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by scott_meade 14y ago
The phrase "luxury status symbol" caught my attention. More often than people realize, the utility of luxury is independent of signaling status. There are many well designed and built items which people would own and use even if no one se
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Though interesting, the article should more accurately be titled "Living Without Clocks". Mr. Corona still uses time to synchronize activities with others but does not use a clock. For me, a clock is invaluable. I'd much rather simply loo
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by scott_meade 14y ago
I agree it is a significant exception. For what other reason would one want to know the time other than to know that you have a commitment to be somewhere or to do something? That's the whole point of a shared, synchronized system we cal
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"some students said that they will sue the university if any serious punishment is meted out" [1] These are our future business and political leaders ensuring unabated corruption continues for generations to come. It's world-views like thes
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by scott_meade 14y ago
The anti-skeuomorphism crusade is more distracting than the designs it calls out. If I were a designer and if I had any influence, I'd add some gratuitous skeu-ness to a design just to attempt to calm the skeuphobia sweeping the design wor
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"Such freedom in turn requires a liberating education, one centered not on indoctrination or social conditioning." And yet, it would be easy to consider the education the author envisions as indoctrination and social conditioning itself.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"A skilled engineer can get a product comprised of small packages up and running in the same amount of time (and sometimes less time)" Maybe "up and running", but then new skilled engineers that follow in enhancing and maintaining get to tr
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Very closely related to Fogg's behavior model of "trigger", "execution", "motivation", Charles Duhigg in "The Power of Habit" writes of the steps of the habit loop as "cue", "routine", "reward". Habit is coming up to be a big topic in app d
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by scott_meade 14y ago
They were missing two, directly related things: a revenue model and paying customers. (Not meant to be snarky or to point out the obvious, but simply factual.)
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Don't you mean $1.051 Billion?
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Is there anything to the strategy in aquihires of terminating a competitor? If you hire employees away, the competing company might still exist. By doing an aquihire get the option to remove a competitor from the landscape as well. See:
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"intellectual death" is a little hyperbolic, I think. I too know people who spend little to no time on the internet and seem to be quite intellectual, informed, functional, and happy. It's the people that get their "information" from daily
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"little fixed investment cost" ? I think you underestimate the costs for a company like Apple to go through the design, test, review, tweak cycle over and over again for each of those pixels. The cost to get it just right is not "little".
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas." Sorry, but Notch has it backwards. Patents are designed to for sharing - not for preventing sharing. (Patent holder shares information
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Using your vast and deep pockets to terminate a threat vs. competing against it simply doesn't sit right for many HN readers. There are some parallels here to the outcry against patents-as-business-strategy.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
My current grammar peeve is when people end a question with "... or no?" "Are you coming over tonight, or no?" "Do you like this outfit, or no?" "Do I sound like a teenager, or no?" What's up with that?! Do any of you find yourselves t
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"I’ve yet to learn all of the passions of my coworkers, but I have gotten the chance to learn many, and every one of them surprises me." It's surprising to me the number of recent posts trumpeting the realization that programmers have a lif
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by scott_meade 14y ago
A lot of commentators missed the point: "Sometimes a cheaper product is actually better. But consider removing price as the default decision criteria." It's simple and good advice.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
http://tomdoc.org/ makes comments the perfect bridge between "documentation" and "code"
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by scott_meade 14y ago
The motion does not say that Internet access is a human right. The gist of the motion is captured in the affirmation that "the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression, which is
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"it’s very hard to truly question your beliefs if everyone around you shares them." This gravitation toward a shared belief makes it not surprising that living where most peoples' belief is that God does not exist would result in one sharin
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Agreed. I've found myself too many times watching my kids' activities through the viewfinder of a camera or holding up and iPhone between them and me. When staring at a device, you're seeing them but you're not in the moment with them. (
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by scott_meade 14y ago
It's no coincidence that several of the companies which recently found themselves hurt by being locked out of APIs did not heed: "Rule #1: Sell something" - several had no evident source of revenue and as the article says "if your company i
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by scott_meade 14y ago
That is a good question, seeing how I don't know how Pealk made any money at all.
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"the general consensus among HN users is that the best product wins and that's all that matters" That's human nature. Users in marketing communities conclude that it's the best marketing that wins. If you're an executive you think the bes
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by scott_meade 14y ago
One online self per service is enough. I can't recall a recent situation where I felt I was acting differently in public depending on who was around. Certainly not differently enough that when I'm sitting at my computer I'm going to try t
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Part of the "Big Five". 'The extent of the power that the Big Five had was considered by some as equivalent to an oligarchy." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_(Hawaii)
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by scott_meade 14y ago
Or use Plugable's UGA-2K-A USB to VGA/DVI/HDMI adapters for Multiple Monitors. I've been running three external 1920x1200's off my MacBook Air. http://twitpic.com/9yr3tr/full Not Thunderbolt nor 2,560x1,440, yet multiple monitors nonet
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by scott_meade 14y ago
"What apple did wrong is that thy judged a person’s Intentions and residency by a spoken language." That sure is how the article makes it seem. And that sure would be wrong of Apple. Yet the customer was planning to send the iPad to Iran

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