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by jexe 10y ago
I don't know what that means, but you've got my attention. Could you elaborate on what you have in mind?
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by jexe 11y ago
Some personal favorites: proprietary and confidential: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22proprietary+an... do not distribute: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22do+not+distrib.
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by jexe 11y ago
this article is great, in a way. People pay ransoms with extreme agony, but because they are supposed to be effective. If they don't work, there goes the only reason to pay. this is exactly the article the DDoSers don't ever want
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by jexe 11y ago
I agree with that. Because of the network effects of social apps, it's not really 2x for launching on another large platform - we got about 10x results from launching Dasher on Android. We probably waited too long to do it.
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Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (2011)(blog.davidsingleton.org)
1 points by jexe 12y ago|0 comments
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Friends and Anarchy in App Design(medium.com)
1 points by jexe 12y ago|0 comments
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by jexe 12y ago
My second dot-com (in NYC) almost bit the dust in 2001 after bunches of layoffs, but management incredibly figured out how to make it through another five-ish years. The thing that stands out to me the most about that period in time was how
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by jexe 12y ago
So has anyone built a site that lets you put limit orders on airline seats yet? I'd love to, say, have something automatically book a $250 flight across the country if the price happens to cross that threshold in the next week.
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by jexe 12y ago
Great read, thanks for sharing the story. I think I echo the others here, four rounds isn't bad at all. Not exactly the same thing as a YC application, but raising our seed round @ Dasher we were rejected 48 times from angels and VCs b
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by jexe 12y ago
Dasher ( http://dasher.im ), uses socket.io. We're using socker.IO-objc for our iOS client: https://github.com/pkyeck/socket.IO-objc And will be launching a web client in the coming weeks. So far, so goo
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by jexe 14y ago
I guess the consolation prize from this fairly offensive point of view is that since my company doesn't share this bias against women, we're hiring all the great engineers that you're overlooking. Sounds like we have the competitive advanta
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by jexe 14y ago
Do you have a link to the MS talk/article about their work with Metro? I'd be very interested.
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by jexe 15y ago
That's exactly it. It's like telling someone that my software is worth $1700 because that's what my laptop cost.
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by jexe 15y ago
This reminds me a little of how familiar I am with certain classical music, because of watching Looney Tunes so much as a kid.
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by jexe 15y ago
Interesting, I would have argued the opposite: well thought-out subscription businesses are goldmines. Once you have a customer, you aren't billing them a single time -- often, you're billing them repeatedly for the option to use your se
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by jexe 15y ago
It seems like a purely promotional placement, Amazon isn't giving you money that neither you nor they received -- that seems perfectly reasonable to me. If you don't want to bear the auxiliary costs like server load or customer service, yo
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by jexe 15y ago
It's funny, Tim Berners-Lee feels pretty much the opposite way: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-r...
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by jexe 16y ago
It does, actually. Most - not all - of the "hacks" are cited and linked to doctors, studies, the American Nutritional Association, etc. A few don't lead anywhere, guess that's a symptom of linking out of a two year old ebook?
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by jexe 16y ago
1. If you're a great developer, just pick an idea that you love so much that you'll weather the inevitable storms that come. It can seem mundane or 'solved', you'll make it interesting. The 'killer idea' is usually a label applied afterwar
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by jexe 16y ago
That is the thing that mystifies me about this lawsuit so much: it seems totally frivolous. Someone Facebook's size must be batting down inane lawsuits like this continuously. Why is this one getting so much attention?
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by jexe 16y ago
I'm assuming he's trying to both get a good scoop AND stop the damage these angels can do to startups - the longer he waits, the more damage might be done. I think he's struck a pretty good balance here by saying what needs to be said and n
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by jexe 16y ago
Well, at least one investor seems to have accidentally included himself in the mess (from TC's comments) http://twitter.com/speechu/status/25083299594
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by jexe 16y ago
Does anybody believe that software patents are not broken? It really seems obvious that they are, but have been looking for a counter-argument. There must be somebody out there with a good defense.
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by jexe 16y ago
Not tough at all - the company I joined is another (larger) startup, so I think that if anybody understands this kind of choice, it's them. :)
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by jexe 16y ago
I took the leap a couple years ago, started a startup, ran out of cash, and got a day job again. Incinerating your savings at a startup only to end up back as a cube warrior is pretty sobering. Even so, I never looked back on the (great) j
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by jexe 16y ago
You know what else is interesting - the means to produce music and movies is moving down market, fast. My friggin phone records HD, and my Mac comes with some basic music production software, I can self-publish my own books on amazon or j
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by jexe 16y ago
Taken on its face, this is pretty bad advice, especially for technologists. Do you really wish you were still writing DOS bookkeeping apps in Pascal, because that's what you were good at? Think hard about the things that actually make you e
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by jexe 16y ago
Not so sure that these huge gestures are necessary, depending on the technology - You can play games perfectly fine on the wii with little more than the flick of your wrist.
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by jexe 16y ago
Yes. My macbook is the single most important device that I need to do my job. It goes pretty much everywhere I go, and I will use it every day until its untimely demise / upgrade. It's worth paying a little extra to help ensure my source of
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by jexe 16y ago
Isn't HN's particular distortion the point of the exercise?

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