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goshx
13y ago
I don't get it. It seems like a very basic version of evernote posting everything that I write somewhere else. I am not comfortable with my text going to other unknown places.
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goshx
13y ago
I lost count of how many times I had to open a Word generated HTML document (by a regular Word user that though copying from Word and posting it in the CMS was a good idea) and clean it up by hand so it wouldn't break the page for brow
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goshx
13y ago
This reminds me of what I saw a couple weeks ago on Facebook. I saw a friend's birthday popping up on FB. Then messages to that friend sending wishes of happy birthday and good health, peace, and everything else people wish you on your
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goshx
13y ago
This reminds me of the MS Word generating HTML
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goshx
13y ago
I thought about the same thing. Maybe the "solution" is to make something that behaves differently every day, so you are always caught by surprise and can't ignore it.
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goshx
13y ago
Watch their video here to understand the product a little better: http://www.dragoninnovation.com/projects/22-tessel
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goshx
13y ago
Kudos to these guys that are doing something different. I am sure a lot of web developers out there will be more than happy to try creating new things on a completely different field using their current skills. Seriously, thank you! It is s
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goshx
13y ago
To me it boils down to the developer doing the job. Stating the obvious: you can do a great job in any language, just like you can do a crappy job in any language. I have seen tasteful applications written in PHP (hardly ever an open source
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goshx
13y ago
Just checking: do you have any experience with it? When was the last time you tried working with PHP in a team?
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goshx
13y ago
You just asked for trouble with that last statement lol But I agree, I don't get why people want to force you to do something else, if what you do works fine for you, your productivity and the product you are delivering. I use php sinc
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goshx
13y ago
Me too. Some posts just show up on the top of home page with no discussion and not many votes. Also, how can a comment get downvoted? (is that a word?) [Edit: found the answers for my questions: http://ycombinator.com/newsfa
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goshx
13y ago
Very likely. Big money talking here, it seems. It was almost at the top when I first spotted it, I opened the link on a second tab and after going through the comments I went back to the previous tab to refresh and see how many upvotes it
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goshx
13y ago
Funny thing... this post just disappeared from the home page.
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goshx
13y ago
Of course, just a good excuse to talk to people I haven't chat for a while. :)
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goshx
13y ago
sure! they'll be able to use their fire charged phones, with google's internet to see what the world is eating across the ocean on instagram.
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goshx
13y ago
Does anyone bother to create something similar that would help 3rd world electricity problems? oh, I forgot... they don't have smartphones.
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goshx
13y ago
I'm sending random messages to random people just to see them freaking out. "Oh, this might be the bug they were talking about this morning"
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goshx
13y ago
well, look again.
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goshx
13y ago
the real world example using it is priceless.
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goshx
13y ago
So are you saying that if I work for myself I'm gonna have more time available? Also, I'll be able to work only on what I want? hmmmm
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goshx
13y ago
You know... SK Telecom, in South Korea just announced speeds of over 200Mbps for mobile data. I believe that speed tends to increase over time. We will get to a point where smartphones will just become dumb terminals, using resources from a
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goshx
13y ago
I love to see people using the words like " this will never happen" like they could predict the future in any way. So many have been proven wrong over the years, I wont be surprised if this author is proven wrong again. This might
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goshx
13y ago
Best iPhone commercial I have seen so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIWez9HAbA
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goshx
13y ago
Here you go: 16GB - $649, 32GB - $749, 64GB - $849 http://store.apple.com/us/buy-iphone/iphone5s
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goshx
13y ago
epic.
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goshx
13y ago
iPhone 5S will be 199 for the 16GB model, 299 for 32GB, and 399 for 64GB on a 2 year contract
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goshx
13y ago
probably both :)
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goshx
13y ago
phew, now I feel better. Being a non native English speaker, I was wondering if the problem was my understanding of the language or the writing style.
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goshx
13y ago
I find it interesting that some great people only get the proper credits they deserve when they die. Does anyone bother to write a list of great people that are still alive?
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goshx
13y ago
I'd pay for something that could really make me stop procrastinating. Unfortunately, I still haven't found anything that works. Your idea won't work with me either. Along the years I've been mastering my skills on "
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