sperglord

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by sperglord 10y ago
The minute that happens the more accessible community version with polished graphics and interface will become the dominant one. Only dilettantes will play the original. The problem is he has zero motive to do so. His income is adequate for
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by sperglord 10y ago
Well it's probably for the best that hacker news is not in charge of teaching our children. They'd be learning go or rust or JavaScript instead of how to read books.
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by sperglord 10y ago
The teachers and admins should not be the people administering equipment...
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by sperglord 10y ago
There are many iPad MDM solutions to that problem. Apple s App Store can be disabled and replaced with a custom one, for example.
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by sperglord 10y ago
The idea is that you're no longer constrained by planning around the use of a shared computer lab space. Instead, any activities that benefit from computer use can be used immediately. You don't have a "pencil and paper"
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by sperglord 10y ago
Education and a 1:1 program are vastly different usage models. You're not going to be able to take a Rasperry Pi, a monitor keyboard and mouse home with you in your backpack to do your homework on.
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by sperglord 10y ago
He's not talking about creating a commercial venture that would necessitate thousands of devices. He's talking about an in-house project on the scale of dozens. Would contacting them directly get me that quantity at that price?
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by sperglord 10y ago
raises the question
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by sperglord 10y ago
The first step is finding something that you can "curate" that hasn't been "curated" yet. It's all the rage these days.
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by sperglord 10y ago
Why "sad," and not homage?
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by sperglord 10y ago
It seems unkind to conflate the current business model of the company and the employees. Many people serve lifelong careers in the postal service honorably.
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by sperglord 10y ago
Well, it's also a paid cloud service that hosts your data.
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by sperglord 10y ago
We just switched from Github to Gitlab for our private repos. The choice (based upon cost alone) was between them and Bitbucket, and the professional way that this was handled and the transparent communication was really nice to see.
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by sperglord 10y ago
Only if they look like cool cyberpunk googles.
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Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally(hardware.slashdot.org)
59 points by sperglord 10y ago|47 comments
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by sperglord 10y ago
I think you're taking this too personally. The burden of proof is on you, the person suggesting a new idea to support it somehow. You're asking other people to do the work involved which is not fair to them.
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by sperglord 10y ago
What are you proposing as an alternative to a button? Gestures? Voice commands?
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by sperglord 10y ago
I call this "the Dwarf Fortress UI paradigm." Yes, it's very fast to someone experienced with it. Yes, the learning curve is incredible. No, it will never change because the stakeholder (ie. the developer) is happy with it.
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by sperglord 10y ago
On what are you basing that? I'm sure they've also read Jurassic Park.
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by sperglord 10y ago
I was not aware the app did that. I'm a little disappointed in the service to learn about this.
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by sperglord 10y ago
What browser you're using is not always a choice, or your choice is limited. In the workplace many users do not have local admin or the ability to install arbitrary browsers.
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by sperglord 10y ago
Haha, Verizon owns America Online as well. Perhaps they're going to collect all relics of the 90's internet into some kind of Voltron monster.
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by sperglord 10y ago
I was surprised to learn at a conference in October that America Online still exists(!), and this (media) is the route that they took. Apparently they own the Huffington Post and Engadget now.
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by sperglord 10y ago
That's not really relevant to the analogy.
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by sperglord 10y ago
This idea is called the "Great Filter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter Another option is something like the outcome of the novel Blood Music, where engineering efforts become smaller and smaller a
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by sperglord 10y ago
No one digs them. It's no longer the great depression.
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by sperglord 10y ago
ReiserFS took a pretty bad publicity hit.
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by sperglord 10y ago
Why not just put a second laptop on your desk?
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by sperglord 10y ago
Absolutely.
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by sperglord 10y ago
I don't think so. He didn't mention Javascript, Rust, or Go.

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