wanderful | 11 months ago | on: AI Horseless Carriages
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wanderful | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
So you manage outsourcing? Might I recommend saying that? I've noticed throughout the comments that you tend toward drawn out explanations. Make it simple and then people will fill in the missing details. If they miss a few, no worries, because they get the gist. You don't need to give them all of the details up front, because that makes it complex, hard to understand and boring. Try and fill in as many details as you can with imagery and the structure of the site.
wanderful | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
Take screenshots or print the pages. They don't need to look at the code to review the copy. Change the mindset to look for solutions rather than problems.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00
The question for many investors isn't in the current figures so much as what are the future figures likely to be and how that compares to the current figures.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: YC Facelift: Flutter
"Wave hello to the future" also captures the connotation of welcoming to the future, as well as providing a more concrete indication of what the app does. I think one of the biggest challenges with copywriting is hitting all of those notes at once, the visionary, the concrete, the solution, the problem, etc. And like other forms of art, some pieces just come together better than others.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: PHP Sucks But I Like It
Not necessarily. Popularity makes something more likely to be exploited. Compare PCs to Macs re: viruses. Also, many security issues were due to conventions in early versions of the language, e.g. register globals.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
A company? We're talking about Apple. I doubt Steve Jobs would have been caught dead saying that about Apple, and I hope that culture is continuing with Apple. Apple employees, notably Ives, have said over and over that their #1 goal is to create <magical products>.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Great, Another Bootstrap Site
Ironically, the author appears to borrow quite heavily from Dustin Curtis:
Layout: http://dcurt.is/
Transparent border: http://blog.dustincurtis.com/the-dcurtis-manifesto
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances
Couple curiosity questions: Which system did you start using? Also, have you done any activities requiring high precision at fine detail, such as gaming or design?
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time
And not to mention, kids love games! If fun and play makes things more engaging, and we learn better when engaged, why not make school more fun?
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope
In the video they talk of profiling it in IE — maybe it wasn't profiled and improved in other OSes/browsers.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
I wouldn't say he's saying spending less time on them. He's saying that they are the exception, so don't make the whole interface depend on the possibility of them. Proceed assuming the optimal case and when they do happen, provide a safe, friendly means of dealing with them.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Nest - The Learning Thermostat
Consumers have shown that they are willing to pay a premium for a well designed user experience. Problem is, Apple doesn't have much competition.
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3
I'm curious, how have you found the currency value volatility for buying and selling goods and services?
I envision a bitcoin meme: 0% fees, 1000% volatility :)
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: 16% of the queries on Google each day are brand new (never seen before)
"Creeping SEOization" could also be stated as keyword space filling up—a natural effect of the web growing—so queries are getting more specific.
Another possible factor is that users are becoming more savvy search users, or even trusting that they will get meaningful results for novel queries (e.g. Vietnamese Restaurants in Saskatoon).
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: SpaceX is Building a Vertical Take of and Landing, Reusable Launch Vehicle
If both are using VTOL, one for a small object, one for a large, how is it all that different?
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: SpaceX is Building a Vertical Take of and Landing, Reusable Launch Vehicle
Does anyone know how this compares to Armadillo Airspace's VTOL technology, and what Armadillo's long term strategy is for its technology?
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
Wouldn't "rough" equate to more leaves at more angles, which in a way confirms his hypothesis?
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Judge Finds Apple in Violation of HTC's Newly Acquired Patents
It's very much like saying that, which doesn't mean it's not persuasive reasoning. It may not be ultimately rational reasoning, but it appeals to many people. That's why it's called the sunk cost fallacy. :)
wanderful | 14 years ago | on: Cobra effect
See also, the iatrogenic effect, where the effects of the solution are worse than the problem.
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I would take your statement further than unfair and say the analogy is inaccurate and confused about how products evolve over time.
The article itself shows only an incremental improvement on the UI by exposing a system prompt, rather than reaching for the modern car from the era of the first horseless carriages.