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by pmcp 2y ago
For me reviews act as curation. If something is 7+ on one of my favorite review sites, i’m going to listen to it. A very useful service in a time when the music stream is seemingly endless and as you say, almost free.
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by pmcp 3y ago
A good measure for an Apple product was for me always: it makes tech disappear. That was always the differentiator, I feel: it doesn’t feel like tech and it doesn’t look like it. Now, I guess, it makes reality disappear?
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by pmcp 3y ago
As somebody who worked for the European Commission, and a european national government, I agree with your sentiment, but the harsh reality is that government divisions in generally work on a shoe string budget, when it comes to decisions li
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by pmcp 3y ago
Side comment: I respect the author’s right to choose words that ring well to them, but jeez, as a non native english speaker, reading this, i am happy my device has a dictionary function.
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by pmcp 3y ago
The film was released in 1940, I feel you are understating it’s timelyness.
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by pmcp 3y ago
Still doing weekly live dj sets with my macbook from 2013, editing in Logic, researching music online, listening to Spotify,… Except for the battery, there is nothing wrong with this device of more than 10 years old.
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by pmcp 3y ago
The use of icons lies not in understanding it the first time, it’s something that you learn to recognise. And that makes them more recognisable at the long term, or easier to find in moments when speed is of the essence. Like your example o
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by pmcp 3y ago
A big proportion of visitors will never see these sites at their astronomical best, as they will visit it with their phone. Sites with animations and crazy stuff happening on desktop, but then show a small subset of that design on mobile ar
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by pmcp 3y ago
I wonder if you are trolling or being serieus, because me and literally everyone i know would use this feature extensively. For powerpoints, school presentations, birthday cards. 50% of the time I fired up Word, it would be for that feature
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by pmcp 4y ago
In product design, Personas are a way to agree on jobs to be done, scope the work and help find new ideas for features. In Marketing it helps to brief agencies and to talk about a big group of people in a less homogeneous way. One person ca
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by pmcp 4y ago
I’m talking out of ignorance her, so please educate me: if you take into account the black swan theory both kaplan meier and Lindy effect can’t say anything about anything, no?
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by pmcp 4y ago
Betting?
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by pmcp 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time and attention to write this up. I find your insights valuable, and I tend to agree. I think my hesitance towards the ad world is coming from my personal experience. I’ve worked at marketing agencies and as digi
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by pmcp 5y ago
I still believe this, but am willing to learn. Honest question: Would you mind trying to convince me?
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by pmcp 5y ago
You don’t have control over what phone your userbase uses. I’ve built multiple pwa’s for companies and organisations, mainly for internal tools. It worked very well and we were happy we didn’t have to deploy to different app stores, while s
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by pmcp 5y ago
Flakey code might be an advantage in this specific case.
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by pmcp 5y ago
As someone who started working at an ad agency during the online metrics boom, then went to a national news organisation to work as digital strategist, I tend to agree. But I would pinpoint it to the inflated value of impressions. My experi
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by pmcp 5y ago
You will have to define “news” first, or “politics”. As a former strategist for a big news room, I can tell you it’s not as easy as you make it out to be.
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by pmcp 6y ago
I respect your position, and in general I agree. But your position on what political is, feels a bit unholistic. When more than one person is involved, everything is political, and very much so if you talk about contracts between people, wh
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by pmcp 6y ago
I can advice you the Nokia Tough 800, I got it for exact the same reason. it’s a decent device that runs kaiOS, has maps, whatsapp and browser. The browser is so slow that it doesnt really become a time sink, (The bulk of websites are clear
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by pmcp 6y ago
Thanks,good tip! What did you end up being interested in?
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Ask HN: Without a background in CS, how do I get into the field of A.I?
4 points by pmcp 6y ago|8 comments
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by pmcp 6y ago
> and are fond of producing red+green hybrids for navigation at open sea TIL Indonesians breed roosters like Chocobos.