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by butterfi 14y ago
Netflix's problems with user history may be relevant here: http://www.reelseo.com/netflix-privacy-problems/
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by butterfi 14y ago
You may only get one chance to be a beginner, but you can cultivate "Beginners Mind" or "Shoshin" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin ) Edit: "Saadat A. Khan suggests that "Beginner's mind embodies the highest emotional qualities such a
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by butterfi 15y ago
I used to adore Adobe, but it all changed over time. It started when I only needed Photoshop, and yet Adobe insisted I install several other chunks of software for services I didn't want or need. In the end, I finally found a solution that
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by butterfi 15y ago
We can also demand vendor free CSS from our contractors and developers. I've had to ask several contractors, usually younger developers, to please not use prefixes. They comply, but clearly think I'm too old school because CSS 3 is what all
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by butterfi 15y ago
I envy the rush this developer probably got when he figured this out. Sweet, sweet, code rush... ahhh. If someone could bottle that feeling, caffeinated sodas would go out of business.
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by butterfi 15y ago
For anyone who has followed MCSFT over the years, this kind of behavior comes as no surprise. What does surprise me though is how many people (usually younger) think MCSFT can do no wrong, as evidenced by Gate's significant philanthropy. I
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by butterfi 15y ago
>You start with just 20 Under 20, and then scale it out after initial success. Just like YC. The problem with scaling is that is assumes most people start at the same base line, need the same resources, and progress at the same speed. W
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by butterfi 15y ago
I started using BB Edit way back in the day, and at the time the price was pretty reasonable, like $50 or so. I asked another developer once why he preferred TextMate to BB Edit and he said that BB Edit was too expensive. I went to look and
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by butterfi 15y ago
BB Edit's multi-file search is awesome, and can also be used to search large (1 GB+) files as well.
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by butterfi 15y ago
How much of this kind of thing is a by-product of marketers as well? I've seen more then a few events where the people who actually did the development were excluded to accommodate business partners and clients. It's not that marketing nece
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by butterfi 15y ago
I agree with the general principals here, but the audience for resumes (the HR people) don't always know, or even care, what GitHub is -- whether they should or not isn't the question. They're trolling through dozens of applications and mak
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by butterfi 15y ago
The boomers have had their own layers of identity as well. Hippies -> Yuppies -> ??
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by butterfi 15y ago
Since when does "open web" imply that its okay to put a wrapper around content that costs the CBC a significant amount of time and money, which they then give away for free, and sell that for your own gain? Unlike the programs you mention,
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by butterfi 15y ago
I think ClearChannel maybe missing the point. With terrestial radio you only have some many listening options, and CC was voracious in taking over as many stations as they could, then driving costs down by homogenizing across their stations
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by butterfi 15y ago
I had a few funny moments before I did a clean install of Lion. I've never had great success upgrading any major OS change, Mac or PC. Fresh installs always work best for me.
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by butterfi 15y ago
Right on. Comparing Apple to Google is not very interesting to someone who has watched Apple's entire historical arc, not just the past 5 years.
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by butterfi 15y ago
In my experience, Comcast has one thing that Netflix doesn't: customers that hate them. 1. Comcast is expensive. My rates have nearly doubled, but I haven't seen any change in my service or their offerings. 2. Comcast wants you to install t
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by butterfi 15y ago
Or if you do, (in this case drupal) maybe you should apply the security patches
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by butterfi 16y ago
I was following two different twitter feeds coming out of conferences last week: DrupalCon and SXSWi. It was interesting to me how different the tweets were. DrupalCon's were mainly from developers looking for info, or excited about some pr
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by butterfi 16y ago
In a sense, Netflix is making Hollywood compete with itself. If Hollywood doesn't make anything new worth watching, I'll watch something worth the time from years past.
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by butterfi 16y ago
I wasn't trying to say phone malware didn't exist, my point was more that comparing the latest trends in Android exploits to browser exploits didn't really match up. I could have done a better job of saying that.
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by butterfi 16y ago
Browsers on my desktop won't be running up phone charges, which I think is an important distinction. Malware can now rip me off directly.
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by butterfi 16y ago
That was a poor choice of words on my part, I was indeed referring to App store/iTunes. I do believe that hardware should be open.
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by butterfi 16y ago
I wish I could be more supportive, but frankly, the first thought I had was "how I am going to block this?"
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by butterfi 16y ago
I appreciate that you're taking a user-centric approach to the issue, but the majority of complaints I seem to hear about Apple come from developers who want to deploy on/in Apple's space (which includes hardware, but more often concerns iT
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by butterfi 16y ago
I used Navicat for along time, and its not bad software. These days though I've been using the free "Sequel Pro" for OS X. Does all the same things I need to do, as long as I'm on a mac. http://www.sequelpro.com/
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by butterfi 16y ago
Safari Books Online + iPad = awesome! (okay, there are some presentation glitches, but it works well enough)
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by butterfi 16y ago
Nice review of the issue! Personally, I'm not that excited over one browser, or even two, adding or dropping video support. I develop for a spectrum of users/browsers and if the technique doesn't work across browsers, I avoid it. Managing a
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by butterfi 16y ago
How did advertising factor into this research? I saw more then a few stories covering the Beatles release on iTunes.
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by butterfi 16y ago
"The doctors at UCSF are just scaremongering, regardless of their credentials." Thats a very blithe statement to make about a group of professionals. Here's the thing -- I know several people who have been treated for cancer at UCSF, and my

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