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Post by karambahh »

zdrtx wrote: post #97
exodust wrote: post #49

15 year olds definitely want to have "compatibility with different systems" including the source of their pay packets, allowance, and access to resources - ie old people and their old email. But it turns out email, even if used infrequently, is still important. It's easy to have multiple accounts sit there indefinitely. Not controlled by one fatcat pulling privacy strings and strategizing your online activity. Meanwh…

To be clear, Facebook doesn't tell any advertisers any information about any users. Advertisers tell Facebook what kinds of people they want to see their advertisement, and Facebook shows the advertisement to those kinds of people.

Supposedly :-) I am always amazed at how poorly personalized facebook are for me or my friends. Basically it's always made of 60% "meeting someone from the area" aka some shaddy semi-porn website. I am really curious of the efficient of advertisement on FB. I know some large brand (GM I think?) pulled off FB because they did not see any ROI.

I wonder if it holds true worldwide and for smaller brands...

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Post by ruswick »

ams6110 wrote: post #78
timthorn wrote: post #58

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Don't they have debit cards in their own name?

Pretty hard to do if you're under 18, banks want a legally responsible person to own the account.

I am under 18, and my bank allows minors to open an account independently. It's pretty common in the US.

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Post by philwelch »

corporalagumbo wrote: post #121
philwelch wrote: post #119

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One need only look as far as Reddit to see that HN is highly unusual in this respect.

People were plenty stupid before the Internet. It was just hidden before, now it's all out in the open. Let's just see what happens next - remember, we're only about three to four years into a fully online society :)

Stupid is one thing. Disinterested in reading is my primary concern.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by philwelch »

unimpressive wrote: post #113
notJim wrote: post #93

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You actually didn't mention your age. I gather from the rest of your comment, you're in high school? You have a lot of good thoughts about the mobile/tablet stuff and I think you're right. Just to add some quantitative info to it, I work for an e-commerce site and a quarter of our traffic is mobile, and that's not including people using our native mobile apps, which means that our real mobile traffic is more than 25%…

> You actually didn't mention your age. I gather from the rest of your comment, you're in high school? Yes. Honestly, every time I use a tablet the first thing on my mind is the firmware invading my privacy. The next thing though is input devices. (I'll probably end up flashing cyanogen mod.) Input devices, for most users, and even most developers, are something assumed. For desktop it's keyboard and mouse, for lapto…

Touch beats pens, keyboards, and mice in the respect that you don't have to carry around a bunch of peripherals. Nearly everybody has fingers and spent the first couple years of their lives learning to use them.

Your complaint about touch interfaces probably has more to do with buying a really shitty MP3 player than anything inherent about touch.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by hosh »

tedunangst wrote: post #117
hosh wrote: post #99

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"The fact that one girl exhibited preferences counter to his assumptions does not mean that those assumption are incorrect." <-- is exactly how you do not do customer development. You have stopped listening to the user.

Assuming the first user you talk to is representative of all users is exactly how you do not do customer development.

You're focusing on having things being driven by data. That is commendable. However, that only tells you a part of the story.

There's a big blind spot of people who depend on analyzing things like this. And that is, they stop listening to other people. It is usually because such people are consumed with being right, or even trying to prove themselves right. The skeptical stance gets distorted into requiring other people to challenge your assumptions. Sometimes, it is a covert (as in Jungian shadow covert) way of feeling good about being contemptuous of other people.

To really listen to other people, you give up the notion that it is all about you. In other words, it's better to assume that you don't know what you are are talking about. You don't have any preconceived notions blocking you from hearing someone out. You are not "listening" in the sense that you are waiting to for the other person to stop talking so you can tell them how they are wrong. You might even learn something.

This is exactly what customer development is about: listening to other people.

In any case, I doubt this will persuade you. That's the cool thing about this. Some people don't want to consider this, so it becomes an unfair advantage for the folks who do :-)

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by hluska »

jfarmer wrote: post #120
corporalagumbo wrote: post #81

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Language acquisition is not a good example to use here. Our minds are primed with pre-built language circuitry and as children we pick up the specifics of our environmental language effortlessly. The learning we do throughout our post-infancy lives bears no resemblance to language learning. It is done using that effortlessly-acquired language structure, but in itself it takes hard work and effort. Unlike language, it…

For sure. Do you have any research I can read? There's tons of ink spilled about child development and learning, but precious little about adult learning. I help run Dev Bootcamp so knowing as much about this as I can is really important to me. :)

Is there a particular aspect of adult learning that you're most interested in? It's a very large field, but one that I got rather obsessed with. If you have some specific areas of interest (or if you'd simply like a reading list), my email address is in my profile.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by hluska »

corporalagumbo wrote: post #125
jfarmer wrote: post #120

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For sure. Do you have any research I can read? There's tons of ink spilled about child development and learning, but precious little about adult learning. I help run Dev Bootcamp so knowing as much about this as I can is really important to me. :)

Sorry, I can see how reading my comment would give the impression that I speak from great authority, but I was mostly just voicing my own preferences and prejudices about learning. I took a look at the introductory video for your service and it seems like a very professional, carefully-structured course - I do think learning in groups can work well if there is a clear, thoughfully-conceived structure for interaction.…

"I do think that locking yourself in a room with a book and focussing is important, at least to build the platform of understanding from which you can move to group interactions."

Studying learning is inherently difficult because it requires intelligent people to try and figure out how they got that way. The tendency is to extend personal learning styles upon the population!

In this case, I bet that you learn the best from sitting down and reading a book. I'd double down and suggest that you take incredible notes and that your favourite books are thick with notes and underlined passages.

If I'm correct, it means that you learn best from reading/writing. This is one of the most common learning styles. However, some people are auditory learners (they learn the best during lectures), others are visual learners (they learn best when graphics are used to explain the concepts), and still others are kinesthetic (they learn best from doing).

To complicate matters, these learning styles are far from perfect type theories. In practice, people employ different learning strategies in different situations.

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