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Microsoft responds to NYT story on suppressing dissent in Russia(blogs.technet.com)
100 points by credo 16y ago|38 comments
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Should you write iPhone apps with Objective-C or with 3rd party frameworks(blog.cascadesoft.net)
2 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
Gaurav, http://billmonk.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/billmonk-now-on-twi... lists you as the author of the comment. However, I'm assuming that you didn't write that comment. In case, that comment was spoofed, you may want to write a disclaime
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by credo 16y ago
The evidence seems to clearly show that Microsoft Russia is colluding with the Russian government to sustain a fraudulent case against the environmental group. I hope the NYT report results in pressure on Microsoft, Redmond to stop ignoring
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Apple Starts Evicting App Store Name Squatters(techcrunch.com)
3 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
>>As Android's smartphone market share has now passed that of Apple-17.2% to 14.2% at the end of the second quarter, Gartner estimates - Apple's strict app rules could have ended up hurting it. Some developers might have chosen to
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by credo 16y ago
Given the iPhone's exclusivity with AT&T in the US, Android's US growth isn't surprising. However, it is interesting to see Gartner worldwide projections. Does anyone have links to Android vs iPhone market-share-data for countries where
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by credo 16y ago
Interesting pricing strategy A 1-month-only subscription costs $15.( http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/aboutus.php ) A monthly subscription costs $10/month (and the subscription can be terminated at the end of the month) Some people may p
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by credo 16y ago
imo the pastor is clearly wrong in what he is doing and he is unnecessarily insulting and provoking millions of people. That said, I'm not very comfortable with Rackspace making arbitrary decisions on what speech is permitted and what is no
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Android Is As Open As The Clenched Fist I’d Like To Punch The Carriers With(techcrunch.com)
169 points by credo 16y ago|122 comments
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by credo 16y ago
Getting started is a prerequisite. A lot of people procrastinate and never get started. So from that perspective, getting started should be the most important thing for procrastinators However, getting started -in itself- is obviously not s
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by credo 16y ago
Apples and Oranges Apple/itunes doesn't show the download count for apps. So switching an app from free to paid wouldn't cause any confusion. App-store rankings are based on downloads from the past three days. However, these rankings (and t
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by credo 16y ago
Interesting to see two (imo) extreme reactions - on one hand, the top-comment says "In what way is this a "startup"? It looks more like thinly veiled advertising for the government than anything else." . Another comment says "Wow! Very a
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by credo 16y ago
Here is another good post on agile http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...
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by credo 16y ago
Great to read the story and interesting lesson about competing with giants.I'm a bit puzzled about one part of the post >>Then, in June 2009, Nike finally did show up, coming pre-installed on every iPhone & iPod Touch. Unfair
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by credo 16y ago
Apologists for Craig's list haven't been able to answer questions regarding sex trafficking on Craig's list and seem to think that their best defense is in attacking everyone who raises questions. The part about everyone hating Newmark and
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Is Digital Eavesdropping Evil? Depends Which Country Is Doing It(techcrunch.com)
1 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
Congrats to Swarmation I'm curious on as to what other developers think of these contests. Yesterday, I got several emails and saw several tweets suggesting that I vote for a local startup. They pulled in a lot of votes and seemed to be lea
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by credo 16y ago
Congratulations Paras, I'm glad you succeeded in getting the coverage you wanted. That said, I'm a bit puzzled at why this coverage was important enough for you to work on it for "more than 50 days with NUMEROUS emails" It seems like you've
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In California, an Old-Style Print War(nytimes.com)
1 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
Two days ago, almost all HNers agreed with Rackspace's decision to shut down PandaForm's website because of some user-generated content that seemed like phishing.Almost everyone (including me) was critical of PandaForm So I find it interest
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by credo 16y ago
This is because the purpose of the OAuth standard was to mitigate the password antipattern, not to holistically solve every security problem. Since none of the other comments have anything favorable to say about Twitter OAuth, let me make
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by credo 16y ago
imo the biggest mistake here was in PandaForm trusting all of its user-generated content. It seems like they should have been doing some sort of verification of the UGC. Alternately, if they really wanted to go with a fully laissez-faire no
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Charges Settled Over (PR firm's) Fake Reviews on Apple's iTunes store(nytimes.com)
2 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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My theory is that the CPA was high because iAd is a new and captivating ad-platform. Users who see AdMob (or other older-platform) ads are less likely to click on ads. However, most users haven't seen iAds and so they may click on the ad ju
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by credo 16y ago
For mega-corporations, "open" is just a marketing buzzword to beat their opponents with, so it isn't surprising that Adobe writes about "closed minds and open source". For Google, open source is a neat technique to assert Android moral supe
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by credo 16y ago
for me, it was impressive that he was modest - in noting (a couple of times) that there are exceptions.
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by credo 16y ago
How were they correct ? iPhone market share has not "dropped". It has been constantly increasing.
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by credo 16y ago
>>This developer is an idiot. >>It's very simple. You can't make people register for no reason just to use an app. (e.g. just to harvest their information.) >>My guess is the author is using a fake controversy to dr
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by credo 16y ago
Once the "App of the Week" feature began, sales immediately skyrocketed to more than 10 times the previous day; in one day, more sales were made than the previous week combined. The application peaked at 5,312 copies sold on July 25, reach

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