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Why do sellers charge more for eBooks? Easy -- because they can. It's simple economics; sellers will charge that price which maximizes profits. How much an ebook costs to reproduce is utterly and completely irrelevant to that equation. If they could double their prices and only lose 25% of sales, they would.
Commented Apr 24, 2012 on Books: Bits vs. Atoms at Coding Horror
Books: Bits vs. Atoms
I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...
I had a friend who always said: "Moses brought the source code down from the mountain, not the documentation."
Commented Apr 23, 2012 on Learn to Read the Source, Luke at Coding Horror
Learn to Read the Source, Luke
In the calculus of communication, writing coherent paragraphs that your fellow human beings can comprehend and understand is far more difficult than tapping out a few lines of software code that the interpreter or compiler won't barf on. That's why, when it comes to code, all the documentatio...
California is famous for this among military people. CA tries (or at lease used to, it may have changed) to collect taxes for life from retired military personnel that served in CA. If you were in CA for four of your 20 years, you are supposed to pay income tax on 20% of your retirement money.
Commented Apr 1, 2012 on The Penalties of Leaving a Drowning State at I Want a New Left
The Penalties of Leaving a Drowning State
We had lunch today with a couple liberal friends from a liberal state. Despite their liberal stance, they are disappointed at the huge pensions that government employees in their state get. One of them added that while of course one wants to support unions, at the same time it is wrong for them ...
How in the world can a state make you fill out a questionnaire if you don't live there? What happens if you don't fill it out?
Commented Apr 1, 2012 on The Penalties of Leaving a Drowning State at I Want a New Left
The Penalties of Leaving a Drowning State
We had lunch today with a couple liberal friends from a liberal state. Despite their liberal stance, they are disappointed at the huge pensions that government employees in their state get. One of them added that while of course one wants to support unions, at the same time it is wrong for them ...
I'd add another: Never have a meeting to pass out information.
Commented Feb 14, 2012 on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die at Coding Horror
Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings...
Speech Recognition is the technology of the future, and always will be.
Commented Jun 21, 2010 on Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? at Coding Horror
Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition?
Remember that Scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty tried to use a Mac Plus? Using a mouse or keyboard to control a computer? Don't be silly. In the future, clearly there's only one way computers will be controlled: by speaking to them. There's only one teeny-tiny problem with this magical fu...
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