calinet6

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by calinet6 13y ago
Normal CEOs get to their positions by a road paved in bullshit. Someone at the top of several large companies with a focus on real quality and execution—with sense enough to tell the difference—is an extremely rare thing. It shouldn't
902.
by calinet6 13y ago
I think many of us would do the same things and have the same vision as Elon Musk given the chance. The problem is one of funding, and the fact that acquiring money is not normally correlated with broad vision, and that having money is not
903.
by calinet6 13y ago
The problem is that they're not unifying their services well. In UX discussions this always comes up as one that sucks. Basically the Google UX, to me, is "Here's a bunch of stuff that we have. Good luck!" They need to
904.
by calinet6 13y ago
What I'm hearing is that the dream of Google has been reduced to some characteristic bullet points and a reasonably positive conclusion. This isn't a criticism or negativity, all things considered it seems to be a great company to
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by calinet6 13y ago
/play trombone Whelp, it's been grand, Google. Who's next? Someday a company might actually grow correctly and preserve their humanity and agility despite our tendency for social discord as a species, but it's a damn har
906.
by calinet6 13y ago
This argument is like saying he's an opponent of extramarital affairs, but he's in bed with his wife. Of course he's with the government employees unions, he has to live with them every day.
907.
by calinet6 13y ago
And the good ones often get squeezed out because their focus is on the company instead of politics. Really a sad state of affairs. I'm convinced that most companies survive in spite of their management. At least in the US.
908.
by calinet6 13y ago
The reason for the (false) stereotype is that programmers so often have one-track specialized minds, due to many factors. But it's false: with a little effort and an education that doesn't mould people into code monkeys, programme
909.
by calinet6 13y ago
"if they also learn writing code, something has to give" Disagree. This is a false limit, and a false criticism rooted in ignorance and lack of experience. I don't know what else to say other than as a designer with a CS degr
910.
by calinet6 13y ago
"UX designer" is a bit of an ambiguous phrase, and it gets the correct amount of sarcastic scorn for being a buzzword. But I think it means something more important: as you say, good UX requires a recognition that everything tha
911.
by calinet6 13y ago
This is what happens when marketing teams are given free reign without restrictions. Ugh.
912.
by calinet6 13y ago
Betcha it's something inherent to the ability to process the phrase "Google." Probably a usability thing, and a subtle one at that.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Yes, but someone needs to convince them that they are making the stupid choice. My guess is that no one in Google or Motorola is that person.
914.
by calinet6 13y ago
Yeah, I'm sure there actually are lots of UI problems, and you could generally design a UI that is better for controlling the effects and levels than the physical analogy used here. But it's hard to beat a UI that not only feels
915.
by calinet6 13y ago
It would be very poignant of you to point that out if the interface was not trying to emulate famous and well-known real-world objects. Music people eat that up. It's entirely the right choice, and the rest of the interface is clean.
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by calinet6 13y ago
As with many of Apple's recent price drops (OSX, iWork, etc. etc.) I think it's a highly strategic and intentional move, not reflective of the greater market, but showing that Apple is enabling the larger success of their brand by
917.
by calinet6 13y ago
It's easy to believe things are obvious when explained in this way, but what it doesn't tell you is that these so-called obvious facts are not true. This is no more science than the miracle tonics of 100 years ago. If it sounds to
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by calinet6 13y ago
Ugh, how does this quack keep getting publicity? This is all unscientific baseless hogwash. Flag it and forget it.
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by calinet6 13y ago
ADS [drool]
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by calinet6 13y ago
Ehhhhhhhh not really. If you're using metaprogramming or abstract programming of any kind, it's usually for a good reason, and DRY in itself is worth simply not being able to find every single reference to your metaprogrammed it
921.
by calinet6 13y ago
I share your criticisms. This article isn't worth the bits it's stored on.
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by calinet6 13y ago
Shoot, I do this with Plex:web off my Mac Mini all the time. Works great. Now has HTML5 video AFAIK, and scales the quality to the available bandwidth. I watch on my Android phone over 3G all the time. In reality my "cloud storage&quot
923.
by calinet6 13y ago
It would be great to build the backend and API that supports the ultimate long-term cold storage, and then use it to make the ultimate wedding photography business application. They're not radically different—one just uses the other. Y
924.
by calinet6 13y ago
Well shoot. `brew install grep` is is then. And there's also ack, and ag... no shortage of options that are better than BSD grep, apparently. It's not "WOW GNU grep is fast!" it's, "wow, BSD grep is slow. &quo
925.
by calinet6 13y ago
Or at least ack, which came before it and still kicks grep's ass.
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by calinet6 13y ago
And compare it to a dedicated box, and they all suck. If you're looking for a stationary server and just need raw power, get a dedicated server plan and good backups. If you need what Amazon offers, all of the AWS services or most of
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by calinet6 13y ago
That reminds me, I've been wondering for quite some time: Anyone doing startups or tech in Montreal or Vancouver? How's the environment?
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by calinet6 13y ago
"to build our fashion ecommerce start-up" Well there's your reason. IMO it's important (or at least a factor) to be close to your domain. London or NYC or Los Angeles are your choices if you want to be part of the fashio
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by calinet6 13y ago
s/Europe/Boston/
930.
by calinet6 13y ago
Robert Birgeneau, the chancellor emeritus of Berkeley, spoke at a fundraising event I attended and said something I thought was poignant: "The University of California has gone from being a state-funded institution, to a state-sponsore

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