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U.S. Labels Canada a Piracy Haven(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by dean 14y ago|0 comments
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What online social networks may know about non-members(phys.org)
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by dean 14y ago
I didn't get the sense he is in it for the money in and of itself. He's talking about money in the sense of survival. You have to eat, and food isn't free. When you have to succeed just to survive, your options become clear and you have no
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Samsung overtakes Nokia - and possibly outsells Apple's iPhone(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by dean 14y ago|1 comments
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by dean 14y ago
I don't know how open Craigslist is, but reading things like "you have to write a script that can scrape Craigslist" and "build a bot that visits Craigslist", all I kept thinking was : "violation of terms of service".
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by dean 14y ago
I agree. In fact, I would go even further and say that a non-technical person could come up with even better ideas because they are not constrained by what is technically possible. They think you can do absolutely anything with software. Wh
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Microsoft, Nokia create $24M university app development program(computerworld.com)
2 points by dean 15y ago|0 comments
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by dean 15y ago
I get the impression that the code base on which you pulled off the "large-scale invasive refactoring" was not initially under test, else why would the cynical engineers think it could not be done. So did you have to bring the legacy code u
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E-books are way overpriced(news.cnet.com)
2 points by dean 15y ago|0 comments
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by dean 15y ago
Although the OP talks about update_attributes, the problem is not limited to that method. The problem is with "mass assignment". So, if you are passing a hash of attributes and values to the new or create method of a model, then you are doi
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by dean 15y ago
The author seems to be under the impression that 200 visits from a link he posted to Hacker News automatically means "people were discussing my article and engaging", and there was a "lively discussion" about it. Discussion about a posted s
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How To Kill Patent Trolls(slate.com)
80 points by dean 15y ago|33 comments
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#TellVicEverything: The Government Getting What it Deserves(huffingtonpost.ca)
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Lies, Damned Lies and Piracy(forbes.com)
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'Tell Vic Everything' tweets protest online surveillance(cbc.ca)
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by dean 15y ago
It's not just your girlfriend's computer that will be a problem for you -- it's _any_ other computer. Personally, I think it was a big mistake for Apple to do this. I find it very un-intuitive. Even if the design of the way windows scroll w
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by dean 15y ago
Yawn. A whole OS upgrade to move a few iPad apps to the desktop? Apps I don't even use on my iPad. Hopefully there will be more than this.
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by dean 15y ago
Well, Unix anyway, meaning a useful command line. The GUI I could take or leave.
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Bash shell expansion(blog.sanctum.geek.nz)
2 points by dean 15y ago|0 comments
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by dean 15y ago
What's your conversion rate of free users to paid users?
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by dean 15y ago
Good point. I can see how a big user base would help you develop a better product in this industry. Regarding 'cost of free users', I was thinking of support costs. Even though a user does not pay for the product, they still expect to get h
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Getting Started with iOS Development using Sinatra on Heroku(devcenter.heroku.com)
6 points by dean 15y ago|1 comments
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by dean 15y ago
Good examples, but I can't help feeling that there a lot of assumptions about profitability. Dropbox, for example, is a great service, I really like it. Every tech-savvy person I know uses it, but no one I know pays for it. I know this does
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by dean 15y ago
It would be interesting to see some numbers though. I wonder what percentage of free users upgrade to a paid version. I wonder what it costs to support the free users. I have to assume it works for them, or they probably wouldn't have laste
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by dean 15y ago
I'm interested to see examples where the freemium model works. Could you provide any links? I've typically read that they don't work. For example: http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2010/08/18/why-free-plans-dont-...
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Online surveillance bill targets child porn: Toews(cbc.ca)
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Shareholders unite(atimes.com)
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Ruboto: Ruby’s and Android’s First Born(rubysource.com)
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Sugar should be controlled like alcohol: report(news.nationalpost.com)
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Rogers uses charter claim to fight truth-in-advertising law(ottawacitizen.com)
2 points by dean 15y ago|0 comments

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