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by jessep 12y ago
Reading this, I felt real anger at our society. I have 1 year old twin girls and I am genuinely scared and saddened by the limitations that paranoid adults are going to put on us as parents, and them as children. We live in a world driven b
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by jessep 12y ago
my feeling is that the author is saying that "cheaper, more numerous and better" are like CAP, you can't have all three. so currently, there's cheaper, more numerous, and worse .
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by jessep 12y ago
If you have a New Yorker subscription, you can read all of John Brooks' work online: http://www.newyorker.com/search?qt=dismax&rows=10&sort=score... Each of these links (after a summary) to a scanned archive ve
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by jessep 12y ago
Yeah, I think this gets to the heart of it.
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by jessep 12y ago
Yeah.
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by jessep 12y ago
Business schools have some of this, for sure. But they also have a lot of high level technical analysis (market size, cost structure) and a ton of things unrelated (finance, management, etc.) What I was taught as the "design process&qu
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by jessep 12y ago
This rings true for me. I studied product design in school, in a program run by IDEO. David Kelley was my advisor. Yet, working in the web world, I don't call myself a "designer". Why? Because I'm not focused on the visu
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by jessep 13y ago
I started giggling with the first numberwang. As it kept happening, the giggle escalated into full out laughter that just kept getting stronger. I am sure I've seen the numberwang sketch, but don't remember it, so reference was wo
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by jessep 13y ago
For me, and I think most people who get excited about it, performance isn't what attracts me to React. It is the semantics (is that even the right word?). The nice way it lets me think about things. It looks to me like htmlbars is hand
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by jessep 13y ago
I haven't handled routing yet, a lot of people seem to use https://github.com/flatiron/director , which I would probably do. This is the one area where I missed something from Ember. For models, I've just roll
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by jessep 13y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. The things I've been building with both have been small and relatively simple.
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by jessep 13y ago
I attempted to use Ember in side projects for quite a while, really dove in. Sadly, I never got productive with it. My conclusion was that Ember works for super smart people with a background in traditional MVC UI architecture (different th
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by jessep 13y ago
It is a Chrome Packaged App. This is nice, because it has built in auto-update. The way to do a desktop app using web technologies that feels more "real" is with node-webkit: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-
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by jessep 13y ago
It does sync if you go online, but if you close the page, you lose the data. Yeah, iOS app could use a lot of love.
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by jessep 13y ago
Yeah, it kills us that we don't have an offline Android app yet.
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by jessep 13y ago
This was built as a Chrome Packaged App. There are some plusses and minuses with them. The fact that you have most of a desktop experience, with auto-updating, is really nice. The fact that there are some critical differences, that are conf
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by jessep 13y ago
We released this a while ago, but were waiting to announce it until Chrome released Mac support for its apps.
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An offline desktop app for WorkFlowy(blog.workflowy.com)
31 points by jessep 13y ago|15 comments
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by jessep 13y ago
The old Android webview was prohibitively horrible. You couldn't build real apps in it. I've been waiting for this for years.
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Android gets a new, dramatically better, Chromium based webview.(developer.android.com)
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by jessep 13y ago
Okay, tried it, and actually worked with the demo from that article! Yay.
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by jessep 13y ago
Thank you! This is so exciting. I've been wanting to try things like go style concurrency ( http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/24/es6-generators-and-c... ) in the browser, and this seems like it will hel
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by jessep 13y ago
Yeah, this comment is my favorite part of the story. Hilarious to have someone with such direct experience commenting. Assuming they are who they say they are :)
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by jessep 13y ago
Macros in js: http://sweetjs.org/ "Sweet.js brings the hygienic macros of languages like Scheme and Rust to JavaScript. Macros allow you to sweeten the syntax of JavaScript and craft the language you’ve always wanted.&
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by jessep 13y ago
true. that link at the bottom, though, is recent. we used to have zero demonstrations outside the video.
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by jessep 13y ago
yeah, agreed. i'm sure it will work better in some cases, but it's really specific to each situation.
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by jessep 13y ago
That still doesn't explain why, on average, those who sign up in the no-trial scenerio are more active than those who sign up after trying the product. Of both groups that sign up, the ones without a chance to try the product were more
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by jessep 13y ago
I'd like to add a little data to this discussion, from the perspective of someone with a minimal landing page that makes you sign up. We ( https://workflowy.com ) built a try-first sign up flow, and a/b tested it against
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by jessep 13y ago
In response to the couple of people who commented, "But that graph was close to 100% before it spiked" look at this one: http://flippfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FinalFundingC... Basicall
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by jessep 13y ago
I have no idea if it'll hit the mark, I just think the analysis doesn't hold water because it doesn't acknowledge the real dynamics of these types of campaigns. This campaign could go so many different ways. The safest bet is

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