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New comment by gohrt in "The Three Machines"

gohrt — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:55:29 +0000

Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and General/Administrative

New comment by gohrt in "How Bad Entrepreneurial Judgment Killed Half-Life 3"

gohrt — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:35:47 +0000

Is it long-term good to make a something no one wants to make well?

Remember what happened to Star Wars? Lucas pumped out a prequel trilogy that made a ton of short-term money, but then put a 15 year delay to wash away the filthy taste, before Disney took over and started self-perpetuation engine pumping out enjoyable and massively profitable movies

New comment by gohrt in "Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)"

gohrt — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:42:51 +0000

How is it possible to get a remake done by deadline? How did the original have so much extra time padded into its schedule?

> Steve Jobs's rallying cry that we could in fact get it done by the deadline later that year

There interesting but here is that Jobs didn't know if his cry was true. But he needed it to be true, so it was. Jobs was a member of the "action-based community", not the "reality-based community" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

New comment by gohrt in "Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)"

gohrt — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:36:52 +0000

That's awful. So they train people to never ask for clarification or refresh if they misunderstand or forget, so instead they go on to make a far worse mistake acting on incorrect information.

New comment by gohrt in "Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)"

gohrt — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:35:33 +0000

> Doesn't Google do this? If you leak something to press, you're fired, then a company email goes out "Hey we canned dude for running his mouth..."

I've never heard of this happening. I've heard of people fired for taking photographs (or stealing prototypes!) of confidential products and handing them to journalists.

New comment by gohrt in "There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'"

gohrt — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:00:56 +0000

Open source is a red herring, as you say. Closed binary is the problem.

I need a way to verify that binary I am installing is the same as the binary that has been thoroughly vetted by security researches. In the modern mobile app ecosystem, on a major OS, running a major app, I can't carefully pick and choose which binary version to install. I get whatever the OS company's server pushes to me, and I can't downgrade to a known good version.

New comment by gohrt in "The Sound of Silence"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:30:29 +0000

There's a difference between " shouting down contrarian or critical viewpoints when a discussion could be initiated" and "shouting down people who are rehashing tired old arguments that looks exactly the same as the arguments put forth by people who are already known to be operating in bad faith"

New comment by gohrt in "The Sound of Silence"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:27:46 +0000

It curbs privacy and the ability to explore controversial ideas. As Facebook shows, there are more than plenty non-anonymous trolls.

New comment by gohrt in "The Sound of Silence"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:27:30 +0000

It curbs privacy and the ability to explore controversial ideas.

New comment by gohrt in "The Sound of Silence"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:24:32 +0000

The startup ecosystem is still majority vindictively anti-diversity? That's sad.

New comment by gohrt in "The Sound of Silence"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:23:23 +0000

but those who have children also know (more than people without children) that having children didn't stop them from achieving their success

New comment by gohrt in "Thanks, Obama: NSA to stream raw intelligence into FBI, DEA and pals"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:51:31 +0000

Obama has spent 8 years not caring about the 4th Amendment.

New comment by gohrt in "App.net is shutting down"

gohrt — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:49:40 +0000

It's only a Twitter alternative if people I care about will read what I write, or I can read what people I care about write.

Until most of the publishers are dual-publishing (or migrated), or most of the readers are dual-reading (or migrating), it's not an alternative.

GAB is a niche Twitter alternative.

New comment by gohrt in "The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage"

gohrt — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:42:09 +0000

Jews have funerals (and 1-year anniversary gatherings: unveiling). and Shiva is very similar to a wake

New comment by gohrt in "The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage"

gohrt — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:40:18 +0000

Not everyone has read every 15 year-old article.

New comment by gohrt in "The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage"

gohrt — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:39:37 +0000

The headline has a distasteful fetishizing tone, but the article is a respectful appreciation of a valuable cross-cultural lesson.

New comment by gohrt in "Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments"

gohrt — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:54:33 +0000

as long as the work keeps happening, there will be more quality housing than gentry. The problem today is that only the gentry get quality housing (because they pay for it out of their income/wealth), so wherever they spend money the housing gets better.

New comment by gohrt in "Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments"

gohrt — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:52:56 +0000

why didn't welfare systems keep them in a home last time?

New comment by gohrt in "Why Many Cities Have No Money"

gohrt — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 04:43:50 +0000

mm-hmm.

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/when-new-york-...

New comment by gohrt in "Why Many Cities Have No Money"

gohrt — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 04:42:35 +0000

You prefer that your local neighborhood be administered by a national bureau of neighborhood affairs?