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by Gorbzel 11y ago
HN is usually pretty good about calling out founders who blame everyone but themselves for failings. This is exactly that, just in a restaurant context. The problem is that Ari thought that Alma's humble origins mattered to people comi
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
No one (serious) thinks that Mozilla cannot deliver impressing feats of engineering, at the very least because they've got quite a bit of tail left on their goodwill for breaking the IE monopoly. What people are implicating is their st
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
It's always obvious when you are dealing with founders who likely won't make it. Specifically, when they're so so close to their own product that they start to blame anything else for failures rather than take an objective lo
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
ESPN's premium video offerings require a subscription (whether it's traditional cable or something new, like Sling), so at least 50% of what you said is just wrong. As for the other half, it seems as if you are implying ESPN has d
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
This is pretty much the definition of confirmation bias.
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
Sure, but don't for one second pretend its ever for the convenience of the customer or any of that sort of nonsense. It's very clearly for your bottom line and for the government's ability to track financial movement.
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by Gorbzel 12y ago
IBM has positioned itself as the consulting company that understands the need to be truly global, even running ads on television emphasizing that recently. What they're pitching for data storage and consulting is just as beneficial for
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by Gorbzel 12y ago
Really? Largely based in India? :-(
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by Gorbzel 12y ago
There are a few good comments in this thread, but then this one...what a joke. Let's recap: Advertiser sells ads, doesn't run ads on App Store submitted version, complains that they had to run ads so Apple could verify what the ad
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by Gorbzel 12y ago
Yeah, he clearly has the business model and restaurant selling points down flat, but there really does seem to be room for improvement as far as UI/UX is concerned. • From a user's perspective, it's not as if some aesthetic i
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by Gorbzel 12y ago
I love this useless outlook that Apple's ecosystem arguments (which may or may not be relevant banter, depending on your outlook. I for one am tired of the fighting.) automatically mean that all engineering decisions the company makes
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Regarding the lottery, I wonder if you can enter once for every developer team you're on, or just once per individual regardless of teams.
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
I'll hedge a bit (I don't know much about OpenNI), but I'd posit you're interpreting Apple's moves entirely wrong, mixed in with a bit of entrenched anti-Apple fandom (based solely on you advising folks on how to de
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Good, I'll avoid you as well. Whole lot of good your mindless binary worldview does you. There are legitimate discussions to be had about what Jobs actually did vs the perception people have of him. But there's no doubting that th
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Good point. I significantly disagree with Hiibel, but alas, SCOTUS says that you have to give your name.
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
No problem, thanks for providing an example of the naiveté that underscores way too many HN comments. First off, I never said that there isn't a problem with the way the police treated OP. In fact, I'm encouraging him to sue both
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
What kind of idealistic fantasyland do you live in where litigation is never the answer?
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
> At this point, I’m left no choice but to present this case to the investigative court of public opinion, be it brave or foolish. Um, no, you can leave it to an actual court of law by finding a good attorney and filing a civil complaint
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
It's almost as if there needs to be an entire regulatory scheme for dealing with naming disputes, which would allow app developers and startups to protect their brand. Oh wait, there is, it's called Trademark Law! As such, it&#x27
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Lots of bantering about whether or not it's ethical / low. tl;dr: It probably is; Travis probably doesn't care. Honestly, since all that really matters to Uber is $$ and being forced to deal with the law (and even then only b
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/macworld-2012-the-islan... Your still posted article continues to include a passage where you call the PR person in question the "saddest booth babe in the world" So
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Typical hate from the HN crowd: Assume that everyone is as technically competent as you are and that your outlook on a product or experience is the only one that matters. Receiving too much credit? Are you asinine? Perhaps you don't re
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
You did, but you also titled the article "How to...for YOUR startup", implying that somehow these tips are valuable lessons for others, when really any founder taking this advice (without more) is doing him/herself a disser
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
What a terrible article. There are very few actual justifications for the arbitrary claims the guy makes. Even some anecdotes (especially non-personal ones) would be better than this guy's random assertions.
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
It's not overstating the case though. When a huge component of the system isn't open source, that clouds the openness of the system as a whole. People make fun of Stallman for his ridiculous practices, but at least he's princ
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
I generally support the fight against patent trolls, yet one of my biggest frustrations is that way too frequently the nature of discussion online regarding this issue obscures or even hinders substantive legal discussion about ways to actu
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Does the work machine have a 5400 rpm drive? I know that a 7200 wouldn't touch the speed of an SSD, but I'm wondering if slightly more rotational speed makes any difference with swap/otherwise. I'm starting to see quite
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
IANYL, but I'm not sure I buy the it's an "administrative fee" argument. First of all, the section that attempts to discount this random $0.61 as a supposed "fee" is discussing whether or not AT&T will provide notice, not whether it con
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Yea, I don't expect their random customer service people to give much of a shit. I assume you'd have to notify them in writing that you're terminating the contract per the price change and see if they balk. If they do, they'll force you int
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by Gorbzel 13y ago
Wait, wait, stop everything. You haven't seen the movie, so you have no first-hand knowledge of the relevant issues the co-director is trying to address. Specifically, the issue is not feminine identity as a whole (or the fact that Disney h

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