jon_hendry

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by jon_hendry 16y ago
The thing is, publishers and distributors can make better deals with Amazon, because Amazon will carry a wider array of stuff including physical books, including books that don't make sense as ebooks such as pop-up books, or the books that
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Um, the fine minds of the Fed, Congress, and the Clinton and Bush administrations declared some of the instruments off limits from regulation. Then they went off to Wall Street and collected their millions of dollars.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
No, but it is an indication of the "enforcement" and regulation bodies being cowed and coopted by the bankers, which certainly effects the handling of the recent clusterfuck by the same bodies. If they aren't going to let an investigator
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
So if my broker has an app, and I use it to buy a million shares of a company in my account, Apple should get 30% of the transaction? For what, providing networking functionality?
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"But will this be true for long, now that this particular shoe has dropped?" iBooks is still an also-ran. Publishers pretty much have to work with Amazon. iBooks is easier to ignore, I should think.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
I'm waiting for Apple to apply a per-MB charge for all data you access on iOS via WiFi or 3G that doesn't come from Apple.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
He gives one example, of an SEC investigator who got fired just for trying to talk to John Mack, now running Morgan Stanley, about a suspected case of insider trading. (An associate of Mack suddenly started buying a company's stock in huge
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"But the people who thought there was going to be some kind of central library of domain-specific classes in your company, that you would reuse in multiple disparate applications, I think that was always fairly naive" Well, perhaps, but I'v
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
I think a lot of the benefits of OO reuse have been lost due to platform shifts. If you build a system on NeXTSTEP in the early 90s, then throw it out and switch to Java, then throw it out and switch to C#, you're naturally going to lose a
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
To me, popularity implies being seen in a favorable light, whereas "notable" is more like the absolute value of popularity or un-popularity.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
I've occasionally bought books via my Kindle device. More often I buy using my computer's web browser and have the book delivered to the kindle.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
NSFormatters do a lot of stuff, internationalization, user preferences for number representation, etc. It shouldn't be a surprise if they're a bit heavy. IIRC they're pretty much intended for UI display, not for tight loops.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"it's related to the word "popular."" Well, no, it isn't. Many things are notable that are not "popular", or even common. Leprosy, flesh-eating bacteria, progeria, Jeffrey Dahmer. There's also a vicious cycle here: the existence of an artic
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
But it's right in line with the worst petty academic pissing matches. Like the California math professor who was recently arrested for repeatedly peeing on his colleague's office door.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
I always heard it as "a cat will steal the baby's breath", which is a bit more supernatural than mere physical smothering. That might have originated in seeing a cat sniffing a baby's exhaled breath. Much like a cat will sometimes sniff aro
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
It's not clear Google has that kind of control. They don't control the Exchange server. They're just feeding data to it.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"Do you seriously believe the whole "the leak is very serious, but at the same time trivial"-story" All I know is that nobody looked through the leaked material and found something beyond what we already knew about.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
No joke, really. It's a drugstore/pharmacy that also sells greeting cards, house cleaning supplies, candy, snacks, coke and pepsi and milk, and really low-quality hardware like screwdrivers made of weak steel. The sorts of electronics they
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
The main thing about the Iraq War Logs was that there was nothing particularly new or surprising or shocking. Details about incidents, but nothing war critics didn't already assume had happened many times. When someone says "We've got horri
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"If you are only willing to put in minimal effort and a drab of creativity, there are many low-paying hourly wage, or other, jobs out there for you. " Unless they won't hire you because you're "over-qualified" and they assume you'll bolt fo
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Hell, I'd be wary of a $5 LED nightlight sold at Walgreens.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
"I've seen novices do amazing design work." Sure. It happens. But that's not the way to bet.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
See: Kim Jong-Il
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
The 1970s high school grad likely had it better, as there were more decent-paying factory jobs then.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Alternately, the solution might be to spend money on education so that the same people have more degrees. Of course, when they get their second, or third, and still can't find work...
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
The government, because't the loans are likely underwritten by the government.
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
It's not clear that a self-trained design novice would have much more luck finding work, unless he turns out to have a natural genius at it. He'd be competing for work against experienced designers, and against newly-graduated design studen
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Sometimes a UI goes wonky, and I find it useful to be able to click on the zoom as a way to 'reset' the display in a somewhat predictable way. This may be like pressing an elevator call button to make it come faster, but I still like having
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
P(cancer) >> P(hit by a bus) I know a woman under 40 who had cancer, and a woman under 30 who had cancer. And I may know more, for all I know. Plus plenty of over-50s who've had cancer. And my social sphere is not all that large. I'
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by jon_hendry 16y ago
Also: Toy Story was made at the tail end of his 30s. (It came out the year he turned 40).

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