bpatrianakos

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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
The man in the arena. Classic. And fitting with the theme of entrepreneurship too, at least for me. When I started my first company I went to a business after hours event to meet and learn from people who'd done it before. One very bright w
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
You said a lot of what I just posted except shorter and better. One thing I missed that you got and that's worth expanding on is stardom. The stardom breeds a lot of the groupthink and hive mind around here I think. I agree that there's a p
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I can totally relate (though I've had far less balls than you so far). I mostly relate to the the commute but I did post a project about a year ago and though I did see sniping like you speak of the responses i got were actually pretty help
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Improve [iOS] Usability with a Black Status Bar and Rounded Corners (blog.edwardmarks.com)
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
So? He likes the display. So do I. It's awesome. When you read a Gruber article you know what you're getting into before you even read it so I don't see why anyone would complain. The difference between Gruber writing about the things he en
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
There are lots and lots of very valid arguments for both sides of this question. Personally, I think it's both. Even if it really isn't a real problem, that doesn't matter I don't think. What matters is if you can make enough people believ
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Anything on the presidents site is an easy target. Remember, in politics the facts don't matter. Perception does. All either side has to do is take any position, policy, or whatever and frame it any way they want. The opposition in this cas
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Thank you for being a voice of reason and rationality. This community among many others has a tendency to attribute things like this to malice or, more often, conspiracy. I can't tell you how many times I see people thinking along these lin
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
First, now you're guilty of exactly the tone the OP is complaining about. Second, youre implying design is how so,etching looks. I said it in the original thread and I'll say it again, it was really pretty how they redesigned Wikipedia but
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I can relate to not wanting to say you're smart and can't do something well. I was/am sometimes the same way. For me it was imposter syndrome plus the idea that since everyone says it how would anyone ever believe such trite, cliche pitches
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
"but it's kinda been done before" You nailed it. I think that's the thing that really bothered me if not many others too. This is cliche now and if you're going to do it then you'd better make something really god damn good! This comes off
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I've never once edited a Wikipedia article and have no desire to do so. I'm I'm the epitome of a Wikipedia outsider and I agree with your parent that this is not good design. It's pretty and minimalist and trendy but it isn't Wikipedia. Hon
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Well, no, it seems like you're looking at it legally. You're totally right on a lot of points (maybe all of them, I haven't looked into verifying them all). Apple is very much using the legal system to squash competitors and that's shady. I
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Why? Come on man, don't leave us hanging. Give us an argument. Start a discussion. You can't just leave that dangling out there like that. That's why these comment threads exist.
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
But honestly, would you be so quick to respond to a snarky bug tracking thread? I wouldn't. The fact that it's so snarky with such an entitled attitude would push me to give it attention at some point but it definitely wouldn't make my top
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
When I read this I was just astounded by the self-righteous, entitled tone as if the person who filed this knows (yes, "knows", not "believes" or "prefers") that the download bar is an annoying, unnecessary, undesirable feature that the Chr
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Probably because it's hard to prove, it can become a big and arguably irrelevant distraction, and it opens up the possibility for an endless line of "this was inspired by that" from both sides. It's not too difficult to argue that everythin
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I think you nailed it in the least amount of words. You're right, it's real ! B2C has become the land of also-rans. It's the same old, same old but this time with a new interface, a special niche, and so on but in the end it's all the same
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I buy into the ethos that HN is an echo chamber and, in private, many here have agreed with me. In fact I'm almost certain the reason I was forced to create a new account here after over a year in good standing is because I rejected a handf
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
This is only perception and not reality. If Steve was still alive this post would have still come out and the T shaped adapter would still be used on new Mac laptops. There are a few fallacies at play in your comment and you're far from the
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Total jibberish. There is no need for any more social any things let alone a "social web OS", whatever that means. I'm sure the average Internet reader thought this sounded smart with all the fluffy language and big words but in the end it
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Dude, you are kidding, right? I hope so.
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
As of the time of this comment a lot of people are missing the point which is about respecting the user's choice not to upgrade. To answer the question though, I'd say maybe not the only one but you're probably part of an incredibly small m
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
Don't read into it so much. Losing a database means losing a database. It doesn't imply that there are no backups. Furthermore, how much detail can you really put in 140 characters? A detailed blog post would be nice but if Posterous is a s
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
But that's not how it really works. Not everyone who uses once does it again and again. Many people are able to control themselves. I'll give you tel examples. First, alcohol. Alcohol is an addictive substance so are you telling me you can
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I don't know. That's probably best answered by people much smarter than me. It's kind of a catch-22 situation because before an addiction is obvious those personality traits are hard to identify and even if they are identified do they mean
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
95 addicts is not what you will get back. There is a difference between dependence and addiction. Dependency is something people are all generally equally susceptible to. Addiction is not equal. Brain chemistry does have much to do with add
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by bpatrianakos 14y ago
I actually am an addict (heroin, 4 years sober) and besides my day job as a developer I'm also on the board of a non profit that is about helping addicts and their families (you may have seen me on CNN a few weeks ago talking about it in