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by dominostars 16y ago
If people are Facebook users or addicts, it means they're getting something from it. That something might not be good for them, but people aren't going to volunteer hours a day doing something that isn't providing value in some way. Faceboo
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by dominostars 16y ago
Isn't that just another way of saying, 'Illustrates how much tech adoption is driven by marketing'?
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by dominostars 16y ago
I recognize how important marketing is. What makes me curious, is why has accessibility done so much to help independent developers, but so little to help independent authors?
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by dominostars 16y ago
Why do we need publishers at all? If all it takes to make an ebook is the story itself, couldn't authors publish their own work directly to ebook distributors, without anyone else needing to get involved? My iPhone apps could have certainly
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by dominostars 16y ago
The problem Zynga has right now is that they're building a reputation as a 'not fun place to work' for engineers. This probably won't kill them, since their power comes from psychology more than technology, but it might hurt them.
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by dominostars 16y ago
Digital cameras didn't make amateurs worse, they just increased the amount of amateurs. And I'm sure it increased the amount of good photographers too, so I'm not sure what the complaint is here. If old cameras took better pictures, then I
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by dominostars 16y ago
> Obviously admission requirements will have to change. This is where the focus needs to be. Big colleges get an enormous amount of applications. They do not have the man power to deeply analyze each candidate. So, they use metrics to f
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by dominostars 16y ago
This system and our current system face the same fundamental issue: how do you determine that a student has 'leveled up'? If what gives you 'experience' is flawed, it won't really matter whether a student is getting a level or a letter grad
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by dominostars 16y ago
> If there exists the ability to move between social networks while maintaining your social graph Facebook Connect accomplishes most of what you want here. At least, it could.
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by dominostars 16y ago
> Why, Apple, why? Probably because it's version 1.0
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by dominostars 16y ago
Which industries does that not apply to?
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by dominostars 16y ago
"* Fear of failure is a great motivator. When you quit without having another opportunity already lined up, you have a lot of obvious motivation to find a new job since your income is $0. I've found it easier than lulling myself into compla
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by dominostars 16y ago
What regulations are keeping companies from going public? I ask out of ignorance.
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by dominostars 16y ago
Nitpick noted, and duly edited! It just seems weird that he would compare schedules to make the point that he likes the kind of work he does better at Google. Lectures and office hours are a productive part of being a professor. He had some
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by dominostars 16y ago
This article reminds me of those weight loss infomercials: - In 'fat' mode, the video color is bad, and the person is frowning, sad. - In 'skinny' mode, the video color is clear, the person is smiling, and their complexion is better. This g
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by dominostars 16y ago
I like how he says: > Apart from these specific instances, I’m genuinely sorry for all the hateful speech and contempt directed towards individuals and groups just because their line of thought didn’t align with mine. And then he spends
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by dominostars 16y ago
I have reviewed or maintained the code of tens of other programmers and came out with your same conclusion. Writing code like that is acceptable if you know exactly what your users want, and you won't need to build any features on top of it
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by dominostars 16y ago
I was just pointing out that you don't need to know autorelease is used if you just know to retain anything that isn't a new/init/copy/etc. Also, you don't need to use autorelease, you can just have all your variables return copies. Obvio
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by dominostars 16y ago
In general, it was an interesting read even though there wasn't that much substance to it. This bit frustrated me: “We broke away from the equations of biology, all of which are sublinear. Every other creature gets slower as it gets bigger.
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by dominostars 16y ago
> "All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control," he said. "We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers." How is this a loss of control? Using technology to make our lives easier or
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by dominostars 16y ago
In ObjC I don't need to worry about whether someone else is using an object when I release it. Releasing an object doesn't free it unless no one else is retaining it. Dealing with this sounds like a nightmare in C.
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by dominostars 16y ago
The article complicates things by talking about 'autorelease' and '@property'. Neither of these concepts are necessary in understanding memory management in ObjC, they just add convenience to it.
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by dominostars 16y ago
Pretending to know the secret algorithm to small talk.
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by dominostars 16y ago
You work on versions, do you? After using it at my last job, I've found that my work flow completely depends on it. You can tell it was an application designed for the mac, not just by the way it looks, but by the way it works ('Reveal in F
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by dominostars 16y ago
One obvious limitation is you won't have Cocoa, or the frameworks built on top of it. Want to let the user take a picture using the iPhone's Camera? It only takes 2 lines of code, and it works exactly like the native app. Same goes for show
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by dominostars 16y ago
This is definitely an idea lots of nerds have, which is exactly why it shouldn't be shrugged off. There's a desire for nerds to socially interact with similar nerds, and by and large this has been accomplished by adding social features to t
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by dominostars 16y ago
Interesting how strongly they use users to remind other users to keep playing. It's not so different from Facebook, which will send you email reminders any time a user performs an action related to your profile. You may not like writing on
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by dominostars 16y ago
As someone, in their mid twenties, who is currently transitioning from a big company to a startup: The stability question will always be there, regardless of the existence of a bubble. With a startup, there's always a greater risk of losing
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by dominostars 16y ago
I took a very normal College career path: Go to internship/career fair -> Get an internship at a big company -> Get hired. The thing to remember is that you're not going to be applying as a tech lead, you'll be applying as an entry
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by dominostars 16y ago
If you're easily distracted, it doesn't matter what you're wasting time with. If it's not HN, then it's Reddit. If it's not Reddit, then it's Facebook. If it's not Facebook.. and on and on. I keep myself going by setting personal deadlines:

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