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721.
by andreyf 16y ago
Why not just join a local writing group and ask them to try out your site?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Not incorrect, just incomplete. The incompleteness might actually be a misreading of the book. If I remember right (it's been awhile since I read it), Gladwell mentioned this explicitly, just not as a major point the kind of which he drills
723.
by andreyf 16y ago
Sounds awesome. Looking forward to the upgrades. [If you're planning on a web-based version of shoes and want feedback, I'd love to help however I can. My e-mail is in my profile.]
724.
by andreyf 16y ago
Sweet! Steve: will we see a major rewrite of Hackety Hack now that you have all day to think about it?
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'd rather not get into a discussion of what "privacy" means, but Twitter (and Facebook) are almost certainly violating most of their users' perceptions of what Twitter does with their tweets. That said, if they anonymize the tweets and hol
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by andreyf 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, I fall squarely on the side that Ruby's power is well worth it's danger. Would you hold the same view if you were tech lead of a team of a dozen engineers who've never worked together and loved monkey patching? You can
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by andreyf 16y ago
I don't think I made my point really clearly: what I was saying is that the web as a platform needs to take whatever are the best tools, API's, and patterns that exist in webOS/Android/iOS, of course. It's the fragmentation of those well de
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by andreyf 16y ago
What is it that any of these stores offer that the browser doesn't? Could we (as an industry) focus on fixing those things, so that we can have an open standard to develop apps across all devices, but at the same time take full advantage of
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by andreyf 16y ago
Any advice on how to find clients? Launch your own app, they'll find you ;)
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by andreyf 16y ago
Let's not be too eager to accept the "tradeoff metaphor". Just because something is powerful doesn't mean it can't be safe. I just got a handheld vacuum that has no safety mechanisms: no latches to disable the power button when it's folded
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by andreyf 16y ago
A little rude, isn't that? There's different fundamental metaphors: XML is a way of representing a tree with labeled nodes, and also a markup format; JSON is the representation of arrays, simple maps, and basic types in unicode. Each has it
732.
by andreyf 16y ago
Yes, for at least one definition of magical: beautiful or delightful in such a way as to seem removed from everyday life.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Is anyone else infuriated by the use of vague words like "genius" without a good metric to measure it?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Facebook's doing well now, but it would not be shocking if fewer people used it in 5 years. Why wouldn't it be shocking? They've shown that they can ship and see through to maturity several revolutionary products. Stop thinking in the abs
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by andreyf 16y ago
The people running Facebook clearly know their ass from their face a little better than those running MySpace.
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by andreyf 16y ago
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/features/retina-display.html
737.
by andreyf 16y ago
Uh, the iPad costs a lot more to build than $264.27: do the math on their earnings reports: Apple is hardly making any profit off of them. And the iPad has a screen 4x the size of the Galaxy S. You just can't compare the two...
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by andreyf 16y ago
Agreed. I can also open/close tabs a lot faster in Chrome than in Firefox...
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by andreyf 16y ago
That should be a feature list of stuff you don't have to do on a proper developer platform.
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'm the opposite. If I facebook friended someone, I've most likely met them in person, and hence providing my virtual contact is quite all right. Facebook, in a way, is the place you say things to people you're likely to meet face-to-face.
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by andreyf 16y ago
There's a lot of true in that and the response to the iPad can be construed as a collective aversion to risk by all the people involved. Except Apple ;)
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'm actually really curious about this device... did you order it straight off their site?
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by andreyf 16y ago
A theory: Archos has obviously created prototypes to send to the press, but it doesn't look like they're pulling off mass manufacturing at the advertise prices just yet (except the Archos 5, which has a resistive screen). Could it be that t
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by andreyf 16y ago
He's talking about cost of actually building the device. A big part of the iPhone's consumer price ($700 for 32gig) is markup, as he points out in comparing it to the price of the iPod touch, which is $300 for a comprable model. In other wo
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by andreyf 16y ago
Oh, cool! Big misconception on my part, thanks for clearing it up :)
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by andreyf 16y ago
Ah, but if I remember correctly, the terms of that OAuth usage explicitly state that while data may be accessed and used , it can't be stored indefinitely (with good reason, sometimes I don't want some app toy to indefinitely store all t
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by andreyf 16y ago
The article points this out explicitly: that we used to do these kinds of launches as a sign of military power against the Soviets. What are we trying to show China, that our submarine ICMB launchers haven't yet rusted into oblivion?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Not sure if this is the right answer, but a guess: it's easy for other web services to access this stored data if the user provides them with their Facebook login and password, which no self-respecting service would ever ask for. Even if Go
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by andreyf 16y ago
Uh, exporting your address book from Google and uploading it to Facebook is perfectly within any user's rights - it's a textbook example of data liberation. Now if only I could export my facebook pictures and easily import them into Picasa,
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by andreyf 16y ago
Well, both have enough documentation that you can learn them without the need for a formal curriculum, and both are certainly worth learning - the .net VM is among the best of its kinds. Since a lot of VB.net documentation is in the form of

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