joebadmo

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by joebadmo 15y ago
Julian Sanchez called this the Redactor's Dilemma: http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/12/08/the-redactors-dilemm...
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by joebadmo 15y ago
These things keep getting harder to resist, and I'm a Windows user. Can anyone tell me if it's true that Windows on boot camp doesn't take advantage of all of the power saving features, and so doesn't last as long? And if so, how big is the
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's pretty sad. My only real complaints about the Cr-48 were the low-quality screen, the trackpad, and the performance. Looks like they hit two out of three, but, like the review says, for $430 I expect more.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I love this gesture, and I wish phone OSs made more use of the screen edges this way. I find it to be very easy and natural to reach above the top of the screen and pull down. It requires no precision at all.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Can you explain how the cost of trying another service is high? If you hear about another search engine that's supposed to be better, it seems easy enough to try it for a few searches or compare results. Seems like plenty of people tried Du
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm in Portland, Oregon, and, if this town is any sort of trend leader, I think unicycles are the next fixed-gears.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think it's relatedly interesting that Google is still the canonical search engine, too, despite the non-stickiness of search engines, to the point of simply being synonymous with search.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I don't know what the technical differences are, but I'm not sure how that's relevant. My point is, Apple doesn't seem to be interested in enabling that. And I'm not necessarily talking about collaboration, but even just sharing. Apple has
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Deprecated was probably the wrong word. The things you cite are clearly still an important part of computing life, but it's still strange to me to use the connective tissue of the internet to enable computing, but completely ignore the actu
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Am I the only one that thinks Apple is using revolutionary technology to work toward the perfection of a deprecated computing paradigm? I mean, yes, iCloud makes computing work like magic, but it sort of ignores what post-web computing mea
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I've switched away from instapaper to just using readability's send-to-kindle button, but there still isn't a great instapaper client for Android. I understand it's more difficult now because the full api requires the client to be a subscri
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's a really interesting consideration that's more technical than I could talk about intelligently. It seems like something for which there would be a market solution, though, like a service tier between current consumer grades and comme
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's exactly what I've been thinking about (I noodled on the idea earlier this week: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/6277876911/the-personal-cloud )! I mean, with services like FIOS that offer upstream parity, I think this is a pretty ap
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Well, if we don't work together, we wouldn't share a work friends group. It's true that a places metaphor is a bit less granular, but I think it makes it easier to understand how things are being shared than a bunch of one to many connectio
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think they're doing something functionally similar, which is basically contact list management into groups. They call it "Aspects" iirc. I think the problem with that is that it creates weirdly asynchronous or non-cohesive groups. I.e. if
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think the answer in a post-FB/Twitter decentralized/distributed social network world is to have transient, easily spun-up and spun-down social networks that you could think of as places. So, for work friends, I'd make (or join) a social n
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. Interesting point. So, I guess what you're saying is that the question itself is not from a "Post-PC" perspective? It's interesting, but seems like conflating a desire for archive with a desire for PC-level control. They seem like paral
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Is that forever or as long as you have the photo on your device? I guess my question more broadly is what is Apple's "post-PC" scheme for the long term archiving of photos and other data?
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The Next Big Thing (After Cloud Computing)(blog.byjoemoon.com)
6 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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Mac OS X Lion Server $50, encourages hobbyists(thisismynext.com)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but I have the exact same most common use case, and I just switched in the last few days to using the Readability add-on to Chrome, which has a "send to Kindle" button. I was previously using Wordcycler to sync my K
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's a good observation, but I would submit that the reason iOS apps use web views instead of opening the browser is exactly because of a lack of a good way to get back to the originating app. App developers naturally don't want to sent p
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yeah, I totally agree, and thanks for that non-divisive non-flamey take on the issue! I personally have had a really hard time deciding between iOS and Android devices, which is a pretty great problem to have.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand the annual subscription. If I don't renew my subscription, does all my ripped/uploaded music go away? Or do I just lose access to more ripping/uploading?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I generally prefer to have unpolished features available to me to use or not use. If they are polished enough to be useable for me, then I use them. If not, then I don't. I like being able to decide. Which is why I generally prefer android
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You're almost certainly right that iOS devices probably aren't going to get a hardware back button, but I disagree with you on the usefulness of hw back buttons. Generally, if I come to an activity from another app, it's to do one specific
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by joebadmo 15y ago
So, is there no web access to iCloud content? No way to share, for example, photos or documents publicly (or in the case of docs, between apps)? These seem like remarkably device-centric solutions for an increasingly web-centric world. Whic
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What your text editor says about you(terminally-incoherent.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Relates to an earlier discussion on the role of liberal arts, I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580176 And, now that I think about, as Z is a college drop-out, maybe the role of higher education in general. The ideas presented
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The Kindle's screen, at the cost of some functionality and elegance, is not only relaxing to the eyes, but also completely kills the low-grade but omnipresent anxiety of a touch screen. Which means you don’t have to worry about triggering a

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