Irfaan

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by Irfaan 15y ago
Golly. We're sooo close to getting a rough, web-playable demo of what you're looking for it hurts - a better way to entertain people (with a gamery blend of TV and interaction). It's been a painful slog, though - trying to create rich cont
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by Irfaan 15y ago
OnLive does a great job of this, too. Since the entire system is built around streaming out media, They get this pretty much for free. And they've done a good job of embracing it, too. I know a number of gamers that "veg" by watching oth
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by Irfaan 15y ago
It sounds like you're pushing for for the webseries model. There's some great work going on there - the big difficulty isn't the producing or financing, though. I'm part of the Seattle webseries community, and the big difficulty I keep see
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by Irfaan 15y ago
There's no reason you can't mix the two, though. At my startup, we're building narrative driven games (like the old-school graphic adventures), reworked to feel more TV-like. So we're really trying to be careful about the whole passive vs
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by Irfaan 15y ago
We actually treated this as an opportunity - we invented our own animation style geared towards quickly and cheaply producing large amounts of rich, life-like animation. Here's a sample: http://vimeo.com/27841597 Rather than try and crea
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by Irfaan 15y ago
$7.8 billion is the total budget. The increase was a more modest $153 million. I'm all for hating on the TSA. I'm just a stickler for accurate hating. :P
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I really do wish this reminder had came sooner; I have the swab kit sitting on my desk, waiting for a free moment for me to swab and send. While I'm obviously still going to send it in, I was really hoping to help Amit. :(
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What Makes a Viral Video Go Viral?(neatorama.com)
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by Irfaan 15y ago
http://www.appleinsider.com/print/11/10/20/apple_board_membe... "Everyone on that management team could be CEO of a world class corporation," he added. Asked if that was a problem because other companies would try to poach Apple execs, G
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Every time I think about the education space, I think back to a couple of Steve Krenzel's posts about his startup's experience. • http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343380 • http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1343564 Quick summary: U
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I haven't read the main article yet, so forgive me if I've missed the point. But I take issue with the "if you need a library to tell you [...], then you've already lost the battle" bit. You don't always get to create your codebase - somet
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by Irfaan 15y ago
If I walk into a brick-and-mortar bookstore, I'm doing it with the intention of compensating them for their service - being tangible. I know the book will cost me more then if I bought it online. Anyone does. But I've decided the conve
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Just to add another data point - during a recent move, I was temporarily using iPhone + MyWi as my primary internet connection. Nothing particularly egregious - just basic web browsing and SFTP. This lasted for about a week. That was at l
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Alright - how do we go about this, then? Is there anyone driving anything like this already, or are we just waiting for some one to step in and just do this? This sounds valuable enough that I'd be willing to plunk down some of my company'
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Overloaded. Cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by Irfaan 16y ago
Looks like the site's overloaded. Anyone have a link to a cached copy of the post?
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by Irfaan 16y ago
One of the things I liked about Microsoft was the company's gift matching policy - they'd 100% match your donation to a charity up to <SOME LARGE NUMBER>. I found myself being more generous because of it, what with each of my dolla
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by Irfaan 16y ago
Oh my, is this a load of fluff. The PDF is 26 "chapters" in 30 pages, with chapters like "Upload Installer to Website", "Use Demo", and "Create Your Demo's Buy Now Page". I'm not sure what community this level of content is targeted at, b
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by Irfaan 16y ago
LockInfo ( http://lockinfo.ashman.com/ ) is the big reason I jailbreak my iPhone. Having a useful lock screen does wonders for making my phone a feel like a communication hub.
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by Irfaan 16y ago
Is it? The way I see it, the patent may not hold up to appeal, but that's not the same thing as not being patented by someone else. And appealing a patent? That isn't cheap. :(
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by Irfaan 16y ago
Like you surmised - that breaks the rules. And since a quine is generally "just" a brain-teaser rather then a useful tool - where's the fun in breaking the rules? :)
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by Irfaan 16y ago
The google cache link you provided didn't actually hit the google cache. Perhaps HN "de-cached" your URL as part of some url deobfuscation logic? Let's see how well my attempt goes - Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.co
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by Irfaan 16y ago
From the site: To clarify, most iPhone 3GS owners aren’t upgrade eligible. Most iPhone 3G owners probably are and can pick up the new iPhone for $100. I'm sure this update was posted after the article was initially submitted. Still, a us
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by Irfaan 16y ago
The very last line from the article: Well I cannot describe Judy in 10 minutes -- what possessed me? I hope you understand some of what I have said and question me on the rest -- particularly those doubts. I will try to elaborate on parts
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by Irfaan 16y ago
The point was about how things come out of the box - for the consumer, not the prosumer :) And that's a completely valid concern... if I were engaged in platform advocacy or arguing these iPhone shortcomings are inconsequential or non-exi
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by Irfaan 16y ago
You've just pointed out that the general purpose CPU in the iPhone can run other software. Actually, the gist of my message was to point out specific bits of software to help folks who feel hindered by some of the limitations the articl
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by Irfaan 16y ago
Most of the author's complaints are completely valid. That said, a jailbroken iPhone can install software to mitigate a number of these issues. Not a sure-fire solution, of course - it's such a pain chasing after jailbreaks, and you never