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by joebadmo 16y ago
It depends, though. I've found that sometimes people can use me as a crutch and don't even try to fix it themselves before coming to me. And other times it's better to teach them how to find the solution to that type of problem than to just
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Along similar lines, I wonder if you'll be able to pay for an upgrade later to an ad-free firmware.
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2 Foot UI for the 10 Foot Screen(blog.byjoemoon.com)
1 points by joebadmo 16y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I'm conflicted on the signified, maybe because I'm conflicted on the signifier. I would be less conflicted, I think, if Apple products really did "just work" as so many Apple adherents purport. But from my experience, it's just a matter of
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think the problem is deeper and more widespread. Facebook, and all of our conceptions of social networks, are inherently restrictive, reductive, and shallow in how they allow people to express themselves. The underlying assumption is that
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Bad Reasons to be a Moral Relativist(juliansanchez.com)
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Can't get to the article (work) but I'm kind of on the fence about the issue. On the one hand, this is probably security theater and the TSA is pretty incompetent and possibly vile. On the other hand, people should really get over themselve
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I keep a blog about miscellaneous stuff at http://blog.byjoemoon.com (plug) but I don't think that's what you mean. I got out in 2006, and I had already stopped writing by the time I made team leader, but I did keep a blog for some of the
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Less crayon and fewer crayons.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
My wife has an iPad 1 with a similar case (Incase or Belkin, can't remember which), but she still doesn't like typing on it. My theory is that it's partly ergonomic, but partly a matter of expectations. A phone is a completely different for
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Yeah, I suppose it depends. I tend to feel cramped and annoyed at having to manage windows whenever I'm on anything smaller than 2 monitors < 19" or something equivalent. I think the 10GUI idea linked above is great because it's intuiti
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by joebadmo 16y ago
The alliteration is nice, but to me it really sticks out as an error. It's a pretty common one, though, so I wouldn't feel too bad about it. I don't know if it's even a commonly recognized enough error to warrant changing, but you should ta
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I would have gone with "Ten Lines or Fewer," but it's a neat design constraint. Some cool examples, too.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
You point to recent Google failures, but isn't their culture of allowing (even high profile) failures not only to get implemented, but then to get shut down part of why Google's successful? Which (the culture of allowing failure) seems like
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Sounds familiar. As a USMC fire team leader, my job was mostly to protect my Marines from all the shit that rolls downhill. It's generally a very difficult job to do well, because of the way the explicit incentives are set up, but somewhat
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by joebadmo 16y ago
It's awesome to see a fundamentally engineer-driven company like Google and a fundamentally designer-driven company like Apple become so successful. It has always seemed to me that management is an important but overemphasized skill (as a f
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think WG has always said that writing sci fi for him and many SF authors was always really about the present. And if you read Neuromancer again, it really does bear out.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I agree that direct manipulation is engaging and intuitive, but I think it has fundamental ergonomic issues when you're talking about doing any sort of long-term, serious work. When you get to screen sizes that we're all using now at work,
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I actually find Swype on my android phone to be easier for text input than the iPad. My wife also puts down the iPad and grabs her iPhone when it's time to reply to emails. She doesn't like full ten finger typing on it and she can't thumb t
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by joebadmo 16y ago
What is it about issues like this that cause people (who generally have little direct financial stake) to take sides so heatedly and emotionally? It's bizarre, isn't it? I know I at least always have a hard time deciding between top competi
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by joebadmo 16y ago
You make a very fair point, one that's important to the deeper question. Sorry if I sounded combative, I was merely trying to point out that (still cogent) point does not say anything about the willingness of Android/iOS users to pay for ap
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by joebadmo 16y ago
That's a diversion from the original point that iOS users are more willing to pay for apps. Whether it's easier to develop high quality apps for whichever platform, the fact that the iOS app is higher quality is an important factor when tha
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I pretty much agree with you, and I don't think FB is going anywhere anytime soon. But that's part of why I'm bothered (and I think the source of all the wishful-thinking decline of FB stories). Well, that combined with: I don't like FB. I
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by joebadmo 16y ago
From what I understand, it's not an easy process and you can't download important stuff, like your social graph (I think you only get plaintext names, not email addresses, etc.)
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I find this unlikely because FB is much more mainstream, pervasive, and locked-in than Digg has ever been. Honestly, I kinda hope you're right, though.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think privacy is actually a good reason for strong data portability. If users can easily leave your service for another, you have a strong incentive not to violate their privacy expectations. To extrapolate that point out: strong data por
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Are you implying that that won't or can't happen with Facebook? Isn't that sort of the point of TFA?
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by joebadmo 16y ago
So, what does the future look like? Will everyone abandon Facebook en masse, just like they did AOL and Myspace? Or did Facebook really win? Will Google finally do something interesting in the space? Will any of these open source distribute
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Here's my perspective as a user: Openness for developers/users and openness for vendors are, as it turns out, almost mutually exclusive. Google's taking my side. Finally.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think the most annoying thing about Gruber is that he mixes fantastic insights with near-propaganda. He's also got a razor-honed voice. Generally I tend to pay close attention to him when he writes about Apple products, eco-system, and cu

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