adriand

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by adriand 15y ago
A lot of web apps - both the established players and the startups - seem to be in a "sort of, but not really" state. I'm pulling this from a column by Thomas Friedman about Russia ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/friedma
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by adriand 15y ago
I was tempted to mock your comment, but instead, out of a general wish for you to be happy even though I don't know you, I would really recommend that you expand the size of your study group. I'm sure if you think about it you can find some
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by adriand 15y ago
> With smart GPS integration into your phones it becomes realistic to have houses that react silently to it's various inhabitants patterns and blend those needs with the energy grids demand levels; now this is a valuable proposition. Th
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by adriand 15y ago
The problem that Apple is experiencing is the exposure of the tension between its marketing and its image, and reality. The author of the article says, "That’s what being poor means, having to work extremely hard to make very little. Yes, t
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by adriand 15y ago
A colleague described Twitter as "marketing people yelling at other marketing people". I see his point, but I find that in my local community, Twitter serves a purpose. There are frequent conversations between local individuals interested
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by adriand 15y ago
It'd kind of be interesting to introduce a device like this to a team environment. Say, five developers on a box. Any one of them has the ability to go nuclear at any time, and it affects all five. Don't want anyone to go nuclear? Every
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by adriand 15y ago
The comparison to Apple makes no sense. The article shouldn't be "Why Samsung Is The Next Apple", it should be, "Why Samsung Is Positioned To Be Successful". For example: * it says that Samsung controls a lot of appliances in the home. T
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by adriand 15y ago
I wonder how much better the startup scene would be if 'get rich quick' was supplanted by 'create something of value that generates a good standard of living'.
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by adriand 15y ago
You're absolutely correct, and this is by no means the first time that a word has been coined as the result of people being upset with a politician. The word 'quisling' means "A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their
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by adriand 15y ago
I can't suggest any others - I've never tried any. Thanks for doing the benchmarking, though - that's fast!
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by adriand 15y ago
This was interesting and caused me to go off on a neat little tangent too. I was curious about the VALUE declaration in: struct RString { long len; char *ptr; VALUE shared; }; From the Hacker Guide referenced,
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by adriand 15y ago
So, is it super fast?
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by adriand 15y ago
It's interesting because the best company-related Twitter accounts are the ones that are transparently owned by people who voice their own opinions. The ones that are wholly corporate, where you don't know the name of the person (or people
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by adriand 15y ago
Also a Ruby programmer, and I'm currently on lecture 5 and assignment 2 of the Stanford course, and I'm finding it very good. I've dabbled here and there with various Obj-C tutorials, but this course takes you from knowing nothing about Ob
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by adriand 15y ago
Please provide more details on how you accomplished this, it sounds interesting.
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by adriand 15y ago
That's actually an interesting anecdote, because it demonstrates a willingness to admit when he was wrong, something that is often uncommon among so-called "great thinkers" - especially when they're engaging with a member of the "ordinary p
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by adriand 15y ago
Are you capable of realizing that your comment is unhelpful and does nothing to advance the conversation?
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Kyan - Quite possibly the best-designed design agency website I've seen(kyan.com)
3 points by adriand 15y ago|2 comments
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by adriand 15y ago
That sums up my experience with cakePHP too. I don't know what's happened with this framework in the last couple of years, but when I was first learning Rails and enjoying it, I used cakePHP for a big project because I knew PHP well, and d
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by adriand 15y ago
Yeah, but if a client wants something custom you're stuck either modifying an existing plugin, or creating a new one, and creating Wordpress plugins is a godawful mess.
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Poorly Designed, Broken Websites Are Costing Canadian Corporations Millions(factore.ca)
39 points by adriand 15y ago|27 comments
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by adriand 15y ago
And actually, Apple borrowed the swipe-from-bezel functionality for iOS 5. You swipe down from the bezel to get to the notification center on the iPhone, for example.
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by adriand 15y ago
I love this line: "Now a museum of cold war is organized in the bunker where one can try on respirators, protective gear, hold different guns, etc." You know, the usual sort of museum experience. As interesting as this is, it's also tragic
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by adriand 15y ago
Interesting, because I would bet that there will be a serious web app contender in the CAD sphere at some point. I'm not so sure the OP is off the mark here.
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by adriand 15y ago
I think that there's no question you have to do some things right to succeed, but many people do things right and fail, because ultimately, a lot of it is just pure luck.
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by adriand 15y ago
I'd love to see the breakdown between iPhone vs. Android by age group. Another interesting statistic would be the number of people who have smartphones that use them as smartphones (instead of just as a phone), and how that breaks down betw
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by adriand 15y ago
I don't really find that it's that bad of an app. It's not the most amazing app ever, but if you're a Gmail user, my initial impression on the iPhone 4S is that it's slicker and faster than the web version of Gmail (not a big bar to clear,
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Enjoy The Present Golden Age(raisethehammer.org)
7 points by adriand 15y ago|1 comments
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by adriand 15y ago
Sometimes I agree with you, but on the other hand, you have to recognize how lucky you are. There is no guarantee that the future will be better than the present, and there are many plausible risks that it could be much worse. For example
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by adriand 15y ago
True, but the same applied to Divvyshot - I still had those photos on my hard drive. In any case, you guys have done a super job and I'm going to just trust you that you're not in for the short haul. ;)

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