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by jordanpg 7y ago
I think the rebranding of Intellij IDEA as Android Studio in 2013 was a good clue of where Google's long term plans were pointed.
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Snipes at Apple with Privacy Defense(theverge.com)
1 points by jordanpg 7y ago|0 comments
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by jordanpg 7y ago
The point is that I'm fundamentally disgusted by an incitement to spend money being thrust in front of me in any form, for any reason. I see it as exactly at odds with what I'm trying to do with my life and my attention. I do not
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by jordanpg 7y ago
I don't want to see ads, ever . I hope a growing number of people feel the same way. I don't care about the business model of the whole internet. It is obviously a house of cards. A business model based on bad UX? I hope it c
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The Dream: podcast about the world of pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing(stitcher.com)
2 points by jordanpg 8y ago|1 comments
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by jordanpg 8y ago
99% Invisible Making Sense This American Life Serial Heavyweight Imaginary Worlds Reply All More Perfect Intelligence Squared US
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by jordanpg 8y ago
Really? I hear that some people do not like the "NPR voice". OK, that's a criticism of the format, I suppose. But to then compare Ira Glass/TAL with TED or Malcolm Gladwell stretches credulity. TAL is the pinnacle, the
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by jordanpg 8y ago
What an edgy, contrarian critique. Watch as the author translates his criticisms of some podcasts that he doesn't like into a global criticism of all podcasts. I wonder if this guy still insists on listening _exclusively_ to LPs and lo
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by jordanpg 8y ago
Good points about ease of cooking and error. So much of short-term adoption of these is tied to marketing and time, but their long-term success strikes me as a foregone conclusion. In marketing, they will need to get past a latent psycholog
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by jordanpg 8y ago
This is why I think the "Papers, Please" paradigm is so interesting. The overall storyline is replaced with a repetitive but novel task with increasing difficultly, and various other loosely coupled storylines are grafted onto the
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by jordanpg 8y ago
I enjoy thinking about the future of IF. I see it as a gaming/storytelling medium with a simultaneously huge potential but still vast chasms to cross before it gets there. NLP etc. has great potential to improve the parsing capabiliti
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by jordanpg 8y ago
There's an entire episode of Black Mirror devoted to exploring a dark potential future of this sort of thing: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/29/16791518/black-mirror...
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CloudBees acquires software automation startup Electric Cloud(venturebeat.com)
6 points by jordanpg 8y ago|0 comments
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My point is that playing IF games is a major commitment, unlike Candy Crush or watching any TV show, which are 0 commitment activities. There is no casual playing of HHGTTG or Zork or Hadean Lands.
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by jordanpg 8y ago
I love interactive fiction (as these types of games are now denoted) then and now. In principle. There are possibilities with the text-only canvas that are not even conceivable in other media. But really, does anyone have time for these g
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by jordanpg 8y ago
The user experience associated with using DVDs, while having improved ever-so-slightly with Blu-Ray, is still comically bad. It's slow, and there's all kinds of shit that has to be skipped, if it can be skipped. And then there&#x
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by jordanpg 8y ago
Goals are great, sure. And yes these are just goals with lots of wrapping. But I am tired of having the latest management book wisdom foisted upon me by product and management. Why do engineers always need to be dragged into this stuff?
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by jordanpg 8y ago
I agree with this. I've come to the conclusion that the bottom line is that I don't need more than a few tabs open, and that if I do, my attention is probably too fractured. Solution is to change my habits and be a little bit more
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by jordanpg 8y ago
Still does not block autoplay on cnn.com, which is my acid test for this. UPDATE: Yes it does, but it's not enabled by default. (?)
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by jordanpg 8y ago
Atlassian software clears the good enough bar for me, functionally. But it’s all _so slow_. Every action in the cloud UI takes 2 seconds. I would prefer any other product that was snappier.
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by jordanpg 8y ago
It simply doesn't matter to me very much what I eat. I find dwelling on the specifics of food to be incredibly tedious (even if cooking itself is occasionally fun). Some things I like more or less than others, but taste and variety is
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Spotify to Acquire Gimlet Media(investors.spotify.com)
3 points by jordanpg 8y ago|2 comments
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by jordanpg 8y ago
I agree that Overcast is the best game in town, but that's just because it has the best UX. There is something about the underlying audio technology that seems to be keeping this world pinned to mid-2000's tech.
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Ask HN: Why have podcast and audio book apps not improved much?
1 points by jordanpg 8y ago|3 comments
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by jordanpg 8y ago
No, not what he says at all. He implies that everything you need to know to vote can fit on one side of an index card. The point is you don't need to follow the news to make informed voting decisions.
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One week, no food(aeon.co)
2 points by jordanpg 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordanpg 9y ago
A good approximation is high quality drinking chocolate (not hot chocolate). Melted very dark chocolate with a minimum of sugar and milk or cream added. You can find it at fancy chocolate places.
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Related Jenkins announcement: https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/03/19/introducing-jenkins-x/
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Those who say it's not safe enough: given that no engineered system is 100% safe, when/how can you say that a system is safe enough?
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by jordanpg 9y ago
I've always thought that one of the reasons SO was so successful is that they were an early adopter of easy to use markdown for code snippets, with a fairly snappy, simple UI. Compare this with the alternatives around the same time, li

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