harrisonweber
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9 years ago
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on: The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone
Courter point: The team here developed some interesting new mobile microscopy techniques. It's possible, had the project completed development, that some other cool things could have come from a "useless" tech-art project.
harrisonweber
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9 years ago
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on: The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone
The creators of this project told me they actually wondered if PETA would take offense. Ideally, though, the tardigrades would have had plenty of algae and room to swim around/reproduce.
harrisonweber
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9 years ago
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on: The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone
One big thing here is that Ara was part of ATAP which was acquired from Motorola (back when Google owned Motorola). So the culture of this project is an unusual one, even for Google. The heavy dependence on outside contractors probably made for a complicated setup, but I don't think that was the problem. From the outside, it feels like ATAP/Project Ara just ran the clock out. If they'd have gotten the phone done and ready to ship faster, maybe things would be different today.
harrisonweber
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9 years ago
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on: The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone
Ara's been gone since August. I sourced the story myself, not sure how it's click bait tbh! Did you read it?
harrisonweber
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12 years ago
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on: Mozilla lost. DRM won. Five years ago, this wouldn’t have happened.
Could have been more clear, but this is the reason in a nutshell "Since Chrome’s rise, Mozilla has hardly any weight to thrown around." Chrome is over 5 years old.
harrisonweber
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12 years ago
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on: The end of bosses
I've seen this idea work well in very young companies (2 to 10 employees). It can boost morale at that size, but it would likely feel forced beyond a handful of employees.
harrisonweber
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12 years ago
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on: The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone
No, but a startup is a company designed to grow into something much larger very quickly — that (historically) requires a massive amount of work. Small businesses can require 80 hours a week too, but they traditionally serve a much smaller segment of the population.
harrisonweber
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12 years ago
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on: The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone
I would. Again, small biz VS startup.
harrisonweber
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12 years ago
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on: The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone
I think what you're highlighting is the difference between startups and small businesses.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: The Future of Adobe Fireworks
No, I wasn't saying it would actually work ;)
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: The Future of Adobe Fireworks
I agree. I'm sure Dreamweaver has its set of dedicated, erm, beginner users, but the Edge family was essentially created to replace Dreamweaver.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: The Future of Adobe Fireworks
So, who's going to start the petition to make this open source?
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: The Future of Adobe Fireworks
It is interesting, but certainly not finished software.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts
It's just a flag, should be SFW. Edit: Oh and a goofy poster. Nothing crazy.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: How Google Ventures instills design into the heart of its portfolio companies
Didn't mean that to be negative.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: How Google Ventures instills design into the heart of its portfolio companies
Want to be clear, though, that Google Ventures tries to keep pretty separate from Google. Also, the better GV's portfolio companies do, the better GV does. My impression is that the design team actually cares.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: How Google Ventures instills design into the heart of its portfolio companies
Did you read it? The results = an unfinished mockup. A majority of this process is used to help teach design thinking, so companies can make the right design/usability decisions on their own.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: How Google Ventures instills design into the heart of its portfolio companies
Would be interesting to see what companies (if any) wouldn't want this sort of service. Guessing later stage startups could push back.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: The Old MacDonald Hackathon
FYI: Dwolla says it will allow winners to accept their awards in the following formats: alive, meat, or cash equivalent.
harrisonweber
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13 years ago
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on: The Old MacDonald Hackathon
They told me they're "a sucker for juxtaposing Iowa rural stereotypes with modern day technology."
