dirkdk

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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   maybe. The virtual machine makes it possible to develop completely different languages like Scala and compile into Java bytecode. Play does a decent job of rivaling Ruby on Rails in productivity, but it is still Java no Ruby. JRuby? ah, and
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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   lets stop running web sites for free and charge users $1/month. Like on all web sites. Curious what the uproar will be
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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   being a serial entrepreneur is easy, making a huge success of every endeavor is hard. 9 out of 10 startups die, so even if you are Kevin Rose this means you will probably have more failures than successes. Kill it and move on. Just make sur
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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   good thing you are hosting your blog on wordpress.com. Hope they keep it available!
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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   and even worse, the revenue for developers is totally skewed: those publishers that end in in a top 25 do well, the rest not. My guess: top 5 % does 90 % of all income. Publishing apps for a living is hard. Better to move to build apps for
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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   awesome, finally Apple is going to improve app discovery, because that sucked pretty much. Here's a blogpost I wrote about what Apple should do with the App Store: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3628073
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   ITunes App Store sucks, and finally Apple acknowledges it(blog.mobtest.com)

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   by dirkdk 15y ago

   >This is commonly known as cheating I agree, I don't like to bring in existing code. Once I saw a friend of mine do (very obviously), still the jury was so impressed that they awarded him $25k in advertising for his bootstrapped startup
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   Why hackathons are such great events, both for coders and entrepreneurs(wired.com)

   2 points by dirkdk 15y ago|0 comments
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    US Military is building its own version of Android 4 secure communication.(techcrunch.com)

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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    agreed. ROI calculation is not for the developer but for business owner. Business owner should start with a budget, an idea of what he would like, and then the developer should tell what he can deliver for that budget. And yes, building iOS
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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    - what Google eavesdropping are you referring to? Them displaying advertisement next to your free email? Get a paid account - here in USA a simple plans starts with $60 dollars w 2Gb data, and service completely sucks. As a Dutch expat, my
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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    yep. Advertising requires 1million+ MOA (monthly active users) to become interesting (let's say $10-$30,000/m) in revenue. So as consumers seldom are willing to pay for a web site, the trick is to get to the 1 million MOA's. And that is ver
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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    hey. And the fact that different IMAP implementations exist hasn't even been addressed. Like Gmail's handling of deleting alias archiving. Time for new protocols, IMAP goes back all the way to the 80's (!)
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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    get over it, 99 % this is not personal. An H1B will cost the company between 15 and 20k, in legal fees and fees to government. Only big companies do this. Look around you, maybe return on visa waiver for 3 months and apply. Enough jobs, and
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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    thanks! yes moving on, taking all the experience with me. Next startup will be better!
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    by dirkdk 15y ago

    it also works in retrospect: all apps that have gotten permission in the past to access your direct messages have to ask again for that. Which basically means all twitter clients have to be updates in the next weeks and ask all users for pe