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Because Startups Suck But You Don't Have To(the180mill.wordpress.com)
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Ask HN: News and Social on the lockscreen?
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by camdykeman 15y ago
I suppose my point was that iOS keeps things reasonably simply--they have a swipe-down notifications window now, you can scan back and forth through home-screen panels and you can access your apps list. ICS now has the home-screen x666 pane
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by camdykeman 15y ago
You're right, any sloppy user can make a mess of the iPhone interface. But as a mobile platform, the OS shouldnt promote sloppiness and with all its tabs and panels and pages in addition to all the physical buttons already present. The VM t
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by camdykeman 15y ago
I've still found that running multiple applications starts to cause touch-events to go unnoticed, swiping to jump around, etc. But to your credit my experience may be a fault of the device rather than the OS itself. I know dalvik is a good
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by camdykeman 15y ago
I've got to say, I've had high hope for ICS, both as a user and developer but this OS looks extremely disappointing. From a user perspective, the interface is super cluttered. Its like Windows, just a screen full of icons and battery-eating
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by camdykeman 15y ago
My appologies, I didn't realize I was putting words in your mouth. I believe it was your post that called Android dev. a pain though, and unless I'm mistaken it was also you who referred to the emulator as an obstacle. Finally, I said all t
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by camdykeman 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. Filling it out the first time we applied actually led us to the full developement of our business plan, right down to the design of the GUI and the financial metrics we would use. We now know exactly what is required
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by camdykeman 15y ago
"Such a pain" as compared to what exactly? This will depend entirely on what it is that youre trying to do. In all my experience, Android is notoriously easy to develope on, being fully open-source the way it is. Try developing for iOS beyo
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by camdykeman 15y ago
Care of Wikipedia :A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift. Swift describes the Yahoos as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely fo
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by camdykeman 16y ago
in that case (and obviously this will just be personal opinion but I would appreciate it anyway) do you guys think it would be best to make note of my currently limited skills somewhere on the application and explain that Id be willing to l
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by camdykeman 16y ago
How critical is it to have a technical founder? and what constitutes technical? I've applied this year with a team but none of us are competent programmers. Thats not to say we're incompetent. Two of us have the beginner knowledge of univer
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by camdykeman 16y ago
They cite Misek, Chowdhry and Sterling--only 2 are redundant though they use the quotation in different contexts--but i see what youre getting at. Thats fair. Sales of the iPad 2 havent been released officially yet to my knowledge but sales
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by camdykeman 16y ago
Let me Google that for you... Hardware comparisons: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20035092-1.html http://www.androidauthority.com/ipad-2-vs-motorola-xoom-vs-s... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/xoom-vs-ipad-vs-ipad-2/9257 http:
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by camdykeman 16y ago
I don't own any apple products, nor am I aboard the Apple bandwagon per se, but I honestly don't think this claim is presumptuous at all. Apple currently IS the tablet market and its competitors are barely competing at all. Motorola's Xoom
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by camdykeman 16y ago
One problem i could see though is that limiting your sharing to only certain social circles might be too limited for some people. The other day my roommate was upset that I couldn't see some of the pictures he'd been tagged in on FB becau
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by camdykeman 16y ago
whether the startup is the goal or the means to a greater end doesn't really matter in the long run as far as I'm concerned. that daring to come up with some idea, any idea, and build a beta site is enough whether they think this is enoug
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by camdykeman 16y ago
i agree wholeheartedly, especially about the self-mythologizing. Not only might a person be unaware of the steps leading to their own success, they might intentionally conceal those steps. I forget exactly where it was that I read it, but
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by camdykeman 16y ago
Yeah the lack of credentials is troubling. Still, the anecdotes were interesting--the author's change in pay just by asking I found pretty entertaining. Again though, it would be nice to actually know that the author is "successful". These
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by camdykeman 16y ago
Statictype, to be fair this isnt intended to post every conversation with your spouse/family/whatever online for every one to see...unless you happen to do those things on forums and product-review sections of online retailers. This incorpo
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by camdykeman 16y ago
Its described as a consolidated search engine so i dont think its fair to say that its "nothing" like Google. Different problems though, you're absolutely right. I suppose I was generalizing but I think you see my point.
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by camdykeman 16y ago
I was also wondering about this. Not only does it say more than Facebook but more than "social networks" as a whole, including Facebook. Either their success is monumental or something is wrong here.
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by camdykeman 16y ago
Its funny how often successful products and services are just obvious modifications of pre-existing ones. Correct me if Im wrong but this sounds like the Google of electronic parts. Thats not to downplay the genius or ingenuity of these com
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by camdykeman 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I've been trying to get an idea of just how useful/helpful YC is in creating a successful company but evidence in of this impact in terms of social media has been hard to come by. any other sources you'd suggest?
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by camdykeman 16y ago
lol i think these comments are a bit malicious. Since when is it a bad thing to provide an analogy at the end of an explanation to solidify the idea in people's minds? "Heroku, the TurboTax of Rails Application Deployment, acquired by Sales
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by camdykeman 16y ago
This is very cool and pretty insightful. The Matrix represents itself perfectly, looking very similar to the code itself. Pan's Labyrinth was also close, and Bambi for that matter. Its interesting to see how closely we associate a movie wit
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by camdykeman 16y ago
I was going to write on this yesterday but decided not to at the last minute for whatever reason. At that time there were 4 comments on this post. Between then and now there have been an additional 104. Whether you approve of the post or no
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by camdykeman 16y ago
This whole business is suspicious if you ask me. SelectOut doesn't sell a product and is designed to remove its user base from the advertising industry. If there is no money being generated by the product and all the advertising bridges are
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by camdykeman 16y ago
I also noticed the similarities between the article and his character's introduction in The Social Network. In fact, the similarity is a bit suspect. Either Sean is actually a socialite robot who operates the exact same way every time he en