stephenaturner
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11 years ago
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on: At 90, She's Designing Tech for Aging Boomers
Makes sense. As more of the population ages, needs technology, lives longer but is also still interested in using technology, catering to this market will be both necessary and useful to companies.
stephenaturner
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11 years ago
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on: Escape from Microsoft Word
Finally I'm glad someone mentioned Scrivener here! Very surprised the article didn't even passingly mention it.
stephenaturner
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11 years ago
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on: Analyzing IMDB Data on 90,000 TV Series
Interesting. Though as mentioned the ratings of shows are largely skewed by time -- ie: because no one was reviewing shows from the 50s-80s at the time of airing, it's all viewed through nostalgia and history, so it skews to certain shows and avoids even reviewing the dreck.
When you get into the 90s and beyond, shows were being viewed and reviewed contemporaneously and therefore everything was covered and a greater range was covered so overall ratings for the period actually went down...
Nice analysis of the available data anyway. Also interesting to see the appearance of certain non-English language shows as well.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: How a non-tech, thirty-something with kids started his company
Interesting. A shame he wouldn't identify himself or his company in the piece -- it seems like he's quite successful now, so I don't really get the need for anonymity.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Oculus founder didn’t expect “so many death threats” after Facebook deal
The combination of some very intelligent people with often very poor social skills will give a greater chance of things like this happening...
That said, they could be a little more honest about recognising why people don't like this deal...
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: What the Social Aspect of VR Could Look Like
So much of this is doing exactly the things we do now, but with the added "bonus" of not moving physically at all? This will appeal to some people for sure, but I can only imagine the side effects of this little innovation...
I'd rather embrace VR for all the things you can't or wouldn't want to do -- insane stunts, daredevil stuff, things too violent or dangerous to really be contemplated (at least not on a day to day basis). And of course, this may have been the path Occulus was on before...
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Why Millennials Have a Tough Time Landing Jobs
Every generation says the generation immediately after theirs is the worst generation ever!
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: The Myth of the Non-Technical Startup Employee
Maybe her argument is that she's less technical than the engineers (and therefore looked down upon unnecessarily, leading to this article), even if she has to be far more technical than the average person, just to get the job.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Have Liberal Arts Degree, Will Code
Clearly spoken by someone who has no idea about communication at all.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: 2013, the year of Usenet
How about it's just an indicator that people always
think things are getting worse.
Every generation is always nostalgic for the time just before the current generation...
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: China has its own distinctive version of the maker movement
The only thing I don't like about the "Maker Movement" is the way so many talk about themselves as if they were the first people ever to do this sort of thing. Like handmade craft and technologies was something invented by Internet hipsters.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Cicada 3301
Seems like a game, or art project or something of that kind. It doesn't have to be overtly commercial to still be an elaborate ruse, and it's probably more fun if it's not particularly commercial.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: In 2013, so many people still search for a site instead of writing the URL
This is mostly from people mistaking the search box for the address box and just putting in the URL there and not knowing there's an extra step in this that they could avoid.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard
Well they must be sturdy old things to last that long... the first thing that always goes for me is the keyboard, usually from overuse!
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Read less HN
This could be said about nearly all tech news sites. At least HN is a cross-section of sources...
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Trial week: Our hiring secret
Sounds like it has some similarities to what Automattic does --
http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ -- Though of course being a remote work company Automattic can implement it quite differently, and probably more fairly (remote work is much easier to fit into a current job more seamlessly, and if needs be, more secretly).
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Most people won't
Nice. I think the CEO already knew his app sucked, so she didn't have to convince him of that, but obviously she convinced him she was the best person to fix it, and that's great.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Why are Chromebooks still a thing?
They're catching on a fair bit in education -- they're fairly cheap and they do what students need for a lot less than stock standard Windows PCs that got ordered for years. For any more intensive computer user they could never be your "main machine" but I can imagine them having a use.
But others have said, they're hardly for the Hacker News crowd.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree
I agree it's perfectly possible to get somewhere as an entrepreneur without a college degree. But it's hardly detrimental to have one either.
And I'm kind of sick of the US-centric view that all college degrees cost $100,000+ -- many high quality degrees in other western countries cost as little as 10-20% of this figure (and often are paid for in a deferred payment scheme). As with so many things (like healthcare) it's just another area the US seems to have gone insane with.
stephenaturner
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12 years ago
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on: Tech Columnist Walt Mossberg to Leave WSJ
Interesting. Seems from the link they don't own AllthingsD even though it's very much their thing. I presume they'll be negotiating with another company to start up something new but similar. Not unlike Nate Silver leaving the Times, except he owned his brand and site so could take it all with him.
