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What 1984 Macintosh marketing reveals about iPad(betanews.com)
3 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
This could be significant if it leads to a commoditization of mobile bandwidth such that random startups can be cell carriers if they want to.
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4G satellite company takes aim at cell carriers(businessweek.com)
2 points by ssp 17y ago|1 comments
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Shock: Private Equity Company Plans To Do Something Useful(electronicsweekly.com)
3 points by ssp 17y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
What kinds of data are you collecting? I have sometimes wondered whether the concept of a profiler could be applied outside programming. I'll bet if you put all expenses of an average big company into a profiler (plug: such as sysprof),
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by ssp 17y ago
Yes, it's a common nerd delusion that the UI is a presentation layer on top of something else and that you can therefore have an "iPad-like UX" presenting some complicated underlying system. This thinking leads to a kind of UI cargo cult wh
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by ssp 17y ago
Shopping is even more efficient if you distribute all your items across all the cashiers. That way, the time from you are first in line until you are done, is n / num_cashiers instead of n . Someone, please try this the next time you g
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by ssp 17y ago
But presumably the big companies have patents that read on other parts of the device, so that they can just prevent any devices from being made altogether. It seems this would give them all the advantages in a negotiation.
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by ssp 17y ago
The test of whether static typing is useful is pretty simple: Do you ever get type errors when you write code with static types? If you do (and the errors are not spurious), then the static type system is catching real bugs that would have
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by ssp 17y ago
I have wondered whether the poor response to online ads isn't simply because the ads are so bad. There might be many people like you who don't mind the ads per se so much as the flashing, annoying ads for stuff you don't care about. So a
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by ssp 17y ago
Tangentially, a big, red circle with a face and some green and yellow in it is probably one of the most effective things you could possibly put in an online ad.
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by ssp 17y ago
Yes, the rods are not used at all for regular daytime vision, only for nighttime vision and in dimly-lit environments ("scotopic" vision). The rods are much more sensitive than the cones, but can't detect color. That's why you can't see col
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by ssp 17y ago
That is just not how humans work.
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by ssp 17y ago
That seems very solvable though, and importantly: solvable in ways that could be a real competitive advantage if done well. The hard problem is how to get cell phones into people's hands that would work with it.
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Revenge of the Fat Guy(blog.pmarca.com)
30 points by ssp 17y ago|3 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
The image of the setup with the keyboard and the monitor gave me an idea: Open a coffee shop/internet cafe type place where people could bring tiny computers and/or cell phones in and plug them into a docking station attached to a keyboard
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by ssp 17y ago
*A company to make money based on advertising has to be able to reach a very large audience. Do you think that your application that your geek friends like is going to be like that? If not, forget the “ads” model.8 Is this actually true? It
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by ssp 17y ago
Put another way, “open and better” is a recipe for success; “open but worse” is a recipe for obscurity. This is equivalent to: "better" is a recipe for success; "worse" is a recipe for obscurity. Openness is irrelevant.
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by ssp 17y ago
RCS, CVS and SVN are in a real sense the same thing. You can view CVS as fixing a bug in RCS (it doesn't have concurrency), and SVN as fixing bugs in CVS (it doesn't have atomic commits). That is even how the SVN developers themselves marke
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by ssp 17y ago
Yes I agree. I guess systems can be lucrative and soul killing at the same time. It's probably not a coincidence that soul killing things are also lucrative. I'm wondering though why there aren't more people eating at the elephant. Replac
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When Fairchild Fired People Over The PA System(electronicsweekly.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
That argument only works if you assume they can make their products without infringing on any of ATI's or NVIDIA's patents.
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by ssp 17y ago
No, Helvetica's stature as a high point of type face design was not. In fact, Helvetica was the Arial of that time, and The People Who Are Always Right would snicker at it and instead go for Univers, the well-designed alternative that the
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by ssp 17y ago
One of the best things that ever happened to Helvetica's reputation is Microsoft shipping Arial, thereby causing nerds everywhere to suddenly consider Helvetica some sort of high point of type design.
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by ssp 17y ago
If you think these warnings are evidence that "clang is doing better and deeper static analysis than gcc", then you have no idea how compilers work.
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by ssp 17y ago
There is nothing deep about these warnings. It would likely be really, really simple to add them to gcc.
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by ssp 17y ago
Clang is compatible with the most used GCC extensions. See this: http://clang.llvm.org/features.html#gcccompat
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by ssp 17y ago
How many applications that run only (or, at least, better) on non-x86 boxes were developed in the last couple years? The answer to this question is that a vast number of applications that only run on the iPhone's ARM have been developed i
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by ssp 17y ago
There are some interesting optimization methods that probably wouldn't have been made public if it weren't for patents. Which ones? I want all useful algorithms to become publically known. Patents help accomplish that. I don't think tha
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by ssp 17y ago
Supposedly, if the rewards are randomly reinforced, they will be more addictive. Ie., if the same action sometimes creates positive feedback and sometimes negative, people will keep coming back because they are looking forward to the posi

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