danielamitay

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by danielamitay 15y ago
Although I agree that most comic faces are left unblurred--when I look at some (perhaps 15%) of the faces visible, they are without a doubt blurred. They tend to be the ones that are forward-facing, without facial hair, and natural skin col
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by danielamitay 15y ago
Although I agree that the price difference is staggering, the important metric to measure these phones by is depreciation. If the iPhone user can sell that iPhone for a few hundred dollars at the end of those two years (I certainly have),
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by danielamitay 15y ago
In a few previous threads, PG has dropped these tidbits: -All else equal, students are favored. (regarding YCNYC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2889006 ) -All else equal, technical people are favored. (Last FAQ: http://startupschool
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by danielamitay 15y ago
Certainly is. EDIT: Imagine if there was a sharing option where each new person could only edit one new row . They can't edit the headers or alter the arrangement, but they have a saved, protected slot.
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by danielamitay 15y ago
Just ask him. If your skills compliment his and vice versa, then it's merely a matter of being able to compromise and understand each other. After all, that is one of the reasons why pg likes friend founders: comfortable enough that they tr
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by danielamitay 15y ago
Being the only species in the universe to be able to survive an extinction level event is a pretty impressive goal. Even if we couldn't communicate at all, it would be mind-blowing to know that we have spread our species to other solar syst
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by danielamitay 15y ago
Would you be interested in stats regarding the age of those 2000 apps?
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11 months after iOS 4.0, 31% of apps don’t multitask [App File Stats](amitay.us)
24 points by danielamitay 15y ago|23 comments
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by danielamitay 15y ago
"And by cowbell, I mean clickable-ness. Examining the results of our first round, and our research of what makes a photo clickable, we experimented with a new version. This one took our best performing ad (Ad B) from round 1, and zoomed in
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by danielamitay 15y ago
On the iPhone side of things, you need to provide permission for an app to use GPS data. Mic, camera, compass, gps, and gyro are all fair game. No implementable restrictions either.
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Do I hear $50m? The bidding war is on for Tweetdeck’s top-end users(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by danielamitay 15y ago|0 comments
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by danielamitay 16y ago
A shame that there aren't any responses (yet) from people with relevant projects. Is it possible that those programmers merely take the easy (although not completely fool proof) route and exclude all data from April 1, and all data that ref
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Kutiman Killed The Video Star (Again)(techcrunch.com)
1 points by danielamitay 16y ago|0 comments
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Answering the question "how does Google make money off of..." (regarding any of it's projects) can usually be answered by saying that Google has a vested interest in getting users to spend more time on the internet. For every hour that you
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Absolutely beautiful. Slick, and informative. I was not expecting the good visualization of data directly on the home page, not to mention the other tabs. I previously used the Google Spreadsheet posted a while ago, but this has just replac
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How To Detect Installed iOS Apps - iHasApp API(amitay.us)
9 points by danielamitay 16y ago|0 comments
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by danielamitay 16y ago
The most honest robots.txt file
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Will 1000 players be enough? I feel like you'll hit the limit by this time next week -- if not tomorrow (I signed up). I understand that 1000 players will be a lot for you to handle, but that being said, if this thing seriously catches on,
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Ah I should include that info, thanks. Flurry tells me the number of [new jailbreak users], which lines up almost perfectly with: [new users] - [new sales].
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Piracy Doubled My App Sales(amitay.us)
131 points by danielamitay 16y ago|72 comments
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by danielamitay 16y ago
I was about to post the exact same. A retina display on the iPad 2 would be 2048pi×1536pi, which is nearly double my MBP13" resolution on a 9" screen (and almost the same as the 27" cinema display resolution). Retina display certainly won't
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YouTube - Filmography 2010(youtube.com)
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Link to their site: http://thegreattwittersecretsanta.com/ Link to their Facebook version: http://thegreatsecretsanta.com/
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Imagine a world where every app has its own data plan(arstechnica.com)
44 points by danielamitay 16y ago|31 comments
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by danielamitay 16y ago
FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html On down voting: (From FAQ) Q: Why don't I see down arrows? A: There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
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LinkedIn Says Most Overused Buzzwords Are...(businesswire.com)
73 points by danielamitay 16y ago|34 comments
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Researchers turn bacterial colonies into logic gates(arstechnica.com)
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Very true, but when you're dealing with a financial firm that deals with margins, good employers should see that as a sign of being thorough.
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Operation: Payback changes course, may be fizzling out(arstechnica.com)
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by danielamitay 16y ago
Actually it isn't. If you work 40hrs/wk, 50wks/year, that 0.2% salary increase is 4hrs worth. That isn't even including the cumulative benefits of subsequent years. Spending 1hr negotiating 4hrs of income? It makes sense, no matter how much

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