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by ethank 15y ago
If anyone hasn't read Understanding Comics, it's a fantastic book. http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-M... And for the HN set, it is actually really good for UX inspiration.
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by ethank 15y ago
I went to a Waldorf type school (called a multi-year back when I was in elementary school). My classroom was 90 kids, grades K-3 in a room that was four classrooms with walls knocked down. No desks, self-directed curriculum, etc. I was in a
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by ethank 15y ago
I would have loved to see Jobs' comments about Yahoo. He likely would have been so apoplectic he wouldn't be able to speak. His meetings with record labels are kind of legendary for this very reason.
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by ethank 15y ago
RAM and i/o will certainly make the biggest difference for the average person or engineer. That and HID's and your display. My computer before this one at its core was not the latest/greatest Mac Pro, but I had upgraded parts (RAM, video, H
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by ethank 15y ago
Shouldn't it be worth it to decrease friction in something you are spending 8-10 hours a day on? Personally I can't stand when I run into the physical/computational limitations of a system I'm on. I also can't stand it when someone on my te
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by ethank 15y ago
I quantify successful is we used it as the backbone of a campaign for one of the biggest bands and the world and saw very little usage.
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by ethank 15y ago
Somewhere I have a 30 page report from an executive in a media company on why QR codes are the next big thing, because they are big in Japan. If there was any red flag for me it was the fact that those that didn't know consumer habits, tech
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by ethank 15y ago
This culture at Microsoft was captured nicely in Douglas Coupland's book Microserfs.
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by ethank 15y ago
New product that Bram worked on I believe. My sister is doing marketing on it.
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by ethank 15y ago
I think the biggest problem for me is the assumption that there needs to exist a mapping between First/Last name and identity. Its the abutment of two constructs made arbitrary by the media (names and physical self), with the assumption tha
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by ethank 15y ago
Why is identity tied to a name? Identity is such a fluid construct, and the arbitrary forcing of it into First/Surname seems on one hand anglocentric, and on another hand, trying to impose on online identity the vestiges of real-world ident
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by ethank 15y ago
I used to do a lot with small regional papers (I worked for Freedom Communications). They are a tough sell. Super slim margins, very reliant on and subject to the whims of the local economy and were completely disrupted by national (or mult
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by ethank 15y ago
Who isn't letting you decide? But as an app developer the screen war makes for pain. The UX gets different (if not more difficult) as you increase screen size. A good app UX has to account for modes of operation.
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by ethank 15y ago
Agreed, he seems like he is driving for simplification and focus, which is never a bad thing.
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by ethank 15y ago
That doesn't address the question. The nexus S was and is a bear to use. Your thumb can't cover the width of the screen and the usable arc in one finger operation doesn't give you 100% coverage.
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by ethank 15y ago
I did a whole post about how Google needs to head over to Pixar and borrow the seminal book "The Illusion of Life" by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. Learn some animation ( http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2009/11/29/the-illusion-of-sm... )
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by ethank 15y ago
4.6" screen? Do they not understand user experience at all? The arms race on screen sizes is getting ridiculous. It's like having a paperback book in your pocket. Why can't they increase pixel density but keep it in a dimension good for one
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by ethank 15y ago
More interesting than the holistic ecosystem/platform war is who among these four will join efforts to counter the other two?
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by ethank 15y ago
Sure, because a 200-800 dollar spend is how we honor fallen CEO's. When a band breaks up or a musician dies, the run on music is to the tune of 9.99, and usually less because they sell them as loss leaders.
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by ethank 15y ago
This is beautiful. We did similar stuff using a Flash globe a long while ago. I know that a firm I worked with did this for Bob Dylan's site as well. If animated, it'd make a good lobby visualization somewhere.
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by ethank 15y ago
Why are you on a computer at 9:30PM PST on a Saturday night? Probably because balance is something we all should aspire to?
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by ethank 15y ago
The telling thing is: it's existed for years with Mobile Me. Reading List isn't new.
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by ethank 15y ago
Re RIAA: I agree. I'm no fan. But what I said was that the point of trade organizations was to ensure collective rights while avoiding collusion. That is the POINT, that isn't what they always do. Sometimes they just hide collusion under th
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by ethank 15y ago
I submit to you this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industry_trade_groups_i... "They're in it for lawsuit money, and they could care less about anything else. And I doubt the artists' contracts stipulate anything about royalties on
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by ethank 15y ago
What is your opinion on other trade associations?
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by ethank 15y ago
Considering the fact that the very reason that the RIAA exists is because of the government (collusion/anti-trust laws prevent labels from working together directly on things like pricing) and as a lobby organization, this doesn't seem that
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by ethank 15y ago
Reading List doesn't have an API, so for the moment it doesn't come close to what instapaper provides in terms of instapaper and third party apps.
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by ethank 15y ago
I sat next to Woz during the keynote where the iPod with video was introduced (I believe the event where Madonna was called, as I was working on her project at the time). The guy had such enthusiasm for everything around him, especially whi
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by ethank 15y ago
It would seriously make me vomit and be in awe if you could play these sequences back in the AlloSphere at UCSB: http://www.allosphere.ucsb.edu/
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by ethank 15y ago
He has his own iPad (a first generation WiFi only) because we wanted to lock it down so he couldn't delete apps, etc. He uses it for reading practice, coloring, watching movies, playing music. It's been great for cognitive development, lett

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