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by joebadmo 15y ago
Doesn't seem like Google's been shy about what they're shutting down. Why would they be with Google Reader?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Steve Jobs: "Picasso had a saying, 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
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by joebadmo 15y ago
My wife got an iPhone 4S on opening weekend. Our consensus so far is that Siri is largely a gimmick. Fun to mess around with the first couple of days, but she hasn't used it once since. Three problems: 1. AI Uncanny Valley. It's hard for he
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I wonder about it, too, but this gives me hope: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019052
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sure, I agree. But the problem is, what about the people who are on Reader to read about souffles? They don't want to read about quantum tunneling. But you sometimes post about both. You're describing a distinction that exists on a service
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have the exact opposite experience. I find it horribly frustrating to have all these contacts in different services surfaced to me in weird inconsistent ways. GTalk are for me a subset of email contacts. I'm ecstatic that G+ sharing is be
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OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source(slashdot.org)
5 points by joebadmo 15y ago|2 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
At least post-MS Gates does deserve some esteem imo. He's putting his billions to work into bettering the world in ways that are registering before our very eyes, after all. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128320 It seems to me that
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Android is Open Source in that Google dumps the source code into the open periodically. It's not developed in the open. Honeycomb's source was and never will be open. This is way farther on the 'open' side of the spectrum than any other maj
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I meant what was his suggestion to correct this. That they should flout the law? This one. Or at least, if not "any of the information", maybe not gather all of the information. Permit users to associate their account with their establ
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I wonder how the author feels about tablets. Because this seems related to recent discussions about consumption: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3113192 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3047786
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'll bet they still require you to register with your "real" name, but then they'll graciously allow you to have a linked nickname or two, I agree, and I think this is probably the right thing for them to do. (Well, probably stop kicking
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I don't understand. Why wouldn't a dissident or whistleblower just create a separate account under a fake but real-sounding name, then use their preferred pseudonym? It seems to me that the issue wasn't about anonymity from government, sinc
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yeah, and I really don't think most people even care. Once they walk out of the store, they stop paying attention to what else is coming, if they ever paid attention at all. It's only nerds (like me) that even follow this stuff, and I perso
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Intimacy is Performance(blog.byjoemoon.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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Vic Gundotra: Pseudonyms are coming to Google Plus(plus.google.com)
26 points by joebadmo 15y ago|8 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Very interesting question, especially considering what strikes me as the newly singular vision behind ICS. Which also brings it to a new level of quality from what I can tell.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Strikes me as a healthy blend of homage and criticism. I think WP7 looks great, but agree that it's kind of austere. I think a culture of innovators regularly taking the best of each other's ideas and making them their own, putting their ow
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Tim Bray on hackability of Android Ice Cream Sandwich Face Unlock(storify.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"Samsung can't get high enough pixel density with AMOLED" was what I was arguing with. The pixel density is very high. They weren't "forced to just keep making the screens bigger" as you claimed.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I think the visual execution is great, and really cohesive with the rest of Google's re-design. I also prefer the black/dark themes. I imagine it has the functional benefit of using less power on OLED screens, as w
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sounds like Duarte is bringing much needed focus on user experience. I thought Honeycomb was garish and the futuristicity forced. This tones it down quite a bit, but also moves away from Apple's kitschy skeuomorphism. I like it. I also real
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You're wrong. This screen has an HD resolution screen with ~316 ppi. So they made a bigger and higher pixel density screen. With AMOLED.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
How hard is it to not buy the phone? There are other phones out there, including the iPhone that have smaller screens. I have a Droid X, and while at first it felt a bit big, I've totally fallen in love with having a ton of screen real esta
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Thanks for engaging me seriously, I appreciate it! I don't mean to be condescending at all. I ask out of a genuine desire to understand the behavior. I apologize if it came off as condescension. If anything, I've always felt sort of handica
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That is an interesting point. And, incidentally, I've been thinking along similar lines, though not restricted to Apple. Like in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955472
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by joebadmo 15y ago
So much cheerleading. So much schadenfreude. I understand preferring a company's products to another, and I understand that a brand is shorthand. I don't understand the self-identification with brand. But then, I also don't understand the p
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sorry, submit form wouldn't let me use the printer version for some reason: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.13845,y.2011,no.6...
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Empirical Software Engineering(americanscientist.org)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|1 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Interesting. It reminds me of human-computer chess teams, a continuation of computer-augmented humanity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_chess_matches

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