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by levifig 14y ago
Metro makes no choices because it has been caught in the middle of Microsoft's "identity crisis": is it a touch/tablet interface or a desktop/mouse one? Microsoft is failing to make those hard choices and thus Metro is a reflection of it. F
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by levifig 14y ago
Great points, which I obviously failed to clarify! :) Regarding the architecture, I was thinking specifically of the mixed delivery of a whole new one (Metro/touch-driven) and the old/current one (classic Windows/mouse-driven). I've read qu
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Is Microsoft Metro Undesigned?(levifig.com)
13 points by levifig 14y ago|35 comments
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Against The Minimum Viable Product(levifig.com)
2 points by levifig 14y ago|0 comments
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by levifig 14y ago
Do you have any facts on that? I'd love to hear stories and accounts of anything like that happening…
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by levifig 14y ago
Thanks for the tip! Currently, I'm working on a startup I co-founded so I got my plate full. I wrote that article knowing that there are more people like me and because I just now found myself in a position to do what I love but spent some
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A Tale of Priorities (or Why Coding Should Be My Priority Number Five)(levifig.com)
1 points by levifig 14y ago|0 comments
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by levifig 14y ago
Holy crap, I couldn't agree more. Thank you Benjamin! I just wrote a comment/follow-up from the flip-side perspective: someone wired to be a "Shit Umbrella" who is stuck in a world where you have to be a "rockstar coder" first – http://lev
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Thought Different (How Apple Changed)(levifig.com)
5 points by levifig 15y ago|0 comments
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Why You Should Always Hire an A-Team(levifig.com)
1 points by levifig 15y ago|1 comments
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by levifig 15y ago
I bet they rewrite their code every year… -.-
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by levifig 15y ago
Oh cool… I've always wanted to know how that works. Right? No. Anti-virus software is like drugs: they'll preload a little quality free thing on your new computer and then remind you (every two hours) when your 60-day trial has expired AND
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by levifig 15y ago
That was not the point of my comment. It was a realization of how it came across (aka how I got here). My main point, however, and this in reply to your post (that I have no doubt it was honest and on the back of some tough thinking) was th
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by levifig 15y ago
This sounds very "link bait-ish"… Why were you trying to write a game in Ruby to start with? You didn't "switch back to C++", you simply realized you were trying to use a wrench to tight a philips screw… -.-
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by levifig 15y ago
So, "writing and publishing a book isn't easy so I'm charging you $50 for an e-book so I don't have to give up the work and percentage to a publisher that would make it available to you for $20". I don't stand by publishers but this seems t
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by levifig 15y ago
Ya, thousands of dollars (and years of their time) wasted dealing with a scammer seem like "juvenile vengeance" for me too…
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by levifig 15y ago
Outsourcing sucks for MULTIPLE reasons. I wrote an article about a year ago about another side of outsourcing that will hurt your business regardless of where you outsource it to: brand equity -- http://d.pr/B4dJ Sorry to hear this one th
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Idea: Google Apps Custom(levifig.com)
4 points by levifig 15y ago|0 comments
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by levifig 15y ago
Why the heck would ANYONE have multiple accounts? Doesn't that even violate the TOS? :S
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by levifig 15y ago
Sadly, can't get past the horrendous sound quality… :(
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by levifig 15y ago
And then there's iA Writer and their egotistic attempt to patent "Focus Mode"… Seriously: https://twitter.com/#!/iA/status/74588465953640448 Same problem: other apps used it because it's such a generic concept. They (always) say that it's
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by levifig 16y ago
And I'm tired of the constant rebuke of a perfectly good soundbite by people that have no idea of the distinction of "idea" and "execution". Design and copy writing are as much part of "execution" as code is. They are also as technical as c
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by levifig 16y ago
Argh… By "totally" I meant "part of the same activity". :p Not identical but not separate (hence my use of "in tandem"). :)
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by levifig 16y ago
Totally! Before, during and after. Praying goes in tandem alongside meditation. :) I could go on on why that is the whole reason for meditation, but that would be drifting away from the issue towards my beliefs (and I promised I wouldn't ge
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by levifig 16y ago
I use Instapaper religiously (hah!). The bad thing is how it became a graveyard of oh-so-awesome-must-read articles and less a queue of stuff I do read. :) As to the "emptying your mind", all I said was that if you're focused on "emptying"
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by levifig 16y ago
I know I'll get some heat for this, but here it goes anyway. Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. Not of those that make the news or your typical "fundamentalist". I read and study the Bible and do my best to be a good person, understanding the wor
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New Year's Resolutions Are Worthless(log.levifig.com)
1 points by levifig 16y ago|0 comments
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by levifig 16y ago
I totally understand where you're at… It's beyond frustrating! You can either 1) educate them or 2) show yourself out. I'm sure a dev like you won't have much trouble finding a cool startup looking for talent… :)