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by edw 15y ago
This article is basically a ginormous infographic. I'm a design whore as much as the next designer, but I really don't see the point of most of these things. This particular one, it seems, is basically a distillation of the company's Crunch
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by edw 15y ago
They should find some better-read founders. There's a lot of pablum in this list, books that can be distilled to one or two sentences. For example, the E-Myth: "Think of your business as a franchise prototype: work on it, not in it." I
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by edw 15y ago
Android player…yes, one of the CEOs, during an interview said something like: You want apps? We're making an Android player thing… That'll give the Playbook "app tonnage," if that's your thing. The "app tonnage" comment was the dumbest thin
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by edw 15y ago
I pulled this rate out of my buttocks based on a very conservative estimate of the iPhone 4's behavior since I've gotten it. I'd be surprised if I'd actually restarted it more than twice a month; I was trying to give the commenter I was rep
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by edw 15y ago
While I enjoy uptime measured in years as much as the next Unix user, but I think the value of one month phone uptime (a rough estimate of mean time between iPhone reboots) vs. six month phone uptime is pretty meaningless to most people. Th
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by edw 15y ago
There was a recent essay taking Khan to task for what the essayist saw as superficiality in Khan's coverage of world history. I am interested to see how the Hacker News community assesses the quality of materials that are related to subject
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by edw 15y ago
I'm not attacking 37signals; I'm offering a nuanced opinion. Notice that I highly recommend much of their work. As for the examples I chose, I suppose it would have been better to choose blander ones, but no bland examples popped into my
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by edw 15y ago
The most recent investors would not have bought the stock if they had assumed that their investment would be worth less in the future, therefore, yes, they are valuing the company at $80bil or whatever the number is. This is unlike the "37s
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by edw 15y ago
The 37signals folks are interesting: as product designers and product managers, I have the utmost respect for them. As observers of the VC scene, their opinions and observations are often useless. That said, if you don't want to go the VC r
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by edw 15y ago
If the author had been a Lisp hacker, the conclusion of this amusing polemic would have ended with the announcement of a project to create the One True Dialect. I don't see why he doesn't, though based on others' comments, it's apparently b
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Hollowing out the ivory tower(spiked-online.com)
2 points by edw 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw 15y ago
I don't, unfortunately, have any special insight into the voting system. I knew that it was downvoted more than once because my re-upvote didn't turn the comment black, meaning that its score was less than zero.
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by edw 15y ago
I find it depressing that your comment was down-voted by at least two people — two people who, by virtue of their karma, are supposed to somehow have an understanding of what a productive comment is and what it isn't. The response your comm
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by edw 15y ago
I think there's no question that Dropbox seriously dropped the ball, but as programmers we should be extremely concerned about the prospect of companies being held liable not just for actual damages but theoretically possible and potential
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by edw 15y ago
I'm not sure what you think I mean. People fighting for liberty are fighting i.e. killing and and maiming, not things we normally consider good. Yet we — often rightfully, I think — justify such actions. My attitude is mostly one of practic
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by edw 15y ago
As a designer, I'm heartened to see that the Google logo is actually smaller in the new design. I want to buy a drink for whomever managed to get the powers that be on board with that; it's quite an accomplishment. (I wonder if it tested be
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by edw 15y ago
Do you feel oppressed in Germany, given that you're not free to wave a Nazi flag in public and espouse certain political beliefs? No? Why not? I don't really begrudge the Germans this law of theirs. I am not going to try to draw an analogy
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by edw 15y ago
I hope that you will realize that, when I say this that I am not being a cynic: Your suggestion that people start thinking about what's what for the country instead of themselves is naive in the extreme. It's quite possible that the people
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by edw 15y ago
"Show me pictures or it didn't happen." ;)
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by edw 15y ago
What bothers me — far more than the banality of Bob's rules for success — is the WSJ's use of two spaces after a full stop. Do these guys think they're publishing with a typewriter?
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by edw 15y ago
I'm going to go ahead and answer your question: I don't know if there's room for a product that grows with you, but I don't think such products are feasible. I worked with a large personal finance software company at a time when they were e
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by edw 15y ago
The tone of the comments on the linked page are overwhelmingly shrill, angry, hostile, and even conspiratorial e.g. "That makes this problem even more cynical[sic]…" And the title of the HN submission ("Chrome Disses Developers") is little
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by edw 15y ago
If you find yourself in SF between Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate bridge, you should check out the Long Now Museum. It's a charming little tribute to impractical arty earnest nerd idealism. It's not a museum in the traditional sense,
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by edw 15y ago
A bit of a meta-comment: This article is so poorly edited and — as a result — so overly long that it makes me wonder if IT World encourages its writers to blather on for pages in order to gin up page views. In my case, it didn't quite wor
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by edw 15y ago
Beyond the self-serving statements that most everyone involved in this story are making, there's a real issue here. That Silverlight has (or had) vulnerabilities of the sort that make Microsoft hesitant to implement WebGL is ironic, but it'
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by edw 15y ago
I don't understand what you see in this technology. It doesn't take a genius — or a computer for that matter — to figure out that the post was emotionally tone deaf. The axes used by EffectCheck don't make sense to me. For example, can a po
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The Design Dilemma: Dismay vs. Delight(core77.com)
3 points by edw 15y ago|0 comments
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by edw 15y ago
I hadn't gotten around to commenting, and I'm glad it took me a while, because while I first went to Codeplane and set up a trial account, pushed my Github private repos therem and downgraded my account from a paid to an unpaid account — th
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by edw 15y ago
Only with the utmost studied concern for spontaneous authenticity.
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by edw 15y ago
Yes, the parents in A Clockwork Orange ! Or pretty much everyone in the "It's a Good Life" episode of Twilight Zone : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Its_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Z... That episode also made it into the Twilight Zone mov

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