stephenaturner

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by stephenaturner 12y ago
Makes sense. As more of the population ages, needs technology, lives longer but is also still interested in using technology, catering to this market will be both necessary and useful to companies.
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by stephenaturner 12y ago
Finally I'm glad someone mentioned Scrivener here! Very surprised the article didn't even passingly mention it.
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by stephenaturner 12y ago
Interesting. Though as mentioned the ratings of shows are largely skewed by time -- ie: because no one was reviewing shows from the 50s-80s at the time of airing, it's all viewed through nostalgia and history, so it skews to certain sh
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by stephenaturner 12y ago
Interesting. A shame he wouldn't identify himself or his company in the piece -- it seems like he's quite successful now, so I don't really get the need for anonymity.
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by stephenaturner 12y ago
The combination of some very intelligent people with often very poor social skills will give a greater chance of things like this happening... That said, they could be a little more honest about recognising why people don't like this d
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by stephenaturner 12y ago
So much of this is doing exactly the things we do now, but with the added "bonus" of not moving physically at all? This will appeal to some people for sure, but I can only imagine the side effects of this little innovation... I&#x
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by stephenaturner 12y ago
Every generation says the generation immediately after theirs is the worst generation ever!
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Maybe her argument is that she's less technical than the engineers (and therefore looked down upon unnecessarily, leading to this article), even if she has to be far more technical than the average person, just to get the job.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Clearly spoken by someone who has no idea about communication at all.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
How about it's just an indicator that people always think things are getting worse. Every generation is always nostalgic for the time just before the current generation...
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
The only thing I don't like about the "Maker Movement" is the way so many talk about themselves as if they were the first people ever to do this sort of thing. Like handmade craft and technologies was something invented by In
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Seems like a game, or art project or something of that kind. It doesn't have to be overtly commercial to still be an elaborate ruse, and it's probably more fun if it's not particularly commercial.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
This is mostly from people mistaking the search box for the address box and just putting in the URL there and not knowing there's an extra step in this that they could avoid.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Well they must be sturdy old things to last that long... the first thing that always goes for me is the keyboard, usually from overuse!
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
This could be said about nearly all tech news sites. At least HN is a cross-section of sources...
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Sounds like it has some similarities to what Automattic does -- http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ -- Though of course being a remote work company Automattic can implement it quite differently, and probably more fairl
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Filesharing site revealed to be anti-piracy ‘honeypot’(theguardian.com)
67 points by stephenaturner 13y ago|25 comments
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Nice. I think the CEO already knew his app sucked, so she didn't have to convince him of that, but obviously she convinced him she was the best person to fix it, and that's great.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
They're catching on a fair bit in education -- they're fairly cheap and they do what students need for a lot less than stock standard Windows PCs that got ordered for years. For any more intensive computer user they could never be
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BBC get coding into all UK schools(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by stephenaturner 13y ago|0 comments
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Analysts declare Twitter may drop 140-character limit after IPO(abc.net.au)
1 points by stephenaturner 13y ago|1 comments
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
I agree it's perfectly possible to get somewhere as an entrepreneur without a college degree. But it's hardly detrimental to have one either. And I'm kind of sick of the US-centric view that all college degrees cost $100,000+
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Interesting. Seems from the link they don't own AllthingsD even though it's very much their thing. I presume they'll be negotiating with another company to start up something new but similar. Not unlike Nate Silver leaving th
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
This still seems to ignore the fact that even if the Chinese used these techniques differently and didn't explicitly threaten violence, they were still the captors and the prisoners were still the captives and held in confinement and t
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
And actually... this is pretty poor form from the customer support... poor technical understanding to not delete the trailing email forwards if nothing else!
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
I've done customer technical support both in person, over the phone, and via email -- and yes, you get rough customers, rude customers and ridiculous customers. But maybe I just take it better than most, because you can write of the cr
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
On the one hand, the headline is quite true, but the story is filled with bigoted, idiotic stereotypes and ridiculous generalisations, written by someone who clearly has an axe to grind and little sense to offer anyone. Lame.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
There's a lot of truth to this, but it's also a massive simplification -- and a strange effort to blame tech companies for something that started happening decades ago. Wage stagnation, growing unemployment and a decline in work s
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Oh it's nothing but a low move, introduced by a vile bunch who would prefer Rupert Murdoch controlled all media.
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by stephenaturner 13y ago
Well they snuck this in at the last minute hoping no one would notice and their supporters would be too dumb to care... Based on current opinion polls sadly good assumptions. Add this to killing the NBN as another stake in the heart of our

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