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Apple does not pay 30% on dollar transactions - they don't pay stripe-like processing fees. They are a high-volume seller with a great deal of negotiating leverage and financial sa…

I guess I just found the response "submit more, it evens out in the end" a bit glib (as is, 'your account has submitted zero stories'). I do have some experience submitting stories…

You're not really stacking your long-run odds any more than you're stacking your odds by playing the lottery a lot. The odds are stacked in favour of anyone who submits a lot and s…

It doesn't really say much about developer productivity. What are you comparing this to? You might also be forgetting the insane number of (many 'enterprise') products Netscape was…

On rescanning the thread, you probably right about the first bit. And we are definitely reacting to each others' notions of how bothered one ought to be by his behaviour. 'Broken m…

This seems like an oddly reductive take, to me. It's possible to appreciate the pluck and ingenuity while being utterly dismayed by the lack of judgement and self-reflection. And t…

It's not really 'autonomous driving' so you might be overestimating the safety factor implied by the term 'autopilot'. I'm not a car person or expert in the field but I've done a l…

We probably (broadly) agree more than disagree. One reason FP/OOP comparisons are difficult is that FP is closely related to a mathematical formalism while OOP isn't and can't be. …

you're making a fallacy of appeal to authority. I'm not. I'm not saying anything about the quality of his argument, I'm talking about the stridently poor quality of your initial on…

I don't think this is really an argument from authority since I'm not saying 'he's right because he has a PhD and teaches at a renowned university'. I'm saying that assuming he's i…

Do you really believe the author of a paper explicitly about investigating the technical advantages of OO which also happens to touch on Haskell and ML is simply clueless about fun…

There should be guides like that for the world's great sights. http://goo.gl/maps/n9dGc Reward: Chicken Maharaja Mac

There were reports over a decade ago of people successfully challenging such requirements through the legal system http://www.economist.com/node/1011419 is one, there were others b…

What you're describing is almost a definition of editorializing which you're asked not to do, in titles. The readers can figure it out themselves. Additionally you can comment on t…

It is uncharitable and I generally find your 'I flagged this' comments useful, despite being at odds with the holy guidelines. But ignore the meaniepants bit - the commenter has a …

You are mis-reading the comma.

>by the AC proponents. By the DC proponents. Or AC opponents. Definitely part of a long campaign to try to make AC appear dangerous.

They didn't, I just brainfarted. You know, http://vt100.net/dec/alpha_era_logo_small.png and all that.

It's possible, sadly there is no folklore.org for Nextstep. In the end, both the X and things like context-menus were made ubiquitous by Windows '95.

I was looking at the wrong end of the window, to boot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS#mediaviewer/File:ST_D... Looks pretty X-like. It seems GEM itself was licensed from Di…

The Atari Gem thing is not an X, it's actually supposed to be a gem. It's just confusing because of the low-res image. Take a look at http://toastytech.com/guis/gem11menu.png

http://toastytech.com/guis/ns08.html NextStep 0.8, '88 vintage.

You're right. The point was overstated for effect.

And I believe you too! I do think there is some schmoe at google who can read my email. I don't think they do because what business does a schmoe have reading another schmoe's mail…

I don't think Arrington is particularly credible nor do I believe Google, as a matter of course and policy, runs around reading specific users' emails. But the comparison to Enron …