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by dcurtis 16y ago
If you're a developer, the version released today is the same build as the one that has been available as the GM Seed since WWDC. No need to upgrade. Edit: apparently there are a couple differences. Game center isn't installed in the "retai
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Hmm. Prices in SF on AirBnb range from $50 (very low end) to about $80-100. Assuming you stay 30 nights at $60, that's $1,800. The apartment room he used to stay in probably cost him $800, so it's about $1000 more expensive to use Airbnb. T
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by dcurtis 16y ago
If someone steals your car, you're out many thousands of dollars and extremely inconvenienced. If some random idiot posts a link to a Nigerian scam on your blog, you just delete it and get on with your life.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Ah yes, the sole exception to this security sacrifice is spammers. You have to keep them out, no matter the cost. Posterous does a good job of keeping them out, I think, because I've never seen a spam post.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I updated the post to reflect reality. Usually, Posterous catches this stuff and sends an email asking you to confirm that you really are you. They analyze the headers more closely than just looking at the name. For some reason, this didn't
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by dcurtis 16y ago
You should make running WordPress securely a thoughtless process. The best practices should be clearly explained to every single user who downloads/installs it.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I think they do some checking in the headers. It's not impossible to masquerade as someone. But how many people want to maliciously post to some random person's Posterous blog? Probably not too many.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
A while ago, when these guys told me about their idea, I thought it was completely stupid. Another photo sharing service? But I went along with their beta and after using it for a few days with a group of friends, it started to become addic
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by dcurtis 16y ago
While I seem to have negligently exaggerated on the exclusivity of the iPhone 4's resolution independence, the spirit of the article is still there and the points are still valid. iOS's implementation of resolution independence is the best
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Windows 7 does have some resolution independence, but it's very buggy and is very similar to desktop Mac OS X's sub-par implementation: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/09/13/follow-up-on-h... iOS 4 is the first OS to be completel
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Other phones have had better resolution, but they have never increased the definition of the interface elements themselves. Those "better" screens just made everything smaller and provided more room for stuff. -- Edit -- Apparently I was wr
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Walmart does this all the time. If you buy a CD that should have explicit lyrics at Walmart, they're bleeped out. Walmart refuses to sell music otherwise.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
If 95% of people use less than 2GB per month, why did they need to change the plans? Surely the people using gigantic amounts of data are breaking the terms of service and can be dealt with. "Unlimited data" isn't about data, or price, or v
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by dcurtis 16y ago
But Palm wasn't a smartphone company, either. Rubinstein isn't an idiot; he knew about the iPad. He knows the future is in tablet/web devices. He worked extremely closely with Steve at Apple before joining Palm. WebOS was built from the beg
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An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian(alexisohanian.com)
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by dcurtis 16y ago
With limitless resources, how do you determine what is truly worth your time? When do you think, "okay, this project is worth a chunk of my life," and then stick with it? And then, once you do finally stick with something, something better
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by dcurtis 16y ago
This is kind of pedantic, but I think the word valuable might be better here than largest . Apple is relatively small when compared to companies like Walmart, which has 2.1 million employees and almost 8x revenue.
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If Microsoft hadn't sold its 1997 $150mm investment in Apple, it would be worth $7.4 billion at close today. That's a 4250% return. Instead they sold in 2003, at one of AAPL's lowest points. They made less than 20%. (It's hard to pinpoint e
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Here's the Skype Brand Book, which a complex version of the linked style guide. All big companies have something similar to this, but Skype's is particularly well done. http://blog.dustincurtis.com/the-skype-brand-book
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by dcurtis 16y ago
That failure rate is for EBS drives, which are essentially hot disks. EBS drives can almost instantly snapshot onto S3 backup stores. Amazon has said they've never heard of anyone experiencing data loss on S3. So if you use EC2+EBS+S3 prope
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by dcurtis 16y ago
No, no, that's not what I'm saying at all. You have a database in the iPhone called Photos & Videos. You store all photos and videos in there. Then you can open any number of apps -- photoshop, Camera, Photo Viewer, Mail, etc -- and act
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by dcurtis 16y ago
The file model is only intuitive to you because you've been using it for so long that it has become a part of your existence. Do some user testing with casual computer users (not even pure novices), and watch as you ask them to complete a t
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I don't think tags are the solution. Human beings organize stuff by lumping similar things together, by spatial relationship. It's the way the brain is designed to make sense of things on a neurological level. Tags create a meta layer of in
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Beacon was great because it showed that Facebook isn't scared to take risks. They later admitted it was a bad idea. I'd rather a company like Facebook err on the side of innovation.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Remember News Feed? People freaked out, started screaming about suing, etc. Just watch: people will get more comfortable sharing their basic information, and you will too. This privacy freakout is really amazing to me.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
What would have happened if the collision avoidance system malfunctioned and slammed on the brakes while you were driving fast on the highway, causing an accident? I am kind of scared to give software control of critical aspects of my car.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I met the sound designer for Disney World on a plane once. I wrote about it here: http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I don't think that is likely. It would be extremely difficult to be more innovative and more competent than Facebook. That's like saying you should worry about a company that could outmaneuver Apple. Sure, it's possible, but it's extremely
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by dcurtis 16y ago
If history is any indication, Google will fade out slowly like AltaVista, if there's a new competitor. (Making the assumption that Facebook will be replaced this way is kind of stupid; Facebook is competent, MySpace wasn't.)
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Ebert is kind of missing the point. This discussion shouldn't be about 3D, it should be about motion pictures more closely approaching the experience of reality. Sure, 3D technologies today are kind of crappy, but it's part of the technolog

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