joebadmo

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by joebadmo 16y ago
This is a truly insightful comment, and really clarifies the distinction, I think, between Apple people and non-Apple people. Though, really, I suppose it's more of a point on a spectrum of how much of your tech decisions you're willing to
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I don't understand your logic or why you are getting upvotes. You're comparing Verizon's LTE (for which the reviews are generally amazing) to ATT's notoriously bad 3G, especially on the iPhone.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Google maintains some level of control now through its "Google Experience" deals which include: access to the Market, Gmail, Maps, and other apps; early access to new versions; but also a share in the ad revenue, which can't be trivial. May
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Rationality Engine(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Anyone else having user-agent issues? Google reader, for example, shows up as what looks like the dumb phone mobile site, not the smart phone mobile site (which is great) or the desktop site. And I can't find a setting to change the user-ag
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Exactly. In fact, I'd say as an entrenched incumbent, they have every reason now to oppose net neutrality. They can afford to make deals with the telcos and pay more for the bandwidth in order to keep the upstart competition out of the ra
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by joebadmo 16y ago
This seems like a somewhat trollish comment, but serious question: is it easier to find in the iOS App Store? How is that possible?
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Yeah, everything in the essay was so obvious, I could've written it.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
"Would you call it sinister for example to criticize someone for spending their time murdering people at random?" I'm saying it depends on what A is criticizing about B. It is not sinister for A to criticize B's action. I'm not sure if it's
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think you made some great points, esp. re contacts as non-first-class entities. Another obvious one (that maybe you avoided on purpose) is the notification system. I thought it was interesting that you didn't compare it to any of the othe
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I agree, and I was a bit surprised at how non-plussed she seemed at apps in general. Honestly, for just facebook and e-mail, a cheaper netbook might be a better solution.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I imagine he would call the murdering part sinister, as opposed to the time spent doing something other than what is optimal. I agree with the GP that the opportunity cost argument is so wholly dependent on the judgment of the debated activ
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I actually had a hard time trying to find the app in the Android Market, because there's only one search term and it's really generic. Colr would probably have been easier.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Talking about how tired you are of people talking about how tired they are of hearing people talk about Color is so OVER!
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I agree that social search hasn't proven to be inherently better. Social is probably a good signal for certain things, but it's one among many. Honestly, even for product searches, I don't think my friends and family are necessarily the fir
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I disagree that the PR has been "endlessly positive;" I do think they should be called out when they deserve it, and I think some of the points that you point out qualify. I don't think delaying the release of Honeycomb really qualifies, bu
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I agree. I'm a Windows/Android user (though not a religious one in either case) who's tempted to switch periodically to Apple stuff. It would all be so easy, it seems. But the more I play with Apple devices (my wife owns a Mac and an iPhone
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by joebadmo 16y ago
So you disagree that Google/Android is more open than any of the other platforms? I've never understood Google's 'openness' argument as a moral one. I always took it to mean that I can do whatever I want with my hardware, including side-loa
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think it's salient to point out, too, that that shift on the spectrum is tiny compared to the spectrum-distance between Google and any other player in the industry.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Google's position on this has always been that they're open to the carriers/manufacturers doing whatever they want with the software, and when they do something bad, well, people do bad things sometimes. I find it amusing that when Google i
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think the author is missing a connection between the two arguments that he talks about. Open Source isn't just about self-hosting, but about being able to choose your provider. And the ability to freely choose your provider is dependent o
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Thanks for those suggestions. So, then, do you (or others) actually use those key combinations instead of ' and " while writing/typing? That seems like a fairly heavy re-working of a very low level muscle-memory process that would take me a
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by joebadmo 16y ago
That doesn't sound boring or sleazy to me.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
As a technically lay person who does care about this, what are some tools that I can use to write web copy with typographically correct apostrophes and quotes (or convert it afterwards)? Am I supposed to use the html code or special key com
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Climbing Rocks(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Exactly. That's sort of what I (and I think KA) was getting at.
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I think the perverse incentive you point to wrt software is a real one. I think that's why the tools that engineers use are usually the best pieces of software. I don't think patent lawyers are generally have to use patent law in the same w
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I pretty much agree with you, but right now we have four options that all mostly suck. I think that's partly because of the tech/bands. If it were two companies with handsets that worked on both, I think it would help. But you're probably r
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by joebadmo 16y ago
I'm actually not so sure. At least for me, the problem has always been that it's so hard to switch carriers because of handset lock-in and the different radio bands/technologies the different carriers are using. Seems to me that if ATT buys
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by joebadmo 16y ago
Your analogy doesn't really hold, because software engineers probably use the software they create, so they have an incentive to make it good. Lawyers have an incentive to make laws such that you need more lawyers, which the patent system s

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