ja2ke

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by ja2ke 15y ago
Saying "This experiment uses experimental features" presented as a negative is odd, that's all.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Sometimes these attitudes start cropping up in large numbers because you're a shitty boss, so I guess watch out for that too.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
There are probably more great engineers in the world than great chefs.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
It's often easier to find the review form on the App Store than it is to find a human-answered "contact us" form or address for the developer. When a user writes a shitty review, they know for a fact the developer will read it, whereas many
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by ja2ke 15y ago
There is a difference though - the iPad was built by Apple to be bought as a piece of multipurpose hardware (once you buy it, Apple is happy, has made a profit from you) while the Fire was built by Amazon to be a cheap window into Amazon st
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I don't know if that's true. There are a lot of professionals in the visual arts who need monstrous, component-driven, customizable workhorse computers to do what they do, and that won't change any time soon because their job depends on wor
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I think Apple likes that their computers are used to make the content that people use their computers to consume. I think it will take them a while to give that up. I also think that, eventually, they WILL give that up -- it just won't be f
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by ja2ke 15y ago
You probably meant "HNfluence."
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by ja2ke 15y ago
They have a "is your thermostat Nest compatible" guide and video that isnt too unfriendly. http://store.nest.com/#compatibility
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Location based reminders are a feature in iOS 5 across all phones. My vanilla 4 can do it, so presumably my old (and iOS 5 supported) 3GS can too. Siri itself is the only (big?) iOS 5 feature that is hardware locked to the 4S.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
"Dropbox" is becoming a verb. They need to keep that up, so people ask if their device has Dropbox, or more appropriately (if incorrectly), ask if it "can Dropbox?" It is a feature, a service, but so is Netflix, and Dropbox isn't encumbered
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Google seems to care. You can see it here: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ An optimist would say that's exposed so you can wipe it clean, a pessimist would say that's exposed so you can refine your profile to be better advertised t
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by ja2ke 15y ago
This isn't really a mask in the more commonly perceived digital graphics sense, in it's not actually creating transparent negative space around your image. The "masked" area is still a solid color, in this case white. It would be more appr
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Carmack on Rage in his own words, when giving the QuakeCon 2011 keynote (most important bit is probably after the ellipses): "If you've seen me I've been spending a lot of time over there [at the demo stations] just watching people playing,
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Post-return-of-Jobs Apple (and really Apple throughout its history, though more cleanly and clearly recently) has, for all its success and all its innovation, been very very traditional at its core: It sells hard goods to public consumers i
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by ja2ke 15y ago
"The iPad and Kindle Fire are emblematic of their makers. Apple’s primary business is selling devices for a healthy profit, and they back that up with a side business of selling digital content for those devices. Amazon’s primary business i
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by ja2ke 15y ago
He won't benefit, if history serves. He's traditionally been harmed by buggy X.0 redesigns, so he wants it deployed ASAP so the big bugs are fixed by the Christmas rush.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
"They'll have no problems opening their own internet channels." I think that Netflix (and Hulu) show that part of the appeal of online content consumption is that the content and the curation/presentation don't have to be intrinsically tied
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by ja2ke 15y ago
He looks ridiculous, sure, but you can't look at that image with the huge stage decoration and the jean patches and think its any time but the 90s.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I think huge jean patches are valid 90s style. Maybe not as late as 1997, but they undeniably pair pretty well with the huge teal "Developers" jotted script marquee behind him. It was a different time.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
From this http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6471/the_valve_way_gab... it sounds like their employees shuffle between projects and teams pretty frequently. I imagine some employees are more mobile than others, but from the sounds of mo
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Thanks! I know that IV buys patents up and then doles them out to litigation-only spinoffs, but I didn't know how far down the line Webvention was.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I'm confused on this -- Is Webvention another IV spinoff like Lodsys, or are they an actual independent patent holding company?
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by ja2ke 15y ago
EB Games (née Electronics Boutique), Software Etc, Funcoland, and international chains like Gamesworld were the competition, but they were all bought up by or merged with GameStop in the mid '90s through the '00s. (edit: I'd also originally
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Yep. If they have to extend it, 5-6 days would make a lot more sense for that exact reason. Nobody can catch up online anymore.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
I read the article. This thread started with "S3/AWS aside." I think "Amazon" isn't a platform because it's not a single thing ("Facebook"), but Amazon offers a number of services which can be used in concert. Maybe those are actually the s
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Fulfillment seems like a service. You don't build a business on someone else's warehouse, you use their warehouse to support your business. Unless someone's writing a "Fulfillment by Amazon Client" and selling it, I guess.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
True. Sorry for my lame, sarcastic hyperbole.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
They're solving that by no longer releasing products.
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by ja2ke 15y ago
Nintendo has disregarded non-gaming software, especially software aimed at connectivity, or at software as a service, pretty consistently. The WiiU and the 3DS don't seem to have made any advances in that department. While the WiiU won't us

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