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by easp 14y ago
Yeah, they are using an annoying tool called onSwipe that is supposed to deliver a delightful experience on the iPad. In reality, it delivers an aggravating experience on the iPad. I don't know why sites still use them. I had to switch to t
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by easp 14y ago
It's a destructive process, soooo, you might want to hold out for a while.
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by easp 14y ago
Hmm, maybe start with the idea that the world isn't all about what works for you?
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by easp 14y ago
A property of the English language? I don't think so. Perhaps you were referring to a dominant tendency English-speaking cultures?
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by easp 14y ago
Well, for a start, did you look at any of her other blog posts, or did you just assume that all she does on her blog is complain about oppression and attack men with absurd stereotypes?
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by easp 14y ago
Why wouldn't it be an either-or proposition? It is clear that Apple went to great lengths to fit a 15" retina display to a powerful laptop while maintaining battery-life and trimming over a pound from the weight. What, concretely, do you th
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by easp 14y ago
I wouldn't call the stimulus a top-down approach, and I thin it's greatest "failing" was that there wasn't enough of it, first because no one really appreciated how bad things were, and then because one party decided to put party before cou
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by easp 14y ago
Maybe you are too young to remember, but once upon a time, there was this thing called economic growth...
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by easp 14y ago
All the things you list are strongly influenced by Moore's law and things with a similar trajectory. Batteries are on nothing like the same trajectory. I think the average rate of improvement is 10%/year. Not bad, but nothing compared to d
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by easp 14y ago
I suspect that the entry level Retina pro is only as "cheap" as it is because Apple is assure of capturing all the upgrade revenue. Further, if they were offering an upgradable model in addition to the current retina option, in addition to
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by easp 14y ago
It's kind of lame, but it was clear within weeks after launch that the original iPad was gimped for RAM. Apple manged to make it bearable for a while, but iOS 5 on the original iPad has always been hitchy with a crashy Mobile Safari, so it
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by easp 14y ago
You know what? Grapes grow in clusters. But yeah, I still want Raspberry Pi
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by easp 14y ago
And yet, they have all these free apps...
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by easp 14y ago
Huh? Sidekick was a well established preexisting brand.
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by easp 14y ago
Ahhhh, o-chem, how much I learned. How much I've forgotten...
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by easp 14y ago
This is currently the weakest link in the overall Apple experience, and it gets even worse if you want to use, say, Google Contacts and Calendar.
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by easp 14y ago
Also, the loss of wetlands is a huge environmental negative in other ways. The oceans are in serious trouble, and that trouble often starts at the margins between land and water. Also, cheap natural gas is helping fuel recovery of tar sand
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by easp 14y ago
I can't speak to Ive's personality in particular, but many product designers view their work as inherently collaborative.
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by easp 14y ago
You think that innovation, whatever the hell that is, doesn't require a lot of incremental optimizations? As has been endlessly observed, the Mac drew heavily on the innovative ideas at Xerox PARC, but it added many refinements, including a
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by easp 14y ago
Does LXC have a way to control allocations of the RAM based block cache on a container by container basis, or can an very active container end up monopolizing it?
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by easp 14y ago
That's fine, but then it also reduces the addressable market for Facebook's advertising offerings. And lets face it, things don't look good if both GM and an independent business don't have enough of a clue to do a successful FB marketing c
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by easp 14y ago
I suppose I could get a blog post out of this, but I can't be bothered, so: Please learn to use a phone to make a voice call. I value effective written communication, but part of effective communication is understanding your audience, and i
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by easp 14y ago
It really depends. Yes, if you have a good idea about what you want to do, find a job doing that and give notice. If you are uncertain, and your current employment situation is feeding that uncertainty, it might be better to get out. I sa
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by easp 14y ago
A few suggestions, not necessarily mutually exclusive: 1. Start doing what you want to do at work. Don't waste time in BS meetings, go talk to potential customers or partners yourself, build what you think is interesting/valuable. 2. Change
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by easp 14y ago
Meh. I'll believe it when I see it. Apple already has an iPad Mini, only they call it an iPod Touch. It is more portable than a 7" tablet, cheaper to make and by most indications, they sold more of them over the holidays than amazon sold K
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by easp 14y ago
Because some people realize that money is just a tool. They may prefer to get paid to work on something they are passionate about than get paid more for something they aren't. Put another way, if you are going to end up working over a week
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by easp 14y ago
This is just silly. There are many many people who work in exploitive jobs, most don't have reasonable alternatives. In silicon valley, there are likely many engineers who work at exploitive jobs. They likely have reasonable alternatives, b
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by easp 14y ago
There are legitimate reasons for people to learn to program that don't involve being interviewed by you for a job, just as there are legitimate reasons for learning to write that don't involve writing sonnets. Similarly, there are different
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by easp 14y ago
You know the best way to do that? Keep it simple. I think the people who are most likely to worry up front about a plan for migrating off of Heroku has a great deal of overlap with the sort of people who will make migrating off Heroku diff
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by easp 14y ago
I agree. Think about what "too much" Heroku spend is. Think about what level of adoption/success it will take to reach that much Heroku spend. Then consider if you actually get to that level of adoption, are your Heroku costs really going t

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