hboon

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by hboon 15y ago
What about games like Minecraft? I don't know if it's possible to fuse a high quality 3D engine with less amounts of artist generated content and still have a great game. Challenge assumptions. But if anyone can do it, Carmack can. (and tha
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by hboon 15y ago
1. The user can re-download from Instapaper's servers. 2. It goes against the spirit of Apple's policy here, which is not to backup to iCloud what ca be re-downloaded (see 1) 3. The user might have lots of content stored and again due to 1,
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by hboon 15y ago
You left out the case of storing data for offline use, which is one of the key use of Instapaper, offline maps, cached notebooks, etc. If I stored something specifically for offline use, I want it to be available as long as my device is wit
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by hboon 15y ago
Looks like an Android watch. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390594,00.asp Wonder why it shows iOS icons in the video though.
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I'm Watch (Android watch)(imwatch.it)
1 points by hboon 15y ago|2 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
The only reason Apple did that is because Apple would get the blame if the call stuttered. On the other hand, if YouTube was choppy, you'd blame the network, not the app.
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by hboon 15y ago
My version of How to lead clever people: 1. They are clever, remember that. 2. Remember 1. Stay out of their way, let them do what they are so good at doing. 3. Remember 1. Don't try to outsmart them at work. Unless it's not work related. H
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Josh? It’s Steve Jobs. We have a really big problem(gigaom.com)
6 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
If you (1) are willing to pay a bit more and (2) can do with the 4GB RAM limit, and (3) can work with an external monitor when you need it, get the most expensive MBA 13" base model with an upgraded processor. If not, get the 3rd 15" MBP an
940.
by hboon 15y ago
Singapore and Malaysia reads Simplified Chinese and not Traditional Chinese. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan reads Traditional Chinese. While simplified Chinese is getting much more popular in Hong Kong, some of Hong Kong's traditional Chinese
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by hboon 15y ago
What made you decide to be acquired? The compensation? More resources to achieve the vision? (I remember your app has the chance to get even bigger with more negotiation and licensing power). Something else?
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by hboon 15y ago
Protocols are "interfaces" (in the general sense of the word in programming). So they are useful when you want to write a delegate (or callbacks in the general sense of the word) class. Many classes have a delegate property that is of type
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Getting Users For Your New Startup(pud.com)
1 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
In that case, marketing is probably higher priority.
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by hboon 15y ago
I've since moved on to plain text files, but at my last job, when I left, I just had to delete a few more sensitive notes before passing my TiddyWiki file to my replacement and he had all my notes for the job. It was a technical sales role.
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HP Had WebOS Running on iPad Hardware(daringfireball.net)
1 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
There's also branding, marketing, advertising, floor space, sales staff, call center and after-sales support, as well as management time that your supplier didn't have to pay for (or not as much for).
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by hboon 15y ago
Google + Android.
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by hboon 15y ago
They are still holding on to their server business it seems. So they are doubling down on their enterprise solutions and services, not unlike IBM.
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HP made the right moves: It’s no Apple, so it shouldn’t try to be(splatf.com)
3 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
They could raise prices in general, raise the minimum plan or have a pay-per-use ($0.2) like you suggested. I doubt there can be a acceptable price hike that can offset the decrease in usage volume. Ultimately, these are stop gap measures a
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by hboon 15y ago
Because iMessage falls back to SMS and it's the SMS app everyone with an iPhone uses. So it's easy for people to get started. Certainly many people will start using it unknowingly. Convenience and zero-cost signup is powerful. Carriers are
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Evan Weaver, the man who helped save Twitter from its Fail Whale, has resigned(thenextweb.com)
10 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
Might be a bug, but the posting API has also been updated to allow developers to flag that all URLs to be wrapped, no matter the length. And it looks like the plan in the long run is to wrap all links.
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by hboon 15y ago
Have you read the link? Sponsors are mentioned twice in a given week, explicitly.
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by hboon 15y ago
They could start with porting their existing games like Square Enix and others did. But the question is whether they want their titles to remain exclusive. I think if they want to remain a giant, they'd continue with what they do and strive
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by hboon 15y ago
He might have meant for you to replace "gruber's readers" as "Apple fanboys".
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by hboon 15y ago
We also got Three20. Not the best framework in the world, but it probably did more to enable iOS apps than any other non-Apple framework.
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Adobe Edge: completing the Flash/HTML cycle(extremetech.com)
2 points by hboon 15y ago|0 comments
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by hboon 15y ago
It covers some of the minimal syntax of Smalltalk but didn't touch on Smalltalk images, which is a major signature of Smalltalk. A Smalltalk image contains every Smalltalk object. This includes classes (which are Smalltalk objects), instanc

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