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2041.
by alanh 17y ago
While I still think it was a low blow to personally name the employee who lost the phone, at least Giz is doing the right thing by returning the phone. Obviously Apple would have wanted this to stay quiet, but there is no law (or even big e
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by alanh 17y ago
As soon as Google stops caring so much about Android marketshare -- and they will get bored, or will lose against Apple, or start dominating -- as soon as that happens, developers' helpful "personal contacts" will disappear. Ask any Adwor
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by alanh 17y ago
It doesn't feel controlled to me. It makes both Apple and the news organization look bad (bad at keeping secrets and unethical, respectively).
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by alanh 17y ago
98% is surprisingly high (though of all the OSS projects I've used, forked, etc., I can think of exactly no women contributors). Here's a source: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/maurer_and_scotchmer_os... [PDF, p. 13]
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by alanh 17y ago
> At Stanford, female graduate students in computer science are encouraging freshman women through a group called Women in Computer Science. We have a Women in Computer Science club here at Arizona State. The current president is a man
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by alanh 17y ago
Oops, we're all spambots now: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=91
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by alanh 17y ago
Damn, the original comment was deleted. One minute while I retrieve it from LibCong…
2048.
by alanh 17y ago
I am using it primarily to shorten links back to http://alanhogan.com , and since I run both domains, I intend to keep both of them running as long as possible -- and when one goes down, the other becomes pretty much useless. But yes, I ag
2049.
by alanh 17y ago
Technically inaccurate, if you were to start today. Only the last 3,200 tweets of a particular user are discoverable without special access. And that assumes you have a list of all the users.
2050.
by alanh 17y ago
Turns out a lot of Tehran-based Twitters are really from elsewhere, such as the U.S. (remember that?).
2051.
by alanh 17y ago
Can we report shorteners? For example, I host a private-use one at http://ajh.us that's powered by my project http://lessnmore.net
2052.
by alanh 17y ago
As dfranke says, "private APIs" are CocoaTouch/NS_* objects and methods Apple uses that you aren't allowed to (yet). This article is factually false and should be downmodded.
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by alanh 17y ago
I hate to get into a flamewar but 90% of the themes they are so proud of break basic usability guidelines: Too distracting, not enough contrast between read and unread items, ignoring color theory for the meaning of colors used in the inter
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by alanh 17y ago
Not an "opposite" so much as another way of thinking about Fitts', but this is definitely important when designing interfaces.
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Everything you need to know about rel="shortlink"(ajh.us)
1 points by alanh 17y ago|0 comments
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Iceland & its Freedom of Information Act(immi.is)
2 points by alanh 17y ago|0 comments
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by alanh 17y ago
That's a cool feature, though the UI is such that I would have never guessed that if you never told me. Using visual hierarchies would solve this design problem.
2058.
by alanh 17y ago
I hope you're right. Still, a lot of my complaints would need to be addressed with significant changes to the service (changing how we are notified of replies & mentions, de-coupling Reader & Buzz and perhaps Gmail & Buzz, unclu
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by alanh 17y ago
This is absolutely true. I have been bitten by their arrogance and poor customer service as a Google Checkout client in the past (they revoked our account without warning -- it was a legally-licensed private school fundraising car raff
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by alanh 17y ago
> …melodramatic pronunciations of Buzz's death By "already dead," what I really meant was "Buzz is doomed from a user experience point of view," not "Buzz is already a ghost town." (And as cabalamat guesses, there is probably some wishf
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The Anti-Competitive Google(alanhogan.com)
3 points by alanh 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Buzz is Already Dead(alanhogan.com)
25 points by alanh 17y ago|14 comments