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by baconner 14y ago
I thought jobs was right to slam the stylus and still is because stylus (at least in my mind) isn't the same thing as a digitizer pen like a wacom. When i hear stylus I think of a tiny plastic pen that exists because interface designers did
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by baconner 14y ago
Better maybe, but when the kill list is secret and the reasons are secret that's not exactly "accountability"
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by baconner 14y ago
I try to assume ignorance over malice which is why I characterized our hypothetical middle-managers as clueless rather than intentionally using misleading data in my prior comment. If the case is that they know the data is incorrect/mislead
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by baconner 14y ago
Even worse IMO.
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by baconner 14y ago
"For Nielsen to spend time and money obsessing over these sort of things woud go largely unappreciated." This would be extremely short sighted thinking. I'm a big beleiver in the art of not doing work that's unnecessary, but the art is in k
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by baconner 14y ago
Not compatible with the n1 either which is pretty rare. I wonder why...
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by baconner 14y ago
No, it should be part of the judicial process like all other evidence gathering law. Judges and lawyers and juries policing police.
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by baconner 14y ago
Its nice to see an article that challenges the bizzare notion that you have to have a gigantic stack of physical devices to develop a quality android app. This very closely mirrors my experience developing for android except of course for t
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by baconner 14y ago
Ha! I don't think its your English that failed, its mine... Now that I agree with. The ui tools are not first class though they're improving slowly. There's a ton of power in there but one hits a lot of speedbumps on the way to building goo
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by baconner 14y ago
"..we’re using MS Paint while we would like to use Photoshop." Ok i feel some of the authors pain on getting complex layouts right, managing lots of different density image resources, etc. But what in android dictates what graphic editing s
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by baconner 14y ago
Has Marco commented on this at all? Dont see anything searching a bit... Given his former comments stating basically that he didn't think it was worth doing this is surprising.
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by baconner 14y ago
Yeah kinda seems that that way doesn't it? I gladly paid for read it later and was surprised when they transitioned to free without any apparent source of income..
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by baconner 14y ago
Does anyone actually find these chord diagrams useful? To me it seems needlessly complex to interpret.
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by baconner 14y ago
Definitely agree on communication of emotion, for instance I'm not offended in the least. :) all I'm saying is its hard for me to take someone's opinions on data stores seriously given that quote.
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by baconner 14y ago
You may well understand what they are and have a well thought out nuanced opinion, but the quote shows none of that. It sounds like an out of hand dismissal of the whole concept of schema which would be pretty ignorant. *edit I misspelled i
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by baconner 14y ago
Seriously, after that line I gave up on reading the rest. There's plenty to be said about schema vs no schema but its pretty ignorant to just dismiss the entire concept out of hand. Guess what - in lots of applications data integrity is mor
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by baconner 14y ago
Seems to me that the current state of the art here is getting a computer to write a couple of paragraphs to describe a data set. While that's a neat trick its not a very valuable one in this context. Congratulations you've replaced the abso
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by baconner 15y ago
Nice minimalism, but friends don't let friends use gauges! http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/bullet.html
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by baconner 15y ago
Seems to me that the lack of a Google blessed tablet has a lot to do with why we're not seeing much in the tablet optimized app front. We need a stable development platform that's going to get updates at a reasonable clip. I don't want to h
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by baconner 15y ago
This is a bit out of scope but I would love to have a similarly crafted version of john snow's classic cholera map.
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by baconner 15y ago
I used enso for a few years because it was lighting fast and the minimalism appealed to me. Ultimately though I switched to launchy for the additional power and also because its not derelict.
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by baconner 15y ago
Fair point, but electronics has been the recent center of it. There's long been an overall fair labor movement no?
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by baconner 15y ago
It's not an anti-apple movement its a fair and humane electronics manufacturing labor movement. Apple is a huge and well known brand so they are natural fit for a story, but its also well known and reported that foxconn and friends are wid
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by baconner 15y ago
Yeah or at least the execs are saying "getting more users is important. How can we improve signups?" instead of "get me a time on signup page metric on report x." A data scientist is like an analyst that doesn't have to go beg the tech guys
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by baconner 15y ago
There's definitly been some ruffed feathers from the BI professionals and data analysts over the "data scientist" title. We like this band before they were popular man! And there's some truth to the criticism that its mainly a rebranding. S
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by baconner 15y ago
Forget fragmentation, lower app spend per user, etc complaints about Google play and android this is the big one. This is the only issue that has seriously given me pause about selling apps on Google Play. If something goes wrong you're stu
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by baconner 15y ago
Your instincts are correct here I think. If you're writing games then I suspect this is pretty accurate. You'd likely have to purchase a lot of test devices and do a lot of tuning to keep up with the hardware. Android vs. iOS game dev strik
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by baconner 15y ago
There are quite a few bi tools that do pretty much what you're describing on the ipad and other mobile devices now. Share a link, pulls up an interactive dashboard for everyone that they can play with and discuss in the meeting. Many also l
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by baconner 15y ago
There are a lot of good business lessons to be learned here but there's a much more important lesson. In business and life in general you will sometimes make big mistakes and/or just plain get screwed over. This is going to hit most people'
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by baconner 15y ago
I completely agree with your reasoning on why weather data is public data. Its actually not an argument about business at all but one of the public interest. To expand on you reasoning a bit I think there is a general test we can apply to a

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