Stop "Disrupting" Everything
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I particularly like the statement above. I think the PC example is a good one, and then smartphones/tablets did the same thing to PCs.
So either we figure out how to make touchscreen+voice to work effectively for content creation, or we'll have to use something other than a tablet experience for that.
The hardware is there already, but the stylus-optimized software is thin in the ground.
For graphics and CAD work, I need the precision of a mouse cursor. My laptop's trackpad works great, and my mouse works even better. My fingertip on a screen, by contrast, will always feel clumsy in comparison. Fingers are just too fat. The only way they become not too fat is with a gigantic screen. But then that's not really a tablet. And gigantic screens can be ergonomically bad, because they force you to bend your neck looking at them.
Likewise, for serious typing, I need the tactile response of a keyboard. Touch-typing on a touchscreen is frustrating.
Of course, there's no reason you can't attach a mouse and keyboard to a tablet. But then you basically have a laptop that doesn't fold closed. It's hard to consider that a uniquely tablet-esque experience.
(I have seen basically this exact sentence posted here)
Let's offer "Hot Soup Processor" classes for free and will have homeless people coming in thinking there's hot soup in there.. And that wouldn't be as bad as HTML classes. At least there's "hot soup" in the name. As Zed Shaw would put it: "Incentive, motherfucker. Do you speak it !".
I have company X. I want to describe something that matters to the founders, the shareholders, the employees, and the clients. All of these people are stakeholders. In the greater sense, stakeholders refers to the people affected by what you're doing, and isn't that what we're all doing every day?
Ask yourself: What am I doing today, and for whom? Everyone is a stakeholder in something.
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Oh...... "war on". Doh!!!!
I'll get me coat...
You're missing the point of what it is to be a hacker.
Real hacking is non-commercial.
And thanks to these patterns, every now and then, we get an awesome HN Parody site.
What a wonderful herd.
2. Site unreadable / unscalable on Galaxy S4.
I launch Thunderbird and go "Here's yet another 'disruptor' hiring". Or "Let's revolutionize X". Come on (insert three exclamation points here).
The only thing this is disrupting is the power of that word. It got diluted, like every buzz word. And now everything is bleeding edge, disruptive, fantastic, agile and "beautiful".
Rainbows, and unicorns, and butterflies ! Oh, my!