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by jmduke 13y ago
I am very surprised that the number of people who opt out of the trial week is only 5% -- clearly it's working for the company, but personally I'd be hard-pressed to give up a week's vacation time. Still, if you were to do su
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by jmduke 13y ago
The implication here is that tech people are inherently more moral than business people, which I find more worthy of attack than any derivation from that premise.
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by jmduke 13y ago
... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor conveniences masquerading as a "cool hack". My father's a B2B salesman
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think the more apt comparison is that Apple customers are like Honda owners. Apple is one of the largest consumer electronics company in the world. iPads and Macs and iPhones and iPods are owned by every strata of the consumer ecosystem,
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A Look at Ads on Instagram(instagram-business.tumblr.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
The banner ad (I hesitate to describe it as that, since its so clean) appears for me in the US.
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by jmduke 13y ago
Pinterest engagement metrics are (at least as of six months or so ago) higher than those of Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, and users have much more clearly defined levels of purchase intent. In a world where Tumblr and Instagram hit star-st
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Conde Nast Drops Their Intern Program(blogs.wsj.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
My favorite definition of a startup is that of a company that prioritizes growth over all other metrics.
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by jmduke 13y ago
One of the more interesting aspects of this is that they're keeping the iPad 2 at $399 (compared to the Air's $499). I can't imagine the value proposition for a new iPad 2 is at all attractive at that price point (I bought m
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by jmduke 13y ago
I haven't been on Hacker News long enough to speak definitively about the current state of HN (a bit less than two years, but I spent the first one lurking), but I would be more concerned about comments that complain about 'HN cha
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by jmduke 13y ago
Chick-fil-A employees are the most polite out of all the fast-food establishments I've frequented. The tables are always spotless, and the food is (I'll concede, this is subjective) damn good. I don't think it's particu
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by jmduke 13y ago
The implication of this post is that people in Miami are dumber, less creative, and "worse at life" than those in San Francisco. The population of Miami is around 410,000. When someone tries to "comparing the people of X&quo
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Cards Against Humanity, or: why UX is actually kind of a big deal.(jmduke.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
Logically speaking: existing customers are going to spend the cognitive effort to hunt for the button. There's a reason most companies don't A/B test login screens. (That's not to say that you shouldn't A/B te
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by jmduke 13y ago
Maybe not the same chapter, but at least the same font size. I think she's going to go down as the first female major player in the Big Tech realm -- which is not to disparage Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina, but they haven't achieve
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by jmduke 13y ago
Amazon and Microsoft solve business problems. Google solves information problems. Twitter and Facebook solve communication problems. So many of these silos have similar solutions, but approaches are so incredibly different that it can be di
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think that's a better alternative than having traditional news organs being controlled by people who make their money from those news organs. (I would argue the best alternative is ownership by individuals/organizations who ha
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by jmduke 13y ago
Think about how much you hear about Yahoo in 2013. Think about how much you heard about Yahoo in 2011.
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by jmduke 13y ago
See also, an Italian analogue: sprezzatura. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura
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by jmduke 13y ago
Absolutely. I'm not particularly familiar with which of GoDaddy's offerings require high-touch sales (I've used them for domains a couple of times), though I'm sure they exist. Similarly, I'm not gonna be surprised
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by jmduke 13y ago
Makes sense. GoDaddy's been trying to rebrand pretty heavily, what with the redesign, new marketing push, etc., and the article frames MT as a company that isn't exactly doing great financially. Pretty boggling statistic: GoDaddy
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by jmduke 13y ago
I am not the post to whom you replied, but to share my own routine (similar thing, started seriously pursuing fitness over the past 8 months or so and have noticed a lot of cognitive reward): - Every morning except Sunday I'll do some
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by jmduke 13y ago
I wouldn't call it a dark pattern, it's just annoying as hell. I think Apple does a decent job about clearly drawing the line between stuff you have and stuff you could have.
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by jmduke 13y ago
If you're referring to the MacBook Air comment: I am very confident that the MBA is the perfect machine for me, but I am more so confident that there are people who have a much deeper understanding of the consumer hardware landscape th
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by jmduke 13y ago
I'll say something that's vaguely awful: what's in it for me? I use Linux at work and it's not bad , but I'm less productive on it with 95% of tasks than I would be with OSX. It looks worse (I recognize this is su
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by jmduke 13y ago
Business/consumer aspects aside, this looks awesome. I might not want to buy one, but I definitely want to spend an afternoon playing with one.
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Last statements of executed inmates in Texas 1982-present(github.com)
2 points by jmduke 13y ago|1 comments
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by jmduke 13y ago
I am unexperienced when it comes to such matters, but: 1. Quitting means you are no longer making money, and if that was an acceptable endgame then you likely wouldn't be employed in such conditions in the first place; 2. I find it e
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by jmduke 13y ago
The question at the heart of this: what stakeholders exist that are incentivized to create a Linux-exclusive game? Halo was XBOX-exclusive because Bungie was owned by Microsoft; their specific goal was to make an XBOX-exclusive title, and t

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