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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm not really sure what the actual return policy is, but both of my friends had had the kindles for a while before they broke them. They then contacted Amazon to see what their options were and got replacements for free. I just returned an
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I've had two friends get overnighted new kindles to replaces ones that they broke. Amazon's customer service is, quite frankly, better than almost any brick and mortar store's customer service. And I don't even have to leave my home. It's a
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's a much more reasonable position. But I think it's wrong. Reader is a natural complement to Plus. It's a huge source of link-sharing, which is probably why they wanted to integrate it, so all of that link traffic would populate their
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'll give you the second, but I'd argue that the leatherette buttons confuse the metaphors.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Are you serious? You're really suggesting that they put resources into redesiging a product to integrate with a new product in a cynical maneuver to drive away the current userbase so that when they shut it down later, there will be less co
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's worse with OS X, but iOS has its share, too. iBooks is just one, and it's not just the page stacks. I'd argue that the whole skeuomorphic interface is misplaced. I find the page-turning animation to be a useless, nostalgic novelty. But
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Why would Google bother redesigning a product they're planning on deprecating? It seems fairly obvious to me that this simple math is currently in play at Google: Social is important, G+ is a pan-Google social product, and social products l
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Then why would you hit back instead of home?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have and it's a great interview. It's actually got me really excited about what I thought would be a fairly pedestrian OS upgrade. But I still don't think it goes far enough. I think there are certain conventions that make sense for a han
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by joebadmo 15y ago
But what hadn’t occurred to me is that it doesn’t matter if it actually does make it easier to use, all that matters is that it makes the average person think it’s easier to use. In reality, a user must take time to learn any interface, wh
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Social pressure. A friend of mine just got both of her parents iPhones. Why did they want them? Because a lot of people they knew had one.
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Design concepts that didn't make it into Firefox(blog.mozilla.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
But there's no such thing as "Android hardware". There's hardware that runs Android. This hardware is of varying quality. It's not meaningful to lump all of that hardware together. But if you're talking about software OS marketshare, it is
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by joebadmo 15y ago
To me it rarely feels inconsistent. I like that the back button remembers the context for whatever my current action is. It means I don't have to keep it in working memory. I just press back when I'm done. I also disagree with Gruber's comp
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that the backlash is partly just aversion to change, and partly the fact that we're in a usability canyon because of the transition, but that the integration with the G+ sharing model means a better, more granular future for sharing
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Then you've never actually done it. It's two clicks. You're just looking for something to complain about.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Fantastic, constructive, mostly positive response to a somewhat frightening problem. I hope Google takes him up on it.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think the answer is what I call 'subscribable circles' in this blog post: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/12261287667/in-defense-of-the... Which actually works a lot like RSS. You have certain named feeds, e.g. "Unix." Then people lookin
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In Defense of the New Google Reader(blog.byjoemoon.com)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Circle management is optional. If you want to use it like Twitter, you can. Just dump everyone in one Circle and spray your content indiscriminately to everyone in it.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I imagine the problem is that an iOS gmail client just isn't that high of a priority for Google. And why should it be? In contrast, Android's gmail client is one of Android's biggest draws, and has never in my two years of using Android had
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Griping about an optional feature? Really? Circles have great utility for me for two reasons. 1. Like Twitter lists (which I use, thanks Tweetdeck), I want to see information from certain groups of people for different things. 2. I want to
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I don't even know where to begin. Almost my entire point was that your own experience is not universal. No one's is. You admit that you've seen discrimination and that it's easy to spot. Why, then, would you assume that it's not a problem?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Apple is obviously doing very well. But that doesn't mean everything Apple does is right, or that everyone should do things the way Apple does. I love when companies do this kind of concept video, and if anything, I think these don't look f
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by joebadmo 15y ago
First sentence was in reply to ellyagg, who touted self-reliance, and self-identified as white male. My selective quoting was in response to ellyagg's position that I was not accurately representing d3x's original comment in my original rep
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Have you considered perhaps that you're the edge case? I've lived in the US my entire life. I'm East Asian. I've encountered racism. Given two persons of minority descent, one who claims to have first-hand experience of racism, and another
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This entire issue is crap. ...some BS issue that has no value. My only advice to "black" and other entrepreneurs is shut up, go code and make something awesome. This entire issue is being exploited to get attention for Angela Benton
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Showing different things to search engines and users is deceptive. You're misrepresenting yourself to the search engine. I want search engines to penalize sites that put content behind firewalls, because those sites are less relevant to
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What We Learned Driving 2,000 Miles Through the South's Startup Landscape(theatlantic.com)
27 points by joebadmo 15y ago|10 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Seems like they addressed a lot of the initial gripes people had with the new UI preview. I'm hopeful that similar evolution will be coming to Google Reader.

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