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by bicknergseng 15y ago
While Larry Smith isn't necessarily the best presenter, I think this article misses or doesn't address any of the points he makes on a good vs. great job in the first few minutes of his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_yo
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
I don't know that your first point is necessarily the case, though. I would argue that Metro works well on both small screen touch interfaces and larger screen point and click interfaces. The Metro buttons or boxes or whatever are actuall
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
I think people just hate the idea of change. Look at the Facebook UI redesigns. Every time they do a major change, people freak out and scream bloody murder for about 3 or 4 days, even if the new design is better than the old. Something s
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Cool. Hopefully more will follow and mobile devices will become content producers rather than just content consumers.
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Or one of those ab exercisers from a TV infomercial.
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Also, where are you making 300k a year as a "software dev" that you're bored? That's like lead scientist status.
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
It's been made hard for you because you're making so much money. It's an easy call for me because I don't make nearly as much as you... the whole "tax breaks for job investors" arguments. If you're unhappy, confident in yourself, and have
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Wow is it really necessary to down vote this? It was a pretty relevant comment on the thread. I know it was flippant, but don't be so serious.
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
I wonder to what extent the law of unintended consequences will show its ugly head here. While it is cool that literally everyone and their moms can start a new business or make apps or something like that, I bet it contributes to the boom
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Those charts make it look like over 50% of CEOs have engineering degrees. They're missing liberal arts and science degrees. Still, cool to see how a degree in engineering hardly limits you to the trenches.
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Corporation are people?
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
"You're much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession." Exactly. So many students and young people see programming as an end, rather than a means. They might take a class in Java or Python or somethign, hoping to
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Yah my first reaction after reading his post was hmm... watch me make a WordPress blog in 30 seconds. There are so many tools and templates and bootstraps out there to create a website in 10 minutes. The title definitely should have been
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
The introduction to <i>Thinking, Fast and Slow</i> by Daniel Khaneman immediately made me think of security theater. He starts by discussing how humans are generally rational, but intense emotions of fear, anger, etc. often
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
I might be being naive since he seems to be rather bravado about splitting the money with everyone, but I like to think Notch is doing the absolute best thing for Mojang and probably for himself in the end. I personally would love to work
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
Amazing how this thread took over the whole first page of results from that search. There's a few things that are interesting about this whole thing though. First, that HN's users are this good. Many other communities across the web eventu
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
VPN, email, AES... really everything on the internet. While it is amazing and revolutionary, concern and awe are not mutually exclusive. Kinda weird you wouldn't be concerned that within 10-15 years all internet banking as it exists today
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
What's amazing to me is that these cables were laid without a lot of fanfare. Seems to me if I were Level1 or whoever else and had just completed a 10,000 km cable across an ocean, I'd make sure the press release saw some circulation. The
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
I agree. Maybe I'm missing the point, but I loathe default stylings. Ugly grey buttons and annoying blue html links normalized across browsers are still ugly grey buttons and annoying blue html links.
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by bicknergseng 15y ago
TV might be broken, but the inability of a child to focus on something for more than a few minutes at a time isn't the best evidence. It definitely brings up some interesting things to think about, though. First, while the attention span o