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by alabut 18y ago
I never really got into last.fm because Pandora is so good. I just recently started using Pandora again after a long break and it's even better than when I first started using it - I used to have thumbs down individual songs all the time to
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by alabut 18y ago
Does that really go through a consumer's head at the point of purchase? Seems more likely that they'd think things like "ugh, not another site where I have to enter my credit card info - I wonder how trustworthy they are?" or if they're usi
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by alabut 18y ago
Yes, that's definitely a big part of it - the fact that the same company can both provide a loan and then insure that same loan creates an ethical conflict of interest that calls into question their ability to objectively quantify risk, as
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by alabut 18y ago
Holy crap - this is the most succinct explanation I've seen of the economic crisis: "The opponents of the measure gloomily predicted that by unshackling banks and enabling them to move more freely into new kinds of financial activities, th
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by alabut 18y ago
Made me think of the giant retrospective Vanity Fair article on David Foster Wallace, his next unfinished book was about IRS workers reaching transcendence through boredom: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_...
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by alabut 18y ago
What does "professional" mean in this context - matching the design of the shopping cart pages to the rest of the site? Some of those are better than others at doing that - my understanding is that Paypal is the easiest to skin and customiz
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by alabut 18y ago
> A real shame. Google is losing some major talent - which appears to have only been squandered over the last three years. And Doug Bowman's not the only one - Jeff Veen left recently too, who headed up their UX group after Google acq
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by alabut 18y ago
I used to use multiple laptops and control them from a single keyboard using Synergy. It's not exactly what you're looking for (can't drag documents between windows) but it goes a long way, like being able to offload all the administrative
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by alabut 18y ago
I see, so you like the idea of iteration on the policies that govern people, more than having specific freedoms. Makes sense, I wish we could open source bills for Congressional review, for example. It's funny you should mention Holland - I
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by alabut 18y ago
But you're going to have to have laws and taxes of some sort to keep the mini-society going - how do you know they'll be ones you don't object to? There's plenty of countries around the world without the same laws as the u.s. and I don't se
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by alabut 18y ago
Why would you be interested in living in a Waterworld city? No seriously, what's the draw? I'd feel pretty damn cooped up and imagine that it'd be like living on a houseboat in the middle of nowhere.
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by alabut 18y ago
Wow, I've never seen YC fund a direct clone before. I'm not saying that's the case, it just really looks like it to a layperson. Foodoro looks very similar to Foodzie, just better executed (widgets, more shipping options, less cluttered d
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by alabut 18y ago
I've been loving this guy's fonts for about a year or two now, he gets featured regularly in smashingmagazine and it's totally deserved. For something with a bit more personality (which means you can't use it on every project) check out h
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by alabut 18y ago
There's a lot of tinyurl clones that basically do the same job, only focusing on providing redirects for long urls, but one that does more and that I've liked a lot recently is http://tr.im - it got me to switch after years of using tinyu
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by alabut 18y ago
Nice! I am a web designer and even though I'll stick to using Fireworks (I'd rather create the entire layout than use a collection of dedicated tools) I can still appreciate that this attempts to solve a pain-in-the-ass issue for programm
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by alabut 18y ago
Yeah, absolutely, and I thought the same thing when listening to Bruce Sterling's SXSW talk. I don't know the technical name for it - it's the professorial thing where the speaker lowers the tone of the voice at the end of the sentence (lik
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by alabut 18y ago
No offense taken and upvoted. I think the article oversimplifies things to a degree, so it's also a reflection of the author's viewpoint and in that sense almost comes across as rationalization. But that doesn't mean the points aren't corre
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by alabut 18y ago
Why deal with the tv set? My even cheaper setup: live in a tiny apt where the home office is in the living room and just rotate the monitor towards the couch when you want to watch stuff online. Works especially well with an apple remote.
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by alabut 18y ago
I think the reason that people today don't care about validation is that perfectly valid code can render differently in the three different rendering engines. This is exactly true and the reason is that web standards aren't real standards
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by alabut 18y ago
Link to the original article being summarized and discussed in this blog post: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/02/03/dont-try-to-dodge-t... And the overall bullet points: 1. Grad school pointlessly delays adulthood. 2. PhD programs ar
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by alabut 18y ago
Try asking Mr 10 Seconds if creating an account got in his way.
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by alabut 18y ago
That's a great tip, I've probably gone as far as I can go organization-wise with the browser and w/o using a dedicated twitter client. The problem with tweetdeck and twhirl and whatever else is that it turns twitter into IM, something const
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by alabut 18y ago
Honestly, I think it's a design issue. Interaction design, not visual design (the site's very pretty) because the answer to your question is right there on the home page, it's just nowhere near prominent enough to grab your attention in the
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by alabut 18y ago
The new Facebook homepage layout is similar to a change Twitter made last year as well - moving the filters from horizontal tabs above the feed to a vertical one running next to it. It's a bit more obvious when you look at the current and u
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by alabut 18y ago
Sweet! I got a mini back in Nov when I went freelance and I've been thinking of getting another, because they're so cheap that you can have a second just as a backup. This pushes me over the fence into actually getting one, can't wait.
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by alabut 18y ago
Me too - I'm building a presentation on Agile Design (designers integrating into agile groups) and could use more research into other people's setups. My contact info: http://alabut.com/contact.html I've worked with scrum, agile and xp gr
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by alabut 18y ago
So wait, the mini can do a dual display setup or does it just have two display ports ?
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by alabut 18y ago
I actually like B a lot more, and not for the reasons you cite. It's not that it's more "professional", whatever that means, but that it's shorter and more to the point. The A version is riddled with apologies and "but this" and "but that",
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by alabut 18y ago
Oh wow, Stylish rocks, way easier to use than Greasemonkey (for someone that knows CSS at least). Thanks for the tip, I just stripped out ads and the right column of the nytimes.
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by alabut 18y ago
That's a great use of crowdsourcing for your editing. I wonder how that could work in a more automated and scalable way. I'm thinking something similar to Etherpad, but with feedback rather than actual edits, like if people could leave comm

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