ozmbie

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by ozmbie 10y ago
It's not just YouTube, but mobile gaming too. One reason why putting those video ads in mobile games has proven so successful, is that kids will watch them non-stop in order to farm small amounts of in-game currency. After all, they ca
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by ozmbie 10y ago
I think you're right. Alexa and Google home do well at...home. But Apple want everyone using a phone/watch/Airpods to interact with their AI assistant wherever they are. We can argue about the quality of Siri, but I think App
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by ozmbie 10y ago
The irony is that "Agile" methods were developed in part to protect developers by poor management. Yet it's the same poor management that relies on off-the-shelf processes. I've been in so many meeting where a manager tr
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by ozmbie 10y ago
Your story reminds me of this Alan Kay quote: >Computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can happen. In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened wh
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by ozmbie 10y ago
Thad almost certainly Apple's long term plan. Rumours earlier this year said that they dropped plans to add a cellular radio into this year's watch due to battery concerns. Give it another year or two and they may solve it. Then y
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by ozmbie 10y ago
Seems like they are following the ever so popular "lean startup" approach. They're announcing a small, separate product to validate if there is demand. Then they'll get early users and burn money while they figure out ho
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by ozmbie 10y ago
The point isn't about audio quality. It's about having a free and open way to do it at all! Who cares what uses it has? It's a whole new area of capability. Somebody could find a new use for it. If we limit our choices based
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by ozmbie 10y ago
It's easy to complain about free to play games and the tactics they use. But it's just a response to the consumer base. Developers tried the paid game model and, other than a small number of niche games, the mobile market just doe
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by ozmbie 10y ago
I agree that sprint lengths can be arbitrary and counter-productive to developing good software. I think it's important to understand that the sprint "membrane" is not designed to help developers. It's designed as a comp
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by ozmbie 10y ago
I mentioned UI because of the parent comment (about hooking UI up to a sub-component). The core idea I was trying to get across is that until a feature is working and in front of a customer (or stakeholder), it's essentially in limbo b
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by ozmbie 10y ago
Because that two weeks you spent writing excellent code is mostly useless unless you have a way to get feedback on it. As a customer, you've given me no value. What if you finally hook up UI to the sub-component and the customer/s
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by ozmbie 10y ago
iOS push notifications require permissions, but I believe that apps can schedule "local notifications" without requiring permission. eg: A timer app can schedule a notification at a specific time in the future.
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by ozmbie 10y ago
I agree that the word "different" isn't the best word. These are a physical equivalent of Dark Patterns (user interfaces designed to trick people).
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What happens when we create fishing robots that do the work for all of men?
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by ozmbie 10y ago
I don't get it either. Maybe the whole thing is a bubble. http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm
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by ozmbie 10y ago
Honest question: what's in the cards for after 2022? That's only 8 years away. How can the trend continue for another 50 years?
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by ozmbie 10y ago
>But this is not the case with google maps. You can zoom in, out, and anywhere in between. The problem I have Google maps lately, is that i have to zoom so far in to see the names of some roads. To the point where nothing but the road is
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by ozmbie 11y ago
I missed the sunrise when I was in Cambodia, so I went to Angkor Wat during sunset instead. It was amazing. The place was almost empty. I walked around for over an hour while the remaining tourists left and then sat at the entrance and shar
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by ozmbie 11y ago
Slack is to group chat like Dropbox is to file sharing. There are plenty of old school ways to share/synchronise files among a group of people. You could run an FTP server and a bunch of automated scripts etc. Or you can just install D
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by ozmbie 11y ago
You can still be a horrible driver obeying the law.
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by ozmbie 11y ago
That's circular logic thogh. If you built a data center capable of staging a 51% attack, you haven't made the network harder overall. You've already gained enough power to do an attack. It might encourage others to compete, a
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by ozmbie 11y ago
If you remove proof-of-work, then the question then becomes: what else do you measure consensus by? A few other crypto currencies have tried other metrics but they all aim to for the same thing: removing the need for human trust.
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by ozmbie 11y ago
>What's holding Twitter back? Their desire for advertising revenue perhaps.
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by ozmbie 11y ago
It doesn't really matter, because most of the top search results you click on will probably include 1MB of ad tracking javascript anyway.
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by ozmbie 11y ago
It's the idea that the content available on our devices is shaped by the economic framework that supports it. When the economic model is advertising and data tracking, the types of apps/services that are available are the ones tha
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by ozmbie 11y ago
I really do wish that safari had a quick toggle for JS. Browsing the web on iOS is so much faster and less annoying with JS disabled, but I don't like digging through system settings to toggle it.
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by ozmbie 12y ago
Singapore's public restrooms are clean because they can afford to hire armies of 60 year old cleaners with no minimum wage. I'd argue they are actually TOO clean. Because half the time I want to use them, they are being cleaned! I
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by ozmbie 12y ago
It's the same criticism people had for Dropbox or the first iPhone: there's nothing new. The key is that it's very well packaged with a focus on UX (especially on mobile) and it requires extremely little setup effort.
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by ozmbie 12y ago
I used to use Skype for persistent, cross-platform group chat with my close group of friends. But we recently switched to using Slack, and it's far better. The only thing that's missing, is end-to-end encryption.
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by ozmbie 12y ago
The author of that study (Bruce Alexander) wrote an incredibly in-depth book about the relationship between environment and addiction. It covers not just drug addictions, but also other addictions such as overeating and excessive consumeri

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