hullo

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by hullo 11y ago
Fair enough, an experiment.
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by hullo 11y ago
I think part of it too is feeling qualified to (publicly & prominently) judge fiction, which doesn't come as naturally to as many folks as judging "ideas" on a nonfiction list like this may – & particularly with the e
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by hullo 11y ago
the target audience for the tool?
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by hullo 11y ago
That's such a natural reaction to draw given the setup, that even the author of the article draws it, if one reads through.
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Barnes and Noble Releases New Waterproof Nook Glowlight Plus(nook.barnesandnoble.com)
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by hullo 11y ago
Well, it's also a lot easier to validate their choices - you and anyone else who are fluent in English, Russian or a number of other languages can go pick up a copy of Voices from Chernobyl, say, and give it a try. (It's amazing.)
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by hullo 11y ago
I don't see how "literary circles" should be criticized for choosing works that they believe have merit in their own field. Nobody was up in arms earlier about the chemistry award going to people who weren't "hous
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by hullo 11y ago
This is actually only the second time in 12 years that the favorite per the Ladbrokes odds has gotten the award, the last being Pamuk in 2006. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123058/who-will-win-nobel...
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by hullo 11y ago
by Google ads do you mean ads on Google? Or AdSense ads placed across the web (AFS? AFC?)? or do you mean AdSense + Doubleclick (DFA, DFP, ...) + AdExchange + AdMob + I could go on for a long while. Bottom line is google, more than anyone
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by hullo 11y ago
We use an original generation Fire Stick specifically for Prime streaming (everything else is on Apple TV), and it's an okay product, but Amazon's dual goal to provide free streaming while also driving purchases makes it a flawed
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by hullo 11y ago
That really depends on what you mean by that. With the initial release of the kindle, Amazon was selling major publisher new release ebooks for less than $10 by simply eating the difference between their wholesale cost and the markdown. A
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by hullo 11y ago
Logic actually suggests that publishers will optimize prices to benefit themselves - that they are still in business & increasingly profitable many years after their imminent demise was announced seems to suggest that they are not makin
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by hullo 11y ago
Buried paragraph at the end of the article that discounts the entire piece (as a piece about readers rather than as a piece about publishers ): "It is also possible that a growing number of people are still buying and reading e-book
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by hullo 11y ago
That's where it started. Open a marketing message, look at the from line. If they're implementing it, you'll see "Marketer name" <marketer@emailaddress.com> Unsubscribe
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by hullo 11y ago
One can easily take him at his word that he did not expect to be pinned to #1 on the app sales charts, because that would have been a crazy thing to expect. With that came the kind of attention that he's show drives him crazy in the p
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by hullo 11y ago
Just one clarification, and it will seem picky, but while Marco's site does have ads, Marco-the-person is in no sense "reliant" on ad income, as an early Tumblr employee who did well in the IPO and then didn't blow it on
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by hullo 11y ago
I'm presenting arguments based on what the author says, and you're presenting arguments based on the title and embedded quotes. All one has to do is read the piece. It's really not that hard!
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by hullo 11y ago
The moral argument is presented in the piece, sure, but it's not agreed with, if you manage to read to what he's actually saying.
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by hullo 11y ago
Gruber isn't presenting his argument (such as a tweet so simple could be considered an argument) to end consumers - he's attempting to use his influence on (iOS) mobile developers who are creating content blockers - and this is an
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by hullo 11y ago
The moral argument isn't presented in the piece, so it's not really fair to ascribe it to the author. He's saying it doesn't matter. They're making a "poisoned well" argument that there will be no functi
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by hullo 11y ago
Well, yes, but the thing is while we care, and might want to craft a whitelist or put consideration into our choices, the majority of folks are going to search for ad blocker, choose the first one, and start enjoying the web without ads. T
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by hullo 11y ago
It's pretty clear you didn't read the article. You should try it! I think he agrees with you.
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by hullo 11y ago
I like to joke too, but not really, if you're serious - Jobs always hated things until he could claim that Apple reinvented them. Even Gruber was making fun of it yesterday. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015
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by hullo 11y ago
If you see a stylus, you know (there's a video with whiskey-smooth voiceover coming)
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by hullo 11y ago
If you're going to be using the web and Microsoft apps exclusively, it does, sure.
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by hullo 11y ago
& just announcing "The Smart Keyboard", smart case built just for iPad Pro with keyboard built in. "Unlike any keyboard you've ever used before." With Apple Fabric! And an Apple Dome Switch!
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by hullo 11y ago
Not only that, but I was pretty sure I had heard of them.
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by hullo 11y ago
Worth noting article is by Steven Johnson, author most recently of How We Got to Now. Bonus points for Walter Benjamin reference in the lead.
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by hullo 11y ago
Now I don't read the oatmeal so am not really qualified to comment on its content, but what you just described (content based on timely matters) seems like the very definition of the editorial cartoons I grew up reading. I imagine the
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by hullo 11y ago
I think a big tell here is that when someone is talking about a certain subset of the reddit userbase that acts in a certain way, that if one reads that and thinks the person was talking about everyone on reddit, then one may actually fall

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