mortenjorck

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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Unfortunately, the market is no better. The governments allow their central banks to print fake money while the market allows its financial institutions to print fake assets. Whether it's currencies or CDOs, a bubble is a bubble. Valuation
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
I've worked in Flash for a decade. My experience with it has gone from dabbling with it in high school to experimenting with it in college to doing serious AS development in professional design work. I've come to a certain level of familiar
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
My parents have an old G4 iMac. Despite its age, it has no trouble with high-resolution h.264 videos in Quicktime. And yet QVGA Youtube clips play at about 3-6fps.
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Unfortunately, that article isn't really so much a defense of Qwerty as it is a defense of free-market fundamentalism. The writer doesn't seem to care as much about usability as he does about attacking the credibility of as many free market
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
* It was pretty cool that your new phone's number display was not only dot-matrix but could do 4 shades of gray * Your entire office was full of bulky CRTs and a 15" flat panel cost more than a 21" tube * Windows XP offered a better user ex
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
With a threatening message engraved on it in an exotic, indecipherable alphabet?
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
What's really needed is a language specifically written for the job. C was built for writing system software. English was built for writing poetry. Neither are ideal for precisely specifying the terms of a contract. Maybe if Lessig got toge
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
I'm not sure if that says more about the poor optimization of the Mac Flash plugin or the great optimization of your browser's (Safari? Mac Chrome?) JS interpreter. Probably both.
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Yes, but that big Flash site you just finished with no budget for an iPhone version just got a lot cheaper to re-target.
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
This whole model of "go over and we'll make you sorry, sunshine" is terrible for innovation. It encourages tentative, cautious use of services that could be more valuable if they were used without fear of financial punishment. If you must r
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
1. Price goes up -> 2. production increases -> 3. supply outstrips demand -> 4. price goes down -> 5. production decreases -> 6. demand outstrips supply -> loop to 1 This is how the cycle has always gone throughout t
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
That was already quite interesting to read out of context, but I'd definitely look forward to something you've written about it for an audience more like this one. (So did I just raise your status?)
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
"Kirk said last month that the international community would walk away from the negotiating table if the public could see the working drafts." And this is supposed to be reassuring?
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Yes and yes. The biggest part that's often overlooked in a product that does something new is how well it does it. Don't worry about matching them feature for feature because they've got 20 people and you've got 2. Use your size and the
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
You can put money into the PayPal credits system and buy things inside that universe, but I wonder if this hiring foreshadows the system's evolution into a two-way conduit. Is this the beginning of Facebook's competition with PayPal or perh
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Huh. This is actually the first app I've used that writes to the address book instead of just reading. I didn't even know the API supported that. Which, not to veer too far off topic, makes more glaring the continuing omission of a calendar
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
The article's concern over "mobile universal binaries" seems misplaced. I find highly dubious the idea of binary cross-compatibility between iPhone OS and the tablet OS. From form factor to hardware resources, they would constitute two diff
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
The path from locked state to dial is quick enough for me on a 3GS, but I have to admit it's probably more steps than I would like. On paper, it actually looks kind of bad if it's a number you don't have in-directory: 1. Hit home or lock ke
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Fight the Terrorists vs. Protect the Children. Aliens vs. Predator.
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Yes, that caption gave me high hopes for the article. I thought it might be about slow living, enjoying the journey, and how optimizing these things make them harder to enjoy. Instead, it was just a trite lambasting of apps I'd never be cau
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Perhaps a better headline would have been "Silicon Valley Commercial Real Estate Speculation Leaves Entire Office Buildings Empty."
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
The TSA has now officially become like an abusive, paranoid husband. Every event that has happened thus far has made him more suspicious and less rational, but the "lap burner" has at last pushed him over the edge into raging paranoia, doub
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
As much as I'd like to think Apple will officially announce PastryKit at some preview event Q1 2010, it just doesn't seem very Apple-like to do anything at this point that could dilute the ongoing popular attention to the App Store. Actua
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
Still, the headline is only six characters from the truth. Prefix "Rumor:"
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by mortenjorck 17y ago
That sounds very high without a solid source. For that to be an annual number, however, sounds pretty reasonable, especially given Google's asking price for an annual ad-free Google Apps subscription: $50.