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by mrshoe 17y ago
Nice try, finance guys. 3 hours in a small room with "an asshole" doesn't sound like fun, but it's still not nearly as challenging as an interview at Google or Apple (I've interviewed at both). Those companies require 6 to 10 hours of gruel
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Some of the points in this article are correct (e.g. UCD isn't applicable to every single design decision), but the main thesis depends on a couple of false assumptions. He asks, " Which of the following ways would you think gave you the mo
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Honest question: what does Microsoft stand to gain by doing all this work instead of just using WebKit?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Why don't they just come clean and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused me? Edit: Sorry, I know HN doesn't encourage one-liners and jokes, but I couldn't resist this one... I guess you had to be at Startup School to apprecia
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by mrshoe 17y ago
There are some powerful concepts in here. A lot of HNers are seeking financial independence and they embody much of what 50 cent wrote in this piece. However, I hope we all remember his comment about not becoming dependent on our own money
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm honestly not sure if one can hook up 2 20" or 24" monitors to a MacBook Pro these days, but even if you can't it's nice to have a desktop with a mouse and keyboard and not have to plug/unplug your laptop from everything all the time. Al
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by mrshoe 17y ago
As much as I love Macs, I think I can be more productive writing code on a linux box. I'm going to assume that applies to everyone else :-), and say you should save some money on desktops by getting everyone a linux box with 2 Dell monitors
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Sorry, the definition of "web app" that I intended here is a UI written in HTML/CSS and scripted with JavaScript. Also, it's distributed over HTTP, and usually it relies on data and application logic that lives on a remote server. Currently
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by mrshoe 17y ago
If all apps are written in HTML/CSS/js, why would your OS have 1 "native" app that runs all other apps? The OS would just run web apps directly. The OS's UI itself would be written in web technologies. Maybe Chrome OS will do this. Given th
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> HTML/JS/CSS would have to stretch dramatically to accommodate all the functionality of existing OS frameworks Yes, that's my point, and I think a major point of the article. It's getting there, but very very slowly. The main reason
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I recently attended a talk by a WebKit developer employed by Apple. The topic of the talk was advanced CSS techniques. The speaker demonstrated some incredible capabilities that WebKit has added to CSS, including transition animations, 2D a
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I imagine the founders of Readbeacon ( http://www.redbeacon.com/ ) will be happy to read this post. The first challenge I can think of for someone creating a service like this is spam. If I put out a request for patio furniture, how does yo
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Turning an internet startup into a $170 billion company in 9 years is a rare feat. Turning a $5 billion, 25 year old computer company into a $170 billion company in 9 years is far rarer.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Google has interviewed tens of thousands of candidates in this manner. Other companies have interviewed even more, using roughly the same process. With all the preparation this girl put into her interview, I don't see how she possibly could
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Murdoch bets on survival without Google(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by mrshoe 17y ago|0 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
That zoom effect is great. It reminds me of the ZUI (zooming user interface) described in Jef Raskin's book, The Humane Interface. Oh how I wish someone would build a desktop OS with a ZUI.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I know I certainly am. We're building a group chat application for companies ( http://shoptalkapp.com ), so this is a very real problem for our users. We'll definitely be brainstorming ways to overcome it. I think a good system for indicati
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Cookies are by far the most prevalent system for identifying which user made a given web request. This isn't just about advertising. Pretty much every site that supports "logging in" (including HN), and many sites that don't, use cookies to
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Oh shut your dirty trap, you whiny moron. </sarcasm> I still find HN to be a friendly, positive environment. Let's keep it that way! Edit: Wow. Either starting your comment with a joke is somehow no longer OK, or nobody else agrees
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Exactly. No one is mad about his wild unconventionality. He's not even being unconventional. He's just telling AA to make their site look more web2.0-y. The criticism here is of Dustin's incredible arrogance in calling everyone at AA comple
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's odd that the author can criticize UCD when they apparently don't know what it is. Focus groups and "just asking the user" are exactly what UCD advocates discourage. The "contextual" part of Contextual Design means real users using real
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Startups: Your Users' Behavior Is Not A Random Variable(shoptalkapp.com)
29 points by mrshoe 17y ago|3 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Share photos, videos, and calendar events with rich controls like video players and embedded Google Maps. Then allow participants to comment on (and even edit) all of the above. Items with recent comments/changes float to the top. It seems
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Obligatory response to this (and most) web startups: why won't Wave kill this?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I never claimed otherwise, but that's not even relevant. No doubt this guy is looking back at what he accomplished at Microsoft. Whether it's his fault or not, I doubt that he wants to hear that his work was a waste of time.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> He wasted all that time, apparently. Not the most tactful thing to say about a friend who has just been laid off.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I agree with 95% of what he says, but I'd make one change to the Unix philosophy: text files aren't the best primitive. Text files have a super low-level API (stat, seek, read). I think the system he describes would be much more usable if h
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Pinching and The Droid(daringfireball.net)
5 points by mrshoe 17y ago|4 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Not to detract from the overall positive response by Mark, but if you make over $100MM/year partially by scamming young people (even if it's indirectly), giving less than one half of one percent of that to charity doesn't make it OK.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
How long does Google expect us all to keep working with them to turn Wave into what it is some day supposed to become? They've already burned through a ton of hype. Now this: > Please keep in mind that things are early, and there wil

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