cowboyhero

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by cowboyhero 15y ago
I like the simplicity of this. Like headsclouds, I couldn't figure out at first how to make "sub" items. Due to old habits, I kept trying to hit "tab" to indent a new item. Now for the hard part. In a previous career, I used to spend a lot
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
I do this the Slashdot way; I don't read the articles at all. =P (More accurately, I always read the comments here first on any title that looks interesting. If there's a good, heady discussion going, I'll go back and read the article after
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Two interesting things the articles blows right past: - That they compare their algo to the ones used by Amazon and Netflix to recommend products, while ignoring that products have much better defined boundaries than people do. (And ignorin
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
> They don't package this information and sell it wholesale to advertisers. Yet. Genie, meet bottle. Thinking this information will never be sold is short sighted and naive. When it becomes advantageous for them to do so, they'll sell i
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Context is key. It's about positioning people in an ornamental, demeaning way and calling it "good fun" and "humor." That is what makes it sexist, because is reduced to, literally, a pair of tits and under the greater context of "Google i
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Almost positive that's a direct quote toward the end of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta . Which kinda makes me grin and roll my eyes at the same time.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
He's a burgeoning pundit. Media, other leaders, and new people in the industry will take their cues from him. You ever hear the joke, "Hey, dpark, what do you call a black man who has a PhD from Harvard?" It's an awful punchline, with a lit
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
It's not just "some guy." It's Tom Anderson of mySpace fame, who Techcrunch is working hard to position as some kind of senior statesmen of social media. His articles are getting picked up by Techmeme and are pulling a lot of eyeballs latel
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
100% agree and I'm glad you said something. I clicked the link, saw the photo, blinked in disbelief and closed the window without reading Tom's article. So awesome that the guys get to be the nerds while the woman is literally nothing more
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Eh. They did a vanity site to promote a product. When Goog starts adding /marquee/ tags and VBScript to their browser, I'll start getting worried about "openness."
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
Love the idea, but the demo is hanging on me. Looks like it's choking on urls.api.twitter.com.
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by cowboyhero 15y ago
It's a good post and it reminds me a little bit of those old tv commercials from Qwest and AT&T about how you'll be able to "watch any movie ever made in any language" in a dumpy roadside motel or 'send a fax from the beach' that were r
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
> The content producers should be ecstatic about this. The problem playing out now is that the studios don't consider you or me to be their customer. Their customers are Walmart, Blockbuster, and cable companies. (Things get trickier wh
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
They had a paywall on the site originally years ago. Frankly, I never understood why they removed it. They're a publication, like the WSJ, covering a specific industry to something of a niche audience that will gladly pay for subs . To me
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
I had the same experience at first -- reached for my mouse to handle inventory, etc. Once I found the "help" button (which was actually useful!) and the keyboard shorts ... I found I preferred the game mouseless. Primarily because it brings
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Oh man ... it's a little cruel to post something like this on a _Monday_ morning when I can't play it! (Excellent work, though. I love rogue-likes and this one looks like fun).
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Speaking of brands .. if I were the guys running Engine Yard I'd be reaaaaally pissed right about now.
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
IANAL, but I believe this also allows the cops to set up random DUI roadblocks (ie, untargeted, no warrant, no individual suspicion, public good, etc).
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Four stars for that latex-gloved logo. =D
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Except in the third graph of the original Gamespot piece: > However, Kinect had no problems identifying a third dark-skinned GameSpot employee, recognizing his face after a single calibration.
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
That's an odd rant. The same argument could be made for any popular author (King, Rowling, Peterson, etc). The eBooks are priced that way because the estate is afraid of devaluing the Bond brand. (Publishers know that eBook pricing is a rac
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
The "Phil" he's talking about in the first paragraph is Phil Sturgeon, and the original blog post is here: http://philsturgeon.co.uk/news/2010/10/what-happens-next
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
You make a good point about the social-in-the-bar aspect of iOS apps, but I think you're off the mark about gaming. This is an area where the Mac has been weak for more than a decade. Imagine an environment that allows you to purchase a mul
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Very cool and extremely useful. First thoughts: The site is slow for me. There's no feedback indicating the system has captured user input. On my first visit, I immediately started typing random function names into the search box ('strlen',
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Hmm .. not an expert, but I do manage one website that's got a little more twice your number of page views but brings in vastly more money. First thoughts: Your ad placement is bad. Ditto on the colors. (I had to actually look for the thing
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Remember that Netflix came around in a consumer culture that was renting videos and DVDs from corner shops for maybe $2-4 a pop. Throughout their history, all of Netflix's pricing structures have been designed to stay within that range. It
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
It's a valid assertion. Not to start a whole thing about piracy -- but what always surprises me in conversations about Bittorrent is that most people speak as if it has no effect on anything, anywhere, ever. Somehow, it also seems to exist
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Astute. I think you're dead right about the studio catalogue. Unfortunately, the studios are still trying to protect what they view as their major customers: Retail chains (WalMart and Blockbuster) and cable companies. They understand those
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
Fair point -- but you'd think Winer would have enough experience to allow his apps to fail gracefully. Printing out ugly error messages complete with file system paths in html is definitely a pants-dropping kind of move.
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by cowboyhero 16y ago
It's interesting in that it's not so much a social network as "your order history online, for everyone in the world to see." It's off-putting that bands can create content but regular users? Not so much. It's odd that I can tell people I'm

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