tomkin

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by tomkin 8y ago
My wife says: "they probably ran out of space on their server"
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by tomkin 8y ago
Please. There was no reason to bring up JIRA. Uncalled for by any sane man's standards.
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by tomkin 8y ago
The article reads as a perceived straw man attack against PWA idea, but the author really captured the heart of the issue right here: Google is, by far, the most aggressive in adopting new browser standards behind PWAs in Chrome. Othe
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by tomkin 8y ago
Facebook is AOL. We didn't like AOL for _reasons_. Can we just keep finding those reasons valid, please?
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by tomkin 9y ago
I'll say what I've said in another thread on this matter, which is, no one outside of this bubble buys this shit. There are global supply-chain networks that move millions of products, and they don't employ as much as a micro
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by tomkin 9y ago
You're making a stretch, here. The difference between 100 to 500 or 1000 is exponentially different than the difference of 100 to 3,700. They don't need this many people. Period. This is a "who's dick is bigger" con
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by tomkin 9y ago
I guess I would just point to GitHub, Shopify, Pandora, Spotify, Snapchat, LinkedIn, MailChimp, WordPress.Com, (insert everyone else basically here).
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by tomkin 9y ago
I think you're making a few assertions that would be more honestly served if you conceded as assumptions. Twitter validated it's own employee count with an absurd overhead. It has concerns of scale, performance and user experience
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by tomkin 9y ago
Twitter's biggest mistake was hiring thousands of people when they only needed 30. It doesn't need thousands of people. It doesn't even need 100. Twitter is not a technological marvel. It's something Oprah promoted, and
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Steve Jobs Foretold the Downfall of Apple(youtube.com)
14 points by tomkin 9y ago|10 comments
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by tomkin 9y ago
Steve Gutenberg would differ in opinion.
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by tomkin 10y ago
It's important to understand that Facebook is incredibly large, and the fact that any software scaled with them to the point they are presently at, is a "on the shoulders of giants" situation that seems to actually be working
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by tomkin 10y ago
I love things like this, but I find I have about 30 of these sorts of things bookmarked, and I never think to pull them up when I'm in need – I immediately go to Google and find something like the Mozilla ref @shpx mentioned. It's
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by tomkin 10y ago
>> Were those not acquisitions that withered as opposed to Dropbox new product ventures? This is one of those distinctions without a difference.
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by tomkin 10y ago
When Obama says that Snowden created serious security implications, do you think that's from a point of privilege, or simply placing ideology over practicality? Based on everything I know, both Obama and Snowden appear to be fairly aut
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by tomkin 10y ago
"Crazy cat lady" is possibly more than just a term of endearment.
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by tomkin 10y ago
I really don't know how you got here. BMI has been raked over the coals (new and old methods) for being wildly inaccurate for anyone outside of a conditional range. IQ does not predict what to expect from a human being. Those who doubl
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by tomkin 10y ago
I agree that it's like blood sugar/pressure, but that's sort of my point. I think if you used blood pressure to judge some one's physical capabilities like you would use IQ to judge some one's mental capacity, you w
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by tomkin 10y ago
My argument is that no one can claim BMI or IQ is a scientific form of measurement.
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by tomkin 10y ago
I hate to say this, but IQ tests are BMI tests for the brain, and about as accurate. If a coffee, bad sleep, or a dose of Ritalin can change the result – at its very nature – it is not a scientific method of measurement (the ability to rete
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by tomkin 10y ago
Twitter lost me when they dumped on their ecosystem. The changes made to the platform in recent years are obvious grasp at straws rather than anything revolutionary. It's clear that investors have become Twitter's main concern – t
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by tomkin 10y ago
> Who knows what they will spend the extra money on, could be healthcare, boats, TVs, whatever. But new jobs will be created in these expanded industries. > It really, really bothers me the constant "x technology will drive x peo
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by tomkin 10y ago
I agree with that (technical person's) perspective, but that was not the mainline argument. Steve Jobs got on stage and said it was a hunk of battery wasting crap that invaded your privacy. I'm saying you can make that case regard
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by tomkin 10y ago
Ahhh. Remember when this was just a Flash problem, and getting rid of Flash was going to rid the world of evil? Spoiler: that didn't happen.
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by tomkin 10y ago
And if something is patently false I shouldn't be able to point to hundreds of examples where you're wrong.
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by tomkin 10y ago
You're talking about the economy in a "Plinko chip" sort of way, and I'm talking about community building. If you want good products and a well paying society, you need to promote more individual nodes rather than giant
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by tomkin 10y ago
Mega-companies will only ever end up eventually creating a G+. 300 smaller companies each doing a few things well. That is true growth. Every time you use the word "growth" to describe "success", you will find that you o
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by tomkin 10y ago
Why does it need to grow? Maybe growth is limited, and when it's not, it's dangerous.
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by tomkin 11y ago
So can the TSA do engineer profiling? Seems like it would be more accurate?
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by tomkin 11y ago
What? Where did you derive that from?

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