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by adamlett 10y ago
I think you are talking past each other because you are not talking about the same party when asserting whether there is or isn't a problem. It's true that the investors don't have a problem if Dropbox fails to live up to its
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Alexsey’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures(medium.com)
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There is no question that Daniel Negreanu is a very good tournament player, possibly one of the best. I don't think there is any evidence that he is anywhere near the top when it comes to cash games of any popular variety. And while ba
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by adamlett 10y ago
Apple didn't just introduce a new iPad coming in to this quarter like they did last year.
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by adamlett 10y ago
I'm not qualified to give a comprehensive answer, but I would have to imagine that it partly has to do with the fact that poker is a game of partial information. In Go or Chess the current state of the game is known. In poker, you don&
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by adamlett 10y ago
Conversely, not many of the celebrity players have had much success playing online. Ivey did have some good years but even he has been struggling for the past few years. Almost all pros who have had success both online and live agree that l
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by adamlett 10y ago
But how do you know you have a great product before you ship? Until you have paying customers, you don't have a real feedback loop. If you need customer feedback in order for you to know what to build, what business do you have build
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by adamlett 10y ago
Anyone , huh?
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by adamlett 10y ago
That's not how the law sees it.
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by adamlett 10y ago
Copyright is about the right to produce copies, not to sell them. The newspaper stand doesn't produce the copies it sells.
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by adamlett 10y ago
The underlying premise of what you write, seems to be that money is the only yardstick that matters. That is why you patronisingly write that there is a very long line of people between Mark Zuckerberg and DHH who are "winning at life
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by adamlett 10y ago
It's a pleasure to see DHH pat himself on the back each time his stopped clock overlaps with the hour. I don't get this metaphor. How is DHH's clock stopped? As far as I know, he has a very successful business, while leadin
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by adamlett 10y ago
Please. Apple not catering to power users is not in any significant way what ails Apple today. And Apple catering to what you describe as the lowest common denominator is what made them the largest company in the world. If that is a sickn
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by adamlett 10y ago
Apple is a company that is following the process they learned when Steve ran the show, without any clear understanding of why that process exists Apple created Apple University years before Steve died, to understand clearly why they bec
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by adamlett 10y ago
So, there are some benefits if you already have other devices that use USB-C. Most people don't however. Not yet. What people do have, is tons of crap that is Lighting compatible.
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by adamlett 10y ago
Sure, but having already invested goodwill and money in Lighting, the benefits of switching to USB-C would have to be substantial before it makes sense for Apple to do so. To reality is that for most of Apple's users, USB-C offers no d
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by adamlett 10y ago
Only if you define it so broadly as to strip almost all meaning from the term. What about manageability , i.e. can a user fit a mental model of the system in their head, or is it too complex to do that? What about the related concepts of
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by adamlett 10y ago
Discoverability is not the be-all end-all of UI design. In most ways iOS is a huge step forward in UI design as evidenced by the legions of toddlers who can figure out how to use an iPad.
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by adamlett 10y ago
I feel that all of them, apple, google, facebook, amazon, they all disregard our privacy. You feel that?
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by adamlett 10y ago
USB-C didn’t exist when the Lightning connector was introduced.
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by adamlett 10y ago
They do it by caring. And the reason they care is because it reflects poorly on the entire platform when one gluttonous app drains the battery. Other browser vendors couldn't care less about how their app makes the platform look, espec
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by adamlett 10y ago
I remember reading on Slashdot at the time that iPod users -- betrayed by the signature white earphones -- were getting mugged, and that this was evidence that the iPod was seen as a status symbol by people far outside the tech bubble. If
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by adamlett 10y ago
Is it so strange? No, not strange. Simply not true. Actually the iPod, when it was first released, was not a mass-market product Who cares what kind of product the iPod "actually" was, when it was first launched? The point is
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Significance Arithmetic(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by adamlett 10y ago|0 comments
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Oh, but it was! As far back as I have followed this stuff, every new hardware category Apple has introduced, has been met with ridicule and dismissal from the experts. Every time the same: It does nothing new. It's underpowered. It&#x2
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by adamlett 10y ago
Pro users are a more diverse group than just app developers. My impression is that app developers are not the ones who feel poorly served by Apple's current hardware lineup[1]. Which is not to say that app developers don't have ot
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by adamlett 10y ago
If you believe pro users have that kind of clout, you are delusional. The iPod most certainly didn't succeed because it was endorsed by pro users, nor did the iPhone. In fact the reaction from the pro market to those products when they
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by adamlett 10y ago
We are using the same words to mean different things. When I say accessible , I mean approachable and usable , whereas you seem to mean affordable . When I say the masses , I mean in contrast to the elite , whereas you mean the over
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by adamlett 10y ago
The world is not divided into rich tech elites who can afford the best, and uneducated, poor people whose only hope to join the tech revolution is buying the cheapest of the cheap. There is a huge segment in between. It's true that Mac
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by adamlett 10y ago
It was not the pro users who made Apple rich. It was the consumers buying iPods, and later iPhones. Pro users are at the same time extremely demanding and extremely conservative. Apple has never done much to cater to that market, and the fa

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