blueboo

47 ms·

511.
by blueboo 8y ago
Well, let's challenge ourselves: what is the best designed (digital) interface with the deepest usability? Or some outstanding interfaces that square that circle? I'm familiar with 3d software suites, and they're (mostly) al
512.
by blueboo 8y ago
Mr. Gotcha claims another victim [ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha ]
513.
by blueboo 8y ago
Google: how to short ipo
514.
by blueboo 8y ago
why on earth would we need to sign up to play with this? Oh for the high res up sell. Meh. Use xyz/abcdef
515.
by blueboo 8y ago
Positive PR hit for Apple vs minor inconvenience for competitor/client...easy decision by Apple.
516.
by blueboo 8y ago
Top tech companies go to great lengths to obscure key technical contributors to projects. Engineers are not property, no. But the information around their value-add is, at the very least, an obscured secret! Therefore it is newsworthy whe
517.
by blueboo 8y ago
before facebook you were 14
518.
by blueboo 8y ago
(most humans can't do this task and survive)
519.
by blueboo 8y ago
They prefer a large format phone. (Compared to the iPhone 3G)
520.
by blueboo 8y ago
Just when you thought the nightmare of viral conspiracy click bait couldn’t get worse...
521.
by blueboo 8y ago
It's like day trading, in that _it's total nonsense._ Reading tea leaves of patterns in charts of 'cup and handle', 'double top', 'flags and pennants' is what your gut tells you. It's astrology
522.
by blueboo 8y ago
along this (similarly weak) reasoning, a transistor is a computer. so the AMD Epic Ryzen contains 19.2B computers. uh oh
523.
by blueboo 8y ago
> The point is that sometimes you really need less people There's another crucial point: that this need is forecastable many (many) months in advance. If people are joining (or continuing to work at) a company with an expectation o
524.
by blueboo 8y ago
I agree, but you have the wrong takeaway. Improbable's knowing, selective omission of the pertinent fact that they'd been in negotiation for over a year shows the true nature of Improbable. I really think Unity went above and beyo
525.
by blueboo 8y ago
Um, it was an ongoing negotiation. It stands to reason that Unity had made it abundantly clear how and why they were in violation many many months ago
526.
by blueboo 8y ago
Unity's statement today certainly adds some context: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/01/10/our-response-to-improba... > More than a year ago, we told Improbable in person that they were in violation of
527.
by blueboo 8y ago
i for one am furious about someone's news agenda and not about how Bing, a top-tier product featured on billions of computer supported by the best engineers at Microsoft, serves child pornography
528.
by blueboo 8y ago
this is no defense of abruptly changing their license, but i feel a game engine vendor controlling licensing of headless servers of their runtime is an insufficient reason to forego the 1,000s of hours that go into engine development
529.
by blueboo 8y ago
It's more vague without it. After all, you can distribute the runtime to customers. You can run the editor as a developer. How many license-seats should you purchase to run a headless server? How many customers are being licensed to
530.
by blueboo 8y ago
> UI experiments like this show that what a lot of pro users want for iOS on the iPad is for it to become a Mac. So wrong! Down is up! Freedom is slavery! UI experiments like this show that -developers who make UI experiments like this
531.
by blueboo 8y ago
Silly generalizations borne of ignorance. > Anything since the 70s and rise of smooth jazz is just rehashed mockery ...oh dear... > someone perform Giant Steps note-for-note, or do a perfect Ella Fitzgerald dunno who's doing the
532.
by blueboo 8y ago
The effect is of the same order of magnitude as that which American students who study in China experience. It stands to reason that us Americans would be impressed and influenced by seeing such a economic success story up close, right?...
533.
by blueboo 8y ago
I agree with your principals, but I think that since people aren't spending political capital to change it, we're giving tacit approval -- however begrudging, however wrong-in-our-heart-of-hearts-we-think-it-is
534.
by blueboo 8y ago
If we as a society are OK with qualified law enforcement looking the other way, then we're OK with passing the buck to the unqualified. Yes, it's a "rabbit hole [we're] not sure we're prepared to go down". We&
535.
by blueboo 8y ago
Oh dear. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
536.
by blueboo 8y ago
Quite. Skilled engineers are making the right decisions 90%, 95% of the time when it comes to these soft-skills of design and architecture. But it's that 5% error-rate that builds the technical debt that the project inevitably has to
537.
by blueboo 8y ago
the loss of...being exposed for deceiving its shareholders the level of damage done shall not be diminished, folks
538.
by blueboo 8y ago
so for starters it's some unquantifiable handwavey opportunity cost
539.
by blueboo 8y ago
Even non-antisocial dynamics lead to organizational dysfunction. Looking out for your friends, preferring to associate with people like yourself, and being rewarded for loyalty are all natural dynamics in human relationships, but are often
540.
by blueboo 8y ago
Why does there need to be something more? Do you trust Bloomberg the same amount you did bebfore the story was published? Are you buying just as many Businessweeks as before? Are you sure it isn't Bloomberg who was misled? Is that m

More ›