Poiesis

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by Poiesis 16y ago
"Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I don't have to restart regularly, but I can agree that it's slower than iOS 3.x, sure. The typing lag is indeed the worst; it was horrid on 4.0 and is occasionally laggy still. I can't figure out why it seemingly wasn't tested on the old h
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Yup, 4.0 sucked for the 3G. Kind of appalling QA for a company like Apple to let that slip out. The 3G at that point was two generations behind, seemingly giving Apple no large incentive to fix the performance problems. But you know what?
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by Poiesis 16y ago
You know, this totally reminds me of my view on games like Guitar Hero [1]. "Why spend all that time learning how to press buttons when you could learn the real thing!" I would complain. I finally came to my senses one day and realized that
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by Poiesis 16y ago
The MacBook Air looks pretty good (SSD standard!), but it s not as cheap (in either sense) than the typical netbook. I run XCode on a Dell Mini 9 with Mac OS X. It has the expected tradeoffs: the keyboard is tiny, resolution too. But it's a
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I am puzzled as to why the choice of Android was made (assuming it's true). A company with Sony's background would seem to have the requisite OS experience, and one would they would have learned from the recent lessons of why control over
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Wear-hard! I didn't think that one would still be alive and kicking. It's not exactly what most employers would be looking for, I guess. I lost interest in wear-hard when I realized that smartphones pretty much did everything I needed a
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Surely for a startup this sort of information is not worth $10000? It just seems like you've got so many more important things to worry about than to worry if someone,s going to spend thousands of dollars figuring out how many users you ha
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by Poiesis 16y ago
During the keynote, it was mentioned that this was an additional way to distribute apps, not the only way.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
A question about Watchparty: isn't the trend for people to be not watching the same show at the same time? I mean, I can see networks desperate to stop this trend so I could see how some established network might want to acquire you. And
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Not sure if this is a terribly relevant article, but I'll note that we actually homeschool throughout a charter school with minimal oversight. What this means is that we're enrolled in the school, they send a teacher out every week to eval
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by Poiesis 16y ago
That's funny--I always thought a company that "gets it" would tell you to go home and get some sleep for your own health and for the sake of the quality of the work you're doing.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I own a somewhat related beast, a FJ60 Landcruiser. They hold up well. It's well established that for every make of car, there is at least one forum devoted to it. My favorite (also has Hilux content) is at http://forum.ih8mud.com .
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Only one I remember is Kalzumeus, which I think was a rental property management webapp for targeted for single-family residences as opposed to apartment buildings and the like. Was going to have awesome integration with Paypal. I could be
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by Poiesis 16y ago
This seems to me to be ("simply") a failure of marketing. If you can demonstrate value, then you would generally be a deployed solution. But you have to get that message out there, and if your target market is stuck in the stone age SEO isn
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by Poiesis 16y ago
You don't have pathological customers, what you have is a large number of people who instead of paying hard currency for a service will trade time as their currency. Look, I'm sure they're very nice people, but their extra time is not goi
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by Poiesis 16y ago
The US Government runs credit checks as part of the clearance process. I've been pondering and give it about even odds that you considered this when you composed your response.
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Zed, I totally get what you're saying. I do think ninjas exist in larger teams, but maybe that's not a mongrel2 priority, which would make sense. The bit that gets me that I think some take issue with is that there's a human readable repres
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Actually, it just continues to show the naïveté at the top. The article has him saying "Media Center is Big Buttons", as if media center could solve their problems. I want to give them points for trying, but really the needs of an interface
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by Poiesis 16y ago
They open it and get inspired. They know...he "just bought" a clone advertised in there. I'm inspired to buy a clone; sign me up! :) More seriously, I understand that we are among people here for whom it is fashionable to reject popular c
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Still, it's a general law of NPR reporting that a left-wing think tank is called a "think tank" and a right-wing think tank is called a "right-wing think tank". I don't really have a dog in this fight, but a quick search suggests you may
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Why not a card, then, that can talk to a phone app? Is bluetooth too power hungry to fit on a device approaching a credit card in thickness?
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I don't like guessing. "Yeah, I think it has high precedence" doesn't cut it any more than "Yeah, I think that is supposed to non-null" does. I try not to make assumptions. Does this mean I write code so that it can be read by someone with
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Here's the part that I think about: ok I get that phones could potentially cause a problem. If that is the case, than we shouldnt be relying on voluntary compliance. Either it's not a problem--then let people do that they want, or it's a pr
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802.3 distance limitation: 100 meters. Only about 2200 meters short! This is actually a bit of a fascinating question. Even if you found an appropriate technology, I would think mist cable would break under it's weight (I don't know if it w
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I agree with the wiki sentiment (also in a software/system engineer heavy environment). The huge thing I see is the massive problem with email. There's just so much information locked up in peoples email it's not even funny. Wikis provide
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Steve Jobs on design: "It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works" This applies just as much to infrastructure as it does to anything customer-facing. To a non-programmer, for example, sendmail, nginx, and mongr
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by Poiesis 16y ago
Wow. I don't even know where to start. I think the best answer to "time to cash in on all those skills" is to note that he now does consulting, which is the very definition of what you are describing when you talk about who he could be help
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by Poiesis 16y ago
I used to work with the most amazing guy when it comes to commiseration. I actually felt bad for him--he was so good at it, it seemed he had to do it more often because people would (unconsciously?) seek him out. Once I realized it, I trie
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