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   by benofsky 17y ago

   Yahoo to be honest has actually done pretty well on not running acquisitions into the ground: Delicious, Flickr, Upcoming, Inquisitor, etc.
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   I think this may be the beginning of the end of Foursquare and Gowalla, they're now fairly redundant. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook doesn't start doing geo-location soon too.
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   I definitely agree. That's what happened with the Buzz + GMail contacts fiasco. They were testing it internally where everyone knew everyone so had no idea why anyone wouldn't want to have all their email contacts added as friends.
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   This sounds immensely complicated, maybe they should have worked out a better way for selling the software. Making it free and having this stupendously complex proposal system seems kinda short-sighted.
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   Quite possible!
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   Ah ok :-) - sorry I missed that!
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   I find it interesting the Spolsky said he was going to stop writing yet keeps coming back. He mentioned on SO podcast that it was because it was such a time suck and that's why he wanted to give it up. Obviously he loves it and just can't..
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   That's weird, I had one when the page loaded, I clicked close and didn't get any more. Interesting article anyway. :-)
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   by benofsky 17y ago

   Wow, that's really interesting. I can definitely see how that would work though, most of the 99c stuff on the app store is utter crap, I tend to just mentally skip over it. :-)
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    I always wondered why Kevin wasn't the CEO in the first place, he seems to have all the ideas and the drive. VCs probably wanted someone experienced at the helm. I dunno. :-)
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    I've always thought iPhone apps have become too cheap and are grossly underpriced. iPad apps will take longer and require more skill to make, they should be more expensive. and at an average price of ~$5, that's not much at all. I wish iPad
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Good point! :-)
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Yeah, I like the style, no messing around just got straight down to it.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    TBH I, like most techy-people was not excited about the iPad at launch. However, the more I see about it, the more excited I get. Although it is a simple device, I think it is becoming quite obvious that the apps are going to make this devi
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Does anyone have a link to the video?
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Feels very unprofessional to me, really the sort of people you want to hire? Nothing wrong with not wanting to relocate but Garmin clearly didn't want to relocate just to annoy them, there were obviously organisational, cost or other busine
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    yeah, that's what I thought too.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Wow, I'm surprised TechCrunch is included in this, you would think they have a bit more of a redundant setup.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Oh, no sorry. Using Chrome which isn't supported. Apologies if I was wrong!!
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    I have to agree, second place looks exactly like google but different colours + naked woman.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    > If Apple can prevent another computer maker from selling unauthorized Mac OS X machines, then Microsoft should be able to stop another accessory vendor from selling unauthorized Xbox 360 plugins loaded with video-game cheats. Makes se
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    When you signed up for Facebook though you signed up under the assumption that your data was private.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Because Facebook know very well that people don't read things, they should but they don't, and they take advantage of this. The point is it shouldn't default to public (which it does if you've never touched your privacy settings which previ
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Yet another move by Facebook to show utter disrespect for their users. Sure, we will all read the dialog before giving away our email address. However, 90% of Facebook's users wont . Proof: when they updated the privacy settings a few mont
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Exactly, HN is not explicitly for "Hacker News" but rather news hackers (and entrepreneurs) may find interesting. I find this interesting.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    I think "The Google Phone" is now obviously the primary reason Eric Schmidt resigned from The Apple Board, not Android. Just an interesting thought.
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    It's interesting to note that the increasing security measures onboard planes carry the exact same problems that occur with DRM. These new rules will only affect innocent consumers. Someone planing to launch a terror attack is not going to
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    Ask HN: Thoughts on non technical co-founders?

    3 points by benofsky 17y ago|1 comments
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Objective-C and Cocoa, not new but my new favourite development environment. I love the documentation, in my opinion the best documentation of any language. I love the way Apple doesn't care what anyone else thinks about their language an
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    by benofsky 17y ago

    Apple make money off people using reMail, I don't see them removing it to add the features to the native mail.app but who knows with the app store.