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by halo 13y ago
I grinned because I assumed it was a deliberate attempt to hurt Apple's "App Store" trademark claim.
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by halo 14y ago
Apple and Google managed to do what Microsoft never could and make it unprofitable to create a commercial web browser. A sad day.
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by halo 14y ago
Netflix's big long-term advantage is buying power. They have 30 million users spending $100/yr. Assume they spend half their income on content. That's $1.5bn/yr. That's a huge amount of money, and it's only going to get bigger as they grow
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by halo 14y ago
According to their annual report, Netflix spent almost $500m on marketing last year. I don't understand why people find it so inexplicable that they're spending $100m/yr on creating exclusive content as an extension to that.
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by halo 14y ago
There's a big difference between the iOS app store and the Android app store. One is mandatory, the other is a convenient default.
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by halo 14y ago
Strikes would not happen if US sports leagues were based around free market principles rather than monopolies that set artificial restrictions on athletes salaries and conditions.
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by halo 14y ago
But, as the article alludes to, a key part of the attraction of these courses is providing super low barriers to entry and access to those who couldn't otherwise pay. Asking for donations solves this problem in a simple, frictionless way an
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by halo 14y ago
They could ask for donations at the end of the course. Set it at a reasonable level and people who could afford it would feel obligated to do so but it would still allow access for low-income users. I suspect with the right message they cou
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by halo 14y ago
The website isn't readable in IE9.
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by halo 14y ago
Oxford in particular is skewed by some deeply entrenched class issues.
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by halo 14y ago
But that doesn't explain phone and home electronics manufacturers like Nokia, Palm, Motorola, RIM, Samsung, Sony and Creative who weren't as invested in the MS stack as the PC OEMs. I suspect a major reason was the reaction to the Palm Fole
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by halo 14y ago
Electoral-Vote.com used a much simpler method (averaging polls) and got 48 out of 50 states right. EV.com had Missouri as a tie (McCain ultimately won by 0.1%, 538 got the state right) and had Indiana wrong (as did 538).
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by halo 14y ago
The ridiculous leading makes it unreadable for me.
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by halo 14y ago
Superior industrial design and user experience. Over the years, I've seen a lot of people say that Microsoft should adopt Apple's business model: abandon backwards compatibility, compete on the high-end rather than price and focus on indust
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by halo 14y ago
Groklaw has always had an outspoken editorial stance (in favour of FOSS) rather than being impartial. I made a similar criticism of its editorial stance 750 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603929 ).
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by halo 14y ago
User-base. Millions of people already have Steam but don't regularly use any other marketplace.
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by halo 14y ago
Nintendo.
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by halo 14y ago
Amortised across 5 years, that's less than £10/wk (2 laptops, a 360, a Wii, a bunch of games and a phone with credit can be had for considerably less than £2600). Technology is a very cost-effective form of entertainment. Much better value
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by halo 15y ago
A Dropbox clone with a better Android client would make me switch immediately. The Android Dropbox client doesn't even let you download folders at once, only individual files.
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Samsung expects profits to double from smartphone boost(bbc.co.uk)
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by halo 15y ago
tl;dr: spin-off Wikipedia infoboxes into a seperate project with an API, and then use that data to bootstrap an open data project with broader goals. In theory, it's a good idea. It takes an existing useful data source and puts in a form th
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by halo 15y ago
I think MDN is a noble project but a horrible website. I find the site an absolute pain to use and every major change Mozilla has made over the past few years has made it worse. To me, the site is badly structured, badly laid out and as slo
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by halo 15y ago
More than you might think given that it's a clone of the Windows date picker.
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by halo 15y ago
Beware: needs QuickTime.
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by halo 15y ago
I've long felt that LaTeX is unnecessarily complex for most users. The output is undeniably attractive but there's considerable pain involved in getting there. It's because LaTeX is old and its ubiquity has caused the field to stagnant for
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by halo 15y ago
I can imagine a Windows tablet similar to the Acer Transformer being hugely popular, moving tablets out of their rich-guys-who-want-a-third-computer niche and towards replacing laptops for day-to-day use.
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by halo 15y ago
I'm not trying to put you off, but be aware that selling to hospitals is incredibly ridiculously difficult.
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by halo 15y ago
I find the amount of 'closed' questions on StackOverflow rather frustrating. I don't see how artificially restricting questions like this helps the site. That said, I find the responses rather unsatisfying. Language design errors and quirks
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by halo 15y ago
It does require a step back to realise the magnitude of change: Google have managed strumble into Microsoft's position in phones. On the surface, that's both astounding and completely unexpected. Google put itself into that position by bei
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by halo 15y ago
Reddit has changed to such a degree that plenty of its early users want an alternative that doesn't currently exist. The site is involved in a tug-of-war between users who want quality news articles and those who want pictures and jokes, wi

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