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mmuroon Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

mmuroon Amazon sues to block fake reviews on its site

It's not illegal, but it's certainly dishonest.

This is a broad generalization that it's used for illegal purposes.

My (very legal) business accepts Bitcoin. I don't have many customers using that form of payment, but chances are I may not have them if I didn't accept it.

I don't really care what form of payment you want to use.

mmuroon Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus

Ok, so Coda 2.5, BBEdit, TextExpander and other developer-type apps can't be in the App Store because they can't be sandboxed. Fine, if it's a developer-type tool that has to do things most everyday users aren't going to need, do it outside the Mac App Store. For everything else, the Mac App Store is great.

In fact, I'm such a fan of the Mac App Store that I wish every app could conform to it's rules so I wouldn't have to dig out a lame license key, or heaven help me, email the vendor for some time sensitive generated key thing.

mmuroon Dyson 360 Eye

Good luck getting underneath furniture or cabinet overhangs!

mmuroon Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official

Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to acquire Twitch, a live-streaming service for videogame players, for more than $1 billion, according to a person who has been briefed on the matter.
The deal could be announced as soon as Monday, the person said.
Google Inc. had earlier been in talks to acquire Twitch, but those talks cooled in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Twitch, launched in June 2011, is the most popular Internet destination for watching and broadcasting videogame play. The startup raised $20 million from investors, including Thrive Capital and videogame-maker Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. in September.

News of the acquisition was earlier reported by tech website The Information.

mmuroon [dead]

What Steve is referring to is how fonts up until the Mac were monospaced. The Mac included proportional fonts in different sizes.

mmuroon Firebug 2.0

Yes, Safari supports source maps (has for a while).

mmuroon Coda 2.5 and the Mac App Store

I certainly hope their new syncing is better than their Transmit Dropbox implementation. I had to stop using sync it was so bad.

I prefer MAS apps because of how easy it is to purchase, install and update. I'm particularly annoyed when an app is available in the App Store and is then pulled out later. By then, I've already purchased and have to transition, awkwardly, to a non App Store version.

This isn't the first developer tool that's done this for me.

mmuroon Why don’t designers take Android seriously?

Fragmentation is a real thing, not laziness. Almost 98% of Android users don't run KitKat.

mmuroon Google to Acquire Nest

Bummer.

mmuroon The New York Times Redesign is Live

Not even attempting to be responsive?

mmuroon SteamOS: It's here

Why would this be limited to Steam? I bought a game on the PSN Store that wasn't even playable. I asked for a refund and didn't get it.

As someone who sells a digital product, I completely understand the No Refund policy.

mmuroon Tablets at restaurants: Applebee's, Chili's race to eliminate human interaction

A different article I read said that tips actually went up.

The system doesn't eliminate human interaction, it just streamlines certain things. Eliminating paper marketing for drinks and desserts could end up saving them a lot of money.

mmuroon The Only Way to Grow Huge

There's a lot to this that rings true. I think the core idea here is that growing slowly, with your customers, is how you get big.

In those early days of running a business, spending money on marketing is no way to guarantee new revenue. Word of mouth almost always is. Plus, it's a hell of a lot cheaper.

mmuroon Please stop live tweeting people’s private conversations

Ugh, if you are in public it's not private. Might as well rename the title to "Please stop live tweeting people's public conversations" if you want to make a real point.

mmuroon Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin

This is very interesting. Half of my customers are international and accepting Bitcoin might increase that number.

Definitely going to check this out.

mmuroon Sriracha founder reveals the 'secret' wholesale price of his sauce

What I find most interesting about this company is that he's never advertised. He started selling it locally to cooks and it spread by word of mouth.

mmuroon The 'Unfilmable' Ender's Game’s 28 Years in Development Hell

At the end of the audiobook, Card talks at length about the difficulties getting an Ender's Game movie made.

One problem was that the studios always wanted to make Ender an older teenager and to give him a love interest.

Another was that the screenplay was always challenging because most of the book takes place inside Ender's head. Once he figured out that he could tell Ender's thought processes through Bean, it finally opened up the screenplay.

mmuroon Please, keep paying $80 a month for cable so I can enjoy cheap TV

Okay, fine. I will pay more up front to watch TV as it happens. But, you can't complain that HBO Go isn't available without a cable subscription anymore.

mmuroon GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

A bit surprising, but I have no plans to move away from Media Temple, even though I'm not crazy about GoDaddy.

mmuroon OS X Mavericks GM Seed available to Developers

The feature I want the most? Safari's new web inspector.

Everything else is just icing on the cake.

mmuroon Confusing UI in iOS7

The timer circles go gray when touched to indicate you can hold the button and then let go when you are ready.

mmuroon Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And "App Launcher" Style Nav Menu Official

I really don't understand why in the world they would consolidate their menu into an "app launcher" for every single view. This is the opposite of responsive design.

Here's some free web design advice, Google: I'm not on my iPhone or iPad all the time. Show me some links if I have the room - it doesn't have to even be all of them.

mmuroon Stripe: Redesign status page as part of job application

This is just silly. Any good web designer should be able to point to a body of work and that should be enough to test their skills.

mmuroon Crosswords don’t make you clever

It does:

  What about playing an instrument? Don’t you have to use right and left brain for a stringed instrument?

  Yes. That has clear cognitive functions that do crossover. Especially learning to play and read the music at the same time. But exercise is number one, diet number two and then social interaction. These are the important things for brain function.

mmuroon The Great App.net Mistake

In other words, normal people that use Twitter or Instagram still have no clue what App.net is and the early adopters of App.net will eventually get tired of it.

mmuroon Firefox 23 is available

It drives me crazy it can't remember where I'm at when I refresh and then automatically collapses the code, too.

If you know a way around that, I would love to know.

mmuroon Firefox 23 is available

I just don't like Chrome, for one. But, I really like the scrolling, pinch to zoom, swipe to go backwards, bookmark syncing across my multiple computers, etc.

The inspector, as flawed as it is, has some nice features. I don't have Mavericks, but I believe these updates are coming: https://www.webkit.org/blog/2518/state-of-web-inspector/

mmuroon Firefox 23 is available

It feels like OSX will be on Mavericks before the Lion scroll bars are supported in Firefox.

I've been using Safari a lot lately. Only thing I'm not crazy about is the inspector. It's easily the worst of all the browsers, but at least they are fixing that in the next update.