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Unresponsive touch UIs(johnnygrubb.com)
1 points by Jgrubb 14y ago|0 comments
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
I've been a Drupal developer for a while now. I've been recently playing with Rails because that's what I wanted to be doing in the first place, but just didn't know enough about enough to be able to really get it. Thanks in no small part
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
This whole scene reminds me so much of the record business of yore. The bit about VCs swooping in with just enough money to keep you alive and not really giving much of a rip about your creative endeavors and as soon as it looks like you mi
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
Why does Slate magazine hate me so much that they made every possible attempt to move my eye away from the article I was trying to read?
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
I actually wrote a couple paragraphs down that road, but it started sounding too Bob Lefsetz, so I scrapped them. I think we're already (back) in the age of the creative/patron model. As far as the limitations that come with traditional pa
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
Precisely. Great songs that touch people are exceedingly scarce. Recordings of great songs are not. Same goes for great books, great movies, great product design.
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
Using the digital content as basically a loss leader for things that can't be distributed digitally, namely live performances and merch that you'd sell at those live performances.
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
That's what it sounded like. For lashing out at you for lashing out at him, I apologize.
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After the age of scarcity(ignoredbydinosaurs.com)
61 points by Jgrubb 14y ago|34 comments
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
He wasn't actually predicting failure for Facebook. The last thing he wrote was "It's still valuable but it will take some time to figure out exactly how much it's worth". Don't be so quick to lash out at people because they're not sittin
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It's the wizard, not the wand.(ignoredbydinosaurs.com)
3 points by Jgrubb 14y ago|1 comments
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
"As a social network moves to monetize, it becomes increasingly more intrusive and less functional." Well put. We agree. I don't have the link handy, but there was a post floating around on here a couple weeks ago about having customers,
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by Jgrubb 14y ago
I assume the downvotes are for the bubble comment, but I agree with you on the other point. Social seems like an inherently fickle business to be in. The ficklest. So much of it is basically style and fashion and trendiness - things come
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
I was under the impression that Firebug was being actively developed again. Is that not right? They had some really cool features that Webkit inspector did not last I tried it, which was fairly recently.
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
I always wondered about this. Also, wouldn't it be really easy to have a form pull autofilled CC info via ajax without even needing the user to hit submit?
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
I'm in that exact boat, I can't believe it took me this long to find this. I live in New Jersey. I moved up here in my early 20s for a gig that I no longer have, but in late 2006 I bought a house. This house has decreased in value by pro
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Amen. I got into HN and programming in general with big ideas of what I wanted to build once I knew how. At this point, I'm pretty happy working as a contractor, building my skills up, and getting to cook dinner and read stories to my kids
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
In my humble opinion, and I apologize to any Facebook engineers who read this, but Facebook has touched off an ethical race to the bottom with regards to users, their privacy, and their information that can be sold to advertisers. It seems
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
I said this already above, but they used that word because that's how lobbyists from the MPAA framed the debate for them. All of these politicians are simply repeating the talking points that lobbyists feed them. Extend this to any given
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Actually, that bit brought this entire thing into focus for me. All those congresspeople were simply regurgitating, verbatim, what lobbyists from the MPAA were whispering in their ears right before any of that televised coverage. "these ar
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Quote of the day.
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Developed in four days, don't forget that part.
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Jedi sarcasm. Amazon reviews is an interesting place to ply that skill.
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
"Lorentzon and Ek were in a unique place: The former no longer needed the money, and the latter no longer cared about it. So they decided to ignore the dollars and aim for disruption." This is the crux of why this whole thing ultimately won
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Spotify's Daniel Ek: The Most Important Man In Music(forbes.com)
2 points by Jgrubb 15y ago|1 comments
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
...And this is what I love about Hacker News. As a 33 year old musician who got the programming/entrepreneurial bug only more recently, it brings me great hope to see things like this on this board. It brings me hope because a lot of time
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Same here, four times.
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
So, that wasn't so difficult.
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
Funny enough, I gave FF the heave somewhere in 3.x and switched to Chrome. I love Chrome. I love working on Chrome. But I've been thinking a lot the last few days about what you just said. Now how do I get my bookmarks out of Chrome and
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by Jgrubb 15y ago
I don't know, but I can't believe I'm becoming one of those old fogies who's getting tired of blog posts with *shit in the title.

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