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811.
by ja27 15y ago
I finally got into it with the kids (11 and 7) after hearing their friends talking non-stop about it. In less than a week they were memorizing all the non-redstone crafting recipes, setting me on fire (in non-PvP mode), and setting up TNT t
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by ja27 15y ago
Hit F3 and write down your house's coordinates.
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by ja27 15y ago
I wonder how many actual active users they have. I know I downloaded their apps and did a couple activities but quit pretty quickly. Also, I originally tried them based on a piece of print advertising I saw somewhere, which makes me think t
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by ja27 15y ago
Professional designers are all about beating up any designer that does spec work on sites like 99designs. They're freaking out (rightly so) about it dropping the value of their work. Just like pro photographers are freaking about microstock
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by ja27 15y ago
Ed Dale's [30 Day] Challenge just started a few days ago. This is a free online marketing course aimed at beginners but it has some decent material for everyone. The goal is to identify a profitable niche in 30 days - big enough to have tra
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by ja27 15y ago
If people are already writing books about doing it, there aren't many opportunities left - except in selling books about it.
817.
by ja27 15y ago
Lord of the Rings and Last of the Mohicans soundtracks and almost anything from Apocalyptica.
818.
by ja27 15y ago
Was CopterKid your first app? You talk about building a following of 1000 FIPLAB fans before CopterKid's launch. How did you engage them if that was the first app?
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by ja27 15y ago
I put my faith in Google's engineers and they have utterly destroyed my credibility. Come to a Microsoft event some time and let a Silverlight developer buy you a sympathy beer.
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by ja27 15y ago
It's been a long time but at the time Apple had their own AOL-like community, eWorld. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld
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by ja27 15y ago
I think a whole lot more people would pay $30 a month for a tablet. If you can just pair that with some seemingly valuable service with a low variable cost, you'd have a winner. How about the New York Times tablet? The Playboy tablet? The E
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by ja27 15y ago
Borders stores were packed during liquidation sales, despite the fact that there were few real bargains to be found. People love a perceived bargain.
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by ja27 15y ago
I tried briefly to find actual numbers on the manufacturing run(s) of the Touchpad. I wonder how many of these are really out there. Is this just a blip on the chart compared to iPad numbers? I'm a bit concerned about what this will do to t
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by ja27 15y ago
I've started to wonder when Apple is going to offer hardware subscriptions. I guess that's not much different than leases, but I don't think consumers ever lease hardware. It's surprising that they don't because the phone market is so drive
825.
by ja27 15y ago
Yesterday I started a comment asking if I'm the only programmer that doesn't keep many notes. I actually don't keep that many, relying on my memory and falling back to code comments, revision history, and email when that fails. But then as
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by ja27 15y ago
I could have written this. I learned a little vi in the mid-80s and have pretty much used it ever since. No other editor has stuck with me that way and I've seen most of them - ISPF, WordStar and many derivatives, WordPerfect, etc. Except E
827.
by ja27 15y ago
Arrg. I don't want one of these. I don't. I've mocked this tablet for two months. I'd rather keep my $99-$149 and apply it towards another iPad or the ASUS Eee Transformer. But it's only $99. Wifi, IPS display, an OS that isn't completely h
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by ja27 15y ago
Lots of success reports on this thread - 32gig model for $135-ish (plus tax?) http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/9a3e7678-7eb1-4b7f-88ea-...
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by ja27 15y ago
Me too. I'd disagree with #2 and #4. It takes a lot more than "hours" for resources outside of the affected area to arrive. I've seen plenty of asshole activities during a disaster - including someone stealing a water trailer at gunpoint fr
830.
by ja27 15y ago
As one of the few people that's actually used WebOS on a phone, when I try the TouchPad I'm baffled at how slow and clunky it is. The UI is smooth on even the Palm Pixi but on the TouchPad I get plenty of lag and glitches.
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by ja27 15y ago
If you can find a niche around American Baseball, the summer months are the most active for them. Could help plug the gap.
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by ja27 15y ago
Yes. After Dejanews resurrected ancient Usenet postings, I stopped using my real name online for most things. But my flaw was using a single pseudonym almost everywhere. So now my insightful Slashdot comments (that was years ago) are by the
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by ja27 15y ago
I've carried different smartphones in a quart freezer Ziploc for years. They've survived camping trips, rainstorms, water parks, beach trips, etc. Capacitive touchscreens work ok through the plastic. A great cheap cover.
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by ja27 15y ago
I have never gotten anything except Amazon purchases to sync to my Android Kindle app. I can manually copy .mobi (and I think .azw) files to my Android and the Kindle app will read them, but there's no Whispersync between devices except for
835.
by ja27 15y ago
On a week at the beach, I never saw another Kindle besides ours. I saw multiple people with iPads out on the beach. I was quite surprised. I've seen a few Kindles "in the wild" but mostly in the hands of homeschooling / soccer moms that spe
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by ja27 15y ago
And you could probably sell the old one for $800. Recent Apple hardware holds it's value pretty well. The guy in line behind me for the iPad 2 launch just sold his iPad 1 that day for $100 less than he paid. So his net was paying $100 for a
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by ja27 15y ago
Flickr will close your account over a single photo not having the appropriate safety level setting and plenty of photographers take it seriously.
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by ja27 15y ago
Flickr has had and continues to have plenty of problems over arbitrarily deleting accounts.
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by ja27 15y ago
I'm not going to argue that Flickr isn't dying, but they do have some things that Google+ and Facebook don't have: groups. A lot of groups are a waste, but some well-administered groups are awesome, both for the group photo pools and discus
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by ja27 15y ago
Lately when friends ask my advice about which DS, I suggest getting an iPod Touch instead unless they're really dying to have Nintendo property games (Mario). It does more than just games, no cartridges to lose, and the kids will want an iP

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