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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Old dude advice here: Have you gone to to each company and city in person? If so which one really speaks to your heart? Which company has people that you'd like to meet who you might learn from? Which city would you want to look for th
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Of course Angela's kerning is 100% better, but in terms of branding Google has always been "anti-design" so maybe the bad kerning was planned?
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Maybe that's it for the freemium model? We tend to forget that before the web most software had to be paid for unless it was pirated or unpaid shareware. The advertising model has given us everything from the original Star Trek televis
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Things I dream of: Something like a HyperCard interface so non-coders can create apps (and of course like HyperCard there should be a language like HyperTalk under the surface that users can use): https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Something that many digital folks don't get about old typefaces during the hot metal era: Different sizes had different cuts. So a typeface that's at 9 points wasn't using the same outline as the same typeface at say 24 point
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Yahoo spent $1.1 billion on Tumblr, so in theory you could see a similar deal. And of course it depends on what they do with the $57 million, but yes it feels very dot.com bubble.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
That's my fear as well, although I've seen a decline in the market over the past few years. After the banner ad crash of '08 it became harder for indie bloggers to make a living. And another problem I see these days is that n
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
You just described most of what I see on 4chan and Facebook. But in a sense what you're saying has happened to a degree with paywalls. The really good content at say the New York Times, Financial Times and the like is behind paywalls a
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
For anything that's processor intensive it's clear that apps will win, but flipping that think about the classic office bundle and how google moved that to the browser: - Email - Word Processing - Spreadsheets - Slideshows
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
You know I wonder if in the long term if blocking ads may improve the open web experience vs. native apps which may become cluttered with ads?
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I think the argument is that most people when browsing on iOS aren't even using the Safari app, but in fact clicking on links inside of Facebook and Twitter which use the built in browser rather than going to Safari. And to be fair I c
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I've been watching the web now for about 20 years and the one thing I've noticed is that we now seem to be at the turning point where Apple is dictating what the web is. It wasn't that long ago when Google calling the shots a
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
It could be argued that our limited resources should go into preventing existing species from going extinct (and saving their ecosystems) rather than bringing back ones that are gone. And given the crisis situation we're in it's n
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I'd like to actually see a tech conference with people over the age of 50 who had a breakthrough later in life
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I'm guessing that most of you reading Hacker News were actually kids on 9/11. At the time NYC had a new tech scene, but it was going through the worst of the dot.com crash. WWWAC was an early networking group in NYC that brought t
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What was it like to work in Silicon Alley on 9/11(wwwac.org)
6 points by michaelpinto 11y ago|1 comments
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
I may be wrong, but back in the day it was done with links to satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_network#Overview
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Well it depends on the company you keep in general, but I've noticed with higher quality company on both platforms that on Facebook the conversation can go deeper. On twitter you're just lucky to have a conversation. In terms of t
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Twitter was doomed when Facebook acquired FriendFeed in 2009. After that point Facebook took the lead and Twitter still seems stuck in 2009. Techies love the product because it is stuck in the past like an old BBS, but the reality is that t
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Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)(medium.com)
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Suggestion: If you're not happy there is nothing wrong with seeing a professional therapist. Also avoid life advice from those who work in software, since it's an industry that's not known for "human interface issues&quo
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
My gut tells me that unless thing change the open web is not going to do well as mobile dominates: This in itself is going to eat away Google's core business while Facebook dominates on mobile. And the funny thing is that the sites tha
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Thank you!
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Dumb question: Could this give me a NeXT desktop in VMware? And could it run old NeXTstep software?
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Web developer sort of implies a jack of all trades, but master of none. It sounds 90s because it's very similar to Webmaster which now has a bad rep for the same reason. Keep in mind that the 90s was an era where you could know everyth
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Thought: Maybe the problem isn't one of staying focused, but the real issue is a lack of deep passion for the idea? Although maybe one thing you might do is to work on smaller ideas that can happen in a small space of time (say a calen
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
It sounds like what you really need is sales person rather than a consultant, no? One thing you may want to do is to show examples of the work you have done on your website with links to the actual sites and the apps.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Thank you!
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
Confession: I would kill to hang out with Justin Timberlake pretending to be Sean Parker for just one day. I really, really wish they'd make a Napster film.
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by michaelpinto 11y ago
It may not be the stuff of unicorns, but there are quite a few niche markets where you might have someone who knows the problem space inside-and-out who may not be a coder. I've seen niche software that does everything from manage a fa

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