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by macrael 15y ago
Interesting analysis, I feel like 100k per employee might be a little low, but regardless it seems likely that twitter is making real money.
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by macrael 15y ago
Relatedly, Steve Ballmer a few weeks ago at Microsoft's earnings: "We increasingly are only working on things that are actually very important. The day and age of idle, smaller things [at Microsoft] is a little bit behind us. We're putting
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by macrael 15y ago
You learn one thing about someone and they lose hero status? Neil deGrasse Tyson (one of my heroes) one said that you need to assemble your heroes out of the parts of many. No one is perfect. You can still admire the admirable things about
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by macrael 15y ago
Craig Hockenberry, a well known iOS developer, has been hit by this along with lodsys. He works for the Icon Factory, a small design and app firm. He wrote Twitterrific for the iPhone before the SDK had been released. Craig wrote the much l
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by macrael 15y ago
I'd love an explanation of what "generation numbers" are.
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by macrael 15y ago
Reiterating a past request because I can't reply to it. Please can we get sub domains for google domains displayed. Especially now that we have google plus, I'd like to know what the actual service a link is coming from is. Google code is e
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by macrael 15y ago
This is more a bug in Hacker News than a bug for google. HN should definitely be displaying subdomains, at least for google properties. They have so much under that umbrella it doesn't help me ever to see that a post is from google.com.
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by macrael 15y ago
I thought the two examples that were actually created by Tufte were great, they made perfect sense and expressed the data well, while the other examples were kind of a mess. Partly this is because they weren't clear analogues to what Tufte
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by macrael 15y ago
The cancer survival rates graph is magnificent. Super easy to understand, very information dense, and shows some very interesting trends. I never really thought about how different the slope of some of those diseases could be. That some can
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by macrael 15y ago
I don't understand the comparison. It seems like slope graphs and sparklines serve very different purposes. Both of the Tufte graphs in the piece (the "receipts of government" graph and the cancer survival rates graph) would not have convey
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by macrael 15y ago
The important takeaway I see is that regardless of wether advertising accurately taps some innate biologic differences between mean ad women in order to sell things effectively, it doesn't make it ok or right to do so. We should avoid it
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by macrael 15y ago
He's written about gender very well before.[1] It is certainly a subject that I don't know very much about, but I appreciate that it can get very complicated very quickly. What are the good reasons for requiring it to be public? Secondly, d
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XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to be public(plus.google.com)
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by macrael 15y ago
So by adding someone to one of my circles, I'm automatically added to their "Following" circle? It seems like you mean the opposite, that I would put someone I don't know really well into my "Following" circle, but that still means that I
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by macrael 15y ago
One of the things that is great about Twitter is that you can subscribe to someone else's posts without them having to take any action. Is something similar available on Google+? Are your posts required to be directed toward a specific circ
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by macrael 15y ago
At what cost though? My guess is that they have features planned out far in the future for their iOS apps, what should they give up there in order to port something to Android? The same argument has been made for years for Mac specific apps
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by macrael 15y ago
It seems clear that GitHub's goal is to make git useable. I'm super excited about everything they can do in that direction. Git's underlying model is fantastic, but it's UI is lacking. Bravo GitHub.
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by macrael 15y ago
The important distinction is that being poor or disliking Lost are not considered disabilities per the Americans with Disabilities Act. That law attempts to guarantee that anyone who is disabled has equal access to, among other things, the
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by macrael 15y ago
Handoff -> http://www.handoffapp.com/ Works well. I'm not sure how many of the other solutions do this as well, but it treats maps, websites, and phone numbers (and maybe more?) differently, launching the appropriate apps in response.
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by macrael 15y ago
Why do you prefer to lock your data to a service provider rather than a hardware provider? You are still choosing something to hitch your wagon to.
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by macrael 15y ago
It seems like a significant shift for Google to be releasing major search features as Chrome exclusives. I think they did this before with the personal blacklist feature which was eventually put into the web UI. (Can anyone fact check that
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by macrael 15y ago
How does bcrypt stack up against PBKDF2?
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by macrael 15y ago
I've tried that but it comes out feeling kind of weird. Also, most people don't have a pointing device that allows for horizontal scrolling. But it is totally workable.
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by macrael 15y ago
I believe scrolling is not ideal. You van break your text on viewport-height and then put as many columns on the screen as possible. This drastically reduces the amount of scrolling required.
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by macrael 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by saying that "Two column layout is a relic of a single page layout". Columns have a long history (newspapers come to mind) that does not seem to be tied to single page layout. The most important thing that colum
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by macrael 15y ago
I agree, it is a sticky problem. Really, it does make sense to have the content areas defined by divs (though what to do if one of them ends up empty?) And once you've done that, where is the content supposed to go? I suppose then it makes
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by macrael 15y ago
How would you do this yourself? By using javascript?
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by macrael 15y ago
These are very real problems with current web technologies but Adobe's solutions seem a little strange. Content flow and region styling are both something that should be made easy to do in html and would make it easier to design great looki
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by macrael 15y ago
Do any zipcar-like rental companies allow you to return the car to somewhere other than where you picked it up? Doing so obviously dramatically changes the complexity of reservations. It is a feature that more traditional rental operations
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by macrael 15y ago
Durham's a great town putting a lot of effort into enticing startups to settle there. Check out Bull City Forward http://bullcityforward.org/ an incubator backed in part by the city.

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