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by apike 14y ago
If the company culture is to listen to techno and drink beer, then sure. For that company you wouldn't be a culture fit if everybody else is going to bother you by doing these things. More important parts of culture could be, say, a reveren
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Apple charges $99 per developer per year, but Valve seems to be charging $99 per title. This approach might cut down on "spray and pray" noise in the App Store, and the extra cost wouldn't materially affect most legitimate developers.
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by apike 14y ago
My wife and I of this generation, but it wasn't any economic conditions that inspired our dislike of "stuff". For me it was watching our parents' generation be driven further and further into the suburbs by the process of buying stuff and n
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by apike 14y ago
The more interesting part of this article is the part about "Design Capital". > Calling the initiative “design capital,” MetaLab will help startups with development, design, strategy and development in exchange for equity. I particularl
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by apike 14y ago
In theory, yes. Motion sickness depends on the type of motion. A very bouncy or aggressive ride will result in more sickness, whereas a very smooth ride (such as a train) results in less. It's all about how much confusion there is between w
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by apike 14y ago
In Canada, debit cards are run by a not-for-profit venture founded by the major banks called Interac. Everybody's standard ATM bank card is usable as a debit card. This is the most common method of payment in the country.
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by apike 14y ago
A lot of us in Vancouver really resented the "only accepts Visa" thing. It was particularly aggravating in Canada where most people pay with a bank debit card, not Visa or Mastercard. That said, it's not surprising that the overall effect o
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Indeed, choosing between beer or coffee depends on the type of meeting. If it's exploring doing business or a negotiation I generally propose coffee, whereas if it's sharing war stories or a friend then beer is great.
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Sounds great, ping me when you're in Vancouver next (allen at steamclocksw.com). And yes, decaf, half-caf and tea are essential tools for this approach. :)
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Coffee (and beer) meetings power Vancouver too, and presumably any reasonable startup hub. More important than knowing they're important is keeping them from consuming your week. Although they only take an hour, they're more expensive than
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It also can't use iOS' JIT compiler nor can it be set as the default browser. The Chrome UI will need to be pretty excellent to compensate for those limitations.
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by apike 14y ago
If you are saying yes to too many clients, increase your rate. Repeat this cycle until you reach the equilibrium you desire.
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by apike 14y ago
> most of the "enterprise" apps with those URLs were first released over a decade ago, when the idea of "pretty URLs" was not yet mainstream. Or, even more likely, the enterprise customer never specified "URLs that aren't terrible" in t
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by apike 14y ago
According to Jason Snell of MacWorld, it doesn't look blurry at non-native resolutions. https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/212321903740862465
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by apike 14y ago
The problem is absolutely not about initial download, but rather about runtime performance. Parsing and executing 500k of JavaScript on mobile is crazy slow, and it blocks the whole app while this is happening. You can mitigate this by load
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by apike 14y ago
> AH transactions do not provide instant gratification, but take up to 48 hours to process(!) Because of this, most Auction House transactions completed are buyouts. Bidding on almost-expired items happens, but most people (especially u
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by apike 14y ago
The whole point of having so little stockpiled inventory is that if there's a reduction in demand or a new product is released, the minimum amount of money is lost unloading the excess product. Back in the day, Apple would always be sitting
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by apike 14y ago
I find it strange that they've moved to all-caps for menu titles (FILE, EDIT, VIEW...), especially considering Microsoft's recent uses of good typography. All-caps is a tradeoff where you take away the identifiable shape of a word to make i
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by apike 14y ago
This highlights the core tradeoff when developing a new product. "Don't waste time" vs. "Don't ship crap" "Fail fast" vs. "Wow your customers" "Ship early, ship often" vs. "Sweat the details" The MVP philosophy focuses on the left side. The
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by apike 14y ago
I think most would agree that this trend is there - the debate is how much it matters, how long it will last, and what, if anything, we should do about it. One point however: in Mountain Lion, the default is to allow any signed app to be ru
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Cutting all at once is better for morale than cutting over and over. If there are continuous layoffs, you're going to lose more of your key employees than if you can just cut deep and then build from there.
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This would be roughly 9% of HP's workforce. It's always much more interesting to see layoffs in terms of percentages rather than absolute numbers. "Walmart to cut 10,000 jobs" = 0.5% of their employees, probably nil effect. "Instagram to cu
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by apike 14y ago
I stopped buying iOS apps from the traditional publishers after being burned by crappy ports, and I suspect many others have as well. I suspect that as soon as the platform stops doubling every year, the been-burned customers will outnumber
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A popular thing to do when you have the same name as a celebrity is go by a different version of your name. "Mike Jordan", "William Smith", and "Thomas Jones" sound like plain, common names instead of the names of celebrities.
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Unfollowing everybody who doesn't follow you is a sign that you don't actually follow people to read them, but instead follow people to generate spammy emails and increase your followers count. Some people get agitated by this behaviour bec
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> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back > t leaders | xargs t unfollow This is an interesting way to circumvent the Twitter API guidelines - the above feature is disallowed and will get your key revoked. However,
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They will. From the announcement ( http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovator... ): > We will implement the IPA later this year, and it will apply to all patents issued to our engineers, both past and present.
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by apike 14y ago
The Twitter documentation forbids mass following and mass unfollowing. Spam of course is the main reason for this - not just blatant spam but people who follow hundreds of accounts to generate "is now following you" emails, and periodically
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by apike 15y ago
My marriage definitely benefits when I take tiny bits of time to tell my wife I'm thinking about her. For example: - Text her a random emoji - Email her an image I've found (usually using our app Prism http://www.steamclocksw.com/prism/ )
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This is only a subset of Apple's less important domains. For example, iwork.com, apple.ca, itunes.com, etc. are not here.

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