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by dcw303 10y ago
Question about on-boarding email: does the strategy lose its effectiveness as more products do it? Software developers are among the most cynical when it comes to marketing, so I expect us to say that these suck. What I wonder though is if
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by dcw303 10y ago
there are trade offs all the way along the convenience spectrum. If you're reading HN, you're probably not in the target market for youtube apps embedded in smart tvs. But these customers do exist. I imagine the main selling point
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by dcw303 10y ago
The funny thing is that this would be very easy for Facebook to fix - just a line of text under each friend request explaining the suggestion: * "You're both friends of Duffman McPartyDude" * "We found Psycho Ex Bo
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by dcw303 10y ago
The big electronics retailers in Tokyo let you try earbud headphones; they usually have most of their range on display with the jacks available to plug into your phone. There's alcoholic wipes to clean the buds.
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by dcw303 10y ago
Sorry, I wasn't that clear. I meant taking it out of my pocket. I have a card case for it as I don't like carrying around a fat wallet. My phone is usually already in my hand :)
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by dcw303 10y ago
> It's still useful without logging in, searches and directions still work fine Interesting, this was the problem I was having, directions and/or directions from search results weren't working if I wasn't logged in. I
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by dcw303 10y ago
I don't know. Here's a page that shows Suica support for JR; I have no idea if the subway companies use the same. I would generally think it would be Japanese handset manufacturers, so Sony, Sharp, etc. https://www.jrea
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by dcw303 10y ago
Finally. It's rather annoying taking out my Pasmo to get through the subway barriers when I can see Android users going through with a tap. Also, the article mentions mass transit navigation is coming for Maps. If that happens I'l
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Announcing: Squanchtendo Games(squanchtendo.com)
2 points by dcw303 10y ago|0 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
My apologies. I was just trying to understand your point. I've obviously failed. Let's move on.
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by dcw303 10y ago
I think it's great that you guys are adding a lot of high performance features that are beneficial to game engines. Any news you can share with us on a certain very-popular-game-engine-running-a-very-old-version-of-the-clr? ;)
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by dcw303 10y ago
I've been away for 6 years, and not having many fellow colonials around has made some of our lingo sounds very weird to me. e.g - family on Facebook reacting to food posts with "Yummo!"
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by dcw303 10y ago
It's hard to counter what you're saying because you keep editing your comment :) There was even something about Universal Income for a while there! (edit - sorry - I may be getting confused with your parent comment which mentions
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by dcw303 10y ago
> How about - and this is wishful thinking since it would require several big companies to work together, individually it would not help much - if there was ONE big service subscription, let's say $199 annually, and I can use everyt
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by dcw303 10y ago
Contrary to a lot of others here, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that Instapaper is going to be kept as a standalone product. It's not without precedent for an established platform with an active user b
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by dcw303 10y ago
Would they want to compact the optics though? I have absolutely no knowledge of the physics involved, but it looks like the projection style that is used has a very limited field of view that won't be resolved with more processing powe
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by dcw303 10y ago
I suppose you are right. I'll concede that they both have public transport systems that get you to where you need to go, and the extra efficiency in the Tokyo system tops out the scale they are using to measure. But it is interesting t
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I used to live in Melbourne and now live in Tokyo. I really enjoyed my time in Melbourne, but I don't see how the two can be seen as comparable in crime or public transport. Tokyo's rail system is fantastic and cheap. I can get to
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by dcw303 10y ago
Good point. I'll walk back my hyperbolic statement a bit and agree that location is important. My statement was mostly from the time I spent around the inner city (North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda) - Northcote was was much more com
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by dcw303 10y ago
I strongly disagree with the EIU. I lived in Melbourne for 7 years, and while it may be home of the greatest sport on the planet, saying that it trounces a place like Tokyo in public transport and safety from crime is laughable. If you want
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Australian cities among most liveable due to their size, say experts(abc.net.au)
3 points by dcw303 10y ago|6 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
Trust the ABS to use this. They've consistently shown they have zero cognition of the criticism levelled at them. But how are these kind of bots even a thing, for anyone? I can't think of a single case where it's a good idea
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by dcw303 10y ago
It only breaks the web if you cut everything over from http to https. If you can serve both you don't have a problem. This works fine if you use anchors without protocols in your html: a href="//site.com/resource&qu
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by dcw303 10y ago
Thanks to the awesome plugin from Luke Hoban, VSCode has been great for writing Go. The best feature is the integrated debugging. Granted, it still relies on Delve, so you have the associated madness with taming that beast (self signing c
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by dcw303 10y ago
My main two use cases so far have been services and command line tools where it's not worth taking the effort to manage memory. The former I would have previously written in Java or C# (yeah, tie me to the cross right now language hips
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'm a little confused by the author's belief Go needs to be more pragmatic. All the points made in the "I Love Go" section (gofmt, the toolchain, interfaces) display strong qualities of pragmatism to me. The article lit
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by dcw303 10y ago
Not everywhere though. I was reading this comment as I got off the Yamanote line at Shinagawa and literally stared straight at trash bins. They do have see through plastic panels and see through plastic bags, for the reason you stated.
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by dcw303 10y ago
I didn't find the Hardware Myths section very convincing, because it keeps comparing B2C products (fitbit, gopro) to B2B businesses (SaaS). Scaling business customers is always going to take longer, hardware or software. I think the ad
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by dcw303 10y ago
> Enable your car to make money for you when you aren't using it I really like this, but the laws of supply and demand still apply. If you live in a sparsely populated area there's not going to be much for your car to do. Great
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by dcw303 10y ago
This is mostly covered in the article, but anyway: I see a few overlapping effects here: 1) Aggregators like Tomatometer rank based on broad appeal. That's why Toy Story is one of the highest scored of all time (if you don't like

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