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by gujk 15y ago
Why? A company can expand its user base by reaching out to non-users who can help fix mistakes.
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by gujk 15y ago
Or true Scotsmen.
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by gujk 15y ago
Artificial deadline to instill a sense of urgency leveraged by the call to action.
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by gujk 15y ago
Death is not the only measure of quality of life. ER docs are not empowered to negotiate fees with their patients in the moments before service either.
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by gujk 15y ago
If the Facebook's new designers do nothing new at all, but they hold the line against Google-style insane UX-destroying experimentation, they will be incredibly valuable.
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by gujk 15y ago
One flaw with Gandi's mail feature is that new accounts do not get wildcard accounts (forward all @example.com mail to.one address): you need to register each email address you want individually. Apparently they couldn't handle spam filteri
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by gujk 15y ago
Google doesn't need CarrierIQ because they have their own spyware, such as in-the-background location tracking if you ever turn on the GPS or ask for location even once while running Maps or Plus, and of course because they mediate all your
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by gujk 15y ago
But without extensive testing, which popularity generates, it is hard to have confidence that the striving was successful. In other words, popularity narrows the confidence interval around the measured and reported level of security.
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by gujk 15y ago
How does a memory resident database satisfy the D in ACID?
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by gujk 15y ago
It's a tech/UX/product demo. Consumers outside of startup Valley aren't going to understand the concept or remember the silly name. If Dwolla succeeds, it will be getting bought and helping deploy the next iteration of online bill pay, whi
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by gujk 15y ago
That's not secrecy to protect national security, that's secrecy to protect corruption and oppress citizens.
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by gujk 15y ago
Is there any evidence that the Iraq War was anything but intentional by the President? Secrecy was used to mislead the public , but the entire Administration was hired based on their commitment to finish GHW Bush's war.
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by gujk 15y ago
Turing died because his lifestyle was illegal and he was being punished for it, not because it was a secret.
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by gujk 15y ago
Yes. Instead of responsive design, Google is throwing PC users under the bus to push for and invest in Android and tablets.
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by gujk 15y ago
Why doesn't this work on https://encrypted.google.com ?
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by gujk 15y ago
That's what s/he said.
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by gujk 15y ago
When they want to draw attention to something, they just open a giant popular div. I don't know whether Google or Facebook started it, but now I have to wade through a thicket of popups whenever I return to a product after a few weeks away.
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by gujk 15y ago
I did it. I logged out of Gmail/G+ in my primary browser, to unbreak Search, and I use a private window for Gmail.
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by gujk 15y ago
Google puts G+ in your searh results, with no opt out. G+ is fine on its own, but the creepy invasion across other products is annoying. Google used to be the classy alternative on the web. Now they are trying to out-mySpace Facebook.
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by gujk 15y ago
Metrics and A/B testing were replaced by HiPPO and Facebook freakout/brain-drain at Google a year or two ago.
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by gujk 15y ago
Google has been trying to take over the web since Zuck was in high school. Look at when OpenID/OAuth came out.
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by gujk 15y ago
I think you lost yourself in your attempt at extreme sarcasm.
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by gujk 15y ago
The consumers are still here, on iPads.
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by gujk 15y ago
You can attach a keyboard and mouse and display to a tablet.
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by gujk 15y ago
You are overlooking the 50%+ of people who are not mentally competent to handle a modern PC. People who haven't upgraded their Windows to SP1 because they don't want to mess with it, who dedicate 60% of their CPU time and screen real estate
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by gujk 15y ago
Did you miss tokenadult's list of many technologist politicians? Also, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Biss
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by gujk 15y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Biss
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by gujk 15y ago
Per the other big thread of the day, such a lifestyle is reducing Amit Gupta's life expectancy.
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by gujk 15y ago
Advertising and upsell on the website features.
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by gujk 15y ago
Radioshack stopped doing that a while back.

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