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iTunes 11 is out
5 points by hboon 14y ago|9 comments
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by hboon 14y ago
When I did Smalltalk development, documentation was never an issue. In fact, in always every development environment/language that I've programmed, I'd always felt handicapped if I was not able to browse the source. Given the choice, I'd de
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by hboon 14y ago
I'm backing this. For those who say that no Smalltalk implementation has ever embraced the native OS and always sought to replace it, check out Dolphin Smalltalk [1]. It might be a little outdated now. I haven't kept up with it, but it was
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by hboon 14y ago
VisualAge for Smalltalk was pretty impressive. A little nugget of history: IBM's VisualAge for Java was based on VisualAge for Smalltalk — which was acquired along with OTI — and ran a Smalltalk VM that ran both Smalltalk code and Java byte
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by hboon 14y ago
You mention developing a PaaS product, then you go on to describe a business model based around professional services (PS). By definition, they contradict each other. Also, a product-based business and PS are very different businesses and h
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What Has Changed(avc.com)
151 points by hboon 14y ago|84 comments
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Is that more like a library + cafe?
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For the ones who say due diligence is constrained by time and the company not showing visible signs of fraud, accusations have been flying around for a long time. See http://email-museum.com/2010/04/22/autonomy-creative-account... for exa
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by hboon 14y ago
I can't comment on the 2 companies financials, but as an ex-FAST employee, I can vouch that working there in a pre-sales role was fun times for me. I have only heard of people saying it's horrible to work in Autonomy, but it might be select
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by hboon 14y ago
I'm a big fan of not using IB because code is easier to read, extract (constants, functions, component-ize), copy & paste, and version control. I also build a UIView class hierarchy so I can stash all my view-related code there instead
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by hboon 14y ago
Someone offered to buy an entire app from me, a paid iOS app that was making stable income and has a proven codebase. I quoted 80k (or was it 100k) and the enquirer was shocked, replying that he was assuming a 10k price tag. And he is a CTO
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by hboon 14y ago
Amazon doesn't sell Kindles in their iOS app to avoid the in-app purchase cut to Apple. The app doesn't even have a link to Amazon's site since that's forbidden by Apple's terms. But yes, they make money indirectly from customers like me wh
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Samsung to Apple: Our chips will cost you more(news.cnet.com)
1 points by hboon 14y ago|0 comments
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Is the iPad Mini the Beginning of Apple's Decline?(gizmodo.com)
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by hboon 14y ago
In case anyone else is wondering like me: the site is http://letsembark.com/
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I built http://thepaperboard.com/ with my wife over the weekend. It's a gallery of drawings people made with the Paper iPad app and shared on Twitter. We released an iPhone app based on it the next few days. Wrote about it at http://hboo
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by hboon 14y ago
A related tip: for non-retina ready apps, going to properties (Cmd+i) in Finder and checking Open in Low Resolution can help a lot.
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http://dnsmadeeasy.com
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Andy: I'm not tuned in to the startup scene here, have you observed this trend?
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A couple of items comes to mind: 1. Can you modify your system to return results based on a subset of their followers? If this is still of value to the user, it looks like the way to go, providing results based on a subset followed by anoth
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by hboon 14y ago
In recent years, sale of prepaid sim cards in Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan have become more restricted and require IDs.
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"New" Textdrive(raw.github.com)
2 points by hboon 14y ago|0 comments
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Marketing by Sharing(youtube.com)
1 points by hboon 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple Forecasts Profit Shy of Estimates as Costs Rise(bloomberg.com)
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by hboon 14y ago
Here's something I've been doing for the past 3 years ago since I've gone indie. I have a text file which I keep open in vim, called "wip" which I have loose sections of content. Let's call them section 1, section 2 and section 3. I list TO
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by hboon 14y ago
After TextDrive's lifetime hosting encounters, I'd never trust Joyent again, cloud or non-cloud. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669
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It helps to recognize that the iOS app store is only a distribution mechanism for most developers. Distribution is not a problem. The problem is marketing. But marketing is a problem for most developers anyway, doesn't matter if you are bui
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Not to forget that it is 1 token per Twitter account. Many people have more than 1 user account.
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Uber Closes Yellow Taxi Cab Service In New York City(forbes.com)
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Note writing apps that works with Dropbox. I have both Notesy and WriteRoom. They help me keep track of ideas or draft posts. iPhoto. I never get around to touching up my photos once I'm on my laptop. Now I can do it on my phone. I don't th

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