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by allenp 17y ago
The disconnect between the developer and customer is huge in the app store. Everything is skewed towards the customer having no relationship except with Apple. The deployment model, the communication channel, updates, everything goes throug
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by allenp 17y ago
I'm not sure who has been submitting the archaeology/anthropology articles lately but thank you, I appreciate them.
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by allenp 17y ago
Although you're making an analogy - I think these would sell really well if RIM rebadged them and put an emphasis on email and notetaking/organization + calendar software.
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by allenp 17y ago
I guess the question is - would Allen have made the same decisions had he been in charge of Microsoft? It is very possible he would have made different decisions that would have made his 64% share not worth as much as his eventual 36% share
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by allenp 17y ago
This commentary is interesting (and non-alarmist): http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/04/whats-next-for-network-ne...
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by allenp 17y ago
Further - what is preventing them from changing the html and removing their name from whatever they serve?
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by allenp 17y ago
"# We have a simple formula for the amount invested: $4 million + $1 per line of code written." haha that is great.
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Ask HN: What to do with underutilized VPS?
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by allenp 17y ago
I like the spatial aspect this tool brings to task management. For me a list is too constraining - I like to use a grid and this looks like it gives a lot of freedom to organize things how they make sense to you rather than how they make se
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by allenp 17y ago
No.
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by allenp 17y ago
This is pretty smart. I was thinking about cannibalizing an old Wacom and making a case for the iPad to sit in for drawing - your solution sounds more elegant.
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by allenp 17y ago
This sparked my interest into learning how pencils are made, here are some short videos: http://www.pencils.co.uk/modules/heritage/videos/core.aspx
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by allenp 17y ago
How so? He is still participating within the school's program. Just because his mom signs the field trip slip (or tags along herself) doesn't absolve the school from any and all responsibility for his well being. What sort of insurance poli
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by allenp 17y ago
I agree with you that high school culture is a dead-end. . .but I do think that social interaction with age-peers is valuable and here is why: It changes your context of self. If everyone you know is younger than you, or smaller than you, o
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by allenp 17y ago
There is the difference in legal responsibility of the university. I think this is probably the biggest stumbling block here - even with parental consent there is risk to the school. Imagine facing the newspaper headline "UConn loses 13-yea
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by allenp 17y ago
I think the big difference here between hunter-gatherer and 3rd world poverty is that your stone-age people weren't living in the toxic waste dumps of an industrializing nation that doesn't care about the environment. Typical hunter gathere
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by allenp 17y ago
"The new gTLD system is expected to allow a company name, brand name, geographic region, or service type to be used as a gTLD within website and e-mail addresses." So I guess we can expect more of these soon. Probably a few years of super e
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by allenp 17y ago
"... Google has ushered in an entirely new way of buying a consumer handset: from its website in six clicks." After seeing all that fuss about Nexus One not selling as fast as iPhone - maybe Google needs to reduce it's clicks? ;)
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by allenp 17y ago
Sounds like a pain point - better get to work on subversion for ms office ;) EDIT: I just realized after I wrote this that Sharepoint has some of this functionality (versioning) but imo is a bear to use.
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by allenp 17y ago
A tip for anyone else with an upcoming wedding to avoid this situation: Keep track of all your RSVP's in a document (excel, google docs, etc), assign one "bully" on each side of the family (mothers, aunts, etc), when the "RSVP due by" date
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by allenp 17y ago
So I'm guessing apps will still be sandboxed and not able to interact - so no voice recorder for your phone calls, etc.
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by allenp 17y ago
This is actually probably better than my original.
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by allenp 17y ago
The difference is that with a human you vaccinate at a much lower frequency. With a computer you have weekly anti-virus updates, many different software programs to patch (not just the OS), and all the complexity of running a huge variety o
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by allenp 17y ago
Summary: Take a side in a polarized environment
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by allenp 17y ago
See people, this is why flash isn't going anywhere. HTML5 could never do this ...
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by allenp 17y ago
"That said, it was used in their launch video as well as their blog post announcing the product." Actually the stolen graphics were used in a real product - the marketing. The moment they used these graphics externally to drum up interest t
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by allenp 17y ago
So this article really touches on a hundred different topics but I wanted to point this out: "If your job can be replaced by a computer program, chances are, it will. In fact, Goldin and Katz suggest that prosperity and equality in the U.S.
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by allenp 17y ago
The site wasn't loading for me but here is a video with screenshots and commentary by the creator: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brett/8-bit-cities-real-...
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by allenp 17y ago
Hey if you want pen input you might look at getting a pogo sketch from tenonedesign.com - I've got one that I use on my mbp with inklet and I've tried it on my 1st gen ipod touch and it works there too. I'm guessing with its beefier process
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by allenp 17y ago
Nice chance for some free advertising there. Maybe they should kill their software more often?

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