Lewisham

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by Lewisham 15y ago
Well, notifications are on the lock screen now, so that's pretty good.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Actually, cassette tapes did have obvious, specific problems. They degraded. The tape kept falling out. The quality wasn't very good. Fast-forwarding and rewinding wasn't great. CDs solved that. Then people wanted to take more of their musi
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This sounds like a perfect startup idea: take one ignored segment that has an abnormally high amount of value, disrupt it, profit! I love it. However, it cuts both ways, people don't have obvious, specific problems with their thermostat (
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Focus on the entire picture, no. Zoom in on (and then inevitably have to focus), yes. So I guess it depends on the density of capture for me, at least.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
1. There's only so many priorities at once. 2. It's just the opinion of Yegge. His post mentioned that there are lots of pain points. It is not clear if enacting it would be worth it. 3. Note that the blog post mentioned that these sort of
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, I just popped down to the store to try this out. It's a bizarre limitation... the phone knows where it is, why should it matter if I want to speak to it in Australian/British English/Spanish?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Do you know if you can set the British English of Siri independent of the phone language? As a Brit in the US, my Android phone doesn't understand anything I say unless I say it in a so-bad-its-almost-xenophobic American accent. Same with m
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Part of me feels that this is actually written to the general public, and the whole public/private thing is a cover up. This is highly unlikely. This sort of internal conversation happens a lot internally. There's no need to take it publi
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The original leaked memo that everyone was freaking out about was incredibly overblown as it was entirely decontextualized. The engineer that wrote the memo needed people for his team. To get people to join a team from any of the others at
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by Lewisham 15y ago
they have released a language that is primarily designed to enhance their own tool-chain You make this sound like its a bad thing, but that's open-source always and forever. Scratch your own itch.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
It's Nintendo's decision to create a system that requires such modules, and cause games to be priced accordingly. It isn't like they haven't had five years notice on portable digital distribution.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
FYI: This article is from early 2009. The industry has moved a lot since then. Game prices on Steam are now much more flexible, although console game prices have remained steady (even in the face of stiff competition: a single 3DS game cost
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Remember that Larry re-org'd Google into product groups, and the SVP of Social is Vic Gundorota. My understanding is that these groups are supposed to work in a more autonomous fashion, with Larry more of a Jobsian gatekeeper and guiding ha
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I wonder how true this is outside techies. I'm personally network-agnostic, as I only use my "phone" for data and calls from the wife. I use about 100 minutes a month, so it doesn't matter. My wife, however, makes at least 60 minutes of cal
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I can believe this story. Apple spins it that Sprint is ready now, AT&T and Verizon need to get their LTE networks ready. It'll be a very public push. Apple has never shied away from telling their "partners" exactly how annoyed they are
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I can confirm the spokesman's story at the end: Google has lots of internal groups of all sorts of interests, and the brewing group thought it would be cool to have a Googley beer. It wasn't for marketing at the Google end, but I'm sure Dog
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I really like Ally. I was a little hesitant about them based on their GM past, but now I've switched I'd never go back to a brick and mortar. People always ask me the same questions: Q: How do I get money out if there are no ATMs? A: I use
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm not too hot on the touchscreen. I don't need it. I like the physical page turning buttons on my wife's Kindle 3... they have a satisfying weight to them and they sit nicely where your fingers already are. I don't want to tap tap tap my
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You might be interested in a rather spirited debate with the head of the ACM here: https://plus.google.com/117898054357703859389/posts/b783VnN4...
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Great price point. It's basically in impulse zone: "This book is 6 dollars cheaper at Kindle price... if I buy 12 it pays for itself..." but note there's no physical keyboard. Without a touch screen, it looks like it won't do note-taking, w
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is great news. After Scribd's terrible move to lock my content away behind their paywall, I can now start uploading my slides to Slideshare and get the same HTML5 loveliness. Bye, bye, Scribd!
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Frankly I'm surprised that they keep sinking money into this, they've clearly failed to establish a profitable beach head, meanwhile google is making money hand over fist in the exact same domain. Well, what else are they going to do? It'
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by Lewisham 15y ago
So that it can't be used as a spam vector: Gmail trusts all mail that comes from Google.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Kind of glad to see video game rentals coming; too bad they're late to the party and will have to compete with Blockbuster, Gamefly, and Redbox. All of these services have trouble. Blockbuster has a tarnished name (and I personally have n
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by Lewisham 15y ago
If Netflix/Quikster can get games right, Gamefly should get pretty scared. They can't afford to keep large stock (so you often don't get the game you want), and their turnaround on games is poor (usually about a week round trip, and I live
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Why not take the job, and then continue interviewing? I know it looks bad to leave a job early, but I think most people in the valley are aware of Yahoo's situation, so I wouldn't be too worried about how that'll be perceived.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't think Microsoft is merging both UIs at all. I think MS wants to pretend that Metro is something you'll use with keyboard and mouse, but I bet you won't, and they know that. My thinking is that MS wants to sell you a hybrid tablet de
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Why do you keep pushing on the idea that this is some sort of finished release of Windows 8? It's a developer preview, that's alpha stage at best.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, exactly. It's alpha, and it feels that way. That the dev preview doesn't resume state well when you go from Metro -> Desktop -> Metro didn't surprise me in the slightest. I'm sure it's one of a litany of features and fixes the
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Honestly haven't used Lion myself but this seems to be a consensus view. Don't sing its praises until you've tried it. Knocking my opinion based on your derivation of "consensus" is pretty dishonest. Launchpad/Mission Control are simply p

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