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hasanove | 14 years ago | on: 10 billion Android Market downloads and counting

If you grow from 10 to 15, 20, 25 etc., each time, even though you are adding 5, it is a smaller percentage of what you had. In this example, you would be adding 50% to go from 10 to 15, then 33% to go from 15 to 20, then 25% etc. Growth is linear, but growth rate is decreasing.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Basecamp Next

It reminded me another Apple ad, though surely it is not a copy

On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984"

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Gmail’s new look

I also had to close Tasks in bottom right corner, to see a button to switch to new design.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Gmail’s new look

using a search dropdown just adds those operators automatically, so manual typing should work exactly the same

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Why We Moved Off The Cloud

Not to mention, that if you _really_ need to, you can spin cloud instances at Softlayer as well. We are running on dedicated hardware most of the time, but if we anticipate a temporary and significant influx of the traffic, we run a few additional pre-built Cloud Computing Units (as they call it) and are ready in 20 minutes.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs

This reminds of wonderful book - "Economics in One Lesson". Written half a century ago it describes most economy fallacies, that are dominating even among intelligent people. If you didn't know, you would think it was written today.

There is a chapter on "The curse of machinery" (read online - http://www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/#0....), that explains why this whole post is thousand years long delusion, that keeps coming back every decade or so.

Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand true fundamentals of the sound economies.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

They might be awesome, but unless you scroll down to the very bottom and notice a small note, you would think this a free service. I felt like being deceived and immediately closed the website after signup confirmation, when asked to enter credit card details.

I may have paid if I knew it upfront, but this kind of approach is so annoying, that I would prefer not to pay just because of that.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Google+ Opens to All

I find it interesting that out of ~50 comments in supposedly early adopter crowd, there is not a single positive comment about Google+. As much as I want them to succeed, this looks like a pretty bad sign.

And yes, I am one of those who cannot participate with my Google Apps account.

hasanove | 14 years ago | on: Windows 8 for tablet hands on

Am I the only one who virtually never uses windows desktop? I am either in particular app, or just click "start", type a few letters and run what I need. My desktop is just a background when nothing is running. Windows 8 new desktop might make it useful again.
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