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Ask HN: Corporation types and "maximizing shareholder value"?
2 points by dlytle 17y ago|4 comments
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by dlytle 17y ago
Huh. I had no idea that this feature was even available. I imagine that keeping an unlimited amount of undo data would take up a heck of a lot of space that wasn't actually needed, so it makes a lot of sense that they're switching it to p
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by dlytle 17y ago
Or, he could mean, "Because they are refusing to publish in a format that most of their audience can easily play, get it here so you can actually listen to it." For instance, I have nothing that can play vinyl. I can't even detect a differ
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by dlytle 17y ago
It's a shame that "loading screen minigames" were patented; probably one reason they aren't more common. According to Wikipedia, Namco has a patent on the concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames It looks like there
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by dlytle 17y ago
I misread Adium as Atium. Gave me a mental image of Kelsier (from Mistborn) responding to tweets he hasn't actually received yet. (It's possible SOMEONE else here has read that series...)
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by dlytle 17y ago
My boss and I just bought iShoot last night while at a conference in San Diego. (SNC Knowledge09) I showed him the Lite version at dinner, and then we both bought it and had some fun multiplayer games. I wouldn't have had it if not for th
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by dlytle 17y ago
(I'm not actually disputing the parent comment, just for the record. It just reminded me of something.) I carry at least a couple $2s around constantly, as well as dollar coins and half-dollars, for tips. Whenever I travel, I pick up a fe
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by dlytle 17y ago
I moved out of state, away from my employer, so I work from home all the time now. I'm working on saving up enough for a mortgage down payment and moving back to the area, and one of the number one things I'm looking forward to is being abl
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by dlytle 17y ago
I'm mainly wondering if he can get his face sued off over this. I've got NO doubt that this is going to have a noticable negative impact on Amazon's profits. Not world shaking, but more than enough to make the lawyers angry. As another com
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by dlytle 18y ago
This isn't about a startup or a small business asking its employees to contribute to the cause. It's about a large industry that often views its employees as disposable parts. The games industry has always been something of a meat grinder
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by dlytle 18y ago
Same here, actually; I use it primarily as a reminder. Some days I get a lot of value out of the anti-procrastination feature, as it will warn me when I've been here. I actually start my browsing on work days with HN, because if I get the
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by dlytle 18y ago
I rememeber that for a while, PA made a point to send out warning notices to people they were going to link in their news posts. Did they happen to send one your way, or did you find out when your site's traffic spiked like a champion volle
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by dlytle 18y ago
You asked for reasons why you got downvoted, which is what you got. Your reasons for posting those were fairly clear, the issue is that people disagree with you. I certainly don't see casual sex as being an example of "nastiness" or "evil"
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by dlytle 18y ago
Probably the last bit talking about how you think Obama is awesome. (I didn't downvote you, btw, just my guess.) Also possibly mentioning casual sex in the same category as bigotry. It went somewhat over the top, and presented your commen
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by dlytle 18y ago
That IBM article was really informative; thanks for the recommendation! I'm going to have to run without a unit testing framework, as (to my knowledge) the platform I'm using doesn't support it. Doesn't seem like one is required, though.
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Ask HN: Single Programmer Testing
2 points by dlytle 18y ago|4 comments
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by dlytle 18y ago
I'm personally interested now in registrars that are outside of the US. Since the Kentucky ruling seizing those gambling websites, it's become a little bit more important to think about where your registrar is located. Not that I think tha
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by dlytle 18y ago
Doh. Sorry, maxklein and lallysingh. Goes to show what happens when I take the dogs out in the middle of writing a comment. :P
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by dlytle 18y ago
From what I can tell, there isn't a huge change in the actual content of the message. It's been simplified and summarized, with a lot of the statistics removed, but the overall message remains intact. Also, the original document is availab
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by dlytle 18y ago
Spore's specific combination of single and multiplayer content makes it a prime piracy target. The advantage of highly multiplayer-centric games is that they are easier to protect against piracy; either by requiring an account to play onlin
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Ask HN: iPhone Development Resources
4 points by dlytle 18y ago|2 comments
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by dlytle 18y ago
I agree with the criticism of the scrolling odometer widget; that part sounds like it would be better handled with the keyboard. I'm willing to cut them a little slack on the "lack of user testing" angle; it's not like there are many App St
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by dlytle 18y ago
Very nice article. I'm in agreement with the sentiments of TripLog's author; the #1 impediment to this kind of data entry is convenience. The goal here is to have users spend as little time as possible using the application. It could defi
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by dlytle 18y ago
Many people who took the application seriously will have been working like crazy the past couple of weeks, and the very serious entrepreneurs have months or years more of it ahead. A "night off" would probably do a lot of good for some of
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by dlytle 18y ago
My recommendation: go out and get a cool drink from some hippy juice bar, relax, and then go to bed before midnight. Read a book or watch a movie instead of checking until tomorrow morning. (I'm not being sarcastic; that's what I'm planni
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by dlytle 18y ago
Got a question for any of the YC participants or partners... in the past, what percentage of YC applicants have gone on to the interview stage? According to the comments there were over 500 applicants, and the end result is around 20 group
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by dlytle 18y ago
My partner and I submitted a "life management" app, but also touched on a learning aid in the "other projects" section. Unfortunately, my partner was out of town during most of the development of our demo, and I'm not very satisfied with w