Comments for Tape Noise Diary http://tapenoisediary.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Codecademy Gives Ability to Create Courses by jaycruz http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/codecademy-gives-ability-to-create-courses/#comment-1858 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:55:26 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4934#comment-1858 Sounds great. Just signed up for the private beta.

]]> Comment on Codecademy Gives Ability to Create Courses by Paul_P http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/codecademy-gives-ability-to-create-courses/#comment-1854 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:51:39 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4934#comment-1854 You might also be interested in

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]]> Comment on The Talk Show #77: Caviar and Champagne by Mark Dykeman http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/02/01/the-talk-show-77-caviar-and-champagne/#comment-1850 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:57:43 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4949#comment-1850 Gruber did make some very good points but I think there’s an underlying problem that doesn’t get explicitly addressed: the cost of fast and the cost of rapid, unplanned change. Why the massive amounts of overtime? I get the feeling it’s because of poorly estimated demand, insufficient lead times and the 11th hour design changes that Jobs was famous for making (he seemed to think this was normal in his biography). Plus a possible disregard for the consequences of design decisions.

IMHO.

]]> Comment on Mr Cruz and the Agony and Ecstasy of John Gruber by stephentianobookdesignerStephen Tiano http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/mr-cruz-and-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-john-gruber/#comment-1847 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:56 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4932#comment-1847 Sure, viewing Apple strictly as another big, American business trying to buy its materials and the assembling of them into products low and then selling them high, you see how that’s the model for a business. So the rest of their sector must be doing similar things. Question is, what’s a willing, pleased consumer of their products to do. Certainly we’re the reason they can get away with doing business this way, as we keep buying their products. Frankly, i can’t afford to go a non-Apple way.

]]> Comment on Mr Cruz and the Agony and Ecstasy of John Gruber by jaycruz http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/mr-cruz-and-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-john-gruber/#comment-1845 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:37:20 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4932#comment-1845 I imagine that many of them.

]]> Comment on Mr Cruz and the Agony and Ecstasy of John Gruber by jaycruz http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/mr-cruz-and-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-john-gruber/#comment-1844 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:36:02 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4932#comment-1844 I don’t know if an email would be enough, but I think it certainly can help.

]]> Comment on Mr Cruz and the Agony and Ecstasy of John Gruber by Mark Dykeman http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/mr-cruz-and-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-john-gruber/#comment-1843 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:53:50 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4932#comment-1843 This one caught my interest (a little more than usual). I don’t know how I feel about Gruber’s post – I certainly understand your point of view. As for the Foxconn situation, I find it rather bizarre that the NYT posts such jarringly different articles.

Here’s an even bigger question, though: how many other electronics manufacturers (or manufacturers) are creating similar environments?

]]> Comment on Mr Cruz and the Agony and Ecstasy of John Gruber by Stephen Tiano http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/31/mr-cruz-and-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-john-gruber/#comment-1841 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:39:37 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4932#comment-1841 Good stuff. As an Apple user since 1985, tho’ I don’t view an OS as religion, I’m thoroughly a user of Apple products. Hell, I doubt I’d be a freelance book designer if not for Macintosh. But this whole thing with the inhumane treatment of factory workers–and suicides–in China is way more than any negative jazz I could live with Apple being a part of.

My problem, of course, is that my book design practice is dependent on their products. I’m just starting software and OS upgrades (including a new iPad2–unless I hear pretty quickly that an iPad3 is coming in March–to replace the 1st gen I gave my granddaughter) to get up to speed on various e-versions of books.

What’s the responsible thing to do without cutting off my nose to spite my face? I mean, I’m not giving up the tools I’ve used for 25 years, so it’s a tough question. Is emailing Apple enough?

]]> Comment on Why Everyone Should Learn to Code by jaycruz http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/17/why-everyone-should-learn-to-code/#comment-1768 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:29:39 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4902#comment-1768 Hey thanks for the offer.

]]> Comment on Why Everyone Should Learn to Code by Javier Camacho http://tapenoisediary.com/2012/01/17/why-everyone-should-learn-to-code/#comment-1767 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:25:50 +0000 https://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=4902#comment-1767 I agree with you. I subscribe to the Code Year and its amizing how well they describe javascript. I`m also trying to learn java, specially for android. If you need any help or would like to chat about scripting let me know.

Javier

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