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by sedev 15y ago
Those are important amplifications and qualifications to what I said - thanks. :)
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by sedev 15y ago
I can't decide if that shows whether these guys would be good or bad entrepreneurs. This kind of insane persistence in pursuit of what you believe in is sometimes a good sign for starting a business. On the other hand, they have made some v
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by sedev 15y ago
The policy that they are enforcing is that you must use your legal name, leading many people to the obvious conclusion that the policy is bullshit.
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by sedev 15y ago
The flip side of that metaphor, though, is that most of us go to lots of parties without necessarily taking the same identity with us to each party. Further, using people's legal names (if this fiasco demonstrates anything, it's that the co
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by sedev 15y ago
"Apple’s OS update clearly has not removed and replaced the system’s UNIX foundation with something sane..." And that was where I stopped taking him seriously. This author sounds to me as though he is complaining that his free pony is dappl
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by sedev 15y ago
Okay, thank you for clarifying and expanding on that.
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by sedev 15y ago
This is definitely resonating with me. Could I get you to say more about "If you are building anything consumer-focused, definitely don't quit your day job"? What do you see as the biggest obstacles in building a consumer-market product?
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by sedev 15y ago
That's what it's starting to look like, yeah. Which is reassuring, in a way - the upside of a lifestyle business is that you're not particularly beholden to investors.
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by sedev 15y ago
"the vested interests of a particular large corporation are sometimes very different from mine." Couldn't agree more! Especially when it comes to large corporations where you are a product being sold to advertisers, they're even worse than
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by sedev 15y ago
It's kind of hilarious and sad that, judging by their home page, it's possible to build a business on selling "In Case Google Stabs You In The Face" insurance.
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by sedev 15y ago
Even if the headline was accurate instead of hyperbolic, my response would be something along the lines of "because no one's a fairer and more impartial judge of Apple software than Adobe." That list of incompatibilities is something I thin
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by sedev 15y ago
"and now he works in investment banking." That's one hell of a punchline. Is that serious, or is that just a grim joke? Because sadly it's right smack in the middle of Poe's Law territory.
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by sedev 15y ago
I definitely hadn't thought of the Ford vs. Lambo angle - thank you for pointing that out. I think one could also phrase that as the Apple vs. Dell angle. Revenue-per-customer is definitely important. I think that I could offer an investor
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Ask HN: How big does my target market have to be?
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by sedev 15y ago
I hope that we can more widely spread the news: power makes you stupid. I wouldn't say 'for some reason' - I would say 'because of cognitive biases that would afflict any other ordinary human being in his situation'. Power makes you stupid,
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by sedev 15y ago
It is my experience that employees who hear it phrased that way, though, will from painful experience assume that they're about to be blamed for something.
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by sedev 15y ago
I reinforce this comment. The title "When Employees Misinterpret Managers" at best very weakly implies that the managers are doing something. It plainly states, in normal English, that employees did something (they misinterpreted) to mana
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by sedev 15y ago
That's a lovely article with a wincingly bad headline. The author does a very good job of describing what happens when managers give instructions and then discover that they have instructed people to act counter to the managers' desires. Th
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by sedev 15y ago
Interviewers who explicitly phrase the 'how would you move Mt. Fuji' or 'here's a development task outside of your stated competencies, how would you do it?' as hypotheticals or thought exercises, could save a lot of heartbreak. I can see t
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by sedev 15y ago
That's pretty cool - that put a coherent narrative on top of several things that bothered me about the Adobe toolchain. Thanks for putting that together.
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by sedev 15y ago
Yeah - the first half comes easier. Too easy - I do it myself far too often.
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by sedev 15y ago
Thank you for the explanation. That was entirely reasonable.
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by sedev 15y ago
That reply makes you sound like you don't know how NoScript, web standards, and good UIs work. I have access to the Good Stuff that JS enables - and there's lots of Good Stuff! But with NoScript on, I (a) get to see who's following web stan
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by sedev 15y ago
I'd modify that a little, basically riffing on Marco Arment's proposal[1]: developers will do great things for a platform if we use it, if it's in popular use, and if there's money to be made. Twitter the service, I would say, has been flut
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by sedev 15y ago
That's where I'm at with this. What Jarek describes can happen, but that's a failure case, not the normal-operation case. And as portrayed in the article, the engineers at Apple have accounted for the failure case, so all's well. They s
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by sedev 15y ago
Of course we can't all be Picasso (the role was filled by some guy who was hanging out in Paris at the right time), but that is no reason not to try. Trying to raise the collective professional standard is a Good Thing. I think more people
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by sedev 15y ago
Dear everyone who ever gave me shit on HN for browsing the web with JavaScript turned off by default: please see the above image. Without NoScript and ad blocking, the Internet is broken because site owners can fuck up basic UI/UX assumpt
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by sedev 15y ago
I think that you're wrong because, basically, if that 'steal an IP address' scenario happens, it means that the DHCP server has in some way broken its promises. That _happens_ in production environments, but I'd much rather clients use beha
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by sedev 15y ago
That one, I think, has a consensus: spend some money on anti-piracy features. Spend more than zero, but as little as you can get away with. Don't make an app that's trivial to pirate - but don't spend more than trivial amounts of time try
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by sedev 15y ago
Or to restate it: Apple is willing to piss off the carriers - this is a feature, not a bug.

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