doctorpangloss

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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
I don't think so. It doesn't support non-Webkit browsers, while jQM / SensaTouch and their friends do.
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
Well, to be specific, a lot of Hollywood producers looked at H+ as a test of whether or not people really wanted to watch short episodic content. After the first episode, few people came back. So while we can say "probably" in abstract, in
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
I'm not sure if content chunking is an artifact of inefficient distribution mechanisms. It would be impossible to tell the Illiad through tweets, for example, for anything other than an intellectual exercise. But to be less radical, conside
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
I guess what Silicon Valley doesn't get about Hollywood is that you can't program a good TV show. Period, full stop.
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
An aside: I work between Hollywood and tech companies in Cambridge, MA. But many of our videos get predictable traffic like this Gates vs. Jobs rap battle at 33 million views (and climbing) or my favorite Mr. T vs. Mr. Rogers at 36 million
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
Cassini/Huygens, Voyager, and soon New Horizons captivate the public without conducting life science. Are our Martian missions discredited if they find no evidence of life? I really hope not, and I hope the public understands so too.
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
Facebook says that "all content should be as engaging as the posts you see from friends and family." But how does the company square that with the sly offering of the opportunity to override the irrelevance or poor quality of a post with d
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
I'm not sure that Google had such a cogent strategy when it made its blockbuster products and acquisitions, like Gmail, Docs, Picasa, and YouTube. It wasn't obvious that YouTube ads could make enough money to pay for the servers, and indeed
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
If you don't like Google’s results use another service. Sure, but Google has two kinds of customers: searchers and websites. Maybe you believe websites shouldn't hide from Google because it makes no strategic sense. Twitter and Facebook
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
I don't think this doughnut road is something anyone advocates, nor does it translate to something like Q.E. Inflation by itself does a great thing: it reduces the real value of old debt. Q.E. just distributes the cost of forgiving debt awa
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
We want low prices (that's a great thing), but we also don't want to lose options and competition in the future (that's a bad thing). I think the idea you're getting at is an efficient price. Not too low to devastate competition, not too
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
Yes.
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
Linus misses two key points. First, Engadget focuses on tablet pricing moreso than cellphone pricing. Second, all Engadget is inelegantly saying that the lowest price for something isn't necessarily its most efficient one. Efficient prices
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
Lots of text is hostile. Much business runs on PowerPoint. A visualization competes for attention. In rare cases it encodes analytic information graphically. Like distances on a map, or the rate of job growth in a line slope, etc.
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
I'm always impressed by tech artistry like this. Eventually, we'll have so many specific, one-off, easy to use tech art tools that we won't even need specialized artists anymore.
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
The dolly shot (the rails shot) near the end stutters on Chrome 21 on Mountain Lion. I think it's probably always stuttering, but it's only really obvious then. Maybe cut the dolly shot?
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by doctorpangloss 14y ago
The map sort of explains the concept. Don't have the points fade away: let them stack. Gives us time to read the texts, and let the messages aggregate on screen. A real flourish would be to show a device with your app running on it. Same de