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by akamaka 17y ago
No useful advice for you, but as a noob, I was under the impression YC gives everyone the same standard offer to everyone. Has that changed?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that even Apple's own developers don't get the luxury of being able to push out bug fixes whenever they want. Point releases of the iPhone OS are often months apart, so good testing is not optional for them.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Sigh. Thanks a bunch for the info.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Summary: still a long way to go. No announcement yet on @font-face, canvas, video. Basic performance improvements.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I guess it's a bit unfair for me to expect you to get at the personal motivations and philosophy of a startup founder, while at the same time grilling them on the ethics behind their business. I have t
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by akamaka 17y ago
No word on who the wireless partner will be, which is the only important detail. Skip reading the article unless you've never heard of Kindle.
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by akamaka 17y ago
I was just beginning to warm up to Mixergy. I liked the Noah Kagan interview, which was also popular here. Gambit seemed like a really great company, and they both kept mentioned how much they liked the food at Chipotle. Only a week later
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by akamaka 17y ago
Limiting the use of the resource will happen one way or another, whether is through government control or mother nature not providing us more fish. Pretending that eating less fish is going to make a difference in the long term is ignor
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by akamaka 17y ago
If anyone has been watching the new Apple over the past decade, it is obvious that they are not interested creating new market areas, but rather coming late to an established areas and beating the competition. If Apple launches an ad-suppor
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by akamaka 17y ago
Flagged. We don't need articles by pick-artists on HN.
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by akamaka 17y ago
When I'm working on Windows, SmartFTP is my favorite FTP client. Along with UltraEdit, it's one of the few commercial utilities that were worth paying for. You'd think that the free FTP utilities would be good enough, but SmartFTP has so m
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by akamaka 17y ago
No, don't cut your consumption, that's just burying your head in the sand and lowering prices for someone else. This isn't a situation like reducing the amount of trash you throw out, where every little bit makes a difference. (throwing ou
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by akamaka 17y ago
Great to hear that things are working out for you. What is your plan? Are you going to attempt to grow the consulting business to full time?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I've watched most of the show now, and I don't recommend it. Lots of feel-good fluff, basic regurgitation of Buffet's philosophy, and back story on their careers that you can find in the introduction to their wikipedia bio articles.
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by akamaka 17y ago
That sums up how I felt, too. I was excited at first, but then remembered that I stopped using UltraEdit when I switched to Linux on the desktop. Still one the best editors I've used, though, and was my favorite on Windows.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Can someone explain to me what I'm looking at? I don't get what this is, or it's significance? It is a joke of some kind?
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by akamaka 17y ago
Let's give some more credit to Microsoft. More than anyone else, they worked with 3D chip makers to ensure that we all have hardware capable of running the eye-candy we see in Windows 7, OS X, and Linux. They were extremely late in releasi
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by akamaka 17y ago
Agreed. It rings even more hollow given the recent revelation about widespread scams in Facebook apps. If his company was doing as good a job at protecting users as Apple had, I'd be more inclined to listen to him. The position he's taken
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by akamaka 17y ago
It seems incredible that they can't sacrifice some speed to parse on every read, and yet are also unwilling to sacrifice some disk space to cache several fully parsed versions. Considering how quickly CPU and disk performance change, this t
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by akamaka 17y ago
I agree, this approach looks insane to me. I'm especially doubtful of it, because the article doesn't explain the problem with the obvious approach you suggested. I feel bad to be so negative toward an idea I haven't fully explored, but I g
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by akamaka 17y ago
This Wikipedia article was written today. There's links to a few publications, but no compiler, no homepage. I'm not a big fan of Wikipedia's deletionists, but I hope they go after this page. Musing about something in a few research paper
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by akamaka 17y ago
A solution looking for a problem. The author goes straight into the technical details without actually mentioning why we need this.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Could it have something to do with allowing unicode in the source?
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'd have to disagree with the title "Python meets C++". There's very few features that have been brought over from either of those languages. It looks like C with some very carefully chosen additions: memory safety, concurrency and maps.
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by akamaka 17y ago
More likely reason is that he has 700,000 followers to promote the show to. I'm guessing that his creative control will be almost nil.
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by akamaka 17y ago
This was an annoyance for me, until I started using AutoPager. If you use Firefox, I highly recommend it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
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by akamaka 17y ago
The point of the Coke vs. Pepsi article, IMO, is that the logo does matter, and you should invest the time to get it right the first time.
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by akamaka 17y ago
John Stewart's "Meta-President" segment demonstrates this point better than anything else I've seen: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-9-2007/loud-an...
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by akamaka 17y ago
Hey, thanks for taking the time to reply. I realize that my comment probably comes across as being quite personal, but it more reflects my frustration at the lack of insight into the Netflix Prize that exists in the blogosphere. Here are s
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by akamaka 17y ago
"No one seems to question the dataset". Actually, this has already been pointed out in papers written on the subject. If you want to learn about the Netflix prize, read the papers from the teams that solved it, and don't waste your time on

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