glurgh

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by glurgh 12y ago
Apple does not pay 30% on dollar transactions - they don't pay stripe-like processing fees. They are a high-volume seller with a great deal of negotiating leverage and financial savvy, they've been selling $1 digital goods since 2
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by glurgh 12y ago
I guess I just found the response "submit more, it evens out in the end" a bit glib (as is, 'your account has submitted zero stories'). I do have some experience submitting stories as well as plenty of just reading and c
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by glurgh 12y ago
You're not really stacking your long-run odds any more than you're stacking your odds by playing the lottery a lot. The odds are stacked in favour of anyone who submits a lot and submits early rather than in favour of someone who
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by glurgh 12y ago
It doesn't really say much about developer productivity. What are you comparing this to? You might also be forgetting the insane number of (many 'enterprise') products Netscape was trying to churn out at the time. See: http:
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by glurgh 12y ago
On rescanning the thread, you probably right about the first bit. And we are definitely reacting to each others' notions of how bothered one ought to be by his behaviour. 'Broken moral compass' may be a little harsh but I thi
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by glurgh 12y ago
This seems like an oddly reductive take, to me. It's possible to appreciate the pluck and ingenuity while being utterly dismayed by the lack of judgement and self-reflection. And this dismay need not come purely from some misplaced urg
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by glurgh 12y ago
It's not really 'autonomous driving' so you might be overestimating the safety factor implied by the term 'autopilot'. I'm not a car person or expert in the field but I've done a little bit of work on auto
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by glurgh 12y ago
We probably (broadly) agree more than disagree. One reason FP/OOP comparisons are difficult is that FP is closely related to a mathematical formalism while OOP isn't and can't be. I think the tack he's taking is 'ca
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by glurgh 12y ago
you're making a fallacy of appeal to authority. I'm not. I'm not saying anything about the quality of his argument, I'm talking about the stridently poor quality of your initial one which boils down to 'he doesn&#
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by glurgh 12y ago
I don't think this is really an argument from authority since I'm not saying 'he's right because he has a PhD and teaches at a renowned university'. I'm saying that assuming he's ignorant of FP given both
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by glurgh 12y ago
Do you really believe the author of a paper explicitly about investigating the technical advantages of OO which also happens to touch on Haskell and ML is simply clueless about functional programming? And this ignoramus has somehow faked hi
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by glurgh 12y ago
There should be guides like that for the world's great sights. http://goo.gl/maps/n9dGc Reward: Chicken Maharaja Mac
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by glurgh 12y ago
There were reports over a decade ago of people successfully challenging such requirements through the legal system http://www.economist.com/node/1011419 is one, there were others but it doesn't seem to have brough
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by glurgh 12y ago
What you're describing is almost a definition of editorializing which you're asked not to do, in titles. The readers can figure it out themselves. Additionally you can comment on the thread yourself and point out parts you think a
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by glurgh 12y ago
It is uncharitable and I generally find your 'I flagged this' comments useful, despite being at odds with the holy guidelines. But ignore the meaniepants bit - the commenter has a point - "I flagged, then I unflagged it [etc]
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by glurgh 12y ago
You are mis-reading the comma.
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by glurgh 12y ago
>by the AC proponents. By the DC proponents. Or AC opponents. Definitely part of a long campaign to try to make AC appear dangerous.
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by glurgh 12y ago
They didn't, I just brainfarted. You know, http://vt100.net/dec/alpha_era_logo_small.png and all that.
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by glurgh 12y ago
It's possible, sadly there is no folklore.org for Nextstep. In the end, both the X and things like context-menus were made ubiquitous by Windows '95.
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by glurgh 12y ago
I was looking at the wrong end of the window, to boot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS#mediaviewer/File:ST_D... Looks pretty X-like. It seems GEM itself was licensed from Digital Research but their GEM didn
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by glurgh 12y ago
The Atari Gem thing is not an X, it's actually supposed to be a gem. It's just confusing because of the low-res image. Take a look at http://toastytech.com/guis/gem11menu.png
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by glurgh 12y ago
http://toastytech.com/guis/ns08.html NextStep 0.8, '88 vintage.
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by glurgh 12y ago
You're right. The point was overstated for effect.
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by glurgh 12y ago
And I believe you too! I do think there is some schmoe at google who can read my email. I don't think they do because what business does a schmoe have reading another schmoe's mail? My point was that it can be done, and it has bee
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by glurgh 12y ago
I don't think Arrington is particularly credible nor do I believe Google, as a matter of course and policy, runs around reading specific users' emails. But the comparison to Enron is not necessary for something like this to at lea
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think in you're conflating length extension and collision resistance in b) and they are not the same thing.
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by glurgh 13y ago
It would also be good for a person commenting (especially at toplevel) to be able to see replies, endorsed or not. There are plenty of useful comments that might not really merit endorsement or visibility by all but are a widely used - var
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by glurgh 13y ago
Optical Intellimouse came out in 1999 - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/1999/apr99/eyepr.a... DEC used three button puck-style mice, the one you saw was likely attached to a DECStation and
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by glurgh 13y ago
Probably more relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIY
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by glurgh 13y ago
Probably mean 'nigh'. Neigh is a sound horses make.

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