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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'd like to see more studies related to increased attentiveness while listening to music. All through high school I played tetris on my calculator during class. I swear I could absorb more information while playing tetris than while not pla
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I tend to extrapolate this tip into a more general rule: no meta-talk. For the speaker, preparing the talk has been top of mind for the past N hours/days/weeks. Not so for the audience. If you think about the situation from their perspect
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Ah, so it is the contrast provided by lowering the expectations at the beginning which means they'll be shattered even more thoroughly by the rest of the talk. Makes sense.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I thought someone might say that. :-) I will get just as much out of paul's talks because I love his talks and will always pay attention to every word. Some percentage of the audience, however, will take a lack of preparation qualifier as
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Spontaneity? Or announcing a lack of preparation at the beginning? As Jason notes in the article, spontaneity can be a huge boon. I don't immediately see how the latter can be, though it's possible. I suppose paul may truly be an exception,
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The weakness of the ubiquitous feature matrix is that you can't just put a check mark next to "usability".
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by mrshoe 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees
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The BitC Programming Language(bitc-lang.org)
1 points by mrshoe 17y ago|0 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Since each company has unique needs, I actually think it's a horrible idea to try to design one piece of software that works for everyone. You'll end up with SharePoint. With ShopTalk, we're trying to solve just one (very important) piece o
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> Is The Party Over? No, but the gold rush might be. The iPhone is still a very viable platform for making money selling software. Mobile apps can be incredibly useful, and the App Store makes it easy for people to spend money. It's h
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by mrshoe 17y ago
We'll be in Atlanta for PyCon that weekend as it is (and you all should be, too!). This looks like a great way to maximize utility on those travel costs.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I believe it was Scott Adams who suggested that one woman should take one for the team and build a bomb into her bra. Once the TSA realizes that they would have to require each woman to remove her bra while passing through airport security,
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Given society's strict schedule for youth, the timing of getting lost is key. Around college graduation time is a great time to get lost. Your drive has carried you through 17 years of education and you are free to find yourself at that poi
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Startup School: Hackers and Salesmen(shoptalkapp.com)
19 points by mrshoe 17y ago|1 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
"Can anyone here tell me how to sell stuff for free? You can't. You can only sell stuff for money." - Jason Fried "So when your friend performs the most intimate human act of love by giving you a dollar bill..." - Chris Anderson "Hey, I'd l
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Sure he did: > HP made news this week for unveiling a Windows 7 launch bundle at Best Buy that includes a desktop PC and two laptops, all for $1199. That might be great for Microsoft... The OS vendor wins when computer hardware become
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Not necessarily. Web standards could be a great foundation. The web is open and anyone is free to push the state of the art forward. Yet the result has often been more interoperability, not less.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
If Apple had to compete with someone else innovating on the PC, it would force them to break even further away from the herd. Macs are great, but they still resemble PARC's Alto from 36 years ago far too closely. The times have changed qu
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> I don't know why he had to bash hp at the end; of course hp is going to be making bargain PCs they need to compete with other producers So, you're saying that HP needs to follow the herd? The entire point of this article is that the
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Some info based on my experience in startup land: It's pretty standard for (non-executive) startup employees to receive about 0.25% equity in the company. That equity usually vests over 4 years. This is true even for very early employees. S
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm starting to see the beginnings of an new trend here. Since Google Wave does everything and replaces everything on the internet, I have a feeling that all new startups and business ideas will garner the response, "Doesn't Google Wave do
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by mrshoe 17y ago
http://www.bing.com/twitter You're right that it still remains to be seen who puts the data to better use in the long term, though.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
That's an interesting way to spin it in Google's favor, but: 1) When MS signed a non-exclusive agreement with Twitter, they must have been 99% sure that Google would be in on the Twitter action as well (i.e. I doubt they ever thought they
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not oft
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by mrshoe 17y ago
> Creative people are likely to be friends with other creative people who turn out to need portfolios themselves, and this creates a rapidly expanding circle... our users derive a direct benefit from showing off their portfolio, which
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by mrshoe 17y ago
This is an interesting perspective, but a 30" display still has about 25% more screen area than a 27" display. Not that absolute screen surface area is the most important metric.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's news like this that makes me wish that http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ had an RSS feed. Edit: looks like they added one. Now I can allow myself to sleep again.
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Beautiful Coroutines: Cooperative Concurrency in Python using Diesel(shoptalkapp.com)
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Top Ten UX Mistakes on Consumer Websites(boltpeters.com)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I agree that desktop OS vendors are out of touch with their users and that the browser is the most important app on your computer (for some people it's basically the only app). However, how can that possibly mean "the end of desktop OS de

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