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by hnsmurf 15y ago
This is interesting but entirely useless. Though he's never used a computer, someone already has used this one and changed some things about it. #1 IE defaults to a blank page in what appears to be private browsing mode, rather than Bing as
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
It's very tempting to read HN and TechCrunch and think that the complaints you see there are representative of the overall population. They're not. I'd bet at least 90% of Dropbox users don't know either exist. They didn't know there was a
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Because the people who run publicly traded companies have their compensation heavily tied to the short term share price of their organizations. Every mobile industry analyst is most definitely reading BGR.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
This is the kind of company that's supposed to get a VC round. Profitable, growing, unquestionable business model, solving pain points, etc.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
First start by telling them they don't have to switch. There's no reason one can't use both. Facebook would never have gotten past Myspace if users had to switch.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Interesting that it doesn't mention the craigslist spamming. I'd wager that's far more responsible than YC. As great as YC is for many things it's not a significant source of traction for most startups.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Also the notion of using only a few apps doesn't apply to games, which is one of the killer features of smart phones. They are largely meant to be disposable, and you assume you'll be playing new ones periodically. I might keep 7 or 8 utili
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
The problem is everyone has a different 10 apps they "need" and even if you figure only 1% of apps fall into that category for someone, there's still a lot of value in a platform of 200k apps.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Have you read Steig Larsson or Dan Brown? Poor writing skills don't disqualify one from selling millions of books at a much higher price point.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
20 years ago computers were a rich people toy. They quickly became a near necessity. Same with cell phones 10 years ago.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
At least Axl Rose can feel a tad less bad about Chinese Democracy now.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
As I mentioned below it does very much show psychopathic tendencies. These people clearly have no empathy for those they are harming. This includes far more than just the Sony executives that everyone hates (despite not knowing). Online sec
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
This is classic psychopathic behavior. Instead of torturing people physically to see them squirm they're doing it digitally, but the same lack of empathy is there.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Farm Town was definitely not a copy of myFarm. MyFarm was (and probably still is) far inferior in almost every respect. Farmville was more or less a clone of Farm Town, though it evolved at a much faster pace.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
There's a trade dress issue here and I'd guess that's what Zynga's claiming. It seems rather clear that a consumer could confuse this company's products for one of Zynga's and that that is their intent. It's as if you made Cleanex Tissues a
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
This is something every PR company does tacitly. Why wouldn't they? If you give journalists your product and they shit on it, you're going to go to other journalists next time. I'm surprised a PR doesn't know enough to not state that public
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Meizu m8? Seriously?
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Right, we pay our waitstaff next to nothing in terms of hourly rate (it's well below minimum wage) and they make all of their money on tips. If a bill is $50 worth of food, you should tip the waiter on that, even if you got it with a Groupo
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
WWII is, in many ways, the demarcation point of the modern era. Almost every facet of life was changed. Women entered the workforce, agriculture and industry were more or less entirely rewritten. In terms of genocide, it was the first one t
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Groupon customers are definitely poor tippers. I've known a number of waiters to complain about it. The problem is they tip on the Groupon price, not the full price, and are thus tipping something like 40% of what they should be.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
You should never use manure that hasn't been properly composted. I don't think anyone who grows chickens and their own crops would not know this.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Most problems like that come from the industrialized food supply. You'd be pretty hard pressed to get e coli from spinach you grew yourself.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I don't think anyone is calling them evil due to the app store restriction here. But they definitely stole the guy's app and logo. That's both illegal (at least the logo part) and immoral. Reject the app, sure. Build similar functionality y
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
The logo certainly makes Apple guilty of a trade dress infringement. This guy will have no shortage of IP attorneys willing to take his case pro bono.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
I don't get it. Most of what iCloud does is already being done on smartphones for free. Gmail and Exchange Server both already sync contacts, calendars, and email quite nicely across devices. I haven't had to manually transfer any of that t
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
With proper settings the AMOLED just blows the iPhone out of the water. I have loaded the same Flickr accounts on both side by side, the extra contrast is very noticeable.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Oh, well that's nice then. About time!
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
Meh. I still can't go PC-less on my iPad. I have plenty of music that didn't come from updates and isn't for sale on iTunes, and I don't see anything about OS updates OTA. Exchange and Gmail already do most of the rest for me.
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
The winners are highly likely to evade taxes but have no need to launder. Money laundering is unnecessary because online gambling proceeds aren't illegal in most states, and even where they are the Silver Platter doctrine and the fact that
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by hnsmurf 15y ago
You can do that but it would serve no purpose. If you bought $100k bitcoins on a credit card, now the IRS has a paper trail. They'll want to know where that $100k you paid the credit card bill came from. Even if you got the money in without

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