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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Sorry but I still feel like you are playing the man and not the ball. Forget fame, film and money. Tell me how spending 20 years with the same woman and having two kids together and finding great joy and satisfaction in your family is leche
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
...and continue a meaningful relationship with her for 20 years, fathering two children and generally doing what people in love do. I'm not sure your rhetoric holds up when the full picture is presented. Love has its way with people.
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Ask HN: in light of the leaks...
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
You may file to your hearts content but what is likely to come of it?
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
You just explained flat design to me in the most utterly convincing fashion. Seriously, The Penny Has Dropped. What I can also see now is how utterly piss poor most if not all the current flat designs are at even beginning to approximate th
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
As a consultant of 5 years, this guys sounds like the type of cat I'm called in to clean up after. "Make the call to assume some technical debt..." More like: "Build shit I know will be expensive in the long term because
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Yet.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Yep. South African here.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Thanks! Going to check this out.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
You know what's probably the worst part of all of this? It's at I'm afraid to say what I want to say about the topic online.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
You may be right. Personally I don't like the 'bubblegum' of the iOS7 previews I have seen so far. I'm sure my daughter will love it but as a William Gibson loving tech nut it leaves me feeling a little left out in the c
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
I think you are right to point out what could be a small hypocrisy in my post, I see it too. In my defense: I tend to see the established frameworks more as best practice design patterns than odious threats to originality. Maybe that's
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Maybe something along those lines but what I envisage is more like (CAVEAT: what follows is highly conceptual, I am describing things I have seen in my imagination...) a reduction in the distance between an interface and the data generated
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Yea, this is a large part of the issue for me. It really is not clear what is content and what is interface. I like to imagine that we'll see a time when there is a tighter integration, that the future of interface is essentially data
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
How long until this flat fad fades? It seems (to me at least) like very little thought goes into these designs apart from 'it must be flat.' There also seems to be very little variation in the final products. The examples linked i
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
If you can say this then you are not a power user. If only by one MASSIVE measure and that is the row limit increase between these two versions, but there are plenty others.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
The BI stack is growing steadily. Lots happening in Excel/PowerPivot/Data Explorer land.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
I really have to agree with this. As a 30 something male, I feel like Aple has made something my 12 year old daughter will love but that leaves me very much out in the cold. I was hoping that some UX issues would be addressed in 7 but alas,
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
...but the hype cycle is and articles like this one are merely a product thereof. I really feel that opinion pieces ought to come from someone whose opinion is or should be highly regarded in a given field.
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
iOS solves this admirably by simply forcing you store a given document type within the relevant app, then having only one such app. More technically minded folk hate this but for less powerful users it is wonderful. Wtf do I need a file sys
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by mark_integerdsv 13y ago
Personally and as a user of nothing but iPhones since 1st gen I am less concerned about aesthetics and considerably more concerned about functionality. iOS handling of the hand off between apps is nothing short of an embarrassment. The cons
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
My feeling is that the terms are deliberately open to definition. The developers could quite easily have implemented a counter of some kind should they wish to implement a limit and I certainly would feel no ill will were they to do that at
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I had hoped to get across that I'm really not abusing the developers of this product. Please correct me if I have misunderstood but not converting to a full fledged customer from a Shareware customer (yet-dictated by circumstances) and wit
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Whoa! I don't remember saying that there is anything wrong with OSS products and I'm fairly certain that clicking 'Later' instead of 'Buy Now!' on Sublime Text's nag screen does not constitute stealing... Am I wrong here?
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
70 US Dollar equals 643.45 South African Rand. To put that in perspective: R650 is a basic grocery shop for my small family for a week. I have a day job, a baby under a year old, another kid reaching teenagerdom and a bootstrapped startup.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Do you have any recommendations for development in the analytical space? I mean, either you develop on Twitters API or you have a gaping hole in your social media analysis product... Game over?
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I tend toward a similar pessimism. Hawking has said that we need only look at the history of inter-species relationships on our planet (let alone race relationships) to get a hint of what exopolitics might look like. He goes on to mention t
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Hmmm... I'm not sure we have reasonable evidence either way on this thing. At face value it is a seemingly artificial object where (reasonably) such a thing should not be, and (reasonably) you cannot honestly claim to know where in the univ
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Reading this reminded me of an anti AIDS campaign we have here in South Africa. I can't bring to mind the catch-phrase but the gist of it is that one HIV free generation could stop the virus forever.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I share this with you... Kind of. Personally, I'd not be that mind-blown, more like vindicated for years of conjecture and lively debate.

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