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by bdfh42 13y ago
Possible confusion here. Given that there are a large number (possibly very large) of possible permutations that might be observed from a session of coin spinning it is not to hard to imagine that one might indeed be observed. The odds on a
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by bdfh42 13y ago
If the pics were taken in a public place then (in most jurisdictions) you have no legitimate complaint. Arguing about just what constitutes a public place could be a fun way to spend a lot of money on lawyers.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Interesting - but to quote from the Android developer website: Typical good candidates for the NDK are self-contained, CPU-intensive operations that don't allocate much memory, such as signal processing, physics simulation, and so on.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
+1 to "it depends upon your contract" It also depends upon your role. If you are hired to invent new things then it is no good claiming that an invention you seek to sell on your own account does not belong to your employer of the
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Question is - who do you trust? How many national spy agencies are currently planning to roll out "free" email services sold on being secure? Much safer to assume that every such service has been compromised and keep your private
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I think the Kickstarter is clearly a bust - but that might be that the offering is more B2B than B2C. People who wanted to play around with vision ideas probably funded the Pixy (CMUcam5) by Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon. You need some s
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by bdfh42 13y ago
A nice rant from John C. Dvorak. First though surely MS have to work out what a Windows PC is for in 2014 and beyond. (I accept their true response would be something like "make money on every PC sold like we always did"). Chromeb
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by bdfh42 13y ago
An interesting idea - but it has a few snags. I do not think that Government funding would sit comfortably with the start-up culture. Governments (and quasi governmental organisations) are required to be risk averse. Plus there are already
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I am pretty sure that one of the guys in my programming team of the time wrote an autocomplete component that ran on a Vax VMS system in 1991. It was incorporated into a great many programs. OK, no "gestures" but we only had keybo
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by bdfh42 13y ago
If you read up on the PGP idea you will see that storing people's public keys is not an issue - they may be broadcast to the world. The clever bit is that they are combined with a private key (that you do not store or exchange) to encr
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I stand corrected - another plank of the strategy is to stop selling the product to people who will notice that the devices are under powered and flimsy. Concentrate on consumers swayed by a new logo. but the xkcd cartoon is spot on by the
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by bdfh42 13y ago
If your data is so sensitive that you do not want to store it on a central server then why not consider the PGP approach? User 2 sends a request to user 1 (who has the data) sending his or her public key and asking for the data encrypted us
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Did I read this post correctly? The solution to a failing brand associated with under-powered and flimsy tools is to - design a new logo? Keep fiddling while the ship sinks I suppose.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Try http://rubyist.github.io/ to read this post
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by bdfh42 13y ago
The key here is not to sell but do research. Perhaps you might devise a short questionnaire to research the general area addressed by your startup idea within the context of your potential customer's business. You will find that people
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by bdfh42 13y ago
The classic lean startup approach is to pivot in response to feedback from potential customers. You need to talk to your target customer group. This is not easy (particularly if like me you find that sort of thing difficult) but you have to
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by bdfh42 13y ago
It may have helped that I was brought up a Catholic. Perceiving the shaky foundations of Christianity and the astonishing hypocrisy of that particular version probably helped clarify a lot of things for me and gave me the freedom to revisit
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I don't - but I do question most things. Like in every other activity - you get a feel for things that seem untrue (and yes I recognise the potential for vast error there) and put them to one side for further thought - or just forget a
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Don't panic - I was taught all sorts of daft stuff in school - when I think back on it a staggering proportion of (say) history or geography was completely untrue. It helps in a way that some of it was so crazy it got me questioning th
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Don't take my words too much to heart - or the lack or response on HN. Folks here are probably not your customers after all. Find your target customer group and do your market research there. good luck.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Is it just me, or are fake page turning presentations of book and magazine style content just a terrible idea? I must admit it annoys me although it seems to appeal to the "dead tree" publishers venturing into the scary on line wo
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Fire your co-founder at the second failure - always - no regrets. You might then remain friends - the alternative is not worth exploring (or living through).
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by bdfh42 13y ago
When you see the notice saying HN is down. Type <ctrl><F5> - fixed. Think about how pages are cached...
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Use <ctrl><F5> to fix
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I am making use of StackEdit https://stackedit.io/ - brilliant and works fine across devices.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
There is very little available advice on starting out in management. Start by valuing everyone who reports to you. Give them all respect - and that can be hard when someone is not performing OR you misunderstand their position and thus get
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I take your point but my switching to a Nexus was all about form factor and convenience than any specific issue with Windows. Now I am going to try out a Chromebook - pretty confident that it can support my day to day (non coding) requireme
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by bdfh42 13y ago
A hit or not - but I just ordered one. I stopped carrying a Windows laptop around early in 2013 when I switched to a Nexus 10 for everyday use. Now I want to show other people that there are alternatives even within the familiar laptop form
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I suppose it is possible that one of the items featured in the post resulted in some personal loss to yourself - commiserations if that was so. I think that most of us are always on the look out for gaps and opportunities to make some headw
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Or to put it another way - 2013, a year that opened up myrriad opportunities for disruption. Mobile device penetration reached a point where we can rely upon the platform for application distribution. Wearables continued to look for a compe

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