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inkaudio
13y ago
I believe in physics. Do you believe we understand everything about physics ? we don't. For example gravity, there still much to learn about the force behind gravity.
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inkaudio
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Yes, those best equipped ! But how do you get it equipped ? That's the issue. Yes, not everything survives. But those that survive have all the specialized equipment needed to survive because ?
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Don't underestimate natural selection. Animals need essential traits to survive at birth. Now consider that most animals are specialized to their environment, how did they get to that point ? What did an Eagle do before it eyes became
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inkaudio
13y ago
That is what I said. That is my point.
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Don't underestimate natural selection, specialization is more common than not. Most animals are so specialized to their environment it would be impossible for them to survive without these inborn essential traits. We can't demonst
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Exactly, survival for most animals are always based on their immediate ability to adapt, not the ability to adapt over thousands of years, that is the paradox of evolution. Animals supposedly evolved to have these specialized features essen
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inkaudio
13y ago
I love science & technology therefore I'm alarmed because so many scientist and technologist don't see the inherit paradox in evolution. Natural selection makes it virtually impossible for animals to adapt via the proposed mut
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Yes you are creating something out of chaos because you have an algorithm. No algorithm, no programming means you can't create.
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13y ago
Perhaps not, Solar app: http://thisissolar.com has very similar effects. It was not rejected and it is still in the app store. Off course it does not have the full marketing of Apple behind it, but still.
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inkaudio
14y ago
The key to proper analyst of data is deciphering what is correlation and what is causation. The article mentions that in Spotify’s home of origin Sweden, where it is extremely popular, majority of people stream music, and do not pay for ind
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-> Most of the channels were educational or news or other special interest... There was a lot of news and special interest but throwing Educational programming into the mix is not factually correct. I have two list, one from 2011 and on
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14y ago
Quality matters everywhere, quality matters on T.V. and online. 300 million is like the budget of a handful of popular T.V. shows. Game of Thrones has a budget of about 60 million a season, House of Cards cost about 100 million. 300 million
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The inevitable showdown: Twitter vs Twitter apps (2009)
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"This argument is wrong because it ignores the impact of war and corruption has on our economy. The economy can’t grow when trillions of dollars are lost to fighting wars and bailing out wall street. Inefficiency does not add value to socie
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There are plenty of studies that show users typically ignore anything that looks like an ad, google "ad blindness". Those ads on the right looks like the typical online banner ad, distracting. Even if you're designing for high ad viewership
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UI of Twitter's new 'Vine' app: Subtle Evolution
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How Wood Camera Became the #1 Paid iPhone App
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This is fine, but where’s the lyrics ? I’ll argue people want to see lyrics display inline when they do a lyric search. I understand licensing will be an issue with the major labels but Google could take a bottom’s up approach. Before Myspa
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14y ago
Not many people like you do, but reading a blog or magazine is not regulated to scene-obsessed teenagers. Moreover these so called scene obsessed readers contribute to the majority of sales. Comic book fans represent the majority that count
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The author makes the assumption that people use Comixology for discovery of new titles, but the vast majority do not. There are many blogs and magazines for that type of discovery. Comixology is used primaryly to buy and read what you've di
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I've learned not to work with entrepreneurs who do not understand the value of design and user experience. There are plenty of entrepreneurs who understand the value of ux/ui. My job is to design an a app that is not a pain to use, not exp
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Your paraphrasing is wrong, because he did not say Non-free services both platform and non-platform do not work. Fred was specifically referring to potential paid competitors to twitter, facebook and similar services. to illustrate: Fred: "
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Don't underestimate the amount of work, expertise and experience required to arrive at word lens, to date I've to yet to see this technology duplicated elsewhere. Google has acquire hire before recently with milk inc, I don't see why they c
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I conveyed this to the developers[1] a few months ago, this would be a great acquisition for the Google Glass project. [1] https://twitter.com/inkaudio/status/195677653049683969
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For a titanium example I recommend Wunderlist. It is used by millions of people on multiple platforms, I use it everyday and it works well. Moreover Wunderlist is a good example for hackers because it is open source: https://github.com/6wu
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Adobe offers their software at a much lower rate to high schools, collges and their students. The liberal arts classes with computers have Adobe suite. Web design teachers teach almost exclusively using Adobe software. If you are a high sch
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Correction: aptitude not amplitude.
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It does not have to be a lie, he could be a prodigious talent and not know it. Some people learn certian things much faster then the general population. He may have a naturally high amplitude for learning language, add a very efficient lear
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15y ago
This is how misnomers are created. "couple developers forked it within hours, and offered new versions for the world to install." A couple of developers did not fork Svbtle, only one developer copied the design but wrote original code. Dear
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15y ago
Exactly , his post is not objective. Front page of hackers news is essentially word of mouth marketing, which the author(Noah) says matters. Based on the data provided Noah does not know if the HN readers who signed up for the free accounts
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