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New comment by notheruser in "Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel"

notheruser — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:16:57 +0000

Evernote (the original offline app) was released in 2004:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041114033908/http://www.evernot...

New comment by notheruser in "We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal"

notheruser — Fri, 17 May 2019 12:59:11 +0000

You obviously have no idea if the creature has cognition of death and are simply speculating.

New comment by notheruser in "Parrot Detained for Yelling 'Police' to Warn Its Owners About a Drug Raid"

notheruser — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:52:31 +0000

Reminds me of the bit in Twin Peaks when the cops take in a Parrot that witnessed a crime. Someone murders the Parrot to stop it from talking.

New comment by notheruser in "How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?"

notheruser — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 15:40:33 +0000

His election night model wasn't good, but he isn't known and respected for his election night model, so who cares?

New comment by notheruser in "Why Evernote failed to realize its potential"

notheruser — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:26:17 +0000

I have doubts about the accuracy of this article. For one thing, products like Evernote Food probably didn't take much resources to build so aren't as big a deal as the article suggests. For another, the article doesn't mention the acquisition of Skitch and Penultimate, while chastising the company for a lack of vision. Those aquisitions might not have turned out well, but were more related to Evernote's core product than Evernote Market.

New comment by notheruser in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

notheruser — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:09:28 +0000

In many cases the controlling interests are index and pension funds. Members of these funds do not get a say in political donations. Corporations are people spending other people's money with little consequence all the way down.

New comment by notheruser in "Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing"

notheruser — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:49:14 +0000

The managers of the corporation are not spending their money either, unless they own the corporation.

New comment by notheruser in "All New York City Public Schools Will Adopt Meatless Mondays"

notheruser — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:14:26 +0000

Humans don't need to eat meat.

New comment by notheruser in "Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study"

notheruser — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:40:04 +0000

The universe will end eventually and our species will die. Dreaming of keeping the species going is kind of pointless.

New comment by notheruser in "Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3"

notheruser — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:16:27 +0000

I think the design of the TESLA is just meant to make you think "OOOOH it's so high tech, like an IPAD!" It's not engineered around practical use.

New comment by notheruser in "The tragic end of Telltale Games"

notheruser — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:49:36 +0000

Fate Stay Night doesn't really branch. It just makes you play it 3 times for 3 different versions of the story. There's very little interactivity, it's more like an author wrote 3 drafts of the same novel where different things happen in each draft than a work of interactive fiction.

New comment by notheruser in "Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)"

notheruser — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:16:35 +0000

My point was only that if your kids watch HBO they do know what the image in Neuromancer looks like, even if they don't realize what the HBO logo was based on.

New comment by notheruser in "Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)"

notheruser — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:13:35 +0000

A television tuned to a dead channel looks like the HBO logo... A quick google search said it was still in use as of 2015.

New comment by notheruser in "Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)"

notheruser — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:19:11 +0000

Not true that Gibson's prose has a short shelf life. Neuromancer is in my view a timeless masterpiece, and Gibson's most recent book is set in the future.