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by Lewisham 16y ago
Software is free, so if you make a wrong cut, it doesn't matter. Untrue; tell that to the person who's paying the QA teams who have to validate your code. Or the patch teams that work 48 hours straight to get a hotfix out because somethin
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think you're probably not taking into account the amortized cost of TDD versus what you're doing now: how much testing is really happening when you "refresh a web page"? How many times do you do that? How confident are you when you make a
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by Lewisham 16y ago
My feeling is that Behavior-Driven Development (which, as described below, is just TDD "done right") is what pushes this competitive advantage aspect. If you write down your user stories, and nothing is in those stories that says "Oh, that'
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Do remember that the average age of a gamer is now well into the 30-40 bracket. PSP has sold well to teens, but there's no cut and dried reason why a PSP phone wouldn't sell well to an older demographic. Targeting someone like Virgin Mobile
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by Lewisham 16y ago
All that says is that the phone is a prototype. "A large amount of dirt under the screen" and an incomplete UI does not mean they are fake.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, the article has nothing to say about the effectiveness of the work being done, just that you are "working". I can bang my head against a problem all day long, but I'll find the answer in the shower. Work smarter, not harder, right?
727.
by Lewisham 16y ago
Apple's iPod is probably the textbook example that yes, usability can be a USP. In fact, it can be the USP.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
You can have the same experience when it goes the other way: someone who is a good friend ends up with a startling revelation that makes your jaw drop. My case in point was this week: I was hanging out with an academic friend of mine at a c
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think a lot of the HN crowd identify less with Tony Stark as an ass-kicker, but more because he's one of the few superheroes that you can truly say is a "self-made man" (pun unintended, but apt). He's amazing not because of some genetic a
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Most "normal" people don't assume there's a moratorium on data. Data is forever. You put it on a floppy disk, it stays there forever. All you can do is lose the disk. Same thing with flash drives. Same thing with online services. The differ
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Who are your customers for GitHub FI? It seems that Github is SaaS done really, excellently right: I can have private repos up and running for a cheap cost in minutes. Is FI just for people who are very protective about who has access to th
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by Lewisham 16y ago
GitHub does a lot of amazing work, and you guys are all fabulous coders. However, when I've spoken to colleagues in person, there's a definite feeling that GitHub have a tendency to have some Not-Invented-Here syndrome: see CI Joe when Huds
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yes, Wesabe and Mint are two completely different companies. They both used Yodlee, which is most definitely not open-source. Mint no longer uses Yodlee, and Wesabe is dead. Even if Yodlee was open-source, they're probably using it as a fra
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by Lewisham 16y ago
The other thing is that these interviews almost always enforce no Internet access. If I was in a position to hire, I'm looking for people who can solve problems, not those who can remember the Java API in their head. If their first instinct
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, I'd have to agree. If we're going to say "there's a language that is more readable than others", then I guess Python's enforced "one way to do it" paradigm lends itself better to external eyes than Ruby does. I guess Lisp'ers might fe
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by Lewisham 16y ago
It's hard to sell a portability argument when you are tied to a dongle, even if it is small. That's a workaround for the network, not the consumer.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
I think it's safe to assume that. It shows that Apple and Verizon don't have as terrible a blood feud as some had thought. In fact, the offer looks somewhat... desperate. It's blatantly anti-consumer (lug around a MiFi and pay for the privi
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Since when did "experience" == "hypocrisy"?
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Do not take my comment to mean I'm anti-Reddit, I like Reddit way more than I ever did Digg :) But Reddit doesn't really do a lot apart from keeping everything going. I agree that altering Reddit now is probably not a good idea, and they
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by Lewisham 16y ago
My understanding (which is, to say, belief built up over watching the companies from outside) is that Reddit is currently running what could best be described as a skeleton crew: Conde Nast won't fund them, so they're just trying to keep th
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, I think the problem for Silverlight is that "success" is not a clear idea for such a platform, and if "success" is just large sites using it, then you've got Netflix at least. I'm sure Adobe counts "success" as installed base, but if
742.
by Lewisham 16y ago
There are plenty of metrics, like engagement, enjoyment etc. etc., but there is some very tangible metric bar by which games are measured, it's called peer approval. By what metric are other art forms judged? How are the Oscars awarded to m
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Oh yes, that reminds me how much of Zynga's properties are ripped off from existing games. Farmville was a straight-up clone of Farm Town, PetVille was a clone of Pet Society... The properties that Zynga are most proud of are the same as th
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by Lewisham 16y ago
They're "bad games" by any usual metric bar with which games are critiqued, unless your metrics are "money made" and "addiction." But they're businessmen metrics, not the ones a game designer would use. PopCap are definitely the company to
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by Lewisham 16y ago
One important difference is that Zynga games require you to pay for the next dose, the other games you mentioned don't. MMOs are slightly different as you're also paying for the development of content updates and social areas and the like.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
To be honest, it doesn't really matter what personnel you have on board or whether you feel there's some moratorium on bad press (I don't know why the other commenter got down-voted, because you do really state that), it's about the games Z
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by Lewisham 16y ago
My personal experience with VA, unlike other domestic carriers in the US, is that they don't treat you like it's a privilege that you get to fly at all. Domestic carriers treat customers as if they are doing them a favor, rather than prov
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by Lewisham 16y ago
It's really Tweetie inspired. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I think the complexity of mail versus Twitter has led to some bad decisions when taken to another level. I'm not a great fan of the non-raised buttons nor the non-nativ
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Noticed the same thing about scrolling. Getting the impression that the author has created his own views, which is breaking normal scrolling. Not sure it was worth it.
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by Lewisham 16y ago
Yeah, that's the problem. There's no reason to believe the screen is where you set your signature, let alone double-clicking would result in anything. http://skitch.com/lewisham/d346d/preferences

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