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by drgath 14y ago
A maybe more importantly, a smaller iPad is needed to break into certain businesses who could use something bigger than an iPod, but portable than an iPad. For example, wait staff at a restaurant. iPods are too small, and an iPad is too b
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by drgath 14y ago
It takes half a second to block, and how often do you actually have to block people? I block maybe 1 or 2 / week.
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by drgath 14y ago
I'm @derek on Twitter, so I have the same issue. If App.net ever got popular, these names would have the exact same issue. So, that's not a compelling reason to switch.
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by drgath 14y ago
Some of the complaints in this post are valid, but most have nothing to do with the language itself. It's just a lack of understanding tools and technologies the JavaScript ecosystem offers. I'm a contributor to YUI, so I of course have a
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by drgath 14y ago
Spammy @mentions is what blocking is for. Also, you don't get @mention notifications if you don't follow them (see settings. may or may not be enabled by default). You can only DM people where you both follow each other.
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by drgath 14y ago
Right, but none of that has any effect on your own tweet stream (unless you follow spammers). If you are talking about searching, the only way search is valuable is if a service gains critical mass, and the only way that happens is if the b
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by drgath 14y ago
> I'm looking for a service with Twitter-like abilities, strong interaction and an intelligent community, and I think app.net will (someday) be it. I'm curious... Considering your version of Twitter only consists of who you follow, why
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by drgath 14y ago
Where is the guarantee that developers will -never- get screwed by App.net? Especially since the barrier to entry is $100? The DIP is a nice addition that will help those with solid ideas out of the gate, but they are still greatly restrict
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by drgath 14y ago
Yup. And in order for there to be flowing water on Mars, conditions had to be much much warmer on the red planet in the past. Warm enough to support Earth-like life. If life came to Earth aboard a comet (as opposed to developing here), it m
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by drgath 14y ago
99.999% of what I listen to on Spotify is older than a few weeks, so for listeners like me, no.
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by drgath 14y ago
"Decentralized" don't mean outsourced vs self-hosted. It just means there isn't a central/core part of a network that everything relies on. Outsourcing of decentralized systems is very popular (see: email, web hosting, DNS, etc.)
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by drgath 14y ago
> If you're about to release your first app on the app store you're not qualified to understand its dynamics. Sorry. Possibly. But it does mean he's more qualified to view the App Store from a user's perspective, instead of a developer
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by drgath 14y ago
I work at Yahoo and I don't know anyone that only puts in 3 hours of work/day. In a 14k+ employee company, I'm not going to claim every single person is putting forth 110% effort (you have slackers everywhere), but apathy is certainly not
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by drgath 14y ago
> let me know when Kevin really innovates. Digg created social news. The company ultimately failed because of some missteps, but the concept is still thriving on the Web today and can be seen with Likes, Retweets, Upvotes, and others.
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by drgath 14y ago
Agreed. Pipes is cool, but as a developer, YQL is so much more intuitive. When I think of accessing data, I think of SQL & REST APIs, not diagrams. But, Pipes is good for non-developers who don't know SQL.
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by drgath 14y ago
> Christian was also in the process of writing a book on YQL Work on that has resumed and "YQL: The Definitive Guide" is due out next year. > So I am pretty sure it going very strong. Very much so. 100+ billion queries per month.
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by drgath 14y ago
Being able to report problems is the first step to figuring out what is actually wrong.
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by drgath 14y ago
> to soften the landing. I've always said that was Carol's job at Yahoo. If she didn't make tough choices to cut costs and trim products, Y! may very well have face-planted, hard. She did very little to create growth, but she did a go
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by drgath 14y ago
> I don't believe that it has ever been about minimizing costs. At Facebook, no, it hasn't been. What parent is saying is that he hopes FB did some research on whether this will actually help or hurt productivity before risking the li
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by drgath 14y ago
But... they took turnstiles out!
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by drgath 14y ago
I appreciate open floor plans too, but it seems like a little too much for me. Here's a hi-res photo of the model's floorplan (which I'm sure is just a sample). http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/facebook... I'll reserve
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by drgath 14y ago
While I don't have much to say about your product questions (I'm an engineer an open-source platform team at Yahoo, other end of the spectrum), one that I can answer though is... > "Why would someone want to go into that environment?" G
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by drgath 14y ago
(Yahoo since 2009) The difference (to me) is pretty dramatic, and the confidence of being able to get stuff done is night & day. It still boggles my mind to think about how much has changed in just 1 month since she started. Fun times
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by drgath 14y ago
> short term vision investors which oblige them to monetize everywhere in all possible short term strategies. That's actually the public stock market. Private equity investors can vary anywhere from extremely patient, to being as impat
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by drgath 14y ago
re: "consistent user experience" That's the thing, they just need to make the UX so badass that users will want to use your products instead of a 3rd party. Problem solved. Instead, they are just being lazy and squashing anyone who tries to
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by drgath 14y ago
Very much so. If you are the average HN reader, odds are likely you visit AOL sites on a daily basis. Also, the stock is up 88% over the last 12-months. But, I feel like they've given up on being anything other than an SEO / blogging / di
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by drgath 14y ago
You have a great attitude. Reminds me of my start as well ~10 years ago, and now I work on a project that 700+ million people use / month. I think curiosity is the best skill a developer can have, because with it, they can learn just about
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by drgath 14y ago
I'm guessing my blog couldn't handle front-page HN traffic either. Yeah, it's easy enough to fix and I can think of a dozen different ways to do it in under an hour, but as the OP said in another comment, the site gets so little traffic it
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by drgath 14y ago
Account created: 91 days ago We've been talking a lot lately about the decline of quality commentary on HN, and the increase of negativity and snarkiness. Parent is a great example. OP, I enjoyed the post and forwarded it on to some friend
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by drgath 14y ago
Motorola sued Apple first

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