TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
After reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etisalat#Internet_Censorship I'm forced to conclude we all must be doing something right.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think people saw this in 1995 and thought “what an idiot” and I think people are doing the same thing now. But in my opinion that’s a mistake. What we should be seeing is that his points were valid in 1995 and are still valid today (exce
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Well again part of the point is to spec out your project very specifically. As in "These are the functions we need, these are the variables we will be passing and these are the results we expect to be returned". So code reuse isn't a prob
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I guess the question for me is “what do you mean by successful?” After a lot of trial and error I’m to the point where the simple outsourcing I do is relatively successful by my own standards but that success is not based on saving a lot o
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Ok well...first...you're using "straw man argument" wrong since I'm not trying to refute Apple's position (not trying to be snide but just to make you aware for future use) On your point you're certainly right but I'd argue this is where we
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm not sure I'm understanding your point but let me clarify my own and see if that addresses it. What I'm saying is when people use the phone search they are trying to search the phone part of the device (SMS, email, etc...). That doesn'
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As a developer I think you're obsessed with features. Whereas users don't necessarily want those features. Apple's bet is that users will reject the platform with more features in favor of the platform that works better. Let's take your exa
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I flagged this article because to me the requirement for a HN submission should be that it makes the reader a smarter or better person. This does neither. Let me be clear that I don’t approve of what Goldman Sachs did. But there’s no mor
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
What's funny (sad) is whoever maintains the official Kin twitter account was unaware as of an hour before the news broke: http://www.twitter.com/kin/status/17438337303 I bet thats going to be one interesting event in San Antonio tomorrow
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
They updated the post to say it will be available in about a week
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I agree on the article but not on the API. In my opinion the real reason your startup should have an API is because it's good design. The thing that always bugs me about the API debate is that an API is just another word for "Business Tier
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
My only issue with the video, which I think is great, is that he doesn't seem to look at what is actually causing the problem he's trying to solve. To my eyes the problem this video seems to want to solve is that of unpleasant work places.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I've always said I think the iPad is more a bet on the future than it is on the present. I wrote a post on my blog a while back that I think makes the point pretty well(if I might be so conceited): http://tomstechblog.com/post/What-People
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You make a good point but as I thought on it for a while I came up with this question: Do kids want to be the same kind of adults as their parents? In other word, I can see your point that kids want to be more grown up. But kids do tend to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
In my mind it's an issue of "Enabling Device" vs "Venue". Put it this way. Say your hang out as a kid was a bowling alley you used to drive to every weekend. As you grew up and had kids you took them to that same bowling alley for Family
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Honestly I don’t think Facebook will be that hard to kill because at its root it is a social movement and all social movements die based on two basic facts. 1. Kids rebel against their parents and don’t want to use the same things their pa
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
At this point I think we can safely say Google is in a perpetual state of "about to launch a Facebook killer" and will continue to be so until they actually manage to kill Facebook. So without any details to back it up Kevin Rose's source
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It depends what part of the process yor're referring to. IE6's initial development wasn't a mistake. But disbanding the IE specific development team, abandoning all platforms that weren't windows and not updating it for years and years we
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't know. This seems stupid to me. I'm all for chasing your dream when you have an actual dream to chase. But to quit a good job that pays well just to randomly walk around and try to figure out what you want to do doesn't seem wise to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't know Mr. Thiel and have no inside information on his views. But having worked in a startup I think I can see where he's coming from. To understand his point I think you have to realize there are two types of workers in the Valley:
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I hate to be harsh but I'm inclined to think the type of guy who wouldn't follow his dream because his girlfriend told him not to is not the type of guy who will be able to weather the amount of rejection and emotional stress that goes alon
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Kudos to the creators for keeping at it. But in the end I don't see if being of much consequence. If it ever does get out of Alpha and is viable than Microsoft will likely stop at nothing to bury it with lawsuits. They'd have to because i
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
My 2 cents on these 6 for what it's worth... Economy: Many successful startups have succeeded in a down economy (Microsoft and Google were started in recessions). The truth is a down economy is good for a startup because it weakens larger
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don’t see this as that big a deal. It’s bad but it’s the bad part of a good cycle. Essentially the traditional University system didn’t bother to adjust it’s curriculum to the real life needs of students. So a bunch of private companie
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm not sure it is treating them as inferior consumers as much as it's seeing what they value. Teenagers are generally self involved. They aren't information consumers except when that information involves their immediate surroundings (ak
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
But as many have said Microsoft is not targeting Kin at the type of person who would visit HN. It's targeted at the teen market that bought sidekicks in droves and I'm sorry but if you look back at the sidekick it's UI was pretty horrid to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't disagree with your point in theory but I have to wonder about Microsoft. I mean, they did pour a bunch of money and time into Zune and it didn't work. Last Christmas NPD reported Zune taking 10% of the units sold and that's pathet
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I have two problems with analysis like this. First it ignores how early we are in the game. To use the PC Operating System comparison we’re still in the period where people thought OS/2 and DesqView were viable competitors. Yes Apple and
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As crazy as it sounds I’d actually like to make the case for a lack of civility. Civility is an artificial construct designed to preserve personal relationships. You want to say ‘X’ but instead you say ‘Y’ because your relationship with th
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Google has never taken a hard line against Flash. In fact they've used it in a few Google products (Google Finance's charts are Flash for example). So I don't see why they wouldn't use Flash's superior media support for this.

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