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by franzus 14y ago
Well, but that's not a lock in. It's just the incompetence of Adobe's competition to make an alternative.
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by franzus 14y ago
Dealing with Apple can be frustrating sometimes. The Mac App Store review times are ridiculously long nowadays: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/154948?tstart=0 (developer account needed) 2 - 3 weeks seems to be the norm. That's pretty
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by franzus 14y ago
Indirectly he can. If he choses not to sign new laws.
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by franzus 14y ago
In other news: Katie and Tom are getting a divorce ... Thank you google plus.
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by franzus 14y ago
Who voted for the German president? Nobody.
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by franzus 14y ago
vimwiki + git + github = best note taking solution ever
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by franzus 14y ago
> Simplicity is a virtue worth striving for I think simplicity is a virtue you should strive for in your designs. How complex, messy, dirty your tools are which you use to create those simple designs doesn't really matter. In the end yo
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by franzus 14y ago
Yes, what they do is not creative at all. Their contribution to the progress humanity is 0.
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by franzus 14y ago
Yes.
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by franzus 14y ago
Yes but entertainment per se is not bad - if you don't devote your life to it. Nothing against playing one or two rounds SC2 but becoming a "pro player" is so disgustingly wasteful. Imagine what you could create with all the time devoted to
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by franzus 14y ago
Wow, what a great way to waste your life.
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by franzus 14y ago
Yep, reddit is 4chan for soccer moms. There's not much real creativity going on there.
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by franzus 14y ago
Community building 101. If you want to start a forum you have to fill it with content first to attract real users.
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by franzus 14y ago
Yeah, but Java no thanks :)
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by franzus 14y ago
> inside connection The app store feels like some corrupt east european kleptocracy. Your only chance to get featured is if you have some inside connections. And if you need "special" functionality in your app - no problem! Inside conne
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by franzus 14y ago
I don't know what they're doing. But I think it must be something really complex as my last application needed 13 days to get "in review" status and then 18 days more to get approved. Feels good paying those $100 every year ...
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by franzus 14y ago
> Then, one by one, the stores that have unwillingly become showrooms for the online merchants will fold up. And the American downtown-and-mall landscape will begin to look barren. I don't think that's a problem. It's evolution. Like n
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by franzus 14y ago
Market for bank robberies incentivizes sabotage.
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by franzus 14y ago
> copying ideas oh no! call the thought police!
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by franzus 14y ago
Why not opensource your code? Less drama, more profit for the community.
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by franzus 14y ago
The price for human-solving 1000 captchas is $2. You get ~98% accuracy. There is no secure captcha library. Captchas as a concept are flawed and should be replaced by something that $works. (Don't ask me what that could be - I have no idea.
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by franzus 14y ago
Yet another "get featured by apple, make money" story.
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by franzus 14y ago
That's certainly a cool direction computing could take. Instead of having a PC and a smartphone you will only have one device.
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by franzus 14y ago
> return manufacturing of smartphones, computers and TVs to U.S. shores The problem with all that manufacturing being moved overseas is that local jobs are "destroyed". Moving back production for production's sake with the help of robot
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by franzus 14y ago
No.
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by franzus 14y ago
Hmm, last time I checked all the "new" frameworks were OOP too. Be it rails or django - they all have some kind of OO paradigm they adhere to.
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by franzus 14y ago
Suddenly patents are OK?
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by franzus 14y ago
> you have to know Apple's platform So this guy thinks knowing your target platform is a burden and not knowing it somehow is a pro? On topic of half-assing: If you're using a multi platform 3rd party layer because you're too lazy/reluc
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by franzus 14y ago
Giving away stuff for free till the VC money runs out. Startup lottery.
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by franzus 14y ago
It is time for home owners to give up their ownership and hand over their property to the people.

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