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by kb101 15y ago
Your opinion matches the consensus when the N8 came out loaded with Symbian ^3 (generally deemed to have been rushed out the door); but I am curious if you had the opportunity to see which version of Symbian was running on the phone you tes
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by kb101 15y ago
Well for one, in the context of developing and managing a business, secrecy is often of paramount importance. Why does Apple go apeshit every time an engineer of theirs leaves a prototype phone in a bar? Shouldn't they just relax and enjo
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by kb101 15y ago
For what the future holds, we need look no further than the über-Netizens of the world, the South Koreans. If you want to get on Cyworld (30% of the population, 90% of the 20somethings according to Crunchbase), you send in a copy of your n
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by kb101 15y ago
Don't know about best, but www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_features.html is pretty cool. It is what it says, fast. No graphics, clean web interface, runs quick on anything, including crappy old hardware or phones. Opera recently bought the
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by kb101 15y ago
Wow, what a blast of fresh air, reading this. I miss the old Internet, when Aunt Sally still couldn't figure it out and certainly would be horrified to find her birthday party photos posted on it, much less would she even conceive of going
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by kb101 15y ago
Selling data is not the problem; the problem is the emerging social norm whereby letting data about your life be aggregated and mined proves you are a trustworthy person. We are already at the stage where simply not having a social network
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by kb101 15y ago
It is definitely noteworthy that the N9 and the N8, both examples of excellent hardware running competitive software, have basically been sandbagged by Nokia. Contrast this with RIM, who just released a slew of stop-gap phones until QNX (BB
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by kb101 15y ago
So running on a treadmill going so fast you can barely keep up actually makes you smarter? Great, quit my corporate job for nothing.
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by kb101 15y ago
In fairness to the author, I don't think this was intended as an "Apple is evil" post, though using the term "trojan horse" makes for great linkbait. I don't see that this is that far-fetched. Considering how many other mobile phones have
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by kb101 15y ago
Me too, that is one mean-ass dinosaur. Don't mess with the T-Rex spawned from the untamed imagination of a four year old.
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by kb101 15y ago
This is a great concept... I think where it could differentiate itself is by aggregating posts by topic. If I'm searching some topic on the web, I often come across blogs that are out of date or orphaned, and they might provide me with som
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by kb101 15y ago
This post reads more like the author trying to come to terms with his own tortured, confrontational, win/lose outlook on running a company. It also reads like a case of passive/aggressive venting on a portfolio company CEO who is driving h
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by kb101 15y ago
"Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality" is a bold statement. Presumably, increasing productivity for everyone is one of the signal benefits of technological progress. If we accept that as true, then why can
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by kb101 15y ago
1) A unified, coherent design language and user experience for the site. This would really make Yahoo stand out, as even Google is clunky with this ("more" and "even more"). As it stands currently, it's too visually cluttered and hard to
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by kb101 15y ago
If the concern is the journalistic integrity of a tech news blog whose founder also funds certain startups likely to wind up in the tech news... one way would be to make those investments subject to an NDA I suppose. None of the blog write
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by kb101 15y ago
While all the above points are true, there is a big difference between picking up the phone to call someone in 1950 and posting an update on a social networking site in 2011. I would submit that there are two factors that make the differenc
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by kb101 15y ago
It seems that both the straight dope and ask-a-physicist links describe the effects as something similar to having eight giant mountains on Earth whose summits make up the points of a cube. This led me to wonder, what if we consider the ca