toddmorey

That's a really good point. I'd also argue that you have to be right. His magic is high standards paired with amazing insight for what to build and how to motivate people. The most dangerous managers …

I thought this was absolutely ridiculous until I thought about Google perhaps ramping up to build / purchase a carrier or to operate as an MVNO. Cell phone service from Google? With (nearly) free smar…

I agree with the last bit about big purchases, but surely it's not an absolute rule that applies to housing unquestioned. You will always have the cost of housing whether you rent or buy. There are mo…

I'd also argue that you don't always need gold-plated storage. Think about user docs that are infrequently accessed , numerous, and must be retained for long periods. Deploying NetApp or EMC for that …

If it can be an order of magnitude cheaper, why not? Enterprise storage has commanded a high premium for a long time and of course enterprises are storing more data than ever, not all of which needs t…

I'm not lazy, I'm not too proud to do mundane things, and I don't feel others control my life. (How would that last perspective explain procrastinating on a personal project like a painting?) I didn't…

Funny how I've been anticipating Apple expanding into Google's search, services, and map space, but I certainly never thought of Google getting into hardware. I think it shows just how different the m…

I don't think this is a bad concept, but what are the ethics of harvesting the HN community for early signups? Better, I think, would have been to write a technical article with some value to the comm…

Maybe highlight a better example than a bartender? I can image looking on an Opez page for a tutor, lawyer, or accountant, but I'm just not sure what I'd need my bartender to tell me via Opez...

I believe it's in his book Rules For Revolutionaries. I remember it as audio of a speech he gave. I'll try to find that speech.

Guy Kawasaki has a great story here. As he tells it, customers surveyed about the Apple II said they wanted more memory, more color, and more expandability. What Apple delivered with the Mac was less …

Would anyone like to guess why search has been omitted in the web version? Also, for reference / technical books, it would be nice if the authors could mark certain blocks of content to allow copy and…

I'm very torn on this. I do think it should be on our national agenda to produce and consume energy as efficiently as possible. That said, CF are not exactly a drop-in replacement for incandescents. T…

I don't think Modernizr causes harm if you understand and act like the resulting CSS styles are javascript dependent (as you should with any JS-based progressive enhancement). He's right, though: th…

I personally don't buy it. Sounds like a rewrite of history to more positively frame his involvement in the events that transpired.

Why is it that I like Skype less on the other side of this announcement? It's not that I'm anti-MSFT; I just like communications software like Skype to be vendor neutral, competing on innovation and w…

"Graham Weston, the chairman of Rackspace, said that his company would use the new Open Compute servers in its own designs, and Zynga's chief technical officer said that his company would take a serio…

The hardware isn't only getting faster, it's also getting more innovative. Here's a really important point: The new capabilities of the hardware (like accelerometers, for example) will always come to …

The tech explains the funding, but I still question whether Color will be widely used. I'm thinking Segway: amazing technology that didn't translate into an experience people enjoyed / wanted enough f…

As someone else commented, Facebook could easily add a feature to show pictures from friends geotagged with your current location. (Not a perfect replacement but a lot of the magic.) Apple also appear…

The team behind it makes the work I've seen so far all the more surprising. Have you played with the app? It's horrible. It's really bad. It's not fun to use--it's confusing and frustrating. The UI is…

Yeah, but I think we need to step back a bit and think about what's working here. No one can improve in design or copywriting overnight. So she pulled a different level with brilliant self promotion t…

This strikes me as very similar to how DropBox has gained so much traction in a crowded space. They give you a folder. That syncs. Simply and seamlessly. Sometimes success comes as much from what's mi…

I really like how he moves the argument from "Does Apple have the right to do this?" to "Should Apple do this?" I'm really surprised: this is what I've always been taught to call bad revenue. I could …

First, I think you mean "skeuomorphic". But I don't agree that the absence of texture is the obvious and only future of UI. Font, color, texture, shape... these are all tools that great designers--jus…

I love Steve Jobs' analogy here. He essentially said that desktop computers will stay around, but they'll be the trucks of a car-dominated industry. My parents (and most consumers) never do heavy work…

But think of what the tablet means: Small, super-light, instant-on hardware with long battery life; paired with a lean OS and small, fast, and focused apps. You can see some of the tablet/phone learni…

I really like that integrated viewpoint. I'd always thought it to mean that "form follows function" in order of priority (rather than chronologically in development). But I really like the idea that b…

Legitimate question: Would Apple allow you to put the lightest possible wrapper around an HTML5 app and charge for it through the App Store? Or would the review board tell me that I should just make t…

His first argument is a functional one: surely computers can give us a better way to manipulate audio than dragging around virtual patch cables. I totally agree with that. However, then he tries to pi…