nirvana

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by nirvana 14y ago
Those aren't made up numbers. I actually did the math based on my income. How about you stop being a dishonest coward who characterizes your opponent, rather than making an argument, hmm? You don't get what you pay for, of course, if you bo
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by nirvana 14y ago
Ok, so you don't pay %50 on 1/3rd of your salary for 10 years. I wouldn't exactly call that "an amazing tax break". You're still paying way too much in taxes.
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by nirvana 14y ago
No. And contrary to what others have said, more Germans know english than Dutch know english, on a day to day basis. Though you can get by without knowing dutch in amsterdam with a little creativity.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Milton Friedman did a study of healthcare in the USA, and found that the government "help" had driven up the cost 26fold and driven down availability. Or put another way, the reason people could get bankrupted by an illness is socialized me
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by nirvana 14y ago
You should learn to think.
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by nirvana 14y ago
If you run a successful business in holland, and pay yourself a salary out of it, your tax rate is over %70! And on top of that, you have %20 VAT. And this isn't even going into the manifold fees and other types of taxes you are subjected
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by nirvana 14y ago
also android fanboys who are instead falling all over themselves to claim that later and worse but open somehow beats better and earlier. It's an ideology, mindless anti-progress, anti-innovation ideology.
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by nirvana 14y ago
A little thought experiment... some clever dudes manage to reverse engineer enough to "jailbreak" this, and then they put a little OS image on it and start hacking away... then a bunch of people say "hey, this is really cool! It's like Appl
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by nirvana 14y ago
Ideology has trumped engineering, and as hackers, you shouldn't tolerate it. Frankly, all of this has been obvious all along to any competent engineer, since the moment Apple introduced lightening. They described it as a serial bus and tal
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by nirvana 14y ago
Because Steve Mann is into wearable computers and google glass is not a wearable computer project. Your wondering this is understandable because google has mislead you. But glass has no CPU, there's not enough power or space for one. The
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by nirvana 14y ago
For the record, this guy has been wearing actual computers. Google glass is an accessory- essentially a bluetooth headset, display and camera built into glasses. The intelligence lives on the servers, and glass needs a bluetooth or wifi co
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by nirvana 14y ago
The answer is that lightening is a general purpose next generation serial format. This allows them to support different formats in the future, for instance, say when HDMI isn't popular. The 30 pin connector didn't have HDMI on it at the tim
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by nirvana 14y ago
The 30 pin dock had 30 pins so it could put video out directly and things like that. Lightening is a SERIAL FORMAT with 9pins. So it streams audio and video out in an encoded form. The AV adapter, need to take that audio and video and turn
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by nirvana 14y ago
Steam's support on OS X is the suck. I don't know what the experience is like on Linux, but given there is less competition from better stores on Linux I wouldn't be surprised to see Steam be a big hit on Linux. As for me, after being a ste
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by nirvana 14y ago
Google glass is just a bluetooth headset with a display and camera, combined with a SIRI like service. People seem to think it's a competitor to the iPhone, but it's an ACCESSORY that needs and iPhone to connect to the network. Worse, it ha
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by nirvana 14y ago
Innovation is not just about being different, its about being different successfully. I give credit to MSFT for ... finally, after 2 decades... trying to innovate. I don't think they will be successful with these products, but possibly the
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm sure there's a couple hundred thousand other people like you. That's not what taligent is talking about. Apple ships tens of millions of devices in a quarter. Google's never had a hardware hit, not even close.
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by nirvana 14y ago
IT's not even as good as the iPad, which unlike the pixel, can run more than just a web browser. The iPad costs about 1/3 the price, and it does more and is better made. Comparing this to the MBA is like comparing a feature phone to a netbo
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by nirvana 14y ago
Forget specs, lets talk about software: The MacBook air is a real computer. You can compile your code on it. IT has an operating system. You can play games. The pixel is just a web browser. The correct thing to make the comparison to is
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by nirvana 14y ago
Apple is vastly more efficient at R&D than google is, in part because Apple's products are so profitable, that it's R&D as a proportion of sales is "small". Meanwhile, Apple is investing $10B this year in CapEx, and while a couple b
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's also a pretty blatant copy of the Macbook. Given the history you outline (which I agree with) I think the huge leap for the pixel came from Apple. Just like the huge leap from a blackberry clone to an iPhone clone that android took ov
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by nirvana 14y ago
Interesting. I'm using ~24,800 of my 25,000 available tracks. About %90 of that is actually CDs that I ripped (I'm not really much of a pirate). I had a problem where it wouldn't accept one of them at all, and I ended up pirating that on
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by nirvana 14y ago
Your link to patrik gibson's twitter shows how silly the original hypothesis is. For instance, Apple's stores are still powered by WebObjects because WebObject is still one of the best web frameworks in the world. Do people say that Amazon
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by nirvana 14y ago
How is iTunes match a "scam"? It accepts my music downloaded from the pirate bay as proof of purchase then gives me access to it on all my devices. The hugest advantage is not having to manage all of that music on all the machines in our h
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is an area where we can do direct comparison. Mail- Google has gmail, Apple has iCloud mail. Both have "web 2.0" UI's. I think here Apple wins hands down. Apple's support of sproutcore (what became ember.js) has given it a great lead
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by nirvana 14y ago
What you say is correct, but what I was trying to say (you may disagree) is that SIRI was a big jump into mobile search, and that it is a bigger move into mobile search than google's hardware projects have been in competing with Apple. SIRI
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think people musnderstand what it is that Apple does best. And what it is is deliver great products that focus on what the consumer needs. Google has yet to deliver a compelling or wildly popular hardware product to the market. Google i
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by nirvana 14y ago
Good managers will not have a fetish for making decisions, but will, instead, ask you questions that reveal the motivation for their concern about a given technical solution, such as, "I've been told that we need to do X, and that Y solutio
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by nirvana 14y ago
This works with good bosses and after awhile you become the technical person that they trust. Unfortunately, a lot of bosses are mediocre and no amount of explaining, even if you're really good at it, will reach them because it's all about
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that non-technical people end up in positions of power and then feel they need to assert their decision making power or they will lose it. In fact, in my experience, it becomes an article of faith with s

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