ryanisinallofus

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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
That's exactly what Facebook, Apple and every other company does. Facebook "check-ins?" and deals, iTunes Ping? Personally I'm glad Google has finally stopped acting like every feature they have is a unique product. It's pretty obnoxious to
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Judging from the previews and looking over a co-worker's shoulder this finally looks like a social, singular interface for many of Google's products. Iv'e been hoping they would stop thinking of themselves as many different products and sta
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
If they don't give people invites soon Google+ will be DOA. People will stop caring before anyone gets a chance to use it.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
The fact that we can even debate these numbers means that Facebook or it's investors are breaking the law and should be investigated. Private companies are not allowed to publicly broadcast their share price for exactly this reason. Until s
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Google could drop you from results, but yeah I get your point.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Is your site just future feature of Google? They provide us with 80% of our traffic and have launched features that directly compete with us. It doesn't only happen on "closed" platforms.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Open street map is a cool project.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
I spent a few hours using Duck Duck Go before commenting. It's been my Chrome default search for 4 hours. • The results are less relevant. Bubble or no, it was harder to find things I look for all the time. For example I had to constantly a
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Google is organized like software: modularized and broken up into autonomous units (like old HP). It's very likely nobody at Google has the oversight to see the big picture user experience and more importantly the authority to make it a goo
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Wow. I never thought about anonymity as a requirement for truly free speech before but it totally is.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
I guess it's time for me to start giving Apple the benefit of the doubt a little more often.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
You usually sign agreements before starting contract work for those companies right? I assume they cover it in there. Still I wonder what would happen if an AOL writer sued AOL for copyright infringement citing his/her constitutional rights
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Every other year when this article hits the latest aggregator the same conversation erupts. People need to remember: 1.) This was the result of an actual user interface study. Responding with anecdotal evidence makes you seem less than inte
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Latency and responsiveness are still a huge problem for all network-heavy apps. We have a professionally used iOS app that relies on server data (the magical cloud) and the number one user complaint is speed. Creating your client on iOS r
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Good point. He left out the "mac only" aspect of the discussion. I have a Macbook and an Android phone and an iPad but iCloud doesn't change the way I use any of them because I'm not using an iPhone.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
I don't think there is a correlation between quality user experience and desktop software. He breaks down the difference between desktop and web-based software only to falsely associate one with user experience and one with mass-adoption. I
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Sinatra I guess. You can choose the orm and templating language you want- which sort of just turns it back into rails. Still working in Sinatra does give you that fun feeling of old Rails.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
"It's growing up" sounds like "it's turning into java" Now I know it's not that bad but I can see a future where instead of just having the rails book, you have books for every new thing and option possible and the section looks like the Ja
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Yes. In this case the control is going to help them I think. For one thing it's impossible to both comply with Apple's developer agreement and infringe on the patent. If you use Apple's API you should be protected from infringement due to A
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Talent Acquisition.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
How is a to-do app "should/could be OS features?" Or a camera app that uses the volume button? Or Instapaper? I don't think there is an obvious way to tell what Apple has in their roadmap. Specially when they publicly downplay the importanc
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Exactly! Writing. Copyrightable but not patentable. :)
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
It's crazy. They found a problem, and solved it in a novel way. This makes having a console possible in my single tv house. Too bad this won't be out for Christmas or I'd be getting one this year.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Facetime was supposed to be a cross platform protocol. Remember? The reason it's marginally used now is because it's restricted to iOS devices. This feature will be equally marginal. Complaining about an MG headline being sensationalized is
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
"You'd think that this would negate 90% of the benefit of memorization." Particularly math classes. Memorization was almost meaningless and tests could be open book for all the prof cared.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
"Imagine if millions of my peers copying their professors' words verbatim..." Not once did I ever do this. Most of my very rewarding classes involved constant debating with my professors. Also, not one of my professors would even have accep
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
This is going to sound curmudgeonry but it is seems like one more way search engines want to use your data without giving you the page view. It makes allot of technical sense and I can imagine some really great ways to use this data but in
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Libertarian dream? What? How about druggie dream? Every Libertarian I know is in favor of decriminalizing most drugs but not a single one is a drug user himself.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
Designing/dev at a popular restaurant guide and mobile app. School loans paid off by my wife and I working full time and only living off of my income.
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by ryanisinallofus 15y ago
I was part of that trap. My parents wouldn't or couldn't help me and they made too much for me to get financial financial aid.

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