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lurker.
>> It's that Adobe wants you to pirate the crap out of CS6, because they know they won't get money from you anyway.
Interesting. I've heard this thing before, with Photoshop and Windows too. Is there any evidence for this?
>> The U.S. Senate has already passed a bill that will make >> the devices a requirement, and the House is expected to >> approve the bill as well.
I'm not very well versed with the political process in the US but why aren't these bill ever discussed (or voted on) before they are passed.
Doesn't the public get to vote on these important issues?
(By the way, I come from a country where I don't get to vote on individual bills. Just thought things were slightly better in America.)
What about making them delete user profile data after they unregister and not just hide it?
Much faster! They should really switch to this.
Brilliant. Brought my HD-555 alive.
I'm not sure why WSJ thought these old arguments deserved attention.
(It's not even funny. Like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbEjOH7t0Q.)
Depends on how you define waste. One might want a PhD because of the learning involved. Not everyone cares about money.
Oh wait, but, it's The Economist.
Looking at the prices of the kindle editions of the below books,
Distributed Algorithms ($100) - http://amzn.to/glJVKv Algorithm Design Manual ($61.72) - http://amzn.to/f9G0KD
They are about $10 less than the physical book. Doesn't it cost them far less to produce, store, transport a digital version? I wonder how much of this goes to the author.
Hmm, by the way, he's not supposed to hold the phone that way.
Agreed. I like this post but HN is not the place for it.
Some general rules here to make your pitch more appealing:
Man, I can't believe we have these huge discussions about some petty fights. We know both parties are talking crap to uphold their selfish positions, don't we?
An intuitive decision making skill worth having is always based in reason.
We might not base those intuitive decisions on clear cut reasons (that guarantee results, 100%), but we base them on past experiences and observed phenomena (that increase the likelihood of the result, sometime even to 100%.)
If you are asking about an intuitive decision that is not based on any of the above, then your question is really, "Should I make random decisions?" Sure, just because something has a minute chance doesn't mean it won't happen. It might just work.
No. I would if HN threads were not indexed by search engines.
I'm uncomfortable with the fact that anyone can find out my activities/interests/opinions/biases just by searching for my universal handle in a search engine.
More info about the survey here: http://norvig.com/oreskes.html
I agree with his larger point that being purely scientific is impractical in situations when there are too many unknowns and data is hard to collect. So, sometimes one needs to go with their gut feeling or intuition.
I might be nitpicking here but intuitions are not always based on reasons. Some of our intuitions are based on reasons (eg: past experiences) and some are not (eg: preferences, prejudices.)
>> The measurements you choose (which will necessarily be >> somewhat arbitrary) will shape what you make, and you >> will most likely end up making the wrong thing.
Failure here is no more likely than failure after making a decision by intuition because we are still juggling with the unknowns.
"Every single line of code you write will probably solve a problem and will introduce at least one bug"
I believe that sort of extreme skepticism is helpful in writing solid code and thinking about unintended consequences.
>> Why do you think Silicon Valley has never quite come around on this guy?
There are two separate aspects here, professional and personal.
Silicon Valley judges people based on their professional acumen and practices. And Gates did not please everybody in this department.
And the other aspect, yes, people in tech do admire his humanitarian efforts.
It's just that mixing two aspects of a personality and trying to come up with an overall score does not work.
Well, I hope they don't automatically sign me up and add my contacts from my GMail account like they did with Buzz.
Partly because that's annoying and mainly because I don't want to belong to another social network.
Bing has a tough battle especially because most people (including me) equate the notion of a comprehensive search result for a query to what Google produces for that query. That is expected considering we have used it for so long.
Bing is my default search engine because I'm paranoid about Google's tracking practices. In my experience, I still see cases where I do not find (all results, enough results, related results, etc) what I want on Bing and then I try Google and find it.
They've done a decent job nevertheless.
Including our comments on this forum.
One good that can come out of it is people will start behaving themselves online too, just like they (mostly) do in person.
Someone should do this for the most upvoted posts/commented on Hacker News. I'm too lazy for that :)
Surely, we will find content with a lot less use of subjective terms like "awesome" but I'm curious by how much. That's one way to get a sense how objectively critical the posts/comments mostly are.
The less is more mantra may not be desirable for everyone.
From one point of view (say, a seller's) the solution of "reduced number of options" may be a good way to influence a quick and (potentially satisfying) decision (like Dan Ariely also says here - http://bigthink.com/ideas/20749.)
But I as a consumer would definitely want to explore all the options before making a decision. One good fix here is to just understand that one can't have everything and learning to prioritize the needs.
Hilarious! Have they received notices from Apple yet?