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1411.
by relaxing 6y ago
The success of email and HTML disagree with you. Also most human interactions. The standards definitions aren’t loose. But the network effect means everyone benefits when more nodes can exchange data because the individual implementations a
1412.
by relaxing 6y ago
They’re two different norms. The iPhone capitalized on the public’s willingness to spend $500 on a fragile slab of glass with no keyboard. Google Glass ran into the social norm of not looking like a creep.
1413.
by relaxing 6y ago
Part of the problem is they usually don’t live in the communities with the people they police, they live outside the city in affluent white suburbs. Residency requirements are easily circumvented.
1414.
by relaxing 7y ago
‘Like’ is a positive verb so it’s not a neutral question. More importantly it directs you to frame your reaction on a simple like-dislike axis, when the full spectrum of your opinion is probably more complex, and eliciting that yields a bet
1415.
by relaxing 7y ago
Ahaha! Found in Infoworld Vol. 10 Issue 1 (January 1988)... Headline: “RUNNING OS/2 ON THE MAC II: DO USERS CARE?” Choice quotes: “The Mac 286 has everything necessary to run OS/2, but we haven’t tested it” ... “If a guy’s already
1416.
by relaxing 7y ago
I don’t think so. OS/2 ran on x86 or PPC, but not 68k. There was a Mac86 board with an 8086 processor that fit the SE/30’s PDS slot, but I’m pretty sure OS/2 1.x required a 286. You might be able to install OS/2 on a Mac
1417.
by relaxing 7y ago
Or maybe there are more people at home with free time to make reports on neighborhood apps.
1418.
by relaxing 7y ago
US per capita production is 1/10th that of Norway. I would gladly take 1/10th the paid leave given in the article (164 days), which GP failed to notice was for oil-less Finland anyway.
1419.
by relaxing 7y ago
The developers don’t get all the money they’re billed out for. The billable rate goes to the company to pay business expenses, of which developer salary is a minor fraction.
1420.
by relaxing 7y ago
Thanks for refocusing the conversation back on the people that really matter.
1421.
by relaxing 7y ago
I’m curious if you can share some of the deep knowledge of photo editing you’ve uncovered - if not in explicit detail, what are some of the general areas where public knowledge lags behind state of the art?