VengefulCynic

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by VengefulCynic 6y ago
To my mind, it's not a huge market, but purists definitely exist. Do they justify the cost? It seems worth analyzing, but it's definitely a big cost if you want to stay cross-platform but use native tools.
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by VengefulCynic 6y ago
Much as I would like to give Gruber credit for asking about the developer relationship with the App Store at the top of the interview, the question really felt like a softball. I know he's got a relationship to preserve, but Hey is one
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The Talk Show Remote from WWDC 2020, with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak(daringfireball.net)
1 points by VengefulCynic 6y ago|1 comments
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by VengefulCynic 7y ago
As an Iowan who has had the dubious pleasure of having used Shadow's software, I would like a lot of scrutiny directed at both Shadow and their software. I worked as a Precinct Captain for one of the Caucuses in Iowa last night, and I
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by VengefulCynic 7y ago
By way of talking my own book, I would note that the experience of having a big-screen tv, surround sound, and your PS4 on the plane is nothing to sneeze at. As someone who puts in-flight entertainment systems in private jets, the only comm
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by VengefulCynic 7y ago
Large defense contracts tend to span large numbers of Congressional Districts in order to enable the sort of economic protectionism that keeps the F-35 and JTRS funded to the tune of billions of dollars, in spite of cost overruns and schedu
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by VengefulCynic 7y ago
Mike Monteiro has a series of very opinionated (and highly-entertaining) presentations on this phenomenon, coming from the perspective of a designer. If what neilv is saying resonates with you, you owe it to yourself to check out the Design
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by VengefulCynic 7y ago
Within the financial services industry, there are significant monetary incentives for whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of malfeasance. The SEC offers something like 0.5% of recovered funds, which can amount to millions of dollar
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by VengefulCynic 9y ago
“There is no loyalty in business, Ashley. You’re a single mom. You have a family and you owe it to them to see this Microsoft interview through.” A truth that is not repeated nearly often enough by employees.
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by VengefulCynic 10y ago
Obviously going out of his way to implement in a secure way as a software practitioner. I would love to see a review of the design and implementation from the standpoint of a security expert.
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by VengefulCynic 10y ago
Smile is doing this because they have to 100% agree. I feel that a lot of the commentary on this (mine included) has left out the fact that Smile is a classy company owned by a classy bunch of developers that have always done well b
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by VengefulCynic 10y ago
TextExpander has always been straddling the markets of "casual consumer with $20 to spend on an app that reduces pain" and "professional customer willing to spend $199 to reduce major time costs." It looks like they&#x27
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by VengefulCynic 11y ago
Looking at your pricing structure and FAQ, it looks like a better approach would be to discriminate based on number of properties, raise your monthly rate and just make it unlimited paperwork... 1-2 properties a month at $19/mo, 3-5 at
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Hook-up Truck: A modern dating solution for safe sexual adventuring(hookuptruck.org)
7 points by VengefulCynic 12y ago|4 comments
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by VengefulCynic 12y ago
I know way too many developers whose understanding of server infrastructure only extends as far as the API for S3. Marco's advice is dead-on: learn the nuts and bolts rather than becoming reliant on a leaky abstraction. You can always
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
Teaching falls into the same category as stage magic, stand-up comedy and writing - it looks easy and effortless when done by an expert because that's part of the expertise. Capturing attention, exciting young minds and engaging them i
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
"Now, I didn’t necessarily see the winning groups site, but you don’t have to – it was made in Dreamweaver!" I want to believe that the arrogant tone in combination with this line are some sort of punch line or social experiment t
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Network Solutions auto enrolls customers into $1,850 “WebLock” service(domainnamewire.com)
4 points by VengefulCynic 13y ago|0 comments
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
The most frustrating part about this to me is the certain knowledge that all of the informed parties are quite happily cherry-picking statistics to serve a political narrative and the majority of reporters and analysts are unable to do any
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
In a world where journalists had unlimited research budgets and the time to run facts to ground, this sort of campaign to link Myhrvold's "good" name to his patent-trolling deeds would be unnecessary. But since we don't
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
To my mind, this sort of thing is a lot like crypto research. As a workman programmer, I know next to nothing about crypto algorithms so I can read the documents, but I can't provide much in the way of meaningful research. That said, I
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by VengefulCynic 13y ago
"For many folks outside of our community, the acronym SEO has (unfair) associations with spam or manipulation." I'm not sure that the association is unfair. There are a lot of honest people out there plying the trade and doing good work in
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
I will confess to being somewhat concerned regarding the author's legal plight. He's making a claim of bad faith on the other party to his contract and saying, "due to it many breaches of contract, O’Reilly has no choice now but to surrende
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
Where companies like Sift interest me is moving from a place where a system determines whether or not it believes a charge is fraudulent to a place where you evaluate the likelihood that an individual transaction is fraudulent. And they're
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
If the filibuster prompts further public discourse and a closer look at the use of lethal force without due process of law, it's positive. The real question will be if all of the other Senators vote for cloture just to get the issue swept b
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
To my mind, the Google Glass is far more like the Microsoft Tablet, the Tesla Roadster and the Palm Treo: the initial realization of a concept that, before now, didn't exist in the world at all. It seems incorrect to compare it to the iPhon
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Annoyance-Driven Blog Posts(curiousrat.com)
1 points by VengefulCynic 14y ago|0 comments
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by VengefulCynic 14y ago
I think the current smartphone wars are a great example of how hard it is for companies to expand their products outside of their "core competencies".* Watching Apple try to tackle web services, most handset makers try to tackle software an
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CES: Worse Products Through Software(hypercritical.co)
4 points by VengefulCynic 14y ago|1 comments

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