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by tjogin 17y ago
I think I agree with what you're saying, I just have a really hard time describing hardware or software as being "sexy". I'd just say that the iPhone, unlike all of its predecessors, simply didn't suck. It was a joy to use it. Maybe we me
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by tjogin 17y ago
When you submit an app to the App Store, the developer can either choose to have it be made publically available ASAP, or at a set date. I believe Spotify chose a set date: today, because Spotify was also published on the Android Marketplac
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by tjogin 17y ago
The author over-simplified his case, it should have been " Windows desktop software vs web apps", not desktop software overall. Developing iPhone software has a very different set of advantages and disadvantages, as does developing Mac des
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by tjogin 17y ago
Certainly they weren't "famous". Their blog Signal vs. Noise was not that special a blog at the time, not even close to the biggest. I don't think I'd even call it "A-list", at the time.
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by tjogin 17y ago
What are you not convinced about? That their current following hasn't been that big since the dawn of time? 37signals is an excellent case study of a company which has built a profitable successful business without any kind of fame or follo
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by tjogin 17y ago
They had an about average size blog for the time. It's definitely not like their fame preceded or enabled their success. It's the other way around. They've explained this on multiple occasions when people ask them how to repeat their succes
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by tjogin 17y ago
When 37signals started Basecamp they didn't have their fame, Rails, their books or their blog readers... Just like everybody else, they started with none of that.
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by tjogin 17y ago
True enough. But still though, why not wait until a company is actually profitable before we herald their business as a great example of profitability. Lots of things can happen along the way — a lot of the times it doesn't end well at al
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by tjogin 17y ago
I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard or read anyone other than Paul Graham describe somebody as a "hacker" in a serious fashion (except for in a newspaper story, of course).
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by tjogin 17y ago
The first two letters stand for Grand Central. That's not a side-effect, it's a core purpose, without which it would not do half of what it does, nor do it half as well. While Erlangers may view the Erlang environment as the universe, it de
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by tjogin 17y ago
The whole point of GCD is that it is a central entity that knows how much work the entire system is doing on each individual processor core, and can adjust the number of threads accordingly. Does your Erlang example take into account the o
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by tjogin 17y ago
What was the point of putting it online if you didn't mean for anyone to read it?
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by tjogin 17y ago
Certainly. For instance, how is App Store going to get better if nobody whines about its deficiencies? Criticizing the thing you care about is essential to its improvement. Secondly, telling people to shut up and stop complaining is a very
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by tjogin 17y ago
There are iPod owners out there with tens of gigs of music (the biggest iPod has room for 120 gigs of music). To say that iTunes can't handle that is to ignore this observable fact. It not striking your fancy is not the same thing as it not
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by tjogin 17y ago
I don't know, it seems this is more a list of products that didn't happen to strike the writer's fancy — rather than canonical failures. Whether something is a success or failure is not a whole lot about personal opinion — it's about obse
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by tjogin 17y ago
He keeps calling him Jonathan all the time, but it's not at all sure that's his real name (see: http://ozmm.org/posts/his_name_is_robert_paulson.html ). And even if it is, it's kind of a dick thing to do, given that we know that _why never
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by tjogin 17y ago
That's a really disingenuous comparison, given that device doesn't even do a fraction of what the iPhone does, and you know it.
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by tjogin 17y ago
The iPhone is not easy to use, as compared to what other device that currently exists?
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'm sure you realize that whatever happened to your particular machine is not necessarily indicative of all machines from the same manufacturer.
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by tjogin 17y ago
That seems to presume Svn is easier to use than Git, in my opinion it is the other way around.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Does there exist even a single non-trivial Java project that does not have loads and loads of them?
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by tjogin 17y ago
Sure, but at the same time all languages were not created equal. Some are better designed and more powerful than others. They're not all just equally great at different things and let's sing "Kum ba yah" together now.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Oh, definitely. But they might not be trolling on purpose; there is the off chance that they actually believe the stuff they're saying.
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by tjogin 17y ago
I'm sure you'll acknowledge that neither Rails nor Django is universially more used than PHP is. A better estimate is that PHP is about 100 times more widely used. The discrepancy between that and the results of this poll is so big I can't
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by tjogin 17y ago
I still think that's anti-competitive douchebaggery. iTunes has become the standard platform for organizing music, thanks to the success of the iPod. I think it has elevated to a position where Apple should have to tread carefully in anti-c
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by tjogin 17y ago
I think it's amazing that Django and Rails are rated higher than PHP (at least, they are at the time I'm writing this). This really exposes how different this crowd is from the mainstream.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Well, if you reject the iPhone (I haven't) and buy a Palm Pre, you are still affected by Apple's anti-competitive iTunes dance. I'm a huge Apple fan, and I'm extremely sorry to see them turning out to act more like douchebags each day.
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by tjogin 17y ago
True, I wouldn't say he "subscribes" do their DMs. But, he has decidedly opted-in to them sending him DMs.
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by tjogin 17y ago
Whether he chose to follow them automatically or not, he's subscribing to their updates. That's does not fit any definition of "unsolicited" I know of.
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by tjogin 17y ago
> "When I unfollowed everyone all my spam just stopped. Dead. No more spam. Not since Monday. Twitter is actually quite enjoyable. Not a single DM spam. Not a single piece of spam has come through the home page." I don't think it's fair

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