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by woodrow 16y ago
I agree with your first point in as much as people are free to work or not work as they please. That said, here's some perspective from the design side which may help you understand how designers may think about these kinds of things, even
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by woodrow 16y ago
Sure. But, in my opinion at least, his "Thoughts on Flash" seemed much more carefully worded than this. Everyone refers to signal strength as the quantity of "bars" they have, so I suppose this is the colloquial way to write this. But sente
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by woodrow 16y ago
Does anyone else feel this letter seems strangely/hastily/poorly written for corporate communication? It uses terms/expressions like "totally wrong", "Their big drop in bars", "the iPhone’s bars", pretty much anything that mentions "bars",
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by woodrow 16y ago
Interesting that it's a mechanical design and not an electronic solution, which was my first intuition. One interesting thought: is the lack of battery installation diagram going to cause consternation in consumers who are by now very accus
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by woodrow 16y ago
While I'll agree that OSHA/EPA are often overzealous when you look at the cost-effectiveness (i.e. dollars spent per statistical life saved), and that labor is expensive, I don't think the rapid abandonment of our standards in a race to t
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by woodrow 16y ago
Kindle 3 forthcoming? Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, isn’t relying merely on price cuts to contend with Apple. In August, Amazon.com plans to introduce a thinner Kindle with a more responsive screen and a sharper
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Worse is better in e-book formats(platypope.org)
5 points by woodrow 16y ago|1 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
This isn't a major revelation, at least to me (trained as a CompE with EE tendencies), but I will agree that I've never heard a really good, intuitive explanation of how a bipolar junction transistor works, despite modeling and working with
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by woodrow 16y ago
I will second comments of this being an admirable question. Unfortunately, conserving v4 addresses probably won't help given the rate we're burning through them (10 /8s this year already; compare with a total of 8 /8s in total in 2009 [1]).
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by woodrow 16y ago
I also confirm that it now seems to be fixed after several hours of problems. Good call by RiderOfGiraffes on the cookie. At first I thought it might've been a DNS caching issue with Firefox, but after Wiresharking the connection it was cle
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by woodrow 16y ago
Another Groupon experience -- Groupon overwhelms Boston helicopter training school: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/03/19/groupon-market... EDIT: I should add that this is a blog post written by someone heavily involved in their o
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by woodrow 16y ago
3) Google beat you to it: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-voice-for...
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by woodrow 16y ago
The author is reiterating the complaints that major trademark holders raised over a decade ago during the initial generic TLD (gTLD) expansion process in the mid-1990s (see Milton Mueller's book "Ruling The Root" for details). More gTLDs me