Poiesis

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by Poiesis 15y ago
I'm somewhat disappointed, personally. One really impressive thing about Apple has been their restraint in purchasing companies. It just seems like so many of their competitors acquire for the oddest reasons. Dropbox, while a solid product,
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Just used dDhkgmxE8g6UMAnK; thank you.
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by Poiesis 15y ago
I see where you're going, but I'm not sure how successful you'll be. Me? I'd go big with something memorable. Think something like Hudson's approach. I was thinking a mascot with an easier name to remember: maybe a cute dog (Lassie! Instal
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by Poiesis 15y ago
That economic argument against paying to help the disabled access services is the reason why the ADA was passed. It's a tough decision where to draw the line. A purely economic decision seems soulless; accommodation of everyone will bankr
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Also, religions have historically been particularly focused on helping the poor. One can argue if they're being effective, you can argue if they're doing enough, you can argue that they hold on to too much wealth--but many religions do in f
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Is it a TOS violation for someone else to use your account? Adult signs up, kid uses account. Seemingly all perfectly legal, right?
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Can't comment as to what AWS does, but Amazon itself pays a ton of attention to competitors, employing things like screen-scraping bots to keep track of competitors' pricing.
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by Poiesis 15y ago
You know, I might have to dig out my MessagePad 2000 to check, but I'm not all that certain I get better recognition on my iPhone than I did on that. I frequently have to go back and correct words on the iPhone, too (usually because my 3G i
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Same way they make scads of money elsewhere: sell eyeballs. It just so happens that they're freeing up millions of eyeballs by developing driverless cars.
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by Poiesis 15y ago
I don't get around all that much, but the biggest one I've seen was Daring Fireball's web shortener at ✪df.ws . It was later pulled due to widespread software problems with Unicode glyph handling, with a big offender being AT&T's name
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by Poiesis 15y ago
How is it that the analogy of a stool--which generally needs three legs, minimum--is interpreted as a programmer's egotistical viewpoint?
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Also consider that on a bookstore shelf, the bigger the book is, the more space it has to advertise itself. It is its own advertisement.
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by Poiesis 15y ago
Same with ADD/ADHD.
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by Poiesis 15y ago
I am always impressed by this when I read it--not because of the cars but the motivation. Here's a company that is so desperate to increase its ad revenue that it's willing to build robot cars so that it has that many more eyeballs to ser
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by Poiesis 15y ago
As of now, you have not appeared to live up to your promise. I don't see anything here, in the first few pages of new submissions, or on the forums first page. You do not make a compelling case for continuing with you through the transition
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by Poiesis 16y ago
That's an interesting point of view. What led you to that perspective? As for our kids, we found that the TV is amazingly effective at teaching them, notably for reading skills. That catchy "The B says 'Buh'" song (and its 25 friends) w
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I'm not the only one! I just don't like feeling like a billboard. Just plain color, please. The use oft-shirts as achievement badges is interesting, but I don't like storing things that I don't use.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
It's not that hard, really. If you memorize your presentation you can reliably get within a few seconds. Most of the transitions don't require pinpoint timing accuracy, anyway. It's really common to overlook the amount of time that will be
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I don't doubt that the handoff is a risky part of the process. But that doesn't mean that we can't do a better job at figuring out how to make the handoff process better.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I'm kind of wondering what drove this move to a paid app. Driving away pathological customers? Increasing app quality? Somehow tying every OS X and iOS app--for sale or otherwise--to an identity/credit card? If it's a signed app, they co
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Pithy, but I'd be interested in your thoughts on whether a great product is necessary but not sufficient, or simply not necessary. By "great product" here I refer to one that solves a pain point--in other words, great in terms of the metric
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Can't you do some degree of enforcement--even a reminder--by checking the referer header? Might not want to rely on it by refusing to process if it's not there, but perhaps making another hoop to jump through to try to make it easier to
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by Poiesis 16y ago
You know, just last night I just looked up "how to flip an egg" and ended up reading a Wikihow article. I can flip pancakes great sans spatula, you see, but doing a decent egg over easy continues to elude me. I could see someone trying to l
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Well, I exhausted my knowledge of Korean phrases by trying the (phonetic) phrase "Anyong haseyo". I am as far from a native speaker as one can be. I can't even describe how cool it was to see: Hi 안녕하세요
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Re: the font size, in this sub-thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163862 All the comments are normal sized except for keiferski's, which appears smaller. I don't see any obvious reason in the stylesheet, and it seems to only ha
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Ok, two things that I've never found answers to: 1. How do people do the really small font size? It's not in the formatting document. 2. Assuming you've been upvoted some, how can you tell you've been downvoted? Do people keep such close
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I have to enthusiastically agree. Speakeasy's support has been amazing. I fear it will decline with all the times the company has changed hands. Always straight to the point after telling them what I've already done. And I've paid the insan
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by Poiesis 16y ago
This is one of my reasons for starting a side project. Having people pay me money is very positive reinforcement as far as I'm concerned.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
On this note, are there any other recommended platforms?
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Sure, there are other ways to get better. But Toastmasters exists to do exactly this, and has a good track record at it. You don't need to join a club to get help though. Shoot an email to a local club and ask to give a guest talk. They'll

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