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by joebadmo 15y ago
This sounds like a lot of necessary infrastructure. Widespread smartphone adoption seems more likely to me.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree, except I think there are places for voice, and places for touch. Things that would take multiple steps to accomplish, e.g. "remind me to take out the trash when I get home," is an awesome application for voice, but for choosing fro
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. I have three responses to this: 1. It seems similar or at least parallel to something I wrote about needing new metaphors for social networking: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/7072771434/a-new-metaphor-for... 2. We need our social net
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Are you serious? As I said elsewhere in this thread, some countries in Europe require you to use a fob that generates another key for your second authorization factor. But you still have to type in extra numbers. How would you get around th
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Chris Poole on Identity(readwriteweb.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, and it's a bit of a hassle, but does provide some peace of mind. I remember that when my wife was in school in the Netherlands, her bank there gave her a fob that created a second factor for sign in, too.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_calendar The developer is really responsive, too. https://market.android.com/details?id=org.dayup.gtask Not as good as the other, but it works and syncs with Gmail tasks.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I haven't been here that long, but in the few discussions about this I've witnessed, I haven't see the suggestion to try breaking voting into agree/disagree and good/bad. Have you considered something like that before?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yeah, I can see how that would work. When I was using it, it didn't even have different names or dates or anything for the different files, so it was impossible to even guess where a specific article was. And I didn't say anything about get
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The sense I get is that he lives one rung up the ladder of abstraction.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I save a lot more than 20 articles every day. I also don't like the way Instapaper bundles the articles in identically named packages. Readability makes them all separate items in my reading list, and does a better job (last time I checked)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. Seems the author at least attempted even-handedness, but largely failed. In a recent discussion on HN, I asked saurik, the developer of Cydia, why he's stuck with iOS over Android and he gave me this epically amazing answer: http://n
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Validation is the same as aggregation, right? A valuable service, certainly. Cover art? Sure, valuable for a paper book, but for e-books? I'm not so sure. And as a first impression? Maybe in the old world where you browse through a book sto
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by joebadmo 15y ago
tl;dr Instapaper is great for iOS. A Kindle + Readability's Send to Kindle bookmarklet is an excellent alternative. I was an avid Instapaper user on my iPod Touch until I got an Android phone. Marco has publicly stated his reluctance to sup
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by joebadmo 15y ago
A recent discussion on this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955472
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sorry, that part was hyperbolic. But it's true that what the author is describing is the end of precisely the golden age you desribe. To whatever degree consumption devices replace production devices, there will be less exposure to them. It
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You're right, that was probably too hyperbolic. But I think the author's point is that part of his penchant for making is due to exposure as a child. In a post-PC era, even if professionals still have PCs, many fewer people will than do tod
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Personally I'd like it if I could hack my fridge. And my thermostat. And my dishwasher. But those actually aren't as important as a computer because I don't use them to make things. I don't dismiss the power of giving access to informatio
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think the author's point is that the post-PC era implies that the golden age you're describing is dying, replaced with a clean future, wherein people don't have computers with text editors and that can run interpreters and compilers etc.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
the post-PC era does not mean that nobody has a PC, it means that people don’t have to buy PCs to do non-PC things. Fewer people needing to buy PCs to do non-PC things means fewer people buying PCs. Fewer people buying PCs means fewer peo
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Don't forget Ping! On his podcast Hypercritical, John Siracusa has talked about how this just isn't a core competency of Apple's. From what I understand, Apple's datacenters are full of servers managed by Microsoft and others. It looks like
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's true that there is a much greater diversity of Android handsets than there are iOS or Windows Phone handsets. You can read that as a feature or a bug. I, for one, would never simply tell anyone to just get the cheapest Mac Mini at the
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You know what? You're right, and I apologize. You have a fair point. What made me react the way I did was the tone of your reply. I understand now that you were responding with a real and constructive solution, but the hate it was couched i
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Wow, that's actually a very interesting position, and very interesting metaphor. I'll have to think about it before I can really react, though. Unrelatedly, this thread has been an absolute pleasure. Thanks for not dismissing me for the Goo
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I see your point. It's a good one, and I sort of agree with you, but I also think it's more complicated than that. For example, it's hard to say whether the six years of code search we got from google was better or worse than what a sustain
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by joebadmo 15y ago
So, you'd say, "Just grab any Mac in the Apple Store."? or any iPhone? I just recently advised a friend very carefully on whether she should get a Macbook Air or a Macbook Pro. It was a tough decision with a lot of considerations. There are
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Which means that both our company, and any other company, that thought it had a sustainable model for running such a project, and at this point would probably be "pretty awesome", never started, and we are all suddenly thrust back into 200
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I would definitely not base any sort of important business function on any free Google beta product without seriously considering the difficulty of migrating upon shutdown of said service. I assume that a major criterion for Google shutting
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I hope you're wrong, because I kind of like how willing Google is to start crazy projects. I also think that making money directly shouldn't necessarily be the sole motivator for projects for Google. Google makes money as people use the web
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by joebadmo 15y ago
My friend group is the same, but this was always annoying because Buzz didn't go back into Greader. So I had one friend who would post to Buzz instead of Reader, but I would miss his posts unless I actually went to the Buzz interface, where

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