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by padobson 15y ago
http://steveblank.com/2011/09/22/how-to-build-a-web-startup-... Build something small. Learn something. Repeat. Do this until you have enough knowledge of you market to prove your idea is viable. Once you do that, it should be cake to rai
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by padobson 15y ago
This comment seems to assume that evolution can only go in one direction - from simple forms of life to more complex ones. If a complex form of life evolves to become simpler and then evolves again to become more complex, then there's just
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Deutsche Bank's Mistake - What if We Count the IPad as a Computer?(appleoutsider.de)
1 points by padobson 15y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
Agreed. If Hacker News gets up on the pulpit on Sunday morning and turns its back on the mainstream to give an impassioned message to the readership who is already there to sing on its behalf... ...well, you get it.
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by padobson 15y ago
Java's Ratio: Slightly less than 2 Obj-C's Ratio: Slightly more than 3 Let's see, I can learn Java and get a job building Android apps or a job building web apps or a job writing mainframe software or writing desktop software or writing ser
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by padobson 15y ago
If no one makes a popular Android tablet, then why do I have to wait 4-7 weeks for my ASUS Transformer Prime? http://www.amazon.com/Transformer-TF201-C1-CG-10-1-Inch-Tabl... The hardware innovation that Android enables in the tablet marke
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by padobson 15y ago
That was pretty quick. Nice to see they were on top of things. Also looking forward to getting Ice Cream Sandwhich on the 12th of January. I ordered mine a few days ago, but Amazon was out of stock so it looks like I may have to wait a whil
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by padobson 15y ago
Is it just me, or is Facebook the furthest behind on all things user experience? Case in point: three clicks to remove access from an app on Facebook (1. Click 'X" 2. Click 'Remove' 3. Click 'OK'). On Twitter, it was one click, and if you w
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by padobson 15y ago
"I came away thinking his talking points are great but get him off those and there's very little there." This does little to differentiate him from any other politician.
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by padobson 15y ago
I'm for doing away with all other forms of civil court all together. Let's handle patents and copyrights and divorces this way too.
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Helvetica vs. Arial(ilovetypography.com)
1 points by padobson 15y ago|0 comments
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Elevator Pitch at a Corner Store(pdobson.com)
2 points by padobson 15y ago|1 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
As a developer, I have prided myself on putting user experience and ease of use first. This was not something I was taught to do in college or from books on UI or watching keynote speeches. I learned user experience from Shigeru Miyamoto vi
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Hunch Failed(pdobson.com)
2 points by padobson 15y ago|1 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
I remember butane being mentioned in the article. I was more or less spitballing an idea on how future technology would make more sense. I don't think sun free PVs or solid state batteries are where they need to be yet to make this work, bu
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by padobson 15y ago
This sounds like too complicated a logistical problem to work properly. By the time something like this was ready to roll out, after doing initial experiments and then enough pilot projects to make sure it was sound, there would almost cert
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by padobson 15y ago
I had a stats teacher who insisted in his first lecture that the goal of speed limits shouldn't be to slow everyone down, but convince everyone to drive the same speed. His position was that the average speed of everyone on the road should
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by padobson 15y ago
Sent. From my letter: H.R.3261, the 'Stop Online Piracy Act', is going to be the Volstead Act of the 21st Century. Like Prohibition, creating draconian laws like these to stop online piracy is going to do two things: 1) destroy respectable
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by padobson 15y ago
What I admire most about the author is the honest search for Truth. It is a rare individual that can approach this problem while relinquishing their biases. I can't count myself among their ranks. It seems the majority of people, believers
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by padobson 15y ago
The idea is that a customer’s intensity of demand for aftermarket goods (e.g. the concessions) provides a meter of how much the customer is willing to pay for the primary good (e.g. admission). If this correlation in tastes for the two goo
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by padobson 15y ago
+1. This should become the standard in customer support. If it's cheaper to provide in addition to being a better user experience, everyone should be moving this way.
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by padobson 15y ago
I think Apple's supply chain management is a greater competitive advantage than their product design. There are many factors beyond the quality of product that go into a purchasing decision - things like hype, accessibility, and most import
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by padobson 15y ago
I don't have answers to either of your questions, and neither does anybody else. The answers are not going to come from fights about what UI should be, but from as many OS developers as possible doing as many experiments as possible on the
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by padobson 15y ago
This article needs some citation to the lawsuit. It's certainly appalling if true, and would be another example of big business putting a glass ceiling on independent entrepreneurship, but I would like to know the exact reason behind the la
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by padobson 15y ago
This reminds me of a fight in a church about how high on the wall the cross should be hanging. Bitter arguments among side-stream groups (church-goers, linux-users) are a much bigger reason why these groups do not attract mainstream audienc
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by padobson 15y ago
I think what we're leaving out of this whole equation is that Arrington works in the press. Not only does he work in the press, but has helped craft technology and entrepreneurship journalism into what it is today. He might have fell victim
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by padobson 15y ago
I knew what the first two paragraphs of this response before I even clicked on the link. Whoever wrote it is an uncreative shill, at best. The institution of governing is old, crusty, and broken - and in serious need of disruption. As we se
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by padobson 15y ago
This is not just a few isolated events. My brother set up a lemonade stand on family property a few years back, and they didn't operate for more than an hour before they were visited by the township health inspector and, after they refused
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by padobson 15y ago
Big +1. Who could have predicted that American fascism would be an unholy marriage of the nanny state and the police state? "Don't worry, we'll keep you safe. Now close that lemonade stand or we'll break your teeth."
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by padobson 15y ago
I've found that SES is pretty vague for managing complaints against the sender. The metrics that this provide are useful, because someone with limited technical skill can monitor complaints and adjust course. If the email system you're writ

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