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by ethank 15y ago
Mashable is kind of shameless with the "advertorials" lately aren't they? I said about QR codes on Twitter a while ago: "QR codes: like using a megaphone to seduce someone. The ugliest, stupidest, most useless (and used less) tech in a whil
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by ethank 15y ago
If you are interested in eye tracking and HCI it's worth reading up on saccades ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade ) and eye tracking ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking ) I didn't do much HCI but worked with some HCI labs that
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by ethank 15y ago
I love this approach. You can only learn by launching. Congrats on the launch Josh.
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by ethank 15y ago
It's like a time/money offset: waste mine to justify that you get paid for yours.
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by ethank 15y ago
A spreadsheet doesn't waste time in the negotiation dance. I'll gladly pay for convenience and directness, which I do frequently. Think of it this way, given the choice between paying X for a service, or having to "Call for pricing..." whic
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by ethank 15y ago
At 13 I was interning at our local newspaper and they were running 0.91 beta kernel of Linux on the machine that extracted data from a PDP-11 (via serial) and parsed it for saving to the Mac's for QuarkXPress. My first Unix experience was d
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by ethank 15y ago
"Quick quiz: can your entire sales staff be replaced by a nicely formatted HTML table? If the answer is 'yes', then you are subtracting value and wasting my time." My god that is good. I spent two weeks about three years ago going around th
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by ethank 15y ago
Does anyone know what their PR did to piss off Om so much? http://twitter.com/#!/om/status/106833400056389633
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by ethank 15y ago
At some point when the statute ends I have to do a post about firing yourself. I did that in January (in a sense).
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by ethank 15y ago
I'd love to know how they connected Graphite to Geckoboard.
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by ethank 15y ago
I don't think it nonsense. I think there is a threshold where the maintenance/anxiety from the provided options exceeds the value of the service. I think its a sweetspot for any service actually (not just Google+ and Facebook).
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by ethank 15y ago
Something I've been thinking about: at what point does the pain of maintenance of a service outweigh its usefulness? Between Facebook's new privacy settings, Google+ Circles, etc, these services have become much more about protecting and cu
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by ethank 15y ago
Basically it means we should trust the "away" message, but still can drop a line if you want. Away could also mean "mentally busy" or "on the phone" If I could trust the away messages, as a team lead I always had a status board as to where
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by ethank 15y ago
I think that this is mostly to force people toward AppleID/iCloud as a universal method of authentication, as well as a reaction to the Germany and South Korea lawsuits over location data. It makes sense that Apple wants iCloud to be the de
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Why You Must Code(blackrimglasses.com)
1 points by ethank 15y ago|0 comments
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by ethank 15y ago
I keep a work log using Day One on the Mac/iOS. Mostly so I can remember who I called, changes I made to code, etc. I rarely if ever look back on it. That being said, I never delete anything and have files going back 18 years on my Drobo, s
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by ethank 15y ago
For a number of years I had a team in five offices in four timezones, so asynchronous working became the norm. We used Skype however. The only "rule" that needed to be enforced was "Away means Away, Available means Available" A lot of realt
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by ethank 15y ago
When I'm coding I listen to movie soundtracks. When I'm doing emails its usually vintage punk music. When I'm in a really really bad mood its really really fast punk. The Lost soundtracks are really good for coding actually.
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by ethank 15y ago
Android is a component, not an end consumer product
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by ethank 15y ago
I hate articles like this. It's like saying "this just in, four cylinder Yamaha motors are selling much better than BMW 328i's" Of course they are! Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi use Yamaha motors.
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by ethank 15y ago
Given the ability to suggest things, users will always demand a faster horse, more sleep, more sex and to lose weight. Basically its saying, don't solicit opinions because it all normalizes to "I want things to be better"
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by ethank 15y ago
Mint removed features about a year ago where you could do more granular filtering of transactions, and started pulling the description of transactions from different fields than they used to. So for instance, it was impossible to filter my
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by ethank 15y ago
The aesthetics of steam turbines fit right into the Apple ethos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dampfturbine_Laeufer01.jpg
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Toroid!
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The Microlithic Revolution(blackrimglasses.com)
5 points by ethank 15y ago|1 comments
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The implication of what the change in the "from" affordance meant to the user. When we switched from "no-reply" to an actual address (help@artistdomain.com), and we couldn't respond, people got angry.
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by ethank 15y ago
Uh, no. Read the agreement, no indication that pricing must match, Apple just wants 30%
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"Apple's app policies" pretty much state if you play in our ecosystem, you do so entirely to keep it holistic. Of course they are a business and these policies ensure that their "walled garden" is maintained, much in the same way Amazon's e
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We were a six person department managing 600 websites, for musicians. The worst were for sites that catered to older clienteles. The issue was staffing mostly. Unsolicited demo issues secondly and "faster horse" syndrome thirdly.
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by ethank 15y ago
The no-reply email is like sending your error logs to /dev/null THAT BEING SAID I used to be responsible for 600 active websites, and when we switched to using a help-desk system for auto-sent emails we broke things and had to go back to no

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