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by jjindev 13y ago
I'm looking at the progression of form. The paperback book did not kill the newspaper, but it was kind of the bottom end. "Tiny books" are a novelty. So yeah, development is serious work like stocks trading and you want a bi
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by jjindev 13y ago
I'm counting my phone (4.25" diag) as a small tablet. I don't have a bigger one myself, but I see them, especially at parties, in the hands of children. Their ubiquity is growing. I can see room for more devices, fitness ba
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by jjindev 13y ago
There is the beauty contest, and then there is Keynes' beauty contest, in which people flock to what they think other people think is beauty. I think people respect an informed choice about an asethetic, but some distrust the flocking.
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by jjindev 13y ago
One wonders if the tablet (or small tablet) isn't really just the last good form. We've spent decades building towards it. Time to stop and enjoy. (That and make tablets cheap enough to be ubiquitous)
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If it really is a "tube" it's a "big dig."
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Their philosophy is that some people are better suited to judge usefulness than others. They apparently believe that a one-developer, one-vote system would not judge such questions "correctly."
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by jjindev 13y ago
Who among us has not googled a problem, found the top hit at Stack Overflow, got our solution, and noticed also that the question was closed as not-something? IMHO the whole thing can be handled by upvotes (as HN demonstrates, you don'
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by jjindev 13y ago
It sounds like many of us here would streamline aircraft boarding. We might even have tech ideas for that. ... so we'll do it with trains because no one will stop us? (faulty social analysis)
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by jjindev 13y ago
Let's review the situation. We have a quite high speed transportation system in modern aircraft. We choose not to disrupt cities by building them downtown. (And "we" choose all those security/time trade-offs.) You sug
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by jjindev 13y ago
Why do you presume less "lobby time"? I'd think a train twice as fast as a plane would inspire at least as much security theater.
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by jjindev 13y ago
High speed anything meets the Concorde problem - increasing cost for diminishing returns in trip time.
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by jjindev 13y ago
It was amazing what a big sailing ship could do on a downwind course and with good weather (which for them was storms in the right direction). The standard deviation in speed would be high, and not all destinations could be managed on downw
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by jjindev 13y ago
I once sailed upwind from LA to SF over 5 days. I flew home in an hour. The flight gave me a long(!?) time to ponder the nature of time and transport. In that context, I don't really see a transformational improvement going from one
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Related: K-sec LCD watch for star travellers http://blog.tokyoflash.com/2012/11/k-sec-lcd-watch-for-star-...
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by jjindev 13y ago
My step-grandfather was a Danish watchmaker who moved to California. My dad was a prototype machinist at Lockheed. I program. I've always thought of that as a progression. [51-55 age bucket]
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by jjindev 13y ago
I grew up with simple interfaces. I came up through the monochrome Macs. I loved the early Apple Human Interface Guidelines. I think the first time I said "whoa" was when I saw Enlightenment. Suddenly excess ornamentation was
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by jjindev 13y ago
Yes. I was thinking in terms of the three as consumer platform companies.
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Apple is the most valued (market cap) platform company because it owns the affluence market and commands high margins across the board. Google has gone after the "next billion" users, people who don't have that kind of money
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by jjindev 13y ago
Re. old times, if you were an early QNX user you kind of wondered what took everyone else so long ...