jmbrook

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by jmbrook 4y ago
I never quite understood why they don't just rebrand the Pfizer vaccine (or effective one) and move on. What is the point of having all that propaganda apparatus if you can even do that?
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by jmbrook 4y ago
Interesting angle there for a form of 'insider trading' - people in tv/film industry could easily buy this up and slide their assets into their own creations. What I don't quite get is why the royalty payers don't s
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Deepmind: New algo that generates paintings using a neural visual grammar system(twitter.com)
1 points by jmbrook 5y ago|0 comments
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by jmbrook 6y ago
A brief article about the lessons learned on our recent adventure with Flutter. TLDR - really quite liked it.
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Lessons learnt from first Flutter app(teazel.com)
4 points by jmbrook 6y ago|1 comments
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What Unicorn Money-Sinkholes Disrupt(wolfstreet.com)
2 points by jmbrook 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: World's Biggest Crossword App
4 points by jmbrook 7y ago|2 comments
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by jmbrook 8y ago
A minor tip I saw on a video about the development of the Doom levels was to do them in reverse. The theory being that you get better at designing levels with time and the best levels should be near the beginning. Always liked the idea, but
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by jmbrook 9y ago
Just released a new app to teach people how to solve cryptic crosswords - initial version is on iOS but the Android version is coming soon.
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Show HN: Cyptic Tutor – an app to teach cryptic crosswords(cryptictutor.com)
4 points by jmbrook 9y ago|1 comments
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by jmbrook 9y ago
https://wolfstreet.com/2017/11/07/how-can-a-company-once-wor... Has a fairly bleak write up. It makes the point that if enriching the founders is the aim they are doing pretty well.
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by jmbrook 9y ago
What is remarkable is that given how low interest rates have been and the whole thing still collapses, it makes it looking very suspicious the leveraging was ever in the company's interest. As one of the comments says it'll be use
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Toys ‘R’ Us Melts Down, Files for Bankruptcy, Bonds Collapse(wolfstreet.com)
2 points by jmbrook 9y ago|1 comments
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by jmbrook 9y ago
Interesting analysis of the death of Jawbone. Wolfstreet is the other site I tend to visit along with HN, between the two bubbles I'm hoping to get a sensible average :) They (wolfstreet) are pretty bleak about most finance/tech&#
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Silicon Valley’s “Death by Overfunding”: Next Unicorn Collapses(wolfstreet.com)
1 points by jmbrook 9y ago|1 comments
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Interesting take on SNAP's ipo(wolfstreet.com)
2 points by jmbrook 10y ago|0 comments
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by jmbrook 10y ago
Full process and results here - https://github.com/Alnaimi-/database-benchmark
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What a 3 month extensive benchmark study of Graph vs. RDBMS shows us(reddit.com)
3 points by jmbrook 10y ago|1 comments
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Crowdmix going into administration(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by jmbrook 10y ago|0 comments
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by jmbrook 11y ago
I think a more accurate example is it like saying: "don't they know cars predate the Tesla" and given it is electric all prior cars don't matter. Just showing my age really :^)
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by jmbrook 11y ago
I would agree with the pre/post iPhone shift - but the likes of EA/Glu and other major games companies shifted an awful lot of apps pre iPhone. The big shift is that touch became the only game in town (along with all the associate
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by jmbrook 11y ago
Small nit pick, but I would be worried about a mobile development place that thinks it has only been around 8 years, not heard of J2ME, Symbian and Windows CE etc? I do agree with the idea of hiring decent engineers and just training them,
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by jmbrook 11y ago
First of congratulations on the app, it is fulfilling a real need. You have cracked the first problem of getting people to download + use +care about the app. I like the idea of doing the survey however from my experience (we did a paid for
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by jmbrook 12y ago
From my view of the world the "pre Apple" app marketplace was much worse. With our J2ME apps (doing apps since 2002) we would have to distribute to 30+ different middlemen (Telcogames et al) each with differing submission requirem