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by adjwilli 14y ago
This is a great insight into how people actually search and use apps. It makes the case for free-to-download with in-app purchases. People won't think twice about downloading a free app to try it out, and if they like it, they'll spend the
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Before iOS 5 - the first to overdo skuemorphism - the last major design hoopla was when Apple couldn't decide on a single on windowing theme. It was brush-metal, then just white, then just gray, then all of them at the same time in differen
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I gave up on Guy Kawasaki when all he would ever talk about is AllTop without it ever being obvious why AllTop matters.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
This is pretty awesome, but I wish they had called "Skeu You" instead.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
This misses the point that the native OS X Twitter client is awesome. It allows you to easily manage multiple accounts. That's not something the Twitter website does.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I was really enjoying the lack of political posts on Hacker News. Everywhere else on the Internet is inundated with blood pressure-raising political opinions. Now the sewage seems to have seeped in here to...
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Admittedly, a single timezone for the world might be a bit far fetched. But there's nothing intuitive about 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hour, then all of a sudden 24 hours in a day, and roughly 4.3 weeks in a month or somewhere
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I was hoping this was a more radical proposal like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time was. Our current way of measuring time is absurd. It starts as base 1000 with milliseconds, then base 60 with seconds and minutes, then 2
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by adjwilli 14y ago
It's because the company has the leverage. If they terminate an interview early, they leave one person with a bad impression. If you terminate the interview early, you leave however many people are participating in the interview with a bad
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Yeah, I agree. The app is an interesting take on productivity. I haven't seen anything that does countdowns. But my initial reaction was "whoa, terrible font". Also try left justifying the labels and have the uinavbar label font match.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I program mostly in Objective-C nowadays, but I started professionally with PHP. When I first started Objective-C, I found it really constricting in comparison. In PHP you can do things a thousand ways, most of the terrible. In Objective-C,
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by adjwilli 14y ago
$200 seems low, but that might would it take to build marketshare today. Plus, Microsoft has experience selling their hardware at a loss with the XBox. I wonder how Apple would react to this.
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Lesson in demographics: AARP Magazine is top magazine by # of subscribers(accessabc.wordpress.com)
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Yeah, they say it gets between 50 and 100% better gas milage, but are those "savings" spent at the electrical outlet?
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Could Romney really ban porn?(techcrunch.com)
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Apple owes a lot of its comeback to hackers and open source advocates. It's good to see them participating. They certainly need to maintain goodwill with open source hackers to continue succeeding. Their current locked-down culture seems so
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Was this video critiquing, commenting on, reporting news about, teaching or researching the song? No. It still doesn't qualify as fair use.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Using a song to parody something besides the song isn't fair use. If the song is used to parody the song itself or the artist, yes, but not to parody something completely unrelated. If that were the case, rappers could parody a police commi
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by adjwilli 14y ago
You have to do it on the server. And it's a pain to implement correctly, full of cryptic error codes. I imagine many developers skip it since it's not required by Apple.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I totally agree, the best practice is to validate transactions before delivering content. It wasn't clear from the article if the method could bypass that. It would have to provide valid transaction ids to the app developer's server. That s
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Unless you can get an insanely large price, licensing seems to make more sense since you won't lose control of the app. You can relicense, including to those brick and mortar stores, and possibility hold out for a larger sum after initial s
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by adjwilli 14y ago
If you're 17 and already a decent programmer, my best advice to you is to have some fun and exercise. Seriously you'll undoubtablely be a great programmer if you keep at it. But you might have regrets about how you spent your adolescence on
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Argentina has direct elections of the president, multiple political parties, and mandatory voting. How does that make them a "non-free country"? If anything that makes Argentines more free than citizen of the United States. Also what is you
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by adjwilli 14y ago
The Argentina economy isn't in a depression or recession, just oddly managed. But yes, crime, especially robberies, is extremely high.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
I'm not always in favor of what Christina does, but it is generally good to have a diversity of economic models active in the world, for the same reason biodiversity is important. While most of the world struggled with the 2008 economic cri
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by adjwilli 14y ago
This article is total linkbait. They redefine "malware" to create a sensationalized headline. The article never mentions what the consumer facing features were suppose to be. It could have had a legitimate use, but also this privacy violati
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by adjwilli 14y ago
This free publicity was the best thing to ever happen to the Oatmeal.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
That is a well balanced critique of accelerators. One possible defense of incubators could be that their value increases with time. The first class of companies may not benefit much, but as time goes on, some of those companies will certain
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Android is a Linux. It's like Portland, the dream of the 90's.
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by adjwilli 14y ago
Mindshare is more what I meant than marketshare. If you look at Wikipedia's statistics, Microsoft represents about 75% of visitors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system... I imagine that in 2002, their share would

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