SteveJS

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by SteveJS 15y ago
Does anyone know how much of this industry crisis is based on a reliance of selling higher priced (and presumably higher margin) hard cover books?
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Why not just browse successful kickstarter film projects and do this with stuff that people have already made? Wouldn't that be faster way to see whether it can work?
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by SteveJS 15y ago
It can't quite be the Golden Rule .. "Do unto others as you'd have done unto you". I'm an atheist. I have zero holy places to profane. And yet I do think it is immoral to profane someone's holy place, despite my belief that it is a social
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by SteveJS 15y ago
An intellectual argument about morals requires a basis upon which to argue. There are psychology researchers doing work in this area: http://www.yourmorals.org/aboutus.php Is it moral to wear shoes into a Indian temple? How do you argue
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I get queasy watching 3d shooters. I don't want to imagine how bad that could be with Ender's Game in 3d on the big screen.
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Odd. I'd think polishing the PoS idea you thought was an MVP was a more likely problem. I know that would be my tendency. I'd need someone crazy helping me jump into trouble: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/inventors-who-want-to-do-bu..
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by SteveJS 15y ago
This is mostly spot on. But I believe there is a part about decreasing parallelism that is subtly wrong. The posts specific arguments against parallelism seem to imply the optimal way to create shared understanding is to locate it in a si
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by SteveJS 15y ago
This is not a mistake. For me, $200 and low expectations make this a great value. Amazon's not building an iPad competitor, and failing to meet that expectation isn't an excuse not to build the Kindle Fire.
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by SteveJS 15y ago
"Which of those answers is the correct one?" is not a problem if you are soliciting a list ... that's sometimes the point of the question. "The single right answer is what SO was designed to help us find" is precisely the community norm tha
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by SteveJS 15y ago
The SO software is actually quite good for accumulating lists. It's the SO community that does not allow these questions. From what I can tell the SO moderators are evangelically convinced that any question involving an opinion (other tha
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by SteveJS 15y ago
The Kindle Fire is wifi-only, and Silk is only on the Kindle Fire. They are probably optimizing battery and latency. Bandwidth is important but not as important as if they had to deal with 3g.
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by SteveJS 15y ago
If it can web browse with Flash then (modulo the dead end hp touchpad) it's the cheapest tablet web browser that can play games on facebook. My wife is a long time Apple fan since she was a Graphic Designer, but she turned her nose up at t
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by SteveJS 15y ago
I found it hard to get past this statement: "The last risk was Windows Vista and that was a risk done by necessity so that the OS could keep up with OS X’s speed." This opinion seems like an anachronism. Go to the Vista wiki page and every
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by SteveJS 15y ago
You are not being hyperbolic. The promise of strong encapsulation is very compelling, but this pattern is only appropriate for Modules (hence the name). I suspect many JS developers head down this blind alley and get burned.
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by SteveJS 15y ago
I had the same reaction. It seems like DNT is more notable for reducing interest and effort in actual solutions. However, the EFF (whose opinion on this I'd trust) appears to indicate DNT is complimentary with things like AdBlock and IE's
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by SteveJS 15y ago
There are a couple of possible points in this article. One is bemoaning the quality of the problems (not the solution) attacked by startups. Is the startup curing cancer? Or enabling a more advanced form of ironic hipsterism? Of course c
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Oddly enough there is another way to go. Cheap and a different city. The Lindy Hop community set up a web site to have exchanges back before 2000. http://lindyexchange.com/ It caught on and has been going ever since. Every weekend of ev
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Ah ... I misinterpreted the statement to encompass the expression rather then just the application of the Ycombinator. Y(F) is not recursive. (Y(F))(X) is recursive. Is that accurate?
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by SteveJS 15y ago
"Clearly there is no recursion, iteration, or mutation." I don't see how it's clear there is no recursion. Perhaps my definition of recursion is overly broad? I will now proceed to demonstrate my deep ignorance. :-) [edit ... I'm not bein
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by SteveJS 15y ago
I think I am alone in being a "power user" and loving the ribbon. I totally buy into the design philosophy of it, and I now do things with office that I couldn't or wouldn't do before. I think there is a bit of false transference. I progr
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by SteveJS 15y ago
I believe you are right, and I think one key difference at play is Donald Norman's idea of Affordances vs designers emphasis on emotional reaction. One is about making something naturally usable, and the other is about making an emotional
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by SteveJS 15y ago
The article recommends a sales book based on research rather than war stories. It sounds interesting, but isn't available on Kindle. I really thought Amazon would have enough sway to get the Long tail of books onto their format. Does any
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Like any UI element there are plenty of reasons to knock on the ribbon, but the lack of analysis, editing, or afterthought is not one of them. The premise of the parent post that this is accidental and the result of ignoring a few design g
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by SteveJS 15y ago
This is an important countervailing concern to the 'just don't use the service' argument in the G+ real name controversy. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2932331 I'm more sympathetic to this type of argument after reading Jonathan Hai
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In this case there is another service, but that argument is quite weak in general. Here is a fantastic video with lots of legitimate criticism of that stand: http://www.securitytube.net/video/1084 . At a certain point your choice is give
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Very thought provoking. My first thought de Grey's claim that the first people to live a 1000 years have already been born is that will certainly require changes to social security. It seems likely even modest advances are enough to start
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by SteveJS 15y ago
The thesis that software is merely one component of many is certainly true. The idea that we have too many software engineers however, seems false to me. Also the idea that everyone needs to orient their career to serve a larger societal
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Does anyone know why the FOX considers an 8 day delay superior to a 6 day delay? Both are 'about' a week, but one sets you up to start watching the show live, while the other sets you up to stop watching the show.
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by SteveJS 15y ago
It looks like this was written in 1975. It is amazing how well the critique of the genre holds up.
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by SteveJS 15y ago
How does using a hotel when you travel, help prevent your home from being burglarized while you're away?

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