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by jasonjei 16y ago
Wired wrote about the so-called death of Apple back in the 90s. History, it seems, sure did show Wired. In all respect, I have only seen iOS and Droid apps supplement or complement the actual Web apps. Facebook for iPhone hasn't really been
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This is fantastic news. More opportunities for startups to find support and funding. Startups can probably learn a lot from Digg and Jay's experience.
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For all the flack vets/servicemen get, it's not their war. Policymakers such as Bush determined what servicemen would do. Servicemembers can save lives in Katrina, and they may be ordered to carry out bombing missions--a lot of people wer
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Back in AF, pilots in training would be obsessed with their iPhones playing X-Plane. It actually is a fantastic simulator considering that many of these pilots could very possibly be flying your commercial jet someday :) My buddy who went t
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Great examples. You might also remember that it took Hong Kong forever to protect races and sex status. Singapore Airlines is notorious for discriminating age, sex, and looks of its flight attendants.
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Innovation in Asian countries is a huge problem. Part of this is Confucian values. I was educated for two years in Taiwan (my dad's company forced us to move, I was the white-washed Asian). Those brutal memories: I had to stay after school
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by jasonjei 16y ago
I agree, and I see the misnomer. I'm not a libertarian, so duly apologized if I did use the term incorrectly. But what I meant to say is Hong Kong's economy is very free. http://asiancorrespondent.com/hong-kong-blog/freest-econonom...
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Maybe I should have clarified as economic freedom, outscoring Australia and New Zealand. For actual civil liberties, you are right, the government is somewhat Chinese, somewhat corporate, and somewhat people controlled. Source: http://asi
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Keep in mind the US has more people than Singapore, so the number will obviously be higher for the US. But if we were to enforce drug laws in the US like Singapore, you would see a lot more death sentences. And floggings, if we had that in
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The author hits it spot on about Singapore. It would probably have more in common with Apple than IBM--efficiently run, capitalist (to an extent), but is more or less a one-party system, as is common in East Asia (with the exception of Aust
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by jasonjei 16y ago
A childhood friend who had gone to Harvard invited me to hang out with some Harvard grads in SF two weeks ago. It was strange--as an outsider--to listen to their college stories; they would talk about how they'd drive down to Yale and screa
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by jasonjei 16y ago
For what it's worth, have you considered joining ROTC (assuming you are a US citizen)? If you still haven't figured out what you want to do, it's worth a serious thought because you'll build some amazing friendships and, at the very least,
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by jasonjei 16y ago
I've always wondered about auto-updating software being flagged as a virus. That has always been troublesome for me. So I haven't really explored it, but it seems to be relatively smooth sailing for Google. The one thing that I have preferr
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Thanks, ergo98. I definitely think MongoDB can be used in money applications. But there's almost always some ACID requirement when you're dealing with accounting, e.g, crediting payment or billing fees. I would use something that could hand
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by jasonjei 16y ago
This argument might be valid if they had done this from the get-go. But now you're creating confusion from 3.0 to 4.0.
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I think it's a bit short-sighted to assume everyone can use MongoDB if you're dealing with ACID type apps, or anything that deals with money. It's silly to say that they're developing at a much slower rate than someone that is. Use the righ
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by jasonjei 16y ago
What I can't understand is why you can't choose this in Settings if you want it as a Mute button or Orientation Lock button. Why not make this a CP setting? People who like it the way it is can go through the extra steps to activate it, wh
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Couldn't they make Java updates for OS X use the new App Store mechanism?
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Apple always had a strange, conflicting working dynamic with Sun, a company whose purpose became more aligned to developing technology for the sake of developing technology. Larry Ellison has always had a close, personal relationship with J
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I think he would have disclosed that if he were unhappy about that, given the already very public nature of the post
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by jasonjei 16y ago
As far as clients go, Notch still paid them for work they are not going to use. That's still pretty good. Notch could have communicated better, but nonetheless that doesn't excuse the unprofessional tone of the OP. I don't feel there was a
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Thanks, Jason. Appreciate the response and understanding of our frustration. We have heavily integrated our business app with Highrise, including our Quote to Invoice app with the REST API. We've built reports around the Highrise data. And
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by jasonjei 16y ago
I think the author has a valid point. 37signals's Highrise is a CRM that we are using--and after using it for several years, we still don't have pagination. We wait for 5000+ deals to load, including lost and won deals, yet something as
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by jasonjei 16y ago
I think every startup should look at the slide about the problems that Mint solves for its Total Addressable Market, even if it isn't the original Mint deck. The interesting thing about this presentation is it looks at the problems people m
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by jasonjei 16y ago
At the very heart of it, it could map every object to its BOM including carbon based lifeforms. Imagine if every object were a class, including humans. The atom could be a basic super class, and you could map out various dependencies and ob
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by jasonjei 16y ago
I think it's good to look at YC as a multiplier. You hedge some equity to lower your risk, as well as gain guidance and advice. I'm self-funding, and I have a "business" guy co-founder who does all the stuff that bores me (such as cold-ca
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by jasonjei 16y ago
The problem with our schools is that there's no way for us ordinary people to fix the problem at large. Government administrators--local, federal, and state--don't let anyone get near it. School boards hardly get anything done. As programm
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I think the most alarming comment made by the FBI was towards the end: "We have all the information we needed," they told him. "You don't need to call your lawyer. Don't worry, you're boring. "
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Did you ever get a grade?
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