mcantor

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by mcantor 17y ago
At first, I was flabbergasted at the awesomeness here: "Oh my God!" I thought, "You could order pizza from any terminal. Ohh! You could even use a mobile terminal client to order pizza from your CELL PHONE! HOW NOVEL!" Yeah... I slapped my
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by mcantor 17y ago
I think this might solidify the fact that I'm a terrible person, but I'm pretty sure I up-voted this entirely because of the schadenfreude elicited when large corporate software projects fail miserably due to user experience issues. It's k
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by mcantor 17y ago
More suggested reading: "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d... -- I've lost count of how many times I've read this book. As the article goes, it talks about what
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by mcantor 17y ago
This article is pretty discursive. Also, it closes with a mangled version of one of my favorite anecdotes, which I will reproduce here to counteract the bad juju: A carpenter is called to repair a wobbly floorboard in someone's attic. He a
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by mcantor 17y ago
I think you missed Mr. Gladwell's point... if we extend his reasoning, books do not cost money because they require paper (fuel). Books cost money because of the complex infrastructure required to find, edit, print, assemble and distribute
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by mcantor 17y ago
I agree. It seems like LinkedIn is uniquely appropriate in terms of online searches, since it was designed with professional jobs in mind.
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by mcantor 17y ago
It seems like Facebook should really be able to suss out the automated accounts based on a pretty broad analysis of usage data. If there are accounts floating around out there which have only 3 seconds of activity per 24-hour period, with
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by mcantor 17y ago
I just meant that there's no one out there who can inspire consumers to brand loyalty and excitement as deftly as Apple can.
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by mcantor 17y ago
Your point is clear and practical, but a thought just occurred to me: Imagine if you had to jailbreak your Windows machine to use applications that Microsoft hadn't approved...
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by mcantor 17y ago
I think I see what you were getting at now, about the market penetration. I still don't really understand your point about hardware vs. software. The G-1 and iPhone are both pieces of hardware with pre-packaged software on them. Is there
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by mcantor 17y ago
WOW. I didn't realize that was the case. Now I understand the App store fiasco much more... it seems like Apple is paying the price for its closed architecture culture. That makes me feel even more strongly about my original post: With an
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by mcantor 17y ago
Then how do you develop for the iPhone, without being able to install the app you're developing on your own device?
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by mcantor 17y ago
Full disclosure: I recently purchased a T-Mobile Android-powered G-1, with which I am more than a little enamored. Feel free to discard the following post as fanboy tripe. Couldn't this article have just as easily been written about the G-
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by mcantor 17y ago
Between 6 and 7 hours on weeknights, probably between 8 and 9 on weekends. I don't think it's working for me that well, though. I usually go to sleep at midnight or 1, then get woken up by my alarm at 7:00, but snooze until 7:30 or 7:45 a
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by mcantor 17y ago
www.rememberthemilk.com
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by mcantor 17y ago
I was intentionally trying to avoid the "was it fair, should they have done it" argument, because it's an infinite loop debate. When I quoted Mr. Yamaguchi as saying, "How could they do that?", I was not echoing his question, but commentin
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by mcantor 17y ago
I'm a young guy, and all of this happened way before my time... but the ambiguous morality of the bombs' use ("Was there a different way? No, Yes, No, Yes!") does nothing to diminish the tingle in my spine when I read about this man's uncan
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by mcantor 17y ago
If I come to a point where I need to implement cryptography in some form, what should I do? I certainly don't have the money to hire someone who knows what they're doing. It seems strange that skills in other aspects of development (prote
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by mcantor 17y ago
I'm really fascinated by all the crypto debate that's been going on lately, but I'm completely green when it comes to cryptography. If Applied Cryptography and Coding Horror aren't enough, where can I go to learn about this? I see a lot o