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by brianpan 13y ago
This is what's really happening with the McDonald's theory- it's a resetting of expectations by asking a different question. We can't ever figure out lunch because we're thinking "What would I really like to eat today?" and too often the an
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by brianpan 14y ago
And exactly what data structure do you suppose is appropriate for Bob?
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Or more likely to me, the barbecue sauce company recently launched a marketing campaign that influenced you to buy one (and the campaign is continuing on Facebook where you see it now).
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by brianpan 14y ago
I've been using Ghostery since the recent HN post [1] and I really like it. It's great to go to Schneier's site and see Ghostery report nothing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387380
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by brianpan 14y ago
You make a good point, but football players also have the desperation maker of competition and winning. There are surely players that make it to the NFL and coast, but 1) they have competed to get to the NFL, 2) there are plenty of people w
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by brianpan 14y ago
For Apple, I think the equivalent was designers, filmmakers, and musicians.
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by brianpan 14y ago
Absolutely agree that there is a use case for the open-ended search- it's powerful, cool, and not yet addressed by anyone. My point is that the "traditional" search also has it's strengths, especially when the trip is not going to be open-e
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by brianpan 14y ago
Here's my take on the search box- I'm a parent flying with a young child, and I just finished booking flights last week. While the capabilities of the open-ended design of the search is amazing, when I search for flights, I find that I am l
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by brianpan 14y ago
I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but it strikes me as very similar to Conan O'Brien's "dismissal" statement, especially the "People of Groupon" greeting. It's effectiveness is in the plain, straightforward truthfulness and a d
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Our doctors certainly already do.
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Recruiting implies asking people to join an army. If we're talking about religion, "converting" is the more common verb. She's recruiting (enlisting) a willing church member to a difficult task.
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by brianpan 14y ago
I believe you misread- he's saying she's writing to the church to ask someone to join her. The audience is clear- the post is on the church website for church members to read. He's not trying to say that she's doing the much harder task of
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by brianpan 14y ago
I'd say it's a slight mis-statement. It's more accurate if you replace the last three words with "web became more common." BTW, the web was a big deal in a very small circle. In the Fall of 1994, I took a college ENG 100 course that explai
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by brianpan 14y ago
> ...it is worth pointing out that lock picking is just one way to bypass a lock A sobering insight after a break-in and a conversation with a locksmith. A lock is only as good as the latch, and door that it's sitting in, and the hinge
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by brianpan 14y ago
Because it's not quite the same holding a Kindle displaying cover art up to your face.
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by brianpan 14y ago
The strength of pinch-to-zoom as a UI interaction is that it is direct manipulation. It has less to do with accuracy. Two-finger tap is a "computer command" to do something. Pinch is you doing the thing you want to do.
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by brianpan 14y ago
I'm not sure if the organization has the option to keep or sell the stock (I think they can do either). For the donor, there are tax benefits- besides the usual lowering of adjusted gross income, you don't have to pay capital gains on stoc
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by brianpan 14y ago
I think it's accurate to say that their business interests are different, and thus the applications to privacy are different. For example, Safari defaults to "Block cookies from third parties and advertisers". Chrome defaults to allow all
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by brianpan 14y ago
Wow, I had forgotten in all of this that the original app was written by Apple. So going back to the original comment of being a "win for Apple"- this does seem to have been an end-around past the licensing issue, but not much of a "win" fo
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by brianpan 14y ago
Well, that's the point I'm trying to make. It's not a hit the drawing board problem, it's a refine the algorithm problem. How many "if you google this string, you can't find the right site" problems have there been in the life of Google se
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by brianpan 14y ago
It may be a win in a similar way that the Chrome browser was a win. Google kicked browser competition into high gear in terms of performance and ACID compliance when they launched Chrome. Apple Maps may have had a similar effect. I hate
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by brianpan 14y ago
Surely you agree that your example is a non-standard address. The things are more important to get right: postal addresses, searches for company names, airports, schools, searches for intersections. Of course you want to get the other thi
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by brianpan 14y ago
Or he could make the statement more noteworthy by lending his celebrity to the cause like he did. The point is getting more kids flu shots. Is it so bad to spread word on this "obviously self-serving promotion"?
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by brianpan 14y ago
> [4] This gets harder as you get older. While the space of ideas doesn't have dangerous local maxima, the space of careers does. There are fairly high walls between most of the paths people take through life, and the older you get, the
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by brianpan 14y ago
I read it more as "Apple has an opportunity to do it better". He points out 2 areas of weakness that Apple still needs to overcome in order to do it better- usability of multitasking (Windows does it with Snap), and cloud syncing (Apple's
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by brianpan 14y ago
And native has features that web doesn't have. Growl on OS X, for example.
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OSI is what I learned in school an age-and-a-half ago, that's why I included that link also. :)
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by brianpan 14y ago
Great point. I think Fried's example is a little confusing to us because we don't remember right now what days Oct 21 and 22 were. But in the context of the interaction it should be fairly clear that, "Oh, it's just after midnight, Siri's
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BGP and DNS run on TCP which runs on IP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
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But it's not about cheap and expensive, and it's only partly about measurable performance. It's just as much about style (this car was designed with the "perfect" stance) and about personal preference. Things you're not going to get everyon

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