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Providing joy at 60fps: Responsiveness in mobile apps(allenpike.com)
1 points by apike 15y ago|0 comments
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by apike 15y ago
Don't take this so lightly. I've seen a lot of brilliant engineers, especially new CS grads, get stuck in this hole. They have the intelligence and knowledge to "correctly" solve problems, and are driven to always to get them right the firs
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by apike 15y ago
The poll measures first startups, not all startups. Since successful founders have often started less successful ventures previously, the data makes more sense than you'd think.
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by apike 15y ago
This is a good question. 10: First entrepreneurial effort selling lemonade. 13: First software entrepreneurism selling a game on floppy disks. 16: First founded a company, ostensibly to make games. 18: First made a living contract
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by apike 15y ago
Vancouver, BC Steam Clock Software ( http://steamclocksw.com/ ) is hiring an iOS engineer as employee #1. We're a profitable bootstrapped product company focused on consumer apps. http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/9175
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by apike 15y ago
Spot on. Hiding comments fixed a problem that never really affected me. No longer being able to assess a large page of comments without reading them all means I rarely read comments anymore beyond the first one or two top-level comments and
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by apike 15y ago
We're actually doing well with this model using a couple techniques to reduce the all-consuming tendency of contracting: * Contracting stays at 50% of our hours (or less.) * Contracting is always hourly. Any overtime or extra hours mean 1:1
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by apike 16y ago
In the game Heavy Rain, buttons for actions that have serious consequences will rumble slightly. In very strained or tense scenes, they rumble a lot. An analog on the web might be the hover style for a button that deletes things with no und
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by apike 16y ago
Simply calculating stars using a weighted average would help this particular case. If ratings for previous versions counted for half as much as ratings for the current version, users would get a better sense from the overall rating. That sa
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by apike 16y ago
For sure. I've seen 30 done effectively, and I've seen 49,000 done effectively, relatively speaking. Still, from the CEO's perspective there's something fundamentally different about managing front-line workers and managing managers.
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by apike 16y ago
I think with some effort you can probably get to 30-40-50 people and still run it "with very few mistakes or bad behaviors." No. The reason 10 people can work like magic is that they all report to you. There are no middle managers, just p
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by apike 16y ago
It's the same as weeding out programmers by starting with the FizzBuzz question. For it to be worthwhile, you need to be interviewing a lot of potential candidates.
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by apike 16y ago
Well, Apple did exactly the same thing with iOS. iOS 3.2 was a tablet-only branch that didn't merge with the phone branch until iOS 4.2.
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by apike 16y ago
This is a good analogy, but it misses the very important bonus that a profitable doughnut vendor is also in a good place to fund the development of the uber-nut.
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by apike 16y ago
There used to be Hacker News meetup in Vancouver, but it died a year or two ago. That said, other types of meetups here have been quite successful. I started VanJS in 2009 and we get 50-80 attendees nowadays. Feel free to organize a new one
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by apike 16y ago
I used to get frustrated by the mentality that Justin is speaking out against. That said, those of us building "get rich slowly" businesses simply don't need the support network that people making crazy bets need. The huge risk, huge return
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by apike 16y ago
I got a good job once by offering to trade 5 hours a week of work for desk space to (ostensibly) work on contracting. Within a couple weeks they were paying me full time. This is probably a better approach than offering half time for free.
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by apike 16y ago
Copy the title of the article and paste it into Google. The link from Google will always return the full article.
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by apike 16y ago
I never understood this. I always thought that you'd rather buy from someone who is likely to go out of their way to serve your needs than to buy from someone who simply doesn't care. I think the biggest factor is trust. If the salesperso
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by apike 16y ago
It doesn't refute the argument about controlled platforms, which I think most people are very familiar with the costs and benefits of. It does, however, refute the much more insidious argument that criticizing the company that controls your
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by apike 16y ago
Arguing that Apple is illogical or ought to be smarter or is shooting itself in the foot... A waste of electrons. In my experience, employees at Apple care very much what users and developers are saying. Many of them read Marco and Gruber
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by apike 16y ago
Even now, to get Amazon's cut down to 30% you need to agree to a list of restrictions about pricing and availability that are favourable to Amazon.
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by apike 16y ago
This was true until iBooks came out. Keep in mind that a 70% cut for the publisher for books is better than most authors traditionally get. Meanwhile, record labels' cuts are usually more than 90%.
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by apike 16y ago
My point is that the relationship you describe doesn't exist in the mass consumer space, and Apple is enabling something exciting and new there. Your point is that the pro/business space Apple's "must go through the app store" rule is a nui
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Micro-subscriptions are (finally) here.(antipode.ca)
2 points by apike 16y ago|0 comments
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by apike 16y ago
Stock trading apps' data services are decidedly not consumer SaaS for the mass market. They're business/prosumer, a world that already has success in getting small numbers of profitable subscribers. The winners are apps that weren't even po
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by apike 16y ago
Indeed - it only helps for services that target many "normal" people. For B2B and prosumer services with a high cost per subscriber, you're a lot less likely to get a 30% boost in sales.
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by apike 16y ago
This is actually great for consumer SaaS. Getting consumers to subscribe to software is extremely hard, and this adds a low-friction way to get new subscribers. If they come through App Store one-click, you get additional revenue that is at
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IE9 coming to Windows Phone this year(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by apike 16y ago|0 comments
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by apike 16y ago
Steam Clock Software (Vancouver, BC). We're hiring a generalist as person #3 for our iOS app development shop. We need someone who can do awesome visual design for iOS as well as pick up some programming as needed. Currently we're profitabl

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