Alexx

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by Alexx 13y ago
That's really not true or fair. I'm in the process of giving my ~70 year old mother my old iPhone so I can send her photo messages and such. The teaching experience I've had running through how to use applications is almost e
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by Alexx 13y ago
Tech has a higher profit margin, but is a smaller industry. So depends which metric you want to use to define better- Efficiency or total profit. Comparatively the largest pure tech (none hardware) company Google is valued at $290bn publicl
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by Alexx 13y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant by the total hollywood economic value. Google makes money from multiple services and products too, and in the context of new companies coming in and taking a slice of the pie it makes sense to look at hollywoo
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by Alexx 13y ago
Revenue and Market Cap aren't comparable. I don't know where the figure of $65 billion is from, but Disney alone has a turnover of $45 billion, so I suspect it is an order of magnitude off the total hollywood economic value - whic
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by Alexx 13y ago
Along with the fact that if your blog is flagged adult they set robots.txt to noindex on your whole subdomain, so you're nuked from google (and there is nothing you can do about it). Now you're out their internal search engine too
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by Alexx 13y ago
They employ a million people. The Foxconn suicide rate is around 7-14% the national average at 1.5 per 100,000 employees per year. Taking on 3,000 extra employees means that statistically they'd see an additional death over a 20 year p
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by Alexx 13y ago
It's Twitter bootstrap. http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons Bootstrap V3 has tweaked the way icons are implemented slightly.
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by Alexx 14y ago
Agreed. This is a fantastic presentation of long-format text. The balance between readability, design, and imagery is very well done. I would love to see more journalistic publishers take a leaf from this book.
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by Alexx 14y ago
Only if you could call the ipod a clone of all previous mp3 players. Technology != Customer Experience.
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by Alexx 14y ago
http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2012/11/invention-multiple-choi... I think that's the post you are referring to. He sums up nicely why this standard style of 'on / off' slider is a terrible UI choice.
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by Alexx 14y ago
I think the key difference there is that those are 'passive consuming', which is what tablets are excellent at. But those things are entertainment, not 'productive' in terms of output. I don't agree with the authors conclusion, but I do agr
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by Alexx 14y ago
Maybe I communicated my point poorly - I agree. Supply is the driver, not demand. I was just annotating the use of the phrase 'most of the money' comparing the difference in final output (as GDP), and throughput. In the context of this disc
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by Alexx 14y ago
In the USA consumer expenditures represent 70 percent of gross domestic product, in pure 'output'. Though Economically business investment is a stronger driver, (business moves more money around), it's not the larger slice of the final pie,
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by Alexx 14y ago
Mattel is the genuinely incredibly close, the 'Y' in Toyota is the obvious tell if you've spent a while looking at Helvetica though.
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by Alexx 14y ago
Yeah, the Mattel one was the only one that wasn't instantly obvious. Just happens to have the only few letters in Arial and Helvetica that are actually comparable. 3M was the funniest, looks shocking in Arial.
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by Alexx 14y ago
I spent some time a few months ago researching integrated smart technologies like this. (I've commented before on similar topics)[1] I very skeptical it's possible to deliver these at those price points. Just consider as a hacker the master
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by Alexx 14y ago
But the difference is that the 'software geeks' are the ones in demand in this senario. A geek does not typically approach an outsider and say 'I've got skills can you come up with an idea for me?'. But on the flip side 'you have skills, I'
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by Alexx 14y ago
In this example the animation and effects aren't using javascript, the javascript is just is just firing the events. CSS3 (as implemented here) can leverage the same general advantages as a native app (GPU acceleration, etc). It's still ear
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by Alexx 15y ago
I agree with what you are saying; that's it's powerful. But I'm still just looking for an example of how this can be leveraged? When you say 'used against' us, how do you mean?
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by Alexx 15y ago
That's what I'm looking for yes? It's just that the arguments generally presented seem to be able to be applied to skype, forums, blogs, email... pretty much having an IP address, or even a mobile phone. I'm just generally interested in wha
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by Alexx 15y ago
I have read about people doing such things as 'proof of concept' type attacks indeed. However it requires that you have your privacy settings to public. No information on my profile is public. You must set your friends to public, mine are s
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by Alexx 15y ago
Just out of interest, as I've never come across many examples, can anyone give me some rock solid examples of what scary stuff facebook / a 3rd party could do with my data? I'm in the UK. I post an update roughly once ever 3 months, usually
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by Alexx 15y ago
In the UK the implementation currently being rolled out actually runs the smart meter on the 2G GSM network, as a ZED (zigbee end device) the nest could actually pipe data directly to the energy companies with no other connectivity beyond t
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by Alexx 15y ago
In my opinion market timing is the difference. There are a few key factors. Wifi penetration is coming over 80%. After a long drawn out process zigbee is emerging rapidly as the defacto wireless standard, and I suspect we will see this bein
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by Alexx 15y ago
Yes exactly. And furthermore the proposition is even more interesting when you consider that as a consumer you don't actually want to think about these things. Running the washing machine at night when it's cheapest may not be desired, rath
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by Alexx 15y ago
Nest is an interesting piece of hardware. They have over 100 people, and if rumours are true have quite significant backing. Which is particularly interesting as it's hard to see on the surface where their margins come from on a device most
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by Alexx 15y ago
Apologies - you were correct. I update the link so it is now SFW. It was a small screenshot of a site, and on of the thumbnails visible had a picture from an artist which you can see a nipple in. I didn't spot that. I have removed it.
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by Alexx 15y ago
I've been watching pintrest with some interest recently. It's not a story of great relevance here, but I basically built pintrest in 2007 - 2008, and then never launched it. It was pretty much the exact same site; right down to the infinite
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by Alexx 15y ago
This misses the fundamental difference between someone choosing to distribute their work for free, and working under false promise of financial reward. Ignoring the condescending tone of this comment, there are many 'creators' in the world
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by Alexx 15y ago
And therein is the moderation ;)

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