bitofhope

Imagining a guy who asks me a dumb question so I can let everyone know how I'd mock them with a joke answer.

The Burning Platform debacle was huge where I live and I remember it quite well.

It seems that Microsoft was planning on coasting on brand recognition, while the public correctly noticed the lack of any real synergy between Windows Phone and Microsoft's desktop computer software. Nokia's hardware was indeed top notch, but WP lacked a killer app, or indeed most apps at all. It missed the train and developers ignored it in favor of iOS and Android.

I doubt MeeGo would have managed to recapture the dominance Nokia had on the pre-iPhone market, but at least nerds like me would have vastly preferred it.

That sentence is somewhere between exactly 420.69 and 1,337.00 millialtmans of cringe.

It also doesn't bode well for the hope of it dying down anytime soon.

Oo that might be even better from artistic standpoint!

I'm not even surprised. It's the kids who are wrong etc.

If it's not too rude to ask, @dgerard, can you edit the verb "photoshop" to start with a lowercase p to make it just a tiny bit more genericized?

I watched most of the first season of Silicon Valley with a friend who recommended it to me. I liked it. Every single character with a speaking role so far (with the possible exception of an exotic dancer and a graffiti artist) deserves death by nuclear weaponry. SFBA delenda est.

You think that's impressive? It guessed my dad's name on almost first try.

Signed, Rumpelstiltskin Jr.

Someone should come up with a catchy alliterative name for this tactic of incorporating competing ideas in Microsoft product family, augmenting them with their own proprietary crap and pulling the rug after achieving lock-in. Maybe call it AAA for "Adopt, add on, annihilate".

What stereotype? The stereotype that awful.systems posters are hostile to people who praise LLMs? Good.

I don't think announcing he's "genuinely grateful" to his newly earned dogpile is helping recover his dignity too much. A simple admission and apology suffice, I don't need you to go "thank you daddy punish me more" while at it.

Paul Graham randomly blurting out inane and ostensibly vague insinuations about fellow rich people's obvious bullshit smells to me like the sort of buggy behavior you get from a lifetime of ass kissing. I sure hope it isn't. It would be really bad if Paul Graham got his rocks off on huffing the smell of his own farts.