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Do you think that this sentence: “Haha, yea. I’ll say, ‘all I had to do was find a bunch of fucking nerds to build it.’” has anything to do with Billy's attitude towards engineers?

No, Billy hid his pre-existing company from the team. Bobby doesn't have himself to 'blame' for this deception. It's perfectly valid for him to respond the way he has.

The author is upset at a blatant attempt to take advantage of him. Isn't that appropriate?

And what did you think of Bobby's emails? All just fine to you?

Bobby is entitled to his own work, and an aura of 'peevishness' is more than appropriate when faced with someone who is trying to dishonestly bully him out of it.

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It is a little more open than iOS - that's the problem. It isn't really open - just a little more than iOS. Apple was never going to make an open system, but Google could have done.

The 'leveling' power of the web is an illusion. The web is controlled by those who have the resources to develop and distribute web browsers, which is a tiny elite at this point.

The leveling power was never about the web - it was inherent to the Internet and open source. What we needed was a true open-source app platform that was a community property the way Linux was. If we had that, it wouldn't matter what Apple did.

Unfortunately Google killed that dream with Android.

You don't think they thought of that?

The problem is there is no utility function and choices are path dependent.

It's only literally impossible in an abstract mathematical world where the rule is somehow manifest as a law of nature.

In the real world, the rule can be nothing more than a belief that is applied by individuals in their decision making. One can easily see how this could lead to a wide range of perverse outcomes, primarily because the idea of a 'utility function' is not a real thing in the world and cannot be universally calculated.

No. Psychedelics can be a useful way to get some of the insight that meditation can also provide, but meditation practice over a sustained period changes the brain, so that more positive states of mind are available all (or at least more of) the time.

Are you suggesting an immediate pardon for any crime less serious than kidnapping or slander?

In addition to the many iPads, I have seen a few surfaces in the wild, and a few years back, a few android tablets, but never a non-surface Windows tablet. They may be on sale but that doesn't mean there is a market for them.

The definition of a monopoly is not capturing 100% of the market.

How do you justify the criticisms you actually did make?

Protectionist as this move indoubtedly is, it seems as though the allegation is actually true.

Saying that more black people would be doctors if they complained less is absolutely racist. Do you not see that?

You claim oppression is fictional - so I guess it's possible you don't.

You say you are pointing at the opportunity costs of protesting oppression. They are only opportunity costs if the oppression is not real - otherwise they may be part of a necessary struggle to obtain opportunity. Do you really think that there is no anti-black racism?

You may be fed up with people bashing white people on the internet - I am too. But that is no excuse for making overtly racist statements against black people, a behavior which is certainly counterproductive to what you claim to be your true aim.

So your response was to write a comment filled with obviously racist invective attacking black people in general.

Quote: "Maybe if they spent more time DOING things and less time complaining about white people there would be more futurists/engineers/painters/doctors etc instead we have BlackLivesMatter doing die-in's in shopping malls or protesting the deaths of career criminals..."

Perhaps the original commenter is accidentally committing a subtle act of prejudice, but you are being overtly racist.

Noting that the original commenter may or may not be black, Your choice to attack black people is independent of your concern about the potential prejudice in the original comment.

At least this makes it clear where you stand; your comment was not about fighting prejudice.

Are you saying that everyone in management and engineering had been replaced and Blackboard is essentially a startup which happens to have inherited all the exciting contracts? If so, then maybe you stand a chance.

Otherwise, I'm sure you'll learn a lot from the attempt.

You really won't. This isn't mean to be a knock on you, but even the CEO probably can't fix this. Do some research on distruption theory and you'll discover that your company is built to withstand the very kinds of change that you seek. Even a Jedi has to exit when they have no leverage in a given situation.

Also - if you don't already have an overwhelmingly strong picture of what is wrong with blackboard, I'd suggest that your heart isn't invested in improving it, and you might be better off at a company whose software you love.

Nowhere did I claim that the USSR was perceived to be a war machine. You have not read the comments properly.

Computers are perfect at understanding high level programming languages, but you cannot program in English. All programming languages, including machine code are designed for humans first and computers second, within the limits of what we know how to construct. So, no.

Please stop with this obsession with sources, unless you have sources to the contrary.

I never claimed that the USSR was a war machine. I was simply explaining why the complex had to pretend that it 'wasn't only that', as requested by abcd_f. If you accept that there was a cultural battle going on, this explanation requires no further sourcing. If you do not accept there was a cultural battle, I suggest a little Googling because this is not an extraordinary claim.

That isn't a bold claim at all - there was a cultural battle on the world stage between the USSR and the US as to which had the better society. Being perceived as nothing but a war machine would have lost that battle for the USSR.

If your argument is that the ability to run android apps gives surface an advantage over iPad pro because of access to non-pro tablet apps, this makes no sense at all. The iPad has a better library of non-pro tablet apps by far.

The only question is which device is better for running tablet apps aimed at Pros. I think that is currently open to debate, but Android isn't even a player, so running Android apps is no advantage.

The author wasn't around when MacOS was new, otherwise she'd remember that the things she thinks are obvious are just conventions that people had to learn. Easier than a CLI, but something to learn just the same.

The discussion here is about the availability of software for Pro tablets - specifically the iPad Pro, and the Surface Pro 3. You have correctly established that the Surface Pro 3 can run Android apps very well.

I was curious about why it's valuable to run Android apps on a Pro tablet, or whether it's just a curiosity for running phone apps. If there was an important pro app that ran on android tablets that was made available to Windows users via emulation, that would seem to be a meaningful advantage.

It seems this is not the case.

Irrefutable Data:

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2015/02/09/apple-ha...

Android is simply not dominant.

The numbers don't lie, but you are focusing on the wrong one. Loss making businesses by cannot be dominant. Samsung is the only profitable Android maker and it is collapsing while Apple continues to grow.