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by joebadmo 15y ago
Oh, I wasn't trying to imply that it will fail. Just relating my experience that social norms and robopsychology are bigger hurdles than the technology, imo.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sounds like it's an evolution over Android's voice stuff, and better integrated. But the tech isn't what stops me from using Android's voice commands, generally. It's that I'm not often enough in a situation to use it without feeling embarr
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by joebadmo 15y ago
WHAT?? You mean Google copied Apple already ? What next, notifications? [Ha-ha, just some good-natured ribbing, folks, please go easy with the downvotes.]
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by joebadmo 15y ago
IE6/XP. I'm at work at a fed agency. It's frighteningly outdated here.
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My opinion on MG Siegler cemented after the last fight he had with Dan Lyons. I don't even really like Dan Lyons that much (though I was pretty amused by Fake Steve Jobs). But this post: http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2011/09/28/kindle-fire-
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'd throw in Horace Dediu of Asymco and Marco Arment and maybe David Pogue. I don't know who Dilger is.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. Good to know. Thanks.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
They said you could transfer to unlimited LTE?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Usually they'll grandfather in unlimited plans that are in place before they kill them, though. I still have an "unlimited" data plan from Verizon, which, as I understand, will unfortunately not transfer over to an [EDIT: unlimited] LTE pla
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Brian Lam launches new gadget site(thewirecutter.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I couldn't detect a value judgment either way from your comment, but I agree, and I think that's a feature, not a bug. I've got plenty of utility apps on my Android phone that I interact with very rarely to change some setting on the phone
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Stack Exchange Podcast: Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood talk to John Siracusa(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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From a blog post I wrote: Zuckerberg refers to this as “frictionless sharing,” a dream of a kind of meta-panopticon with which everyone can see what everyone else is doing in real time. There are parts of this that I actually find kind of
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Oh, I have no illusions about what's broken. That's why it's bittersweet. I'm sad that I can't view a web site, but I'm happy that IE6 compatibility is going away.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm using Chrome frame, but it doesn't work that well. Don't have virtual machine access.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I am. Only since the recent release of admin-less chrome frame. Can't say I've noticed much difference, unfortunately.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have to use IE6 at work, and I'm surprised at how much of the Web is simply broken for me. It's kind of bittersweet.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I've actually found that the 'promoted' comments [Edit: which I assume are promoted by voting and algorithm.] on YouTube videos are generally either pretty entertaining or informative. I was surprised by this after consciously completely ig
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Intimacy and Performance on Facebook(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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Could be faked, but apparently someone bought a Nexus S with Ice Cream Sandwich off of ebay. http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/ice-cream-sandwich-gets-a... I was skeptical about the prospect of "unifying" Honeycomb and Gingerbread, but i
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that it's silly from a technological point of view, but the libraries are at the mercy of publishers, and what else can the publishers do, really? If they let libraries "lend" out unlimited copies of books, who would buy them?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The most interesting thing to me is that the Fire doesn't seem to have pretensions about replacing computing, though it theoretically could just as much an iPad or Android tablet. There's an app store, but they seem to be only pushing games
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Intimacy and Performance on Facebook(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Wow, this has directly to do with a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/6277876911/the-personal-cloud And some earlier HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3040047
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree with the GP that the long-press is annoying. But I I think it would be just as annoying the other way. Seems to me there's plenty of space for a button to go to the comments. Also, I understand there's not a lot of room on a phone s
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have a Droix X, CM7GB and see the same behavior.
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The Meaning Machine(theatlantic.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I wouldn't speculate on Dropbox surviving, but, no, it seems unlikely that this fear is big enough to be a factor.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything." I suppose in your metaphor it would be: "Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Jim to his colleagues, show them how
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I guess the Quake 3 match fell through. Too bad. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895491

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