andrewbaron

My rationale is personal, suddenly. Those things stack up but I saw something specific that made me lose trust in what matters to me, thought I dont think it matters to most people. I want him to succeed so Im not a hater, I want him to push ahead for humanity if he will, with SpaceX, Tesla, the mind pong monkey, the bots.. I still haven't come to terms with reconciling that I wouldnt of thought it could be true, but I saw it myself in real time....manipulating information on twitter. I submitted a thread here about it with screenshots.

Same boat. Was so inspired and on board, even recently. I see what others say about him but it didn’t effect me, even as practically every colleague I know complained. I am no longer a supporter in my heart.

I live in Boulder where billboards are banned. It makes a huge difference towards a more peaceful life where the space and sky are open and free.

Any suggestion for a more elegant solution? For example, with copyrights, it’s in many ways granted automatically just by existence. Other terms and privacy rights don’t require popups.

Could chaos theory help explain how and why memes flow? I propose memes are physical and follow patterns that could be more accurately measured and predicted.

From 2014 http://bada55.io/ includes a much more expansive set considering hex colors do not require all six characters. #101

My name is Andrew Baron and I do not approve of this message.

Out of 79 valid style properties (not counting vendor prefixes) the author found 372 in use. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Thx!

I think you are right that it does take a lot of effort for to do it right, one needs to design a whole new compatible experience. On the other hand, this interface and dataset here is fairly raw already, so a lot of the form would follow naturally.

Seems like this kind of scenario is inevitable. There are also browser extensions for skipping, like Magic Actions for YouTube.

Advertising values are constantly being devalued. It would be nice if there was a way to move beyond advertising on the web as the primary business model. Wikipedia is the only top 10 site on the net that does not rely on advertising.

Seems like people who care about encryption when using the service are essentially putting their faith in Kim Dotcom's hands. If the FBI, e.g. were to break the encryption, people would probably lose trust in the service. Dotcom is carrying a lot of weight on his shoulders in acting as the security agent.

I had no idea people put this much weight on a press release for their start ups. Great ideas are hard to contain on their own already.

Due to the potential for shutdown even outside of the U.S., will people feel safe hosting important files on the site?

Is this another way of saying that Facebook isnt really worth $38?

I always like to hit up "Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names": http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bwhitman/10000.html

I'll find words I like and fit them together myself, like Rocketboom, or Humanwire, e.g.

Awesome article, I updated the photo-a-day entry with this work at http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/photo-a-day

Good point about "it keeps you from getting fooled". Thats a serious conclusion you make, and however you needed to get there, Im glad you were able to finally arrive at my main point. :)

I guess it depends on what industry you are dealing with and on what level. When you are dealing with Hollywood, they tend to pull out ALL the tricks. Protection and savviness on business deals is a must. Its an aggressive world out there and if you are going to take your business out of doing family and friends business, you may need to be prepared for sharks. We have done contracts within many very competitive markets and it can get aggressive out there.

I was a philosophy major and figured out accidentally in an academic setting that logic was one of my strong suits. After considering law, I decided I didn't want to live my day-to-life dealing with using tactics of logic and the legal system to battle against others. Of all the classes I ever took however, the most useful class for me personally was logic as it did the most to prepare me for doing business deals. Most business deals finally come down to negotiating and its good to make sure you can justify your value and easily knock down anyone who tries to undermine your value, on the spot, especially for fallacious reasons. And the more you have command of logic, the more your other qualities which are helpful for doing business deals may shine. This seems to be the case especially for those who like to design their own deals instead of take a defensive role to the another party's designs. And then comes the discussions of more in-depth terms, and logic becomes more and more useful all the way through the end of a contract. And ultimately, lawyers, who you may depend on for this part of your deal, are not usually meant to act as advisors to your business and tell you what you want to do, they are usually there just to protect you.

As others have pointed out, calling a logical fallacy card to ding an opponent may indeed often miss the point if the objective is to simply win, though I have found in doing business deals, it is logic that is most useful to protect my value and ideas, as opposed to just winning them.

So I would suggest that this is an article worth close study and that leaning about fallacies is a great way to get right at the elements involved in sound logic.

*note: this comment was not meant to be an argument, just a "subjective" comment for consideration.

I agree, Apple is prob not going to do it, but the problem is not "absurd" or "impossible". That's my main point. The author of this article gives up and says it can't be done. I disagree with that. I gave one of many possibilities. I prefaced it by saying it was wild guess, but again, I don't think it's impossible.

You can tell from this article that the programmer thinks universally and in so doing, excludes a vast area of potential, especially in the future and more specifically in what he notes as "B) Gestures, finger gymnastics". You can stick your one finger up your nose but with more than one finger, you can do a lot more. I for one am ready for more complex interface functionality. I thought this was more obvious though perhaps it should be clearly stated: Get used to the growth in complex multi-touch gestures. More to come soon.

My guess (just a wild one for not being a thinker of touch interface design), would be to solve the solution by first detecting what kind of flash app it is and how much area it takes up, then anytime the finger scrolls over that particular area, there would be a cursor (the user could turn this off, but this is what would happen by default). As the cursor is led by your one finger which never lets up, meanwhile 1,2, 3 or 4 taps with another finger along with other more complex combinations eventually could perform various flash actions. Contrary to Dilger's primary thesis, I believe it's pretty straight forward that Apple is not as limited in thinking to make it happen if they want to, and that even the general audience is ready to take another small step in the gestures department.

Alternate title:

Apple Tablet To Replace Clipboard

Too many too list :)

Indeed I have. I began using it even before their major tipping point at SXSW and was there in Austin that year when it all happened. It was the U.S. digerati that all had the ah-ha moment together at once, due to the number of like-minded people within close proximity, in the wonderful outdoor spring of Austin, Tx. If not for this perfect storm, Twitter may not of ever hit the big time.

Speaking on behalf of empirical data, many humans are not content to have just enough. They always want more. Give someone a million dollars and they want more. Give them a comfortable house, and they will dream of having a better one. It's all relative, but by nature, I think humans will never be content with what they have or know. They will always seek out something more. To elaborate on the comment above about greed, agreed: This is why Communism, one form of Marxism, in favor of a single class, will never work.