jbondeson

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by jbondeson 15y ago
Imagine if you will that I release a phone that everyone in the world unanimously decided had a more responsive and beautiful UI than iOS, but only a battery life of 20 minutes. Would MG and every other person "whom the little details like
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"The world is divided into two groups, those that think little details like freedom are supremely important and those who don't notice or don't care so much" "The world is divided into two groups, those that think little details like ent
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There are tons of industries that should require it. The issue is that we focus in on the software that can directly kill us, rather than all the software that can indirectly do it. We instantly reason that all software we use to control
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I'm sorry, I wasn't very precise in my language, I meant the industries working together to generate a more generic process that isn't tied to a specific industry. This would be done with the intention of building a Professional Software E
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by jbondeson 15y ago
The aerospace and medical fields have done quite a bit to increase the rigor in building software, however there doesn't seem to be any push from them to codify their processes and establish some sort of push for the industry as a whole. Th
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by jbondeson 15y ago
You're an Engineer who writes software, nothing wrong with that. Lots of Chemical and Electrical Engineers write software, I'm still not going to call them Software Engineers. This isn't about discrediting anyone's life work. The fact is
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by jbondeson 15y ago
Frankly, I dispute the existence of a "Software Engineer." The UK and parts of Canada may recognize and regulate people with this title, but I don't believe that the same rigor _can_ be applied to building software. You would have to work w
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by jbondeson 15y ago
#4 - Cloud9 seems to fit the bill http://c9.io
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by jbondeson 15y ago
Tab Groups. For those of us who do lots of research and like to keep it organized it's a godsend. Right now I have 159 tabs open -- I was curious so I decided to count. If I tried that in Chrome I'm pretty sure it would crash and burn har
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by jbondeson 15y ago
It almost seems impossible to imagine men like Ritchie leaving us. His efforts helped usher in the modern computing age. While he is no longer with us in person, may his legacy never be forgotten by those of use who have had the honor to st
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by jbondeson 15y ago
I would argue that the frequency of SMS usage has very little to do with the type of phone you have, and much more to do with the demographic. There are plenty of iPhone users (such as my mother) who don't use SMS at all, and plenty of 14
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by jbondeson 15y ago
The iPhone has 4-5% market share of worldwide mobile phones. Even if you could get every smart phone manufacturer to convert that still would only get you to a ~20% market share. SMS isn't going anywhere soon.
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It sounds like you think I'm belittling the iPad. I really don't know what's bad about being a really big iPhone. A different form factor of an excellent product can still be excellent. Apple made a great piece of hardware with some pretty
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by jbondeson 15y ago
I think the problem is that people are looking at this backwards. The vast majority of people buy the iPad not because they want a tablet, they buy it because they want a really big iPhone . HP, RIM and most of the others seemed to not un
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by jbondeson 15y ago
No one has figured out a way to objectively measure eyestrain so it's a completely personal decision. As a developer I too spend all day reading and writing text on a screen and I can can tell you that there are so many things that go into
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by jbondeson 15y ago
As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability. Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can read for hours on end in any environment I could read a dead tree version in. An
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by jbondeson 15y ago
I think you're missing the fundamental limitation of this: the SSN identification. Even if I give you the ability to go from picture to real name (which to many is still fairly jarring) given only "open" databases at 100% accuracy you still
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by jbondeson 15y ago
No that really isn't plausible. Read their original SSN prediction paper [1] and you will see that the highest they got their SSN prediction (with < 1000 attempts, which is quite a few) was 8.5% for SSN's assigned after 1988. For 19
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by jbondeson 15y ago
I think the key is that there are crappy puzzles (and coding a blog system is not a "puzzle") and there are decent puzzles. I've been giving applicants a simple word search puzzle for over five years and it has been great at differentiat
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The fact that it takes her calling you out in front of what amounts to the entire tech community to get you to act is appalling and speaks very poorly about how you value your customers. You've known about this for five weeks and the best
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You're arguing against yourself here - GetAround obtained insurance even while being disruptive. More to the point, neither GetAround or AirBnB are in any way deep into territory that insurance hasn't ventured before. Insuring against burg
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I know you were being glib here and not completely serious but I'm still going to respond to the general sentiment. Every day we do take risks by stepping out the front door, however the communities we belong to institute safeguards to help
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The only due diligence possible is an AirBnB-provided, essentially anonymous, IM conversation. Anyone who attempts to use the AirBnB service who isn't running a legitimate short-term rental property (with all the associated insurance and s
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by jbondeson 15y ago
I'm not vain enough to believe that my moral compass is The moral compass for all. This is also not a community safety issue until I see the study that shows a statistically significant change toward aggressive/violent behavior in childre
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> Here's the point: video game violence develop a shitty moral compass. No, shitty parents develop shitty moral compasses. Take your pick about shitty information sources: TV, video games, the internet, trashy magazines/newspapers. I
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by jbondeson 15y ago
This is going to sound cynical, but I will not trust a company that has the ability to lock me in with my online identity. Just because "current" management respects privacy doesn't mean future management won't sell me up the river. The se
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This attitude is exactly why I will never have a facebook account. He sees the protests as a problem, not the degradation of privacy. Yes, people adapt when they feel they have no choice, but that doesn't make it right.
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"In the UK it is deemed that people have a right to privacy." I believe the public outcry is more around the fact that this is only available to corporations and the rich as these super-injunctions run over £100k[1] to obtain. [1] This numb
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by jbondeson 16y ago
If you're repeating the exact same thing to a dozen different friends I'm going to assume that you (or they) are not engaged by the news -- which is what I call "life trivia." Most of what I see on twitter is this trivia, "I refinished my f
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by jbondeson 16y ago
Oddly enough I have the exact opposite take on it. My wife and I both don't have Facebook accounts, and while most of my friends also do not have accounts, many of my wife's friends do. These friends live in the same state as us, and whil

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