yojimbo311

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by yojimbo311 12y ago
I forget the term for it, but it's exactly like Terms and Conditions. Always expect the user to solve any puzzle put to them using the least amount of energy/effort. It's quite honestly not worth it to anyone to go through th
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by yojimbo311 12y ago
I wound up nearly writing a book in response to this so I'll try to sum it up. I agree with most of what you've said in this thread, but... > Why have a centralized legal roadblock to new product development? Rephrased: Why hav
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by yojimbo311 12y ago
Precisely. These are all very good examples of what to be careful of in designing any transformations or transitions. There are however, lots of incredibly useful and well designed transformations that actually enhance the overall experienc
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by yojimbo311 12y ago
I'm pretty sure we've already seen cases that prove that it doesn't, perhaps not enough to write a blog post about, but they are definitely out there (iOS 7's dramatic increase in the use of motion comes immediately to m
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by yojimbo311 12y ago
Which part? Andreessen taking his anger out on Snowden or the NSA's tampering? To the latter, yes, yes I do. If for no other reason than the consequences of such tampering are obvious if ever discovered and nothing ever stays secret fo
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by yojimbo311 12y ago
I was really excited to try this out, but then I hit the requirement to provide contact information just to download the library. This is, for good or bad, always off putting to me. I don't consider the need to collect certain informat
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
Personally, I think this sentiment cheapens his decision and makes less of what he's really done here. I think what he's done is pretty heroic, at least in modern terms, and something that very few, possibly none, of us would be w
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
There are quite literally thousands of documents that disagree with you on that, especially when it comes to physical addiction. Your response demonstrates a misunderstanding as to what addiction is, even if you happen to have experienced i
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
Addiction by itself is absolutely not a choice. Whatever it is that someone tried or was coerced to try that eventually resulted in that addiction may or may not have been a choice. A person may indeed, with appropriate support and resource
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
zimbatm's link to http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators was helpful here. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators seems to also have some useful background on where the semanti
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
As someone who is grateful for your research and analysis, thank you, but filing a bug report is going to be WAY more effective, at least for iOS. https://bugreport.apple.com/ will get the ball rolling, even if it's be
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
I think you underestimate the impact these particular reviews are having for some, even if it's a minority. Apple has as much incentive here as they have with any customer complaints. If it's important enough to developers and gen
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
I don't have numbers or sources to back it up, but in my experience at least, people who were satisfied with an entry-level model didn't keep track of newer models and weren't interested in "upgrading" unless the th
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
Apple is most definitely shy of squeezing the bucks out of customers and they've proven that they have been willing to go to bat for customers to get a reasonable price. Not the lowest, not the best, but reasonable enough to keep thing
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by yojimbo311 13y ago
I'm getting really tired of seeing snarky comments like this show up in EVERY single post about Apple doing anything regardless of wether it was "good" or "bad". I'm also getting tired of "own" being used to mean "control", but that's a dif
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
It's certainly "fancy", but... as someone who has been forced to go down this road more than a few times for desktop and mobile platforms please do NOT encourage this. The level of manipulation and monitoring of key events necessary to get
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
1) In some ways they already do this by collating anonymized crowdsourced data (ex. the overblown debacle over the location cache and the subsequent discovery that they were crowdsourcing traffic data). 2) To my knowledge, this just doesn't
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
First, I find these pre-teardown estimates and price guestimates to be completely misleading and uninformative. It's foolish to base any opinion on a guess using information that has not been confirmed in an even moderately rigorous manner.
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
I get the impression that a lot of the anti-Apple camp get the same sense about people who "support" the decision, and I use that term loosely. I'd like to offer the following: Apple has been consistent in actively defending any design elem
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
My apologies for singling you out with this, but many people seem to be jumping on this bandwagon all too much and I've about lost my patience with it. This isn't something that Apple, or Amazon, or Netflix, or Hulu etc. can take the blame
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
Yep. But for people like my grandma and parents it was absolutely true. My apologies that I have nothing to cite but my own experience and analysis, but closed ecosystems are a temporary solution, at best, for building trust in a new market
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
I really love this approach, and I hope that my fear of the outcome of this is an irrational one. By not qualifying the offer to "just this once"/whatever I fear they may inspire more copycats and prove to the rest of the trademark gatekeep
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
I really love this approach, and I hope that my fear of the outcome of this is an irrational one. By not qualifying the offer to "just this once"/whatever I fear they may inspire more copycats and prove to the rest of the trademark gatekeep
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
Precisely. iTunes has grown to be many things, but Apple isn't going to sit on it's hands and do nothing to address emerging trends. They have stubbornly rejected the subscription model in Music for years (even this post supports that gener
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
I'm going to have to disagree. It is cynical at best to assume that this situation is being used as PR. Beyond disappointment that the show will not continue as it was, Dan has not exposed his personal feelings on the matter or any private
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
That's not a safe assumption to make of Kickstarter. If the intent is really to treat everything as donations then every tier should include "acknowledgment as a backer". As it stands today it's only stated for $1000+ level and that's not
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
There appears to be a project on Kickstarter to create an open source pressure sensitive pen. The current design doesn't look like it incorporates a "higher precision" tip like the iPen ( http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/ipen ) or Jot Pro
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by yojimbo311 14y ago
This seems like an exceptionally cynical perspective. While I don't suggest we should ever stop questioning things or explore what possible motivations could be involved, I'd love to see less of this automatically accusing people of having
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by yojimbo311 15y ago
This really made the world a little less bright for me today. RIP Steve. Thank you for everything you've done to bring your magic to the world. Thank you also for things you haven't done, but easily could have.
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by yojimbo311 15y ago
I may have missed something, but this doesn't feel like a review, it feels like he's rehashed and summarized every point in the book without adding any original content, beyond how he's been using the techniques. A nice glowing review with

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