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by asknemo 14y ago
I appreciate your response, and I fully understand the realistic angle that you have provided. But I have to clarify that I am not calling pg immoral. I am suggesting the essay could be. People outside the game industry may not get the Zyng
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by asknemo 14y ago
You made great points, but I disagree about the morality part. Wall Street had also produced explosive growth in our economy. It was also a ingenious system with participation of lots of hackers and talents. But I think most will agree now,
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by asknemo 14y ago
Am I the only one who think pg's view points appear to be getting more and more extreme, in some sense rather biased compared to his previous essays? Zynga is definitely all about growth. It is fiercely focused on metrics, fiercely focused
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by asknemo 15y ago
This happens all the time in machine learning applications. Or many other engineering disciplines I dare say. If theorems and laws never need some tweaks here and there in the real world, what do we need hackers and engineers for?
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by asknemo 15y ago
"If you're a good hacker in your mid twenties, you can get a job paying about $80,000 per year." Wow, things change fast. Isn't there a thread talking about certain mid twenties in Google having $250k per year lately? It was written only 6
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by asknemo 15y ago
I too recently lost a co-founder to a Valley company of similar size. Considering that he is very green, not exactly the best in our startup and that we are based somewhere with rather low pay for engineers in general, the offer he received
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by asknemo 15y ago
I doubt using typos to discredit other people's work or opinions is rational or polite. I didn't write that extension, but he/she could just be a non-native speaker like me. What's your problem with people who doesn't speak and write in you
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by asknemo 15y ago
Can't help casual users, but for power users, this is a very handy tool to inspect the source on-the-fly: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbamfloeabgknfklmg...
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by asknemo 15y ago
That doesn't mean the action make sense. My point is that it won't make sense for Motorola to do that, not whether they did or did not do it. Google can easily tell them that if they do that prematurely, Android ecosystem will fail, rocking
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by asknemo 15y ago
Threatening to go after other Android partners makes little sense for Motorola. It's not something Motorola would do to get most profit from it. If Motorola has threatened Google something, it would be to sell to Microsoft. That will make m
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by asknemo 15y ago
Doubt it. The dumbest would have been sitting there and do nothing.
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by asknemo 15y ago
Another scenario: you wish to tell your web app's users that there are some issues on certain Firefox versions. You wrote "There are some issues for Firefox 7.xx". Users scratch their heads and ask, what version? Nightmare follows.
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by asknemo 15y ago
Could anyone explain to me why the HN community seems to have a particular interest in AI compared to other more "academic" areas? I have seen quite some amount of AI resources here, but at the same time for most startups discussed here the
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by asknemo 15y ago
The author's view is strange indeed. To be a "rounded, open and engaged intellectual citizen" we can well just get out of the room and put curiosity and action into people's lives and matters, and reflect on what you see and do. In my exper
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by asknemo 15y ago
Concurred. Let's not forget that ASUS has mastered the netbook form-factor for quite some time. For many of us tablet is only an occasional need, say, read a long article, watch a show etc., so what I would call an "occasional tablet", i.e.
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by asknemo 15y ago
This will serve nothing but encourage patent trolls and big corporations to invest more and more in ridiculously broad patents. Apple sues others, patent troll sues Apple and others, some other competitors dig out obscure patents and start
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by asknemo 15y ago
General statistics are more helpful when the target group is homogeneous. Intuitively speaking, when a group has similar resources, goals and problems, what happens to others is more applicable to the individual. Whereas if a group is compo
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by asknemo 15y ago
Buddhist philosophy without the religion part is actually allowed in East Asia. You can claim to be interested in purely Buddhist philosophy and not the religion here without any problems, and there are experts and communities in such too.
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by asknemo 15y ago
Consumers never benefit from a single dominating middleman in the long run.
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by asknemo 15y ago
Google's announcing something about music on the cloud this month. Related?
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by asknemo 15y ago
I am very surprised this is the first time someone try to get everyone's attention on this practice (if that's the intention of the poster/submitter). It's quite easy to spot recently there are well-timed attacks on Google or Android which
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by asknemo 15y ago
Downloadsquad was a great team. No bullshit, real opinions on big and little things that matter. Another horror story from AOL since AOL v.s. Engadget editors.
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by asknemo 15y ago
I believe our cases strikes a counter-intuitive point about what constitutes 'rest': despite the fact a distractive teaching job or marathon training can be taxing mentally and/or physically, they have shown to be good type of 'rest' for th
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by asknemo 15y ago
A bit of personal experience to relate to the article: in recent years there were certain obligations that demands distraction from my normal startup duties (in my case a part-time teaching job). I didn't really need that money, and at fi
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by asknemo 15y ago
Ever since "management" and the dedicated "manager" were invented, we have been told, increasingly in recent decades, that they, rather than talents in other roles, are the key to business success. With the increasing importance and acceler
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by asknemo 15y ago
From my experience, most tablet users use the tablet for 1)videos 2)really casual games 3)random browsing - not particularly PC-ish in my opinion. To say 'Tablet is the PC' is in some way less accurate than saying 'Tablet is the new TV' or
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by asknemo 15y ago
I would speculate that there are some comment bots that simply upvote and comment whatever at the top by chance. Out of 6 comments here 3 seems completely off-topic and coming from relatively new users. There were reports of submission bots
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by asknemo 15y ago
Not enough evidence to suggest that the downloads are not driven by being featured by Apple. Being featured is a big deal in the App Store (the "lottery", and photo apps are all the rage lately.
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by asknemo 16y ago
Japanese thing. It's actually happening to every corporate and stores in Japan, from our more extensive coverage here in Asia. It's just that they are too busy continuing to combat the aftermath to think about writing things down and tell t
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by asknemo 16y ago
Given I am based in Asia, I can assure you that EVERY other companies in Japan did - all wifi are open and free, vending machine goes free, stores open for sleep and food. It's just that Japanese culture do not consider it necessary to tell

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