sardonicbryan

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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
This post seems geared toward applying to grad schools, many of which receive hundreds of applications. Having to contact hundreds to thousands of references would probably overwhelm most admissions committees. Remember, for grad school, ad
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I know this likely doesn't apply to the average Joe, but I'm sure that I will have ICS running on my Galaxy S2 within a month or so, once the custom ROMs start getting stable.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
In Android you could use the universal search widget and start typing, but it's just not the same. I don't regret giving up my Blackberry, but having the physical keyboard there definitely made a lot of interaction flows better (RIP Blackbe
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
1) Swype - It's just much less awkward to type with Swype because you don't have to shift the phone from its natural position -- holding it with one hand and interacting with it with the index finger of your other hand. Also, much easier to
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I don't see why this is surprising -- after all, the Nexus S is a previous generation phone released 9 months ago. A more fair comparison would be with a Galaxy S2 or Galaxy Nexus. Personally, I love my S2, as it's remarkably faster than my
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
> "the screen is too small to do any useful reading." This is where I disagree. I love my smartphone (Galaxy S2!) because it lets me read my Google Reader and Kindle on the go. But if you don't like the experience of reading on the scr
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I use a Galaxy S2 as my alarm clock and have never encountered this problem, even though I typically leave my phone on my bed by my pillow as I sleep.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I love my Thinkpad T420S -- it's light, it has SSD, 8GB RAM so it's fast as hell.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I own this (now) $6.50 leather cover, which looks decent and cost me only $15 a few months ago. http://www.amazon.com/CE-Compass-Cover-Kindle-Black/dp/B004A...
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
my favorite one as well.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
"There should be two types of travel. Spit these airplanes up. People that want to pay the cheapest possible price, and pack them into an airplane and give them a shitty experience. And people that are willing to pay extra and be loyal, giv
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
The one issue I haven't seen addressed in any of these password posts is that many sites/services (like my corporate login, for example) require you to use both numbers and capitalization. So what I've started doing is using the same 3 word
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
How to stop procrastinating: 1) Stop reading articles about procrastination. 2) Start doing what you're supposed to be doing, you lazy asshole.
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
Is this statement actually true? "If you purchased a laptop today, you are more likely to have purchased a Mac over any other type of computer. If you’re someone who makes over $250,000 per year, and you purchased a laptop, you almost cert
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
I actually think one Interaction decision they made (intentionally or unintentionally) that helped with engagement a lot is the lack of a queue system for becoming DJ. Forcing people to be first to click to become a DJ when one leaves means
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
As a "product guy" myself, here are some ways that I feel I contribute to my team. To give some background, I started at my current company (a growing consumer internet company) in an interaction design role, but transitioned into product a
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
This is a classic sports writing trope as well -- blaming a team's best player when the team doesn't succeed, as opposed to blaming all the chumps around him who were the real cause of the team's failure. See Alex Rodriguez and the Texas Ra
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by sardonicbryan 15y ago
Posts like this -- without any actual data/standards -- annoy me. I suspect that she perceives the quality of college education to be worse because she perceives the quality of college graduates to be worse. This may even be true. However,
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
One other thing I'll add is that I like showing the whole week because it gives me context for what day of the week it is when I'm looking at my calendar.
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
That's not what I get when I click on "4 Days" in my calendar. I get Today, Tomorrow, The Day After and The Day After That. (In settings you can customize this to be any number of days, including 3.) Not exactly what the poster wanted: does
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
After actually documenting his suggestions, only 1 out of 7 concrete suggests are not currently available in Google Calendar. His suggestions, in order: 1) Show only the current day and future days -- Google Calendar does this 2) Can't see
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
Google Calendar does this. Just switch to "4 Days" view.
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
I agree. When I think of "Stealth Mode," I think of people who won't tell anyone what they are doing or what their startup is about, and you actively discourage people who know from talking about what you do. I think that the Google behavio
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
I have an Android phone, and I just use TuneSync to wirelessly sync my iTunes library to my phone over wi-fi. Then, I can use whatever media software I want to play my songs. Perversely, I only use iTunes on my PC because of... my car. My c
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
This is so ridiculous I have to rebut this point by point. Her points: 1) Convenience: The closing line of this statement says it all: "... or borrow someone else’s cell to make the call. Now that’s convenience." There's a distinction betwe
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
I think it's not whether Google is a desirable place to work, it's whether it's more desirable a place than other places that do not require an application fee. Or, to be more pedantic about it, whether the marginal value of applying to Goo
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
This doesn't make sense to me at all. Assuming the goal is to increase the percentage of applications that are "high quality," I think an application fee would be detrimental. If you are a highly desirable employee, you probably have many p
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by sardonicbryan 16y ago
What I don't understand is why people who say, "Why should I pay rent? That money is just going down the drain" never think to themselves, "Why should I pay interest on a mortgage? That money is just going down the drain."