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by kolektiv 16y ago
Spotify’s got it right. A perfect interface with free streaming and a paid for mobile app that allows thousands of tracks to live on your handset as if you owned them. Wrong. As if I owned something isn't good enough for many people. It'
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Design? I don't really think that producing a knock off of the MacBook Pro counts as design. I'd also be extremely surprised if the build quality was anywhere close. The MacBook Pro required some fairly careful engineering and matching of p
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I realized that people who stand around the window watching the construction workers are not actually doing anything useful That's an interesting point of view. Certainly in office situations some of the most useful and enlightening conve
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Well, I know that if I were interviewing this chap (and I am interviewing people quite a bit) I would be at least impressed by his having shown some initiative. I would also say that someone who is willing and able to go and live fairly hap
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The Flipboard Dilemma: Who Owns User Experience?(stoweboyd.com)
3 points by kolektiv 16y ago|1 comments
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Don't know that it's that simple. You could look at this as a server farm for encoding. If I bought a rendering engine, would the company allow me to use one license for all seats in the farm? No, I'd be buying bundles. It's not an exact an
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Yes, I can see that as a valid approach. The differentiated test I might try though is to put pricing directly on the home page. It doesn't need to be the main item, but as a test it might be interesting. As you say, some percentage of peop
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Interesting, although heatmaps for A/B testing is not a new concept. They don't appear to have put much thought in to the actions taken after the findings though. Being surprised that more people go to "Pricing" than "Sign up" is a little o
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by kolektiv 16y ago
I like his thought about the capital-F future only really being present in the minds of people of a certain age/cultural background, and the alternative being a kind of endless digital Now, but I don't know that I completely buy it. The dig
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The full J Allard leaving email (Microsoft)(blogs.technet.com)
12 points by kolektiv 16y ago|0 comments
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by kolektiv 16y ago
He suggests in the foreword that you donate copies to schools - you can do so at http://craphound.com/ftw/donate/ . I think that's a great idea. More info is available in the actual text as to why and how.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Important to remember that we're talking about threads and IO in one specific VM case, etc. The same assumptions won't necessarily hold in, for example, a .NET case, as the memory cost of a thread is more significant (in some qualified case
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Have we not been getting ready for C# 4 for some time? It's been in CTP and Beta variants for most of the last year. Some good new features exist of course.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Indeed there are many potential reasons why productivity may not have declined in direct proportion to hours work. Less tiredness, more content workers, elimination of wasteful activities, firing the least productive people, even the good o
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Yes it certainly would. I have to admit that it's crossed my mind more than once. The set capabilities could lend itself very well to some high performance faceting functionality, so you might end up with something between Lucene and Solr.
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by kolektiv 16y ago
Yes, it's a nice little demonstration of what you could perhaps call (not unkindly) naive full text search. It misses quite a few functions which a more mature solution would give which you might want quite badly. Relevance is an obvious ex
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by kolektiv 17y ago
Well, that's perhaps true but the broader point still stands. Legalised drugs companies don't tend to have the same violent tendencies. Glaxo-Smithkline don't tend to have violent gun battles with Bayer over who gets to supply prescription
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by kolektiv 17y ago
Why are people downvoting an author asking that people maybe take a moment to check whether they're responding to a woman before they write "he"? Is it that much hassle to check a byline?
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Oracle start charging for Sun's Office ODF plug-in(h-online.com)
15 points by kolektiv 17y ago|7 comments
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by kolektiv 17y ago
Yeah, and we recently switched to pure phonetic spelling as well. Sorry, I meen fonetik. Dam.
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by kolektiv 17y ago
Yup. I started reading, found myriad writing errors and thought "who is this guy?" Found that sentence in the bio. Stopped reading altogether. Why should I deal with it? That's your first impression? That you're arrogant and unhelpful? I re
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by kolektiv 17y ago
The most valuable thing available here might be the understanding of why/how you lost your clients. Did they sign up and then decide that this methodology just didn't work for them? Or was it something else? As people are saying, the custom