nobbyclark

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by nobbyclark 12y ago
Has there been a model of consumer behavior related to personal computing where security played a major part? Yes - anti-virus software on Windows. That's not an entirely healthy example but it does show it is possible to make consumer
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
Sadly this type of response seems to be common amongst those that do get it. "Whatever. Most people don't care anyway." If you look at the reaction of those 99% to Apple planting a U2 album on their phone, you see an angry re
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
> Technology can help create newer, more engaging distractions. Watching how people react to the Occulus, "OMG it's sooo real!" I can't help thinking how badly screwed we are as a species when it goes mainstream. Farm
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
As smart creatives I dont think we're the target audience but rather decision makers at established businesses who are seeing their markets getting disrupted.
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
... but if Apple Pay ( https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/ ) turns into a big success, it could have the potential to unbalance the relationship Apple has with it's customers.
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
Yes. And put together in even less time than JavaScript 1.0
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
Waaaaiit a second! This "async thing" is not a fad created by node.js but rather the effective conclusion of the C10K problem - http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html - that we could scale up our application servers to ha
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
How do you know that the app published on the App Store is the same one you have the source code for? Can't I can just give you some source code then release something else entirely?
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
The real pain point with E-mail is we're all drowning in it.
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
His lack of commentary speaks loudly. gs.com > gmail.com > nsa.gov > irs.gov who will love to see those accounts
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
IMO the silently majority is tired of a panopticon of "look it me now" social services who's main use case is massaging users egos. Google should start over, Android-first (instead of web -first) and make the phone Addressboo
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
Sounds like a similar POV as those that believe security by obscurity is adequate.
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
But isn't it the case that anything we're capable of measuring here, given the relatively short available sample of data we'd be able to obtain (decades), would be inside any margin of error when comparing that to the age of
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
As we move from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, it becomes more about managing our energy as individuals, not how many hours we're putting on the clock Tony Schwarz's "Leading at Google" talk on this topic is
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
> I just don't understand how it even gets developed in the first place, if they don't have a small team to continue working on it post-release. From talking to PMs at Google, they have exactly this problem. Engineers are free
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
How does this differ to popapp ( https://popapp.in ) which I've been using for over a year now ?
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
2.8.9? That sounds way too mature. What pre-alpha data store does HN recommend replacing redis with?
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
> Dropbox needs people with international experience to help it at once deal with foreign governments that have blocked its use — China, for example — and as it works to spread a product developed in one country to others that are cultur
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
What about traffic from Google? For any existng online platform that's already established itself on the web, you're probably seeing 50%+ of your traffic coming from Google and a big chunk of that will be mobile. Some of your user
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
Ummm... so what does gay marriage have to do with browsing the web? FAIL
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
The number of addictive occupations we've invented for ourselves seems to grow exponentially at the moment; beyond drugs and physical addiction we have Facebook, games from WoW to FarmVille, 24-hour news reporting or just owning a smar
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
I get the impression from looking at local "big data" events that the enterprise software crowd has tuned into big data. I fear that now that SOAP and enterprise buses have gone their way, they look a new buzzword to sell. More so
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
It probably began as a friendly gentlemen a agreement. "Don't steal my engineers. I won't steal yours. Helps keeps costs down. It's all in the shareholders interests right?"
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by nobbyclark 12y ago
It will probably feel like this http://vimeo.com/m/8569187
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by nobbyclark 13y ago
So we return to tables ...
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by nobbyclark 13y ago
> Either there is a conspiracy between all the news channels of the world to portray Russia as a bully which is silly and doesnt pass Occams Razor test or the Russian tv has gone into full propaganda swing. Probably both. The way news is
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by nobbyclark 13y ago
Whatever mobile ad / paywall BS Forbes is up to, that needs to stop now. Worst mobile ad ever
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by nobbyclark 13y ago
Don't forget... > SHARE WITH FRIENDS Because highly personal data needs to be shared with your friends. Just because. Actually the real feature here would be "SHARE WITH MOM" for those mothers who always call to ask "
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by nobbyclark 13y ago
There are many employers here. This would obviously be bad news...
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by nobbyclark 13y ago
This runs the risk of winning a "No shit Sherlock" award.

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