LoSboccacc

6 yıl öncediscuss

Apple has missing middle _strategy_

6 yıl öncediscuss

programming is most like looking at a lego set and being able to figure out the instruction working backward.

problem decomposition is maybe not the central skill, but the one that helped me most so far.

LoSboccacc

6 yıl öncediscuss

I really want to jump back into iPhones and prepared to sustain another painful migration back into ios, but not with no guarantees I'll have a product refresh in the coming years; I've been forced out of the ecosystem once and I'm not going to get burned twice.

LoSboccacc

6 yıl öncediscuss

sorry I'll take one complimentary stick as well to go along with everybody else

LoSboccacc

6 yıl öncediscuss

for a community taking pride on appreciating novelty and creativity and interesting use of technology sure y'all hate modern solutions

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LoSboccacc

6 yıl öncediscuss

memes here?

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                 wait, that's illegal

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

the list is questionable. I was very hopeful to see if there was a tinder for gamers (say, to find people to play coop games) but there's some sort of tinder inspired incremental game in that spot, so I wonder how much is it really curated and how much is a proxy to a Google 'feeling lucky' search

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

just a curiosity: did style transfer services had an impact on your traffic?

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

assicuration is often a form of self selction bias. people conscious about damaging their property are those that are more likely to take care of it. apple care for everyone can dramatically shift its profitability.

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

the issue is that mainstream titles have to recoup massive cost so they're optimized for monetisation.

the semi-indie scene is producing gases that are comparable in scope, quality, depth and innovation to the titles of old.

sadly it's very hard to discern indie with potential today because the noise is much more and much higher, but titles like factorio, kerbal space program, keeperrl, automation: the car company game, empyrion, stormworks: build and rescue, castle story and many other to list here provide highly polished experiences.

I'm an avid indie supporter[1] so I might help navigating the landscape if anyone is interested, just restrict the genre a little so that the scope is focused enough to be relevant and interesting

1 https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197986674427/games/...

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

it's better described as a 'handbook for small-scale startup'

dropped a translation here https://pastebin.com/raw/HdcUVn8c

it concerns mostly around not doing things that don't scale, consider it a rough draft because I've never shared it, only tested around a bit, it's not like it's the final truth about the argument or anything.

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

there are many alternative path to a successful strap, some that overlaps and some that are exclusive, this checklist seem geared toward ideas suitable for vc funding which isn't wrong per se but if you optimize for funding you end up with a diametrically different path that is usually not easy to bootstrap. it's something one has to decide early and influences the very shape of your startup, so that each one of those question would be invalid for the other path. corollary: I've got a checklist for bootstrapped startup, concerning the idea itself, and the line of questioning is really different

LoSboccacc

7 yıl öncediscuss

Chrome tool used to only throttle downloads, not posts etc, did they fix that?

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

duh, this is only a technicality, but since you need to be anal about it, I'll have the detail obsessive version so you can follow the discussion too:

"RSS doesn't define support active content, which is what's used on other channel to build in depth analytical tool that go beyond page view. without active content, analytic is in control of the reading software, a big step back from other content delivery protocol. even email could be used to track engagement using unique links for each recipient, but most reader software has an incentive to cache reads and not to forward unique links, letting content provider with the only option of syndicating link and summaries, causing a natural bias for clickbaiting titles, because driving user to the producer is the only way to get back analytical data. this has caused a steep decline in the availability of rss content and viability of rss for consumers."

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

that's kind of an ivory tower argument. "let's people don't have nice thing, we know what's best for them." meanwhile, most normal use don't gives a damn if the site track their behavior and post relevant ads, as long as they get quality content and ads aren't abusive they believe it's a fair bargain.

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

Ars technica only provides a blurb trough rss and iirc no topic filtered rss, hardly a good or usable solution if one has to get out and find content outside the reader

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

I agree, but realistically speaking that is why it’s being fought by content providers whether we the techies like it or not

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

yeah feedly has been my alternative since google reader died. but the issue is that even if some sources still have feeds, many sources strip feed of all the content and only give you a list of titles and links. that quite sad to witness if one lived trough the rss golden age

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

RSS has no analytics. that's the big weakness. RSS has been stripped of content even in most other blogs, substituting it for links back to the main sites, which is a workable compromise for webmaster but not one that helps readers. yahoo pipes where a stopgap for a while, until yahoo pulled the plug.

I think what's needed is an intrusive format that delivers metrics and tracking. sure it'd be another tool for control and manipulation, but we'd at least have back the ability to read our news centralized.

LoSboccacc

8 yıl öncediscuss

>hearing the billionaire cry foul gives me pause.

I guess from Soros point of view the underlying issue is that the social media amplify outrage driving up lobbying costs.

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