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by brianpan 16y ago
I sort of feel the same you in that reading that post increased my understanding by close to nothing. I can see 'fun' once you say it, but I never would have thought that on my own nor would I see that there's a font "personality clash". I
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by brianpan 16y ago
That's what I don't get...he went to all that trouble of researching the 'problem' he lists the dev build, etc. I guess not everyone is familiar with what branching and releases are for.
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There's a pretty good case for making the comparison closer to alphabetical ordering. 'apple' before 'pear' even though 'apple' is the longer string. 'z' before 'zz' also follows alphabetical ordering.
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by brianpan 16y ago
The for loop runs while $i is less than or equal to 'z'.
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by brianpan 16y ago
Another nice feature is that you can read just the text without all the other 'junk', like Readability http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ does for you. Handy for this blog post because there's something preventing scrolling the
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by brianpan 16y ago
From the blog post: >How the hell can a program at this level of maturity have such a massive problem... Because it's a dev build! Do people really need to be reminded of that! Dev builds are for developers! So what if the FF dev buil
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by brianpan 16y ago
I don't think that's the conclusion anyone is drawing. Most other articles use the phrase "announced on Monday". The journalist in the TED talk scraped status updates for "break up" or "broken up". This isn't supposed to be taken as hard
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Incubator-Start Doesn't Guarantee Company's Success(npr.org)
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That wasn't their claim, read the post.
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That's a weird way to put it. OS X is certified Unix (capital U).
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Competitive intelligence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_intelligence- competitors can gather information about your business, make estimates about the health of your business, etc.
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by brianpan 16y ago
Interesting (and provocative) point, but that seems like a stretch that Apple would considering such and indirect action just to put up a roadblock for Android developers, and not a very big roadblock at that.
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by brianpan 16y ago
Yeah, discomfort v. pain makes it seem like less v. more but that's not the distinction at all. I'm not a runner at all, but I know that stabbing feeling in my side and my lungs frantically gasping for air isn't going to kill me or make me
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by brianpan 16y ago
Oh, God...that is not worth it! ;)
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by brianpan 16y ago
By this reasoning, Android being open is not an advantage. I gain just as much buying an iPhone. I think this is an interesting shift of the debate- does open really matter? Or more specifically, who does open benefit and who cares about
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by brianpan 16y ago
Agreed. Although I will say that Steve sounds much better "unscripted" on stage, than he did tripping over the scripted statement. Also, on the screen size, I think Steve's point is if it's going to be small, you should be at the very least
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by brianpan 16y ago
60% of current sales are from iPhone and iPad which were launched in the past 3 years.
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by brianpan 16y ago
Oh, god. On my motorcycle, nothing scares me on the road more than people driving cars. Not only are they not perfect, they are far from perfect.
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by brianpan 16y ago
This is pretty much what it's come to. But it's confusing in the midst of this slow bait-and-switch. When I signed up for facebook, a big reason was the confirmation of "real-life" friends. Facebook was different than blogs or myspace beca
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by brianpan 16y ago
You're query is irrelevant.
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Eventually, you will need copy that explains something to the user. When you do, you will not be able to keep your copy consistent by continuing to use "my". "If you have questions about your account, call..."
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by brianpan 16y ago
He did follow-through on his first offer. What he wanted, but the VCs did not agree with, was to accept the last email two days prior to the board meeting.
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by brianpan 16y ago
Agreed, the New Yorker mentioned 2006 as the date when the IMs were discovered and the boingboing article screwed it up. http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
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by brianpan 16y ago
I was going into a whole long comment on why search doesn't work for apps (no hyperlinks, web pages don't cost money to visit), but the whole thing is a bit of a red herring. Apple is not using curation to make finding apps easier. It's u
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by brianpan 16y ago
That they have a new toy to play with. It looks to me like the part of the Arcade Fire video where the birds are flying away from your mouse cursor.
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by brianpan 16y ago
Point taken. In Netflix's view, they focus on a specific market niche so that they effectively compete in a smaller, less crowded space. But in analyzing their business, it's not unreasonable to take into account "nearby" competitors even
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by brianpan 16y ago
I think the point of the above comment is that companies are already on board with iOS. MLB already has an iPhone app that streams video. If an AirPlay API is added, MLB releases an update and BOOM! Your TV now has baseball diamonds* .
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by brianpan 16y ago
BitTorrent is a competitor to NetFlix in the same way that it, and P2P, was a competitor to the iTunes Music Store. Even if it's not free or not without hassle, it's still a way that some people get movies/TV shows etc. Which makes it com
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iOS devices are still honoring the core value of "giving people a way to change the world" if you consider how Apple is bringing customers to developers through the App store. Apple changed what is possible for a developer by giving them a
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by brianpan 16y ago
Me specifically, yes. But I was born and grew up in the same country. I still think it's presumptuous to say that you can at a glance determine a person's place of birth. I have friends- people I've known for some time- that surprise me

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