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by apike 16y ago
I started my company around "Let's build an awesome company we want to work at, making products that people want." That was exciting enough for me to quit my big corporate job.
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by apike 16y ago
Even better: go build something that Google will want, then reject their buyout offer and build a profitable company. Best revenge ever.
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Due to a long-standing bug in the Twitter API, you can not add write support to an app without deleting it entirely and re-creating the app in their system. It will let you change the flag for future users, but there is no way to request th
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by apike 16y ago
If you analyze your current follow list it will represent exactly the tweets you see including the appropriate replies. In the "look up a user" mode, it will exclude all replies due to API limitations.
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The Chrome Web Store: get paid to make things(antipode.ca)
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Thanks! An Unfollow button is the #1 thing I want to add.
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One consequence of this behaviour is that you will only get the attention of people who use Twitter the way you do. Some of us read all our tweets and only follow people who make this reasonable. We can't really follow people who post 10 ti
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I started a company in Vancouver this year. It's going great, we're profitable, and I'm quite enjoying the tech community. I think the culture in Vancouver lends itself to creating sustainable and enjoyable businesses. However, if your goal
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by apike 16y ago
Oh thanks, what a newbie mistake.
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by apike 16y ago
Good question. The only way to do it is to detect and encourage them to turn both Airplane Mode and Mute on. There's no way for an app to prevent incoming phone calls, which is probably a good thing. We've considered enforcing Airplane mode
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We are with Steam Clock Software ( http://www.steamclocksw.com/ ). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months. We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of
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In an organization that doesn't have a defined career path for engineers (which is to say, most organizations), you need to take responsibility for yourself if you want it. If you're on a team of engineers and nobody is leading, then step u
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If you're not excited about something, don't do it - even at Apple.
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Indeed. Moving up by starting a company and being acquired back into the fold is a great way to go.
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Lack of a career path is part of why I left Apple to start my own company. The hierarchy is quite flat, and the departments are quite compartmentalized. Because of this, if you want to move up, you're probably quitting and applying to a new
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Testing in post-secondary is usually very idiosyncratic. At best they teach to a textbook and test that textbook evenly. More likely, a professor teaches their angle on a subset of the topic, and then grades based on that. Because of that,
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by apike 16y ago
Apple mostly uses Sun machines. I was surprised to learn this, but they tend towards a conservative, heavyweight server infrastructure.
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Interesting. In one case, a content creator who calls for vigorous defense of copyright is attacked for it. In another, a violator of copyright is attacked. How many of the people who Wall-bombed Cooks Source’s Facebook page were also chee
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People who follow Apple's developer communication have seen this coming for years. It'll be interesting to see if Oracle steps up to fill the gap or not.
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it's like saying working at Google is best because you get the wonderful free lunches. Getting the network, connections, feedback, and exposure is more difficult for most founders than getting lunch is for most Googlers. It may be that yo
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It would be interesting to learn just how aggressively leadership must filter and otherwise confine these impulses to end up with the focus, profits and product mix we see today. A big key is that things don't ship unless Steve thinks the
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When you look at it closely, Apple, as a portfolio of talent, technologies and interacting businesses, resembles the sort of microorganism that Intelligent Design proponents advance as evidence of a god. Having been an Apple employee, it'
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Exactly, or like PhoneGap. For example, you could write an Appcelerator or PhoneGap app and call into native code from a JavaScript bridge. Right now, each native API needs to be explicitly wrapped by Appcelerator or PhoneGap.
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There's a lot of interest in the mobile and JavaScript communities for a JavaScript engine you can distribute on iOS. Games are one thing, but with this you could take cross-platform, natively packaged web apps to a whole new level.
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Whenever one of my side projects fails, I try to write a post-mortem. This is often interesting to my audience, but even more helpful for me. The most fun I had failing at a side project was my second online game, Engineering Faith. It fail
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IE9 has GPU acceleration features that haven't shipped in the other browsers yet. I know Chrome is most of the way to shipping something competitive, but I'm not sure about the others.
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Be ready to do your first gig way below your price. The best way to do this is to offer a discount for new customers. Once you're established you'll instead want to offer discounts for established customers, but framing your low initial p
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Some simple lessons I learned about the App Store(antipode.ca)
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The desktop app store has this now - it has links for "Was this review helpful? Yes/No" and sorts by Most Helpful by default.
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I worked on SproutCore projects at Apple for a couple years on the iWork.com team. A lot of the pros and cons are similar for any thick framework: if you buy into it, you get a lot of power and functionality for free, but you need to fully

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