jasontsui

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by jasontsui 5y ago
Given the timelines this is happening along, it would not be surprising if we end up with a middle of the road solution that involves some kind of road marker/beacon standard to provide points of reference for these systems. It only to
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by jasontsui 5y ago
I think there is a broader food education issue in the US beyond nutrition- folks simply dont know what to buy, cook and eat, over the course of a life time. The quick fix is a fad diet which comes with instructions and recipes, but these u
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by jasontsui 11y ago
The author is trying to get on the outrage train when there is no compelling reason for it. The college kids he cites? A project with 2 likes. Splitting a Papa Johns pizza? Killer use case. OP seems to be grasping at straws to find concrete
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by jasontsui 12y ago
Hm - a lot of comments here seem to suggest that your prank ethics are sound- but I think a lot has changed in recent years. With the proliferation of Nathan for You, #goating, College Humor prank wars, youtube shows, etc - when weird thing
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by jasontsui 12y ago
Other than chalking it up to Elon being an absurdly talented superhuman, I'd venture a guess that these industries move at a slower pace. The ground shifts every day on the web, which means day to day leadership is crucial. I'd im
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by jasontsui 12y ago
Isn't this more of the very same smarmy navel gazing bullshit OP has taken up arms against? There are plenty of designers doing meaningful work in various fields. The big red flag in this article is the implicit bullshit! Who said desi
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by jasontsui 12y ago
Lets not take ourselves so seriously. Lets not let YO be representative of what investors, entrepreneurs, developers and technologists are doing as a whole, despite its outsize media coverage. Lets remember that quirky, weird, seemingly use
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by jasontsui 12y ago
Fun pattern, but is it more useful ? I think its hyperbolic to call losing 160px of reading space on top of a desktop browser a "nightmare". Something a user can see all the time has greater affordances than something that is hid
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by jasontsui 12y ago
To some of the older folks on HN - is this a new problem? The last few years have brought on a whole different type of newsmedia hybrid (the buzzfeeds, huffpos and gawkers) organization that is driven primarily by clicks and do not hold the
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by jasontsui 12y ago
One of the points they touch on is a "world where many things wont work and nobody will know how to fix them". As I understand it, we already live in this world. Some new cars dont come with dipsticks, and I cant look inside my iP
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by jasontsui 12y ago
Hm, I've always assumed that Kickstarter funds should be exactly what they're called - kickstart funds that allow you to bring a project/product to market. In more recent times, it seems that the majority use of Kickstarter h
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by jasontsui 12y ago
“We believe in the long term, but the long term also has to come,” says Bezos, explaining that periodically Amazon wants to “check in” with its ability to make money. Thus, in 2007, Amazon more than doubled its profit, to $476 million, on a
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by jasontsui 13y ago
1. Users notoriously have no idea what they want. Surveys may not be the best method to determine the effectiveness of an icon because youre asking the user to predict their future behavior (which most are happy to do, confidently). The onl
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by jasontsui 15y ago
Full disclosure - I helped with the project but I'm also one of those people who on some days CANT get out of bed. You can put the panel pretty far. If your bathroom is a hallway away, this might make the difference. You cant put a regular
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by jasontsui 15y ago
If anything, I think the special brand of "tumblr porn" has differentiated it from other blogging platforms.
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by jasontsui 15y ago
Ive done the same myself. To me, the real issue was how time consuming it was to "cover my tracks", so to speak. After taking a look at it, I decided there wasnt much to hide. Sure, you may not want everyone to know you were at the movies l
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by jasontsui 15y ago
Its going to be interesting to see if the Starz deal is going to affect this at all. Anecdotal, but I cancelled my subscription a few months ago after being disappointed with the availability of streaming titles as it was, I cant imagine wh
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by jasontsui 15y ago
Unfortunately with the acquisition of Autonomy, their pockets arent so deep anymore. They spent about 80% of their cash on the deal, leaving them with not much money to push devices like the Touchpad at a loss.
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by jasontsui 15y ago
To make a significant dent in the market, enough to attract developers in droves (good ones at that) would require a significant user base. Im not sure they can afford to lose $200-300 every time they sell one and expect to recoup it in the
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by jasontsui 15y ago
Ive been using it for about a week now. The home page will start to get cluttered as more people begin to use it. Itll be interesting to see if/how they address the issue, I would guess with some kind of following system where you add peopl
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by jasontsui 15y ago
"Fulfilling an existing need" seems somewhat misguided. In many cases the need is not always so obvious, especially at the conception stage. Its hard to imagine whether or not people will adopt something, at which point a need (previously u
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by jasontsui 15y ago
The USPTO has not always been so eager to issue software patents. Up until the early 90s they were reluctant as they saw code as a language which could be copyrighted, but not invented. From what I understand, most software patents came flo
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by jasontsui 15y ago
I agree. The author seems to be caught up in the semantics here. The way I read it, the criticism stems from its use as a buzzword instead of its implementation as a concept. The word itself just allows us to have a conversation about it wi