasons. Governments, yeah, they come and go, but the modern republic, rule of law, checks and balances, regulated
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by warcher 10y ago
Intentional communities, by and large, fail to recognize the many darwinian iterations of evolution modern societies have gone through over the years, where successful social organizations have overwhelmed their less-adapted brethren. Simpl
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by warcher 10y ago
Thus far it's been "suck up all the oxygen in the room so nobody can breathe". Remains to be seen whether they'll survive it though.
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by warcher 10y ago
I definitely don't get snapchat. Too old, not playing. That said, if you don't understand a company, man, you should stay far, far away from investing in it. And I don't use DropBox. I use Google Drive. For free. Where&#
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by warcher 10y ago
The problem with Uber is their valuation. Nobody disputes there's a business here-- it's whether it's as big as it needs to be to make the math work. They could conceivably create a monopoly on ride-sharing, but if they do
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by warcher 10y ago
I think the trolls attack the public figures, which make the public figures less likely to attract the little fish, and the little fish are your audience, who need to be both entertained and interacted with, lest they decamp for a more robu
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by warcher 10y ago
You'll never get all of them, it's true. It's a never ending war. And you're right-- there's a haircut that's got to happen at twitter. I don't know whether they'll survive it, but it's going t
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by warcher 10y ago
There are a few camps of people using twitter, which want different things and are mostly being badly served. 1) Trolls love twitter. The legion of racist eggs sowing destruction for no other reason than their own nihilistic enjoyment is a
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by warcher 10y ago
I guess I'd characterize it like Henry Ford inventing the Model T. He was not the first man to make an automobile by any means, but he invented the auto industry. I've used pre iPhone smartphones, and there is a reason they&#x27
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by warcher 10y ago
Apple, pretty much singlehandedly, invented an entire category of computing (the smartphone), and reaped the market rewards for it. They were ready, saw the opportunity, had the business chops to make the most of it, and got fabulously ric
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by warcher 10y ago
I think the overall thrust, which I don't necessarily disagree with, is that there are many ways to enact barriers to enter a even in a perfectly free capitalist market. Think CPU fabrication. You'd need literally billions in to
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by warcher 10y ago
Nah, there are lots of ways to get that unfair advantage. Network effects are a big one. Facebook is only facebook because everybody is on it. MS Office is only MS Office because everybody has it. Are they superior products? Meh. Would
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by warcher 10y ago
Everybody knows it's a bad idea, but it's a very, very, very common mistake to make in your twenties. It's survivable, sometimes even wonderful, but pretty risky. If you can get laid without needing to shit where you eat, I
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by warcher 10y ago
I hate to get into politics here, but I will say that the one thing that capitalists truly despise is a free market. Competition is terrible for profits. Anybody worth their salt is always always always looking for unfair advantages, caus
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by warcher 10y ago
Kotlin has been on my list of new languages to investigate for a minute, just haven't really found a use case for another JVM language that isn't really pushing the envelope. (That's not a dig, it seems like a nicer iteratio
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by warcher 10y ago
Well, the iOS simulator is leveraging it all running on the same box. Putting an apk up to the device can be arduous, depending on how big your app is and how bad your device is. Those swift... (edit) playgrounds , I wanna say? Those we
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by warcher 10y ago
I mean, gradle vs cocoapods... I gotta go with gradle. Yes, it's a new configuratio language to learn, and yes, that is an odious chore, but honestly, if I'm leveraging ecosystem library projects, I don't think I've see
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by warcher 10y ago
Addendum: The performance/memory tuning tools way suck in android studio compared to iOS. Mobile performance still matters, guys.
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by warcher 10y ago
From your lips to god's ears, man. Having a tight development feedback loop is truly a blessing. They've been working on it little by little, but compiled languages just kinda hurt in that regard. That said, native is one of tho
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by warcher 10y ago
Yeah man, I don't get it. There are shitty parts of android development, and there are great parts of android development, but android studio is fine. (I didn't say great, I said fine. Perfectly adequate.) NDK programming still
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by warcher 10y ago
Gotta get that recurring subscription money. A la carte sales are a real hard row to hoe in the 21st century digital world. Gonna need a bundle. ;)
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by warcher 10y ago
I'm at the phase of my musical career where my desk routine is mostly stretching against RSI injuries. But even back in the day, nothing but hours on the instrument ever helped my hand strength. The motor skills are just too fiddly a
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by warcher 10y ago
I use IB most of the time for iOS layouts. Most of the time it's the fastest, easiest way to lay out a simple interface and get it right. The other 10% of the time I have to get my hands dirty. This is pretty much par for the cou
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by warcher 10y ago
Honestly, it's people with lives external to work (families, hobbies, friends, kids) seeing people with nothing better to do than hang out in the office all day seizing the inside lane wrt office politics by doing stuff that's not
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by warcher 10y ago
Ah, I'm just joking around. Mostly. ;) I agree with and mostly implement the vast majority of google's recommendations vis a vis site weight and speed (when I have time/budget to do so), because I regard making sites fast
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by warcher 10y ago
I know I'm a dick, but I love all you guys and I thank you in advance for your forbearance. I need a sandwich.
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by warcher 10y ago
I'm not gonna lie, if my fat high-res site images make life a lil harder in Vanuatu but convert a bunch of black-turtleneck d-bags in San Francisco to customers, I know which side of the bread the butter is on.

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