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by jkestner 10y ago
Cheap may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Personally, I could never run with corded headphones again. I've used Motorola S8/S9 forever. Get last gen for $30-40, and they've held up to years of sweat.
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by jkestner 10y ago
Wow, then I was really lucky to have gotten dengue the last time I was in the country, 12 years ago. At the time I remember reading that there was little chance of it spreading back to the States where those mosquitoes don't exist, so
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by jkestner 10y ago
The Realtek is a competitor, the Nordics you mention are not. The nRF24L01 uses a proprietary radio. Some of the nRF chips are popular for Bluetooth Low Energy especially given that they do have Cortex M processors that can be used to run a
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by jkestner 10y ago
Even if you can't directly monetize the golden rule, a lot of accessibility work is super-simple thanks to the toolmakers giving it forethought. You can get to 80% of it in an iOS app by just making sure you've got descriptive tex
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by jkestner 10y ago
Generally applicable takeaway: "But the things that we studied were so new that no one else knew exactly what they were doing either. It was amateurs who made the progress." "In retrospect, if we had had any understanding of
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by jkestner 10y ago
Probably, since Walmart presumably doesn't have to work as hard to acquire customers. Better make your VC-subsized purchases before the deal closes!
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by jkestner 10y ago
Yes! A great read even if you don't have a CS degree. It helped me get the emergent behavior bug, the same way NewtonScript made OOP click for me. The descendents of his multi-turtle Logo variant, StarLogo, are still going, including o
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by jkestner 10y ago
And it goes with the grain in Montessori schools. I was introduced to Mindstorms by my mother, a Montessori educator with barely an interest in computers.
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by jkestner 10y ago
You youths! I had a similar introduction to Logo, on an Apple ][ at a computer day camp in the summer of 198x. We programmers tend to love learning the shiny new languages, but it's thanks to the enduring idea behind this language th
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by jkestner 10y ago
Abuses? How about "utilizes"? The subsidy is there to get more electric vehicles on the road.
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by jkestner 10y ago
One of the things I've learned from this is that our security apparatus has a will of its own well beyond whoever's sitting in the White House. I doubt it will be closely tied with Obama, rather just lumped into the "Post 9&#
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by jkestner 10y ago
I think that describes much of the startup scene altogether. A lot of people seem willing to forgo a surer path to wealth by taking options instead of salary (as worked out here many times). Is it because they want to be really, really rich
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by jkestner 10y ago
Another plus to Texas. No income tax. The property tax is considerably higher, but it's more than offset by home prices.
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by jkestner 10y ago
We can use that same $8 billion to create jobs building things that would benefit citizens, like transportation infrastructure, municipal internet, low-income housing, etc. Instead of jobs for airport greeters. We need to be thinking of the
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by jkestner 10y ago
Even with color, it just won't be anywhere as good as the screens we're used to now. There are two things holding E-Ink back: 1) Battery life alone is not worth the tradeoff for the consumer market. 2) The flexibility of the form
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by jkestner 10y ago
And if the marketplace shifts to 90% subscription apps and users don't want to pay it, then you'll see the marketplace shift again. We may not see it from our perspective, but the pay-once model is not sustainable for many apps -
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by jkestner 10y ago
They do get to choose whether the upgrade is worth it. They can stay on an old version and system that it works with, or they can move to an app that has a business model they like better. Subscriptions are adding options, and that's g
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by jkestner 10y ago
Like AI, IoT is a catch-all term for the things that are not yet significant enough to have their own more specific category. Useful applications arise from the primordial soup and acquire their own name.
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by jkestner 10y ago
"Trying to mass-produce [delight] and inject it into interactions is like forcing waiters to wear 37 pieces of flair on their uniforms." http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042849/delightful-interaction-d...
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by jkestner 10y ago
Makes me wonder if fans of Fountains of Wayne statistically have better marriages.
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by jkestner 10y ago
The ink part doesn't scale either — try pricing larger sizes. This is the failed promise, that they'd be able to just manufacture sheets of the stuff cheaply.
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by jkestner 10y ago
Nothing about this indicates that they've solved the "too expensive" part, unfortunately.
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Book review: Disrupted: Dan Lyons v the startup bubble (at Hubspot)(theoverspill.wordpress.com)
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by jkestner 10y ago
Obviously, but it would set a precedent for other countries to pass similar laws in retaliation. Same reason the U.S. keeps relatively quiet about China's corporate hacking.
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by jkestner 10y ago
The challenge is simple integration across many disparate components, which seems like a rich company's game. The only chance for a open protocol is if it's so cool and immediately useful that people adopt it en masse, a la Snapch
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by jkestner 10y ago
She wasn't reporting a story. She was tweeting about her son. I don't think she has to be objective there. And who doesn't have an agenda to push?
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by jkestner 10y ago
Also, cultural: Finns also have a proud history of going to great lengths to retrieve the bodies of deceased friends.
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by jkestner 10y ago
You're thinking of Doug Bowman. http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html Yes, it's difficult. It's less that Apple needs to hire a famous designer and more that it has
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by jkestner 10y ago
Maybe Apple should hire one of the many software engineers and UI designers who are visionary in the same way that Ive is in hardware.
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by jkestner 11y ago
That's a naive view, and anecdata. Many farmers don't own their land but lease it. They're also subject to the whims of weather and the commodities market... not exactly a steady income.

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