tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Regardless of what platform you're on, you want your emoji to be similar enough to those of other platforms so that intent and meaning are transmitted accurately. This is one of the problems with emoji overall - they specify very appro
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
He's actually writing about the dialer that comes with the device OS (in this case an OTA, I believe, but still, it's the default / 1P dialer. It just happens to be a branded one rather than the "usual" white labe
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
It's always been a "telephone app", on smart phones. And in many cases, it's already been somewhat "3rd party" because in reality it's from the ODM who made your phone or the SOC vendor, not the company th
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
I don't think it's so much the wealth of the victims as the size of the transaction (ticket price) as well as the total spend. It makes a class action lawsuit (where the lawyers will get a % of the value recovered) attractive, whe
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
My first job in college involved helping them build the first Car Talk web site (it was around 1994). All of the graphics were drawn on paper and scanned in, and I spent hours converting their recordings into (IIRC) RealAudio format so peop
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
It's well established that high barriers to entry reduce competitive pressures on margin. If nothing else, it discourages outsiders from trying out new business models that drive down prices, because it increases the amount of capital
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
This: Google's scale of operation doesn't work well for a free service with a small number of users - the legal, localization and support overhead is disproportionately expensive on a very small service, unless it's a paid on
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
> It doesn't matter what Johnny Ive or some product manager at Google are focused on, or what their intentions are. It seems to matter a lot to you. If the intentions don't matter, why are you so committed to maligning them? Mo
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
Why does manual intervention (per se) make your zero-inbox so effective? This isn't somehow magically processing emails for you, it's just automating how those emails are handled after you decide what to do with them. IIRC inbox-z
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
I'm an inbox-zero-er (and Googler) and I love using Inbox for that exact reason - it makes it even easier for me to deal quickly with emails I don't want to touch (e.g. promotional), and snooze emails I can't act on immediate
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
I have to disagree... in particular, the point of reference (absolute) is also all wrong. It's not going to teach you much about how to react to a man-over. There really isn't much substitute for actual drills at sea to simulate t
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
This would be more compelling and educational if the controls mapped closer to how the controls you have available on a traditional sailboat work: * Rudder position controls rate of rotation, not absolute heading, and doesn't work if y
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
"Optimal entertainment choices" is so vague as to be meaningless. If I can spent 25K on a vacation and not feel it hurt my wallet, isn't that an optimal entertainment choice?
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
Any number of services support ths - I believe Wallet, Venmo, Paypal and Square all offer some form of fee-less peer-to-peer transfer, because it has such a high value for organic growth as people send money to friends.
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
How does one hope to define "excess" if there's a carveout for "happiness and entertainment"? Beyond our Maslow needs, most of what we spend money on is arguably for "happiness and entertainment", no?
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
Yeah, but a 12% decline in the stock price of a company worth ~$6bn probably wouldn't rate an NYT story unless there was some additional element to the story (like fraud or scandal.) Look at the ~10 companies on the NASDAQ between ~6bn
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
It's entirely impractical to expect NY to build collision barriers at every spot where pedestrians get near cars within the city. Unless you want to have raised / underground pedestrian crossings everywhere (which have generally n
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
While it might be socially acceptable, we'd all also agree that going 5 over the posted speed limit is "breaking the law", which is exactly the problem - it's encouraging a societal norm of "kind of" following
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Electric skateboard designer George Schnakenberg III dies while riding in SF(sfgate.com)
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
If you don't speak English, your phone probably isn't set to EN-US or another locale where the voice recognition would accept english. I'm guessing this depends on the voice reco being set to the right locale.
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
It doesn't make sense for a company that's trying to sell itself to also start making large cuts - it may drive your own price down by signaling that your businesses lack potential. The acquiring company will calculate in the cost
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
"Losing up to a million a month" doesn't necessarily mean "using a million in cash a month." The first may be based on accrual accounting, the second is based on cash accounting, and they don't need to equate i
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. If you don't share a photo when you upload it, you can share it any time later. (In particular, that's how auto-upload works.) If you share it, and then you delete the post where it's shared,
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
1. That doesn't seem to be actually true - I see three categories associated with Classical in the listing on Songza.com under Genres 2. Songza, in general, isn't so much about browsing narrowly-defined genre categories. You'
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
Play Music sorely needed this - lots of great curated lists in addition to albums and playlists. Can't wait for the integration - I really like Songza for those times I'm working or driving and don't feel like playing close a
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
You can also just upload, and then not share the image (it's a separate flow after the upload that you can skip.) The default setting for an uploaded photo is "not shared".
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
While much of YouTube is a desert wasteland in terms of community, there are definitely areas (like music and fitness) where it has a great deal of social / community activity. Just given how huge YT is, it wouldn't suprise me if
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
Owning a house with central heating / AC that can be controlled by a Nest Thermostat via your household wifi from your smartphone while driving home in your Mercedes is a pretty "first-world" thing. Especially given that this
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
Millions of thousands of homes today simply leave their thermostat at the same temperature all the time, failing to optimize for the large portions of the day when nobody is home because it's simpler (and they probably don't have
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by tomkarlo 12y ago
How are you determining that they're "overpricing" their accommodations? For a lot of property owners, the reserve price may be driven by considerations like (perceived) risk to their personal property and the hassle of manag

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