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by itry 14y ago
Hmm.. thats not a oneliner. Which is what makes the Basic version interesting in the first place. Also it differs in that it does not run continously. I shortened it a bit: http://js.do/code/154 Still not as elegant as the Basic version.
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by itry 14y ago
Both of your arguments against Flightcar (trust as owner, flexibility as renter) are as valid for Flightcar as for AirBnB. Still AirBnB rents out rooms for some hundred million dollars per year.
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by itry 14y ago
> Does that really bear out? Why wouldnt it? Been doing it for years now and cannot think of any other way of development anymore.
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by itry 14y ago
The A15 seems to be the same weight as the Macbook air. I always thought about buying an MBA, but I feared the hassle of installing Linux on it. Is the A15 my future development machine? All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So per
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by itry 14y ago
"Windows no longer supports multiple windows" Only in Metro-Mode, right? Its hard to imagine to have a Desktop OS that does not support multiple windows. Did Microsoft say anything about the future of the Metro/Desktop duality? And Metro Ap
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by itry 14y ago
Does the same number of billion dollar companies die every 3 months?
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by itry 14y ago
Would somebody really care for the library of Alexandria these days? Im not through reading the internet yet.
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by itry 14y ago
Will this thing behave nicely when I put it on a machine which already has grub and several linux partitions? Or will it insist on killing grub or even do worse stuff to my machine?
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by itry 14y ago
I tried it. But I like Gnome 2 a lot more then xfce. For example in xfce you cannot reorder the entries in the task bar.
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by itry 14y ago
I was an Ubuntu user for years. When tablets became famous, I was thinking: Wow, if I only could have Ubuntu on these devices. Then they lost me because of Unity. I tried several days, but it was simply not geared toward my workflow. Thank
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by itry 14y ago
You say "In short: inflation doesn't affect your returns". And thats what I said. But the linked article says the opposite: "High inlfation led to negative returns".
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by itry 14y ago
Is there some webservice for PhoneGap like applications? One where you just paste your html and get back an android app? Thats the way I would like to develop.
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by itry 14y ago
Interesting chart. Strange, at one point it says "High inlfation led to negative returns". When money is worth less, then you get more money when you sell something. In this case your share of a company. So why would the returns of investin
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by itry 14y ago
Equity, baby! They offer equity, not cash. Only an unnamed amount of cash. So if they value their company at 100 trillion, they can recruit a lot of teams for 1 million each :)
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by itry 14y ago
They dont say how much real money they put on the table. They say "$1MM in cash and equity". Its a marketing ploy. And it worked. They got a catchy TC headline for free.
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by itry 14y ago
A predictor doesnt have to be always right to be a predictor.
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by itry 14y ago
Fat is probably a good predictor for lack of ambition. So I would say it lowers chances to get funded.
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Ask HN: Why is an android tablet not encrypted by default?
3 points by itry 14y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How secure is data on an ipad?
1 points by itry 14y ago|0 comments