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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's insane not because it's cynical, but because we've now seen twice that when Steve Jobs is gone, Apple falls back on TimCookPhilSchillerEddyCueJonathanIve and every other one of its other brilliant, beauty-minded industrialists. Jobs on
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I've developed my own code of ethics, which says... that Steve Jobs is a better man than most of us will ever be. He pursued the things he was curious in, made sophisticated pieces of technology readily available for consumers, was enough o
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Yeah, we know it has a material e ffect... but that's not why this is here. Apple's stock isn't interesting Hacker News. This is here because it's really fun talking about Steve Jobs, love him or hate him, and because the man's the archety
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You've just offered what may be the ultimate gripe. "It would be really nice if I didn't have to pay Shaun for the two (three?) years he spent developing. And also, it would be cool if it used a completely arbitrary and somewhat lame browse
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
An excellent article from a magazine known for excellent journalism and mediocre fiction and poetry. I wasn't expecting a read this good. I personally don't think creative writing is something that college teaching is suited for. A few cour
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Please elaborate. If you want to have a discussion on this I'd love to, because I'm sure we can get into a lot of interesting topics from here. But you need to explain yourself a bit more, or else this is going nowhere.
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That's why my belief is it's useful to see Atlas as a personal guide rather than a social one. Rand's treatises on doing what's right for yourself and never doing things that you don't respect, which actually appear better in The Fountainhe
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Rand actually does take that into account. She looks down on people who inherit their wealth and on people who earn money through scams rather than through producing a good service. She never once talks about how to address these people. Pe
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Can we lay off on the obnoxious Rand criticism? She's like anybody: Half her ideas are really good and worth discussing, half of them are crap. Rand was a lot more obnoxious than a lot of philosophers, but that doesn't immediately invalidat
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You just babbled a lot. I don't think how poorly a skit is done affects its quality. There's a difference between idea and execution. You can have a good idea and pull it off shittily, or you can take a bad idea and make it work brilliant
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But that's exactly what I said. The Simpsons implemented an idea, then, as other people implemented as well, their original triumph became dated. That doesn't always happen, because if the end result is really labored away on, then it lasts
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Monty Python's the best sketch comedy I've ever seen, don't get me wrong. I have the complete set, and it's the standard by which I judge all other sketch comedy. At the same time, as you said, they were very unpolished. Sometimes they'd ru
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If you think that the people here haven't all heard Hicks then you've got another thing coming. Bill Hicks is almost a prerequisite to growing up at all intelligent, not because he's good - I despise his style of comedy - but because he's q
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's vaporware, it's promising something that's been promised before, we've never seen this idea work before, the technology will almost certainly be very faulty. To top it off, Microsoft sucks at game design, and developers are notoriously
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The Simpsons was never a brilliant show. It was good, and you can still watch old Simpsons and enjoy it, but it was never mindboggling genius. Ditto Monty Python. For all the clever ideas, the execution often left something to be desired. O
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Me too! You'd better not steal my idea.
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Both sites took a ridiculously generic template for designing their page. Bubbly letters, Twitter colors, show users, 1-2-3 list. The designers for both products lack imagination and created products that fail to stand out. Maybe that works
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He's making a dig at 37signals apps. Campfirenow.com, highrisehq.com. I think also at getdropbox.com
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's pretty damned paranoid. I've read no stories of anything similar to that. The system is fucked up, obviously, but there's a difference between fucked up and totalitarian, and it's pretty huge leap from one to the other. Last I heard,
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Since when was the EFF competing with Apple? You're mental.
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Isn't Microsoft trying? It's not like Google exists in a vacuum here. How do you fix the problem? Force Google to break up into separate companies for each search field so their service gets worse? Or do we force other people to use the oth
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I agree with Doctorow that a monopoly is dangerous. But Doctorow doesn't like the idea of a virtual monopoly, either - the sort that a company gets when they're popular for any number of reasons despite having lots of competitors. But the
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Creative ideas happen regardless of situation. Idle or active, they happen on their own schedule.
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Very cool stuff! I knew of Joyce, though I've never read Afternoon (I'm worried it won't meet expectations), but As We May Think I'd never heard of before.
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"Literary devices and techniques?" Do you mean... hyperlinking? Because there's nothing else that's been done online that wasn't done previously in other mediums.
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"Writing designed for the web"? You're firmly in Bullshit Central if that's your mindset. No good writing is ever designed past a point. Novelists, essayists, journalists, all have a distinct style. Most of them break all the rules there ar
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Paul writes short articles. His most recent was barely three pages long. He writes good articles, but let's stop citing him for everything in the hopes that we'll get YCombinator circlejerk karma. I'm checking my own blog sources. Very fe
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When did I say I wasn't lazy? I see the sort of laziness that strives to avoid tedium and boredom as a virtue.
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So far I have never found an instance in life where doing boring routine work was at all something I wanted to do. The boring routine work I do have to do I constantly try and figure out ways around.
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That's a bullshit way of phrasing it. Let's stick to how I said it. What matters is that you end up with the right thing. If you can easily get the right thing by copying somebody else, then do that. That doesn't excuse your not learning ho

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