moxiemk1

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by moxiemk1 15y ago
I agree - this (to me) is indicative of the difference between an application that intends to be useful to me vs. one that is useful to the provider. One falls into the woodwork, presenting a painfully standardized and predictable interface
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Deployinator: Etsy's one-button deploy tool open-sourced(github.com)
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
Some tools (Crucible, at the least) allow you to code-review based off of a diff that specifies the version it is applied to.
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
Facebook's "export tool" generates an incomplete static HTML version of some of the data you put into Facebook. The friend list wouldn't really be of any use unless people had unique names.
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
Everything you've listed except for a "brand" (and the usage here seems pretty ill-defined) is very A/B testable. I'm not really sure how to refute that, but the idea that they aren't is ridiculous. Would that be effective and produce g
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
I don't believe you can in OS X - even though it's vector drawn, a lot of assets are raster. Apple pushed (weakly) a "Resolution Independent" interface in 10.4 (I think) that would have promised drawing the screen at whatever DPI you want w
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
Just like with violent video games, the internet doesn't make people feel disconnected, or turn them into sociopaths. It enables people who would rather be disconnected to disconnect themselves, and gives sociopaths the ability to do far
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
I think more importantly, serving the public interest is not the same thing as serving the popular interest. I do not approve of FBI methods, but in the pedantic case I do recognize that a fundamental part of a republican (little r) gov
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
The behavior being stopped is repeated POSTs to create new accounts - a spammer would instead have to GET the form every couple of hours (or if they don't realize the trick, possibly each time), something they'd hopefully do from the same I
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
I feel the opposite - I'm learning more, because if I'm spending the time to read something, I have to think critically about it and do research sometimes in order to have a good interpretation. It takes more time, but it's real learning, i
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by moxiemk1 15y ago
I'm sure there's some deep context to that - could you share/link? Claiming that kind of experience juxtaposed with an article like this screams of the importance of us drawing our own conclusions rather than taking either of your words for
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Not many people seem to be noting this, but I think it bears noting that it seems very much true that Apple isn't tracking anything; your iPhone is. There are legitimate potential worries about that, but "ZOMG Apple is Big Brother" is the
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
If your motivations are to make the most useful (to yourself) framework, then there is no problem in propping up your successor. Making the transition smooth is indeed the "Right Thing"
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
It may not be, though. We have good reason to believe that most IE6 users are using IE6 because it is the browser installed by IT on locked-down work computers. It doesn't seem unreasonable (to me) that a significant portion, though probabl
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Though QuickTime is only an abstraction of OS provided codecs on Macs, this move once again brings up the question in me: Is there any valid technical reason for browsers to handle media files in any way other than wrapping OS provided co
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Democratizing technology isn't fundamentally about Freedom and Openness and Fairness. It's about making technology useable by everyday people. You can do that by making everyone an engineer, or by placing arbitrary limits that increase the
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
As usual, causation is not correlation, and consciously deciding to take your children out of public schools and either homeschool them or put them in an alternative school show's a significant amount more involvement in your child's life
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
On that thread, it's important to look at new breeder reactors and Thorium reactors before denouncing waste from nuclear reactors as a permanent problem. We have technology that is much better, much safer, and less damaging than even what w
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
St. Johnsbury natives on Hacker News? Say it isn't so! Another one here. The Caledonian Record does many things that don't really make sense - I'm not completely surprised.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This is my hometown newspaper - I saw this the other day when looking for an article... is there any good reason for this? I cannot fathom what's going on. For what it's worth, the opinion of the paper myself and those I know have had is th
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
EDIT: I was mistaken on a few things - see gfodor's comment above
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Our CEO just posted a comment on the article for clarification: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-aft...
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
20, Chris, OSX
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Yes. But to be fair, upon knowing that this would be possible with the constituent services APIs and that someone was charging for it, I would immediately embark upon making a free clone. Honestly, an API-filesystem framework would be kind
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Absolutely! I suppose when I speak of asymptotic analysis, I'm including average case/expected case/degenerate case analysis in the whole exercise. Perhaps "runtime analysis" is a better term - it can then incorporate latency analysis as we
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
It depends on the context of the problem: * If it's being framed as being applied to a small number of items on one machine, I'd mark down for premature optimization. Normally such assignments have a specific point, and going off the deep e
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
As you said, I am sure we do differ in philosophy - I feel like your dislike of things you can't customize to make them more useful to yourself and the idea that "if a user goes looking for an option to change something that annoys them in
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Progress comes not from the action of modifying the tool, but from adoption of the modification by those who it benefits (in a maximally holistic sense) I find the distinction you make between "appliances" and "tools" to be non-existent - e
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I'm a developer, but I find this kind of criticism (that usually is in the designer's/PM's domain) exasperating. People write frustrated and angry posts saying things like "you don't always know better than the user." You're decrying the me
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Does Apple normally include how much RAM iOS devices have on their site? It doesn't seem to be: http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html Maybe the increased the memory, maybe not. But that doesn't

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