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by atacrawl 15y ago
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. It's really refreshing
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I think it's been pretty clear for several months that Amazon is in the best position to take on the iPad with a tablet of its own. It's the only company that can rival Apple in the media distribution market, and it has tremendous momentum
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Given the timing on this, I can't see it as anything but an attempt to distract from the fiasco currently going on with Facebook hiring a PR firm to smear Google. I highly doubt that. The two groups responsible for each probably aren't aw
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Works pretty well in Safari 5, but it's a little laggy even on my rocket ship (2x3GHz QC Xeon Mac Pro, 9 GB RAM).
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I was hired at my current job because my boss found me on Sortfolio. As far as freelance work goes, the best I've had is one near-miss.
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A "Rube Goldberg theory of regulation": Net neutrality hearing gets testy(arstechnica.com)
3 points by atacrawl 15y ago|1 comments
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Second, the letter points out that the four leading Web browsers—Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome—already offer various means of preventing advertising companies from tracking users. Perhaps I'm wrong, and please corr
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by atacrawl 15y ago
You're right. In fact, the number one lesson I've learned designing websites is that any time you're sure that users will understand what you mean, they absolutely will not. That's the one tip from this article that I completely disagre
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by atacrawl 15y ago
So let me get this straight -- Sortfolio pulls in $17-20k per month of (relatively) easy revenue, and they want to sell it? That tells me they must be making an absolute killing from their other products. EDIT: And I'd be remiss if I didn
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I'm considering trying this with the MacBook I bought a few months ago (to upgrade back to the 15" MBP that I miss), but to be honest, I've heard so many horror stories about trying to sell computers on Craigslist and eBay that I'm a little
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I'll echo what astrodust wrote and say that my first reaction was "this keyboard is too flat" and I didn't enjoy typing on it, but now I think it might be the best keyboard I've ever owned.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I think the headline is about four words too long.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I guess I sort of see his point, but isn't he overstating things? Take Facebook out of the equation, and it's still incredibly easy for intelligence agencies to find out everything about you. They can still tap your phones, do surveillance,
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Seems to me that iTunes captured the market because of the amazing integration with music devices and not the price point. Completely agree with this, but I would two more factors -- a relevant selection from the outset, and the reliabili
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Don't be afraid to charge people money for your service! Your free plan is way too generous. Personally, I would replace the free plan with a working demo, so people can kick the tires. But definitely lower the free plan to one design. I th
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How the iPhone knows where you are(macworld.com)
2 points by atacrawl 15y ago|0 comments
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by atacrawl 15y ago
There was a story going around a couple of years ago about how easy it was to tell Facebook that someone had died, sending their profile into limbo (sorry for the bad pun, but it's the best description I can come up with) that was very diff
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by atacrawl 15y ago
they sift through all of that crap to find the few good stories Any market selling anything operates in the same exact way -- producers filter out the bad to find the good that they want to sell, and consumers filter further from there.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I tend to agree with 37Signals on this -- they basically say that the name of your product matters a lot more than that product's domain name, so long as you get a domain that's "close enough." If you think about it, that makes a lot of sen
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by atacrawl 15y ago
The sad part of this is that it won't matter in the least. If frequent outages don't keep people away, this certainly won't.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
My thought too. Either way, they're gaining access to Nicholas Felton's brain -- anyone who can make their daily minutiae as interesting as he does in his annual reports is worth the cost of admission for a company like Facebook.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
It's software, and a music store and an app store. (Plus podcasts and TV shows.) Having a strong brand doesn't mean everyone loves it. It means everyone knows it.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I think you and Kottke are both right. I commented a couple of weeks ago on a thread where I talked about brand equity, and iTunes is a perfect example of this -- it hasn't been solely about music in years, it has a half dozen bolted-on fun
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I'm referring to the result of an election, not the actions of those elected.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Until voting is made mandatory, a "perfect" voting system is a non-starter, because no system could therefore truly reflect the will of the people.
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by atacrawl 15y ago
Which is great, except you are punishing the crime, before it even occurred. This is pretty disingenuous. You really think their assumption that Dropship would quickly turn Dropbox into an illegal file sharing haven is an unrealistic gras
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I don't see why that would make any difference. It certainly won't make HarperCollins back down from their stance. EDIT: Well, that might not be true about HC. But libraries would hit their limit a hell of a lot faster with Kindle users add
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by atacrawl 15y ago
This is huge for Amazon, because it eliminates the one competitive advantage the Nook (and others to a lesser extent) had over the Kindle -- compatibility with libraries. As far as the potential for format fragmentation goes, it's still t
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by atacrawl 15y ago
I see someone has never waited tables. In most restaurants, the busboys and dishwashers get a cut of the waiters' tips every night. Some restaurants extend that to the hostesses. Plus, waiters' hourly base pay is really low. And you have to
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by atacrawl 15y ago
With an unemployment rate of just 4% among tech professionals, and shortages in specific fields, flexibility shouldn't be a last resort. I would have guessed that tech unemployment would be lower than the national average, but 4% is real

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