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by dcurtis 16y ago
Carbon = OS X + OS 9 native code. It has nothing to do with the PC version (well, it does a little bit, but that is irrelevant to this discussion).
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Don't you remember that Apple was first trying to force everything on the iPhone to be done on the web?
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by dcurtis 16y ago
Apple purposefully wrote Finder in clean Carbon as an example to developers, to prove that it was possible to make good cross-platform software. iTunes was also written very carefully -- and very cleanly -- in Carbon to be cross-platform. A
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by dcurtis 16y ago
This is really awesome. I'm going to Bangkok on Saturday so I tweeted "@wtf bangkok", and it keeps tweeting me the top stories about bangkok as they happen (like the grenade attack earlier today). Only suggestion: let me track multiple topi
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by dcurtis 16y ago
It was first run in 1997, and then again for a short period of time in 2002.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
If you think about Apple from the perspective of their customers, without bias toward iPhone developers, they still seem like cool people.
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by dcurtis 16y ago
I think it's funny how no one has noticed that the iPhone/iPad SDK essentially has resolution independence built-in. All the Interface Builder default controls are vectorized and can scale beautifully.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
It knows how quickly you change/scroll through pages while you read, so it can make a reasonable assumption of the number of words you read per minute and create an estimation that way.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
... and no matter what you do, your username + password will always work using the PayPal API without the second factor auth. This is true also of E*TRADE and Bank of America.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Well, now we know which were the disagreements between Kevin and Jay.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
More like, "Oh, wow, they got a lot of attention from their market! If I write the same thing using different words, I can get lots of attention in my market!" It works.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with Facebook or the email. It has everything to do with people being interested in photos of themselves and items connected to them.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
That's still a terrible description. What makes location data "rich"? And how do developers use "rich location data" to "leverage the location of their users?" What exactly does it do?
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by dcurtis 17y ago
iPhone and iPad deal with files, one way or the other. For mere mortals, the 'file' as a concept is further up on the pyramid of taxonomy; most people think about their stuff in lower classifications like photos, movies, documents, etc. W
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by dcurtis 17y ago
See also: Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran, which discusses Capgras and lots of other awesome neurological conditions: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688172172?ie=UTF8&ref_... (referral link)
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by dcurtis 17y ago
This isn't really true. You can incorporate a company and as long as you have two US citizen employees, you can get a company health plan that bypasses pre-existing conditions. (This is true in California by law, but I am not sure about oth
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Just use it for a week, and you'll see. For many things, the results are better than Google. (And it's not just the results, but the way they're presented.)
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by dcurtis 17y ago
This advice is doubly true for the first words a potential user/customer sees on your homepage.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Excuse me, but what error did they make? Mozilla made the error. Metalab probably could have handled it privately, but then they wouldn't have gotten the publicity. From a startup founder point of view, I think Andrew did exactly the right
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by dcurtis 17y ago
There was an article by an LHC scientist a while back suggesting that someone is traveling from the future and sabotaging the LHC. The article may have been a joke, but...
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Or "See plans & pricing" and "free 30 day trial on all accounts." People like following blindly.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Standard Interface is intended to make it easier to rapidly prototype and build web applications based on a good looking default style. The goal is not to create design homogeny. The goal is to make the leap from unformatted, unstructured r
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by dcurtis 17y ago
How is it not competitive? It scales almost perfectly linearly with user growth, from a few dollars a month up to a few thousand a month. When there's a surge of users to one of my sites, I just add a dyno which handles the load perfectly w
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by dcurtis 17y ago
Seems like they're focusing on monetizing the compute performance and making the database stuff essentially free. I'd be interested to learn more about the business strategy behind this change. It's an interesting direction.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
The photo I posted showed where I was sitting. He walked over, explained that he was extremely upset with my tweet about eBay, because his wife works there, and told me to be careful about what I say in public. Then he took a deep breath, I
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I was working in the Starbucks, on my laptop.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I once posted a photo to Twitter, and some guy looked up the GPS coordinates in the metadata and accosted me at the Starbucks where I was working. Turns out he was angry because I posted a tweet three weeks earlier about hating eBay. There
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by dcurtis 17y ago
It is invite only. You have to be invited, and then you have to be willing to pay $6000 to attend.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
I'm more interested to see if Android users are willing to deal with the crashes and slowness for the convenience of having Flash. Mac users deal with it because they have to, but Apple decided otherwise for the iPhone.
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by dcurtis 17y ago
By the way, I'm recruiting designers for YC companies here. The tone and style is very purposeful and is yielding very good results.

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