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by alxp 16y ago
This speech was posted to MetaFilter a few years ago and generated a much deeper discussoin than it seems to here. http://www.metafilter.com/64034/The-Waw-effect Definitely worth reading some less glowing discussion about the talk.
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by alxp 16y ago
Recent history says that's unlikey
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by alxp 16y ago
Rooting most Android phones and jailbreaking an iPhone are about the same level of technical difficulty as far as a consumer is concerned.
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by alxp 16y ago
That's why I'm mostly fine with iOS being proprietary to Apple. Anyone reselling it would just make it worse by changing it.
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by alxp 16y ago
Yeah the US and Canadian phone carriers are stuck in the stone age and want to stay there.
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by alxp 16y ago
People put up with Twitter and Foursqure updates because you choose whom to follow. Facebook relationships are reciprocal so I'll get flooded with Facebook places updates from my aunts going to church even though I'd never actively choose t
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by alxp 16y ago
It sounds like they are happy with the results they get but they're aware that it takes a lot of work; you can't just promote someone and expect them to know what they're doing right away. That they gave up on hiring people they don't know
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by alxp 16y ago
Think different(ly).
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by alxp 16y ago
It takes a lot longer to become a truly proficient hacker than most 'business' people of an equivalent age have had doing 'business stuff'. So the ground is less for hackers to make up when learning and gaining business experience than vic
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by alxp 16y ago
And thank the Lord for that. Joel has mentioned on his podcast that high school kids are remarkably adept at finding places on the web that they can use as makeshift IM replacements that the school hasn't found and blocked yet. This way t
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by alxp 16y ago
This article is libertarian bullshit. "The market" doesn't solve problems that aren't profitable. Apple have been stellar at creating accessible devices and software for a long time and it's wonderful that they include these features for fr
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by alxp 16y ago
> We just happen to be in a time where there's still value in being able to manually translate 'what I want' into 'what computer understands'. Developers have the ability to think clearly and actually create a working system that follow
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by alxp 16y ago
>Gruber thinks competing with the iPhone is "a dick move"? That seems an odd opinion, yet boldly stated as if it was normal. Well they entered the phone business licensing their software for zero dollars. It's a fairly common thing tha
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by alxp 16y ago
If the end result of you getting angry is that you end up building a better product (iAds), well, then you're Steve Jobs and it's what makes you different from most other people.
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by alxp 16y ago
"It's the world's newest profession"
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by alxp 16y ago
All else is most definitely not equal, but you know this.
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by alxp 16y ago
Henry Ford paying his workers enough to buy his own products transformed an entire nation. Foxcon and Apple's profits are big enough that they could actively try and raise the standard of living of their own employees instead of joining the
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by alxp 16y ago
Meet Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
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by alxp 16y ago
Ugh this guy has developed a very selective reading of the thread in question and refusing to accept things told to him by the people actually involved because they couldn't "prove" what they were saying. At this point for this version of
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by alxp 16y ago
I think the open source projects just have more people who would take notice and revert the vandalism of the filthy deletionists.
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by alxp 16y ago
I think it's reproducible if someone building a web community wants to have a similar level of user community - but it requres doing the two things that typical web startups won't do - have paid, full-time moderators who are in the top tier
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by alxp 16y ago
On my last trip my laptop bag contained a laptop, iPhone, iPad (which I had bought to bring back to a co-worker in Canada), Camera, two books, chargers and dongles. It was pretty ridiculous. My roll-abourd bag was also packed like the one
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by alxp 16y ago
"Your engineers are running the aslum." This is always the cliché, but I'm sure it's much more likely that some product manager in charge of "community pages" has their own idea of how things should work and insists that the devs make it wo
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by alxp 17y ago
Also what if Motorola's microphone is sourced from a different supplier and has a different level of noise coming into it and it causes the app to not function, thousands of angry users and Smule's reputation is ruined. Predictability is a
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by alxp 17y ago
If you are interested in how Craigslist works on the technical side you should listen to episode 199 of the Hanselminutes poscast where the host talks at length with one of the main developers at Craigslist. The episode is here: http://ww
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by alxp 17y ago
"designers speak human and developers speak computer." I hate this generalization because it can be used as a blanket dismissal of a developer's opinion.
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by alxp 17y ago
The Remote app is a great way to control iTunes and AppleTV, if they evolve that into a media browser that just tells AppleTV to start playing your content instead of on the screen they've suddenly got the world's greatest media experience.
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by alxp 17y ago
Well if you are Houston and you don't want to end up like Detroit when the cost of owning and operating a personal car becomes out of reach for most people, you'll want to do something to ensure people will still want to live there.
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by alxp 17y ago
Americans aren't as ignorant as you think, everyone has now seen images of sweat shops and knows if you ask them that manufacturing conditions for the things they buy at Wal Mart are awful. However, they continue to buy them, just like an
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by alxp 17y ago
The writer misused the word "actionable" and my eyes rolled back so far in my head I couldn't finish reading it.

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