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by cargo8 13y ago
The problem with Facebook's mechanism for "hiding people" is that until you go through immense effort, your experience sucks. The "Acquaintances" list (which I might add was a knee-jerk reaction to the launch of Google+) only serves to take
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by cargo8 13y ago
Funny how much a lot of this person's complaints ring exactly like a Google+ marketing campaign, and yet no one has really mentioned Google+ yet. I totally agree, and that's not to say that Google+'s stream isn't equally filled with content
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by cargo8 13y ago
Regarding email formatting, I'm pretty sure that for a given message once you click on the formatting tools once, the bar stays open because they know you are formatting things.
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by cargo8 13y ago
Yeah, I find in general that Google's Android apps are more focused on functionality (regardless of if that makes it a bit in your face), whereas iOS they've focused a lot more on simpler design. I guess it matches the cultures and users of
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by cargo8 13y ago
I'm not surprised at all. The mobile market is a much more compelling _user scenario_ than desktop, both in terms of the user-need and the user-interface. On mobile, the user-need can be satisfied much better with additional sensor data tha
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by cargo8 14y ago
While I do appreciate clean URLs, the reason behind all those random obfuscated query parameters in Google's url is not a mystery. They are hidden indicators that are only available at query time and/or experimentation flags and things like
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by cargo8 14y ago
While this is bad, I do feel like anyone using a hosted wallet like Coinbase where you directly link a bank account (which I think is rare among bitcoin exchanges, etc) can't be expecting full anonymity. Coinbase is a registered company and
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by cargo8 14y ago
YES. This totally happened to me. Now I'm connected to every apartment manager, recruiter, and random person I've ever emailed -__-
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by cargo8 14y ago
Yes, but those are also the ONLY clickable options (and only visual elements, consistently in a list) on the entire screen. This does not hold true (in most cases) for a website / webapp.
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by cargo8 14y ago
I'm not saying I don't like the Facebook gift product. I tried it out a few times, and you're right - they nailed it. The virtual card and slow reveal as the user clicks through (then it shows up unwrapped on the wall, etc) is awesome and a
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by cargo8 14y ago
Do you really believe the success (at this time in technology) of general-purpose AI has a strong correlation to the potential for human labor to be replaced by machine labor? It would seem with the plethora of startups being created every
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by cargo8 14y ago
Don't agree 100%, but the quality of FB overall as a product has definitely degraded as of late as they've been pushing Gifts, Commerce, and other revenue streams onto users very strongly. I've noticed several annoying redesigns / changes t
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by cargo8 14y ago
Don't think so... the article talks about the driving factors in the decisions made at Stripe when designing the API that should be exposed as the product of the company. The article isn't about how to use Stripe's API to build stuff, it is
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by cargo8 14y ago
Good call, even just considering the startups he alone has planned for the next several decades!
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by cargo8 14y ago
Yes, but the reasons are somewhat different. If anything, startup costs have gone down with technology costs and as access to technology increases. The problem now is that with the great saturation of these consumer web startups, and the "s
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by cargo8 14y ago
Great call out on a reasonable strategy for Microsoft to remain successful, albeit less relevant in the consumer market. (There is another comment alluding to taking the route of IBM, cementing their place in enterprise but sacrificing the
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by cargo8 14y ago
I can see the parallel in terms of organic and paid content, but unfortunately as a social-networking medium Facebook's users will probably be much less receptive or happy to see the paid content than Google users. Dalton is right that adve
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by cargo8 14y ago
Also I think people complained about this because on airplanes you probably won't have the room to do this :-\
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by cargo8 14y ago
Beyond what comicjk said, yes in general we should yearn for the best education to be given to all of those who have a thirst to learn it - but that is not the point of this article so much as saying which students in particular should get
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by cargo8 14y ago
That someone believes they deserve admission to a specific set of schools as much as someone else who is working 10-100x harder with the specific goal of attaining admission to those schools? Yes, I believe that is entitlement.
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by cargo8 14y ago
I haven't tried the Surface RT specifically, but assuming it's the same or similar to the Windows 8 / Office 13 preview, the flow he clicked on looks like he was trying to save something to his Microsoft acct / skydrive (which is actually m
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by cargo8 14y ago
He mentions that this again is only for short people, aka he would have liked for it to tilt back further (see comments about the camera angle)
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by cargo8 14y ago
Not sure if it's just me, but it sure seems like a massive case of entitlement. "You shouldn’t have to prep Sunday to Sunday, to get into a good high school... That's extreme." Actually that's how it largely is for competitive colleges, and
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by cargo8 14y ago
Sounds like Vimium, but with interactions for popular sites built in.
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by cargo8 14y ago
Also want to point out that Android typically focuses most of the content towards the bottom of the screen (e.g. most people put icons on the bottom half of their home screen on Android, vs. iPhones that default to Top-Left). Dustin talks a
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by cargo8 14y ago
Why is that entirely unreasonable? WindowsRT only metro apps so it kind of fits, no?
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by cargo8 14y ago
Don't think this analysis holds very much weight at all. I think there are a lot of reasons to not just search on Amazon - the most obvious of which is price shopping. On another note, Google is in the process of moving their Google Shoppin
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by cargo8 14y ago
I think "gatekeeping" may be a bit of a strong term for what's happening here. I get where she is coming from, and it is something that should be acknowledged by the users of the site. The key point here is that the GOAL of App.net is not t
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by cargo8 14y ago
Interesting thoughts, but you're ignoring the demographic that enjoys driving for driving. Driving a car is a fun experience for a lot of people, when you're not just commuting and putzing along to work.
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by cargo8 14y ago
As a technologist, I hope most people can see the real value being added by the Surface over the iPad, and I think the corporate / enterprise angle is being lost entirely in this analysis. On the other hand, you're absolutely right about Mi

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