joedev

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by joedev 14y ago
For better or worse, email has been and always will be an application. When people say email, they almost always mean their email client and not the protocol. Sorry, that's just the fact. You can use energy trying to change that, but it
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by joedev 14y ago
"you can build clients to do all the features you are asking for". I agree and that is exactly what people mean when they say email can be smarter - they mean email _clients_ can be smarter.
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by joedev 14y ago
"Email is a distributed, asynchronous messaging protocol." What a complete disconnect from the users of email. To 99.99% of people who use email, Paul is correct: "Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is
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by joedev 14y ago
Why does anyone shop at Best Buy? Ever? I see no appeal to the place and no value-add to spend time there. Obviously, others do though. Curious what it is that Best Buy shoppers like about it.
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1993 View of the Future by AT&T(youtube.com)
4 points by joedev 15y ago|0 comments
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by joedev 15y ago
I see. I can buy that. It's just that you said that people who love summer camp suck at thinking for themselves and I don't see the connection. "If you like summer camp then you suck at thinking for yourself" just sounds like a logical f
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by joedev 15y ago
The belief that contrarianism is required as proof of "thinking for themselves" is a common logical fallacy. It is logical and valid to consider that someone may think for themselves and, after due diligence of doing so, make a decision wh
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by joedev 15y ago
If your friends judge you for dropping Facebook, it's probably time for new friends. Just sayin'
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by joedev 15y ago
Facebook is a "heinous violation of your freedom and imposition on your private space". Would you care to elaborate? Which of your freedom(s) is being violated? What of your private space is being imposed upon?
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by joedev 15y ago
The cost to Google of this effort is far greater than $0.
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by joedev 15y ago
"Crappy IPOs" is the top point for me. This Act only further encourages unprofitable companies with no real plan-to-profitablity to dress up and hit the public with over-hyped IPO roadshows. It all becomes about hype vs. substance. We've
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by joedev 15y ago
Zendesk has this one figured out. Look at the signup form: http://www.zendesk.com/product/pricing It appears to be only two fields. Only when you start filling out the two fields do you discover it's actually six fields (still not long,
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by joedev 15y ago
"People who cry “professionalism” are asking for us to represent companies and career over being ourselves. These are not the people we want at our conferences" Then count me as not welcome at one of your conferences. I attend conferences
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by joedev 15y ago
Good article. It's funny to me that HN readers simultaneously deride Groupon for shoddy financial reporting in its IPO yet cheer "crowdfunding" and the JOBS act which removes any audited financial reporting requirement. Which is it: do you
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by joedev 15y ago
Great points. I often am dismayed that conferences and user groups seem more like frat parties than a profession attempting to further itself. And we wonder why progress plods.
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by joedev 15y ago
Interesting that right at the top of rubyonrails.com is this quote: “Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can
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by joedev 15y ago
Can't believe I just wasted a few minutes reading that article. I went to find out how to save over $100k and learned nothing other than what I already knew: older versions of IE cause issues.
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by joedev 15y ago
Is this a case of if you can't beat 'em, squash 'em?
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Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle(chronicle.com)
2 points by joedev 15y ago|1 comments
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by joedev 15y ago
So? You're missing the point entirely. The article sums it up well: "This kind of casual copyright infringement, with no malicious intent, is exactly the kind of thing that SOPA was after."
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by joedev 15y ago
This post seems like a success story, so far. So how is not interviewing them a bug? If you are seeking startups who need help identifying how to get customers and how to create products people want, then it seems that Codiqa doesn't fit.
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When She Ain’t All Apples(agworld.com.au)
2 points by joedev 15y ago|1 comments
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by joedev 15y ago
So funny to hear "Chicago" and "the midwest" in the same sentence. Chicago is different enough from the Midwest that usually organizations serving both have both in their name to make it clear they serve and understand the differing needs
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by joedev 15y ago
I agree. You hear the phrase "I don't have healthcare" too often used when what the person really means is "I don't have insurance." If you live in a developed country, believe me, you have health care. Not to be pedantic but I will stand
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by joedev 15y ago
The entire concept of insurance is to share risk. (Egyptians had the bright idea to combine grain together onto shared barges so if one sinks, none of us loses our entire cargo.) Risk carries an element of unpredictability. If a scenario i
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by joedev 15y ago
"I develop relationships with them, and at the end of the day, I am done, there is nothing to do except go out for dinner, drink beer, and have fun. No deadlines, no all night code sessions. This is how life should be." I know it's hard to
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by joedev 15y ago
Should be titled, "Pinterest's first investor explains nothing." Not only does he make no offering of a "secret to success", but in reality says: 'there’s no way to explain how the company that has done no PR, no marketing and is still oper
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by joedev 15y ago
Well done. Thank you for sharing this intimate part of you. Please, please everyone: take heed: "Those who push only for the sake of some future reward, or to avoid failure, very often burn out, sometimes tragically. Please don't do that.
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by joedev 15y ago
Developers moaning about Bootstrap have fallen into the common trap of seeing apps through developers' eyes. Please consider that: 1. Almost no one in the world has heard of Bootstrap. Though it's captured our mindshare as developers, most
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by joedev 15y ago
You have fallen into the common trap of seeing apps through developers' eyes. Please consider that almost no one in the world has heard of Bootstrap. Though it's captured our mindshare as developers, most of our users will not know nor ca

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