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by droob 14y ago
But all the _people_ are in those "walled gardens," and if you're not trying to create a permanent archive of your words for the ages, it makes more sense to chose the platform that makes it easier to interact with an audience, rather than
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by droob 14y ago
This must be the Twitter analog to a Voight-Kampff test, because "social CRM" and "social influence ranking" seem to me to be the fuel for spambots, mindless marketing accounts, and other general filth. The MBA behind this plan would probab
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by droob 14y ago
Be warned that this is a very clunky e-book port -- they don't make much effort to adapt the sidebars and quotes to .mobi format, so you end up reading into the middle of them without realizing it.
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by droob 14y ago
Whimsy goes a long way. People own plenty of things with dubious utility.
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by droob 14y ago
I've been staring at it for a while and the best I can do is: 'Face.com: Free "Detect Faces in Pictures" Alternative', which is still a barely-syntactical Markov chain of press release words.
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by droob 14y ago
Once the user base is big enough, that's the main draw.
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by droob 14y ago
I'll take a lighter, cooler laptop over a "hackable" one any day, if that's the tradeoff. You notice things like weight, fan noise, and heat every day, but it's easy to get hung up on the idea that someday you might need to swap hard drives
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by droob 14y ago
I'm ADHD too, actually, and my biggest problem is being paralyzed by worrying about which task to choose. Once I get past the first five minutes of HEY HEY GO LOOK IN THE FRIDGE AND HEY CHECK EMAIL ONE MORE TIME, it's pretty easy to get in
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by droob 14y ago
Want a non-system that's good enough for most of us? 1. Sit down and work on one thing, and nothing else, for two hours. 2. Repeat. Prioritization is such a tiny part of success, creation, or work. Just do something, and keep doing somethin
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by droob 14y ago
How is it that "keep a blog about passive income" is such a common path to living off passive income?
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by droob 14y ago
For those of you complaining about the quickstart up-and-running wiki tutorial, don't forget you can always read the related RFCs in the devchannel backgroup IRC log server dump.
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by droob 15y ago
We need a word other than "infographic" for these things. A good infographic is more than big numbers next to pictures -- in a successful design, the images do most of the heavy lifting in communicating the shape or trends of the informatio
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by droob 15y ago
That first one has some serious hierarchy problems, and the type is really hard to read.
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by droob 15y ago
There's really no implied reciprocity to open source, though. Humans like giving gifts. It makes the work more enjoyable.
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by droob 15y ago
Panglossian!
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by droob 15y ago
It's a little like wondering "what music to listen to."
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by droob 15y ago
The fact that MG chose a Mercedes and not, say, a stretch Hummer, is important -- a Mercedes is (mostly) expensive because it's made with care and precision, not because it's an abstract status symbol.
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by droob 15y ago
Self-directed study can be great, but it can also lead you into intellectual ratholes. It's important to have regular challenges to your thinking. For most people, the dialogue, structure, and deadlines of a college course make all the diff
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by droob 15y ago
Orthodoxy is a smaller jail than any software system.
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by droob 15y ago
"Of course, all major OEMs are going to want the Windows 8 logo." In a sentence, this is how broken the current OEM landscape is.
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by droob 15y ago
I don't think users think their data is secret. I think they assume nobody will care enough, or be malicious enough, to seek it out and exploit it. There's an expectation of courtesy that (mistakenly, sadly) gets ported over from meatspace.
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by droob 15y ago
So what refinements could Apple make, or what features could they add, without stepping on someone's toes?