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by jexe 17y ago
What's happening here is probably similar to Apple's position on coverflow imitations - there have been lots of rejections for apps that imitate coverflow poorly, even without private APIs. Speaking with somebody directly about this, and ba
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by jexe 17y ago
Seems like the real threat here is training a user that it's ok to use third party web sites to tell them what password to use. That's a very bad habit.
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by jexe 17y ago
After a certain IQ, I think it's 120, the rest is about emotional maturity and how deeply your understanding goes. It would be a mistake to underestimate the importance of people like this. He may not be the largest "producer" or whateve
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by jexe 17y ago
What makes you say that geeks are not desirable - and could never be?
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by jexe 17y ago
I am way too excited about the possibilities to be outraged that I'll have some interesting work to do.
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by jexe 17y ago
I suppose "your" prone to these imprecisions as well? ;)
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by jexe 17y ago
This guy is writing a blog explaining the comic XKCD using a dry, faintly sarcastic tone. Note: He seems to have issues with XKCD's apparent feminist slant.
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by jexe 17y ago
Impressed more with their ability to get the word out about the stunt than the stunt itself.
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by jexe 17y ago
Hopefully he'll get there. Anyway, it's a good place to start a series - essentially, how to start. Maybe it's not a typical symptom in the HN community as much, but in general, I really hear a lot of people working on startups from the ou
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by jexe 17y ago
I believe you, but do you have something(s) in mind?
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by jexe 17y ago
Not exactly the first - Zagat released one a couple months ago: http://www.zagat.com/Discuss/ForumPosts.aspx?SNP=NFZE&TI... Albeit a slightly different variety of AR (using the compass and GPS, but no camera. Still fun). Perhaps the
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by jexe 17y ago
If you're trying to get some work done in Manhattan, give up trying to find a cafe with a seat, and hit the Rose Reading Room at the NYPL. Free wifi, lots of outlets, and it's freakin dramatically gorgeous. http://www.nypl.org/research/ch
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by jexe 17y ago
Hey, look at that! Tried it and it works. Thanks for the correction.
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by jexe 17y ago
Well for one thing, Apple does not let you give out promo codes for 17+ apps, which is a big handicap for promotion of your work. Similarly, I wrote the Jishobot app and had to change its rating up to 17+. I'm calling bullshit on Phil Schi
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by jexe 17y ago
All that this really doing is diluting their own censorship rules until they're meaningless. It's as if every movie featuring actors showing their legs above the knees was rated R.
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by jexe 17y ago
You know, I was hesitant to click through, assuming TechCrunch picked up another hacker's internal docs and they were slinging secret strategy around again. But it's actually just an extraordinary layout of their culture.
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by jexe 17y ago
I've got a language translation dictionary in the app store. When I tried to get an important 3.0 bugfix through, I was rejected by the same logic, until I changed the rating to 17+. Crazy thing is, you can set your app rating to "Frequen
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by jexe 17y ago
Totally. More generally, setting lots of small, tight deadlines really helps force my focus, if you're a deadline-driven type maybe you might feel the same way. I ran into the term "forced efficiency" the other day and it pretty much enco
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by jexe 17y ago
And, you know, there are 169 million other voters in the US, so don't bother voting because it won't make any difference.
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by jexe 17y ago
I don't think they had sinister or non-genuine intentions; I think they were deluded by their previous successes that this would be a clear win, and went fast into it without considering the obvious (to us now, at least). They were mistake
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by jexe 17y ago
Some interesting points, but obviously a coder bait topic. I'd argue that the best coders express themselves to humans and computers both pretty well: with clarity and brevity, and without introducing unnecessary new concepts. And they cov
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by jexe 17y ago
VCs seem to start with whether they like you and get swept up in your vision, and work backwards from there to come up with reasons why they should or shouldn't invest. The same probably goes for any supposedly rational decision founded on
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by jexe 18y ago
So RussB is looking at the summary of all these apps and declaring them crap? Sounds something like the flood of bogus app reviews in iTunes put there by people who haven't even downloaded the apps. But he has a point - In a (somewhat) ope
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by jexe 18y ago
That's awesome, congrats! We were lucky enough to get Outalot onto the new york Thrillist, I agree with fallentimes - it's great exposure. We saw about 3000-4000 new visitors, many of whom were engaged enough that they even bothered to cre
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by jexe 18y ago
So Yelp puts businesses up for public criticism and simultaneously try to sell advertising to those same businesses.. that puts them in a tricky spot of trying to stay fair and still make money. The local advertising market is hot, but mayb
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by jexe 18y ago
Could be that we're just jealous of how thoroughly the press covered their adequate-but-not-earth-shattering startup. ;)
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10 questions that LBS data can answer(blog.outalot.com)
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by jexe 18y ago
A lot of times, buying a company is just a fancy way to hire a bunch of good people. In this case, it would be people with good product development skills who are thinking a lot about the same problems Twitter is. Sounds like a good fit t
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by jexe 18y ago
There goes Apple's main motivation to try and prevent iPhones from being unlocked.
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by jexe 18y ago
Is pngcrush still in vogue, or is there something better these days? That tool was a huge help over the years. http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/

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