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by jskopek 13y ago
Do you disagree with the author? Depending on where you live, his point is very valid. As a resident of Canada, I feel that I live in a fairly progressive, culturally diverse society. Yet even here, I have heard friends of different ethnici
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by jskopek 13y ago
Don't let the quality of this (admittedly poor) article turn you off from the Economist as a whole. They tend to produce a wide variety of well-researched, insightful articles. They tend to have an opinion on nearly every article, but
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by jskopek 14y ago
The page redirects to a nice 500 error page after a few minutes. What an awesome experience!
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by jskopek 14y ago
Last year's Google IO conference sold out in minutes, and it looks like this year's is even more hectic. I wonder how long it'll be until they decide to switch to an alternative approach. What about ticket raffles or an online-only event?
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Being Mean to your Users(jeanmarc.skopek.ca)
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Sprinters vs. Craftsmen(jeanmarc.skopek.ca)
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by jskopek 14y ago
Mixpanel is still fairly early in the game, but their development pace is pretty rapid. They also seem to be able to build on existing features pretty well; for example, they rolled out the ability to build user profiles a few months ago, a
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by jskopek 14y ago
Are you referring to the dislike of your actions being tracked on a website? I share your concern, but isn't that just the cost of doing business with a website? Most applications would be able to build a pretty decent understanding of your
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by jskopek 14y ago
There's a risk of turning it into too much of a gimmick, but I'd love if travel sites started doing things like this. Showing you a flythrough of where you'll be going as they pull up trip prices, for example
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by jskopek 14y ago
The level of polish in B2G is quite impressive, especially given the alpha label. I suppose the fact that everything is written in HTML5 makes for very quick development times. If I was at Facebook, I would be paying -very- close attention
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by jskopek 14y ago
That points to a bigger flaw in the Groupon model, namely that most businesses who try a promotion end up coming out disappointed. There are a number of reasons for that - bad planning on the retailer's end, excessive promotion fees for Gro
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by jskopek 14y ago
Canada has always been a tough region for music support. Spotify has a pretty decent international reach (including many parts of Europe), but Canada is still out of the picture. Same goes for Pandora.
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by jskopek 14y ago
Charles ( http://www.charlesproxy.com/ ) has been a permanent addition to my toolkit for this exact reason. Cross platform, cross browser HTTP monitoring and proxying with throttling and all sorts of goodies. I believe there are several pur
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by jskopek 14y ago
I highly doubt you'll see the Kobo bookstore on the Amazon marketplace; that's lock-in
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by jskopek 14y ago
I owned an iPad and an iPad Retina, and I can also attest to a huge jump in use between those versions. The first iPad was excellent, but it was just a little to slow, little too heavy, and little too big. Those issues added up to a product
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by jskopek 14y ago
I'm all in favor of rapid releases and MVP, but this seems like a step in the wrong direction. As many have pointed out, the site is missing many of the core features required to build a community. This seems like a great way to alienate th
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by jskopek 14y ago
That's a little harsh of you, and totally unwarranted. The site's user-base has absolutely nothing to do with the article or current conversation.
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by jskopek 14y ago
I've seen a number of comments over the last few weeks to the effect of "if you don't understand this product, watch the intro video". In my opinion, if a product can't be described in a couple of concise sentences, it's going to run into s
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by jskopek 14y ago
My impression of Fee Fighters was pretty low before I read this, but after reading your apology I can't even begin to imagine how terrible this company must be. It's one thing for them to disregard the utter failure of letting a billing ser
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by jskopek 14y ago
Every endangered language we can categorize is an insight into our more primitive selves. Languages reflects so much of a society's culture, and so many of these languages come from isolated areas that have had little contact with the devel
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by jskopek 14y ago
That's a little harsh of you, don't you think? Her wardrobe isn't varied, but as long as the default 'works' there's no reason she can't pull it off. Do you remember what your friends wore yesterday? From what I've experienced, clothing doe
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by jskopek 14y ago
I recently helped a female friend move out of an old apartment, and I was absolutely astounded by how much clothing she had lying around. It surprised me because she came off as a stylish, but not terribly fashion-centered person. By my rou
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by jskopek 14y ago
It seems like its primarily HR, Marketing, and Law getting cut. The blossoming startup scene in Waterloo and Toronto should be eager to try out any engineers that are given the boot; it's still very much a sellers market up here.
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by jskopek 14y ago
The experience probably varies quite significantly from person to person. I remember appreciating the decrease in size when I upgraded from my 4" Nexus S to a 3.5" iPhone 4S. I think you've got a point about a larger screen allows for more
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by jskopek 14y ago
The UX experience/monitor size argument has been discussed many times, and the general consensus seems to be that Apple picked a 3.5" screen because it presents the most comfortable layout. I believe Dustin Curtis was the first person to st
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by jskopek 14y ago
At the risk of feeding a silly discussion, I'd cast my vote to Elon Musk
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by jskopek 14y ago
I think the tone of the article was to be more light hearted, rather than objective and factual. The stock photo laden video really doubles down on that gambit. I think a laid back attitude is novel, and has a lot of power. It's made me ass
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by jskopek 14y ago
For those who aren't aware, getting offered to play an essential mix is a huge honor in the electronic music world. Most of the mixes on this site are from artists giving it their very best. Cracking good work! This looks incredibly polishe
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by jskopek 15y ago
The new additions of UEFA, KHL, and tennis scores would seem to indicate that each snippet type is manually built and added by Google. I would have expected something a little bit broader; an algorithm that attempts to automatically parse s
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by jskopek 15y ago
I've been taking steps to reduce my sources of news to a small group of higher quality, paid sources. I've settled on The Economist for world developments, WIRED for general entertainment, and Hacker News for technology. So far, I've notice

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