joe-mccann

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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   Here's a tip: move to Austin. 1) No state income tax. Read that again. 2) Cost of living is at least HALF of SF/SV/NYC 3) Real estate is actually affordable, even close in. Now, I know there is the argument for needing to be in SF/SV f
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   The reason his assertion is false as the growth of Android is not tied to a single carrier or device. It has more to do with the OEMs adopting Android over Symbian or WP7. Motorola became cashflow positive by using Android. HTC can't keep
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   True but I'm not mentioning earnings at all; simply based on revs seems like a LOFTY valuation.
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   So based on $133/million per month in revs is ~ $1.6 billion this year. Current valuation on SecondMarket = $50 billion $50 billion/$1.6 Billion = a 31.25 multiple. 5 to 10 times revenues seems to be a reasonable way to value startups/priva
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   Austin, SF/SV and NYC are all in the same boat: Tech talent demand is unbelievably high. If you have a LinkedIn profile with reasonable skills (hell, put "HTML5" in your profile and watch what happens) you probably are already aware of th
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   Poladroid appears to be the front-running competitor to Instagram as Poladroid is currently Android only as Instagram is iPhone only. http://poladroid.me (private beta) Easter egg on the site.
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   Considering the unsustainable run-up recently, 100, 200, or even 300 points in a selloff shouldn't be surprising.
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   by joe-mccann 16y ago

   ha nice one, but astley video is blocked.
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   Vapor.js(github.com)

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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    I heard that guy is storing oauth credentials. ;-)
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Oh McGruber and you're Apple fanaticism, this is the second thing I've read today by highly regarded devs attempting to defecate on Android's stance on "open-ness" and it is simply pathetic. The Apple fanboys are clinging to desperate tacti
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Heroku is awesome for ruby development. If you're attempting node.js development, they do have a private beta (which I've tested), but is somewhat limited as I believe it uses an NGINX proxy so doing something like websockets with node.js
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    I did this a long time ago, almost the exact same thing, but I actually parsed trending topics and searched Amazon for ANY product, not just books, based on the content of the trending topic. I started out with books, but moved on to all p
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Apple could "stop" this very easily. Don't allow access to native hardware APIs through the browser via JavaScript; thus, making "webapps" inferior to "native apps" based on capabilities of interacting with the hardware. Phonegap, FTW.
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    And what would be examples of benchmarking a subjective experience? I mean, a shitty JavaScript engineer can make any UX shitty regardless of speed of JavaScript tests, whereas a good JavaScript engineer can make a UX good with a crap inte
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Yes. Not enough historical volatility currently to price options contracts accurately.
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Actually, the reason for the insane run-up on it's inital day and second day of trading had very little to do with speculation, but more to do with TSLA being an "extremely hard to borrow" stock on those days. When a stock is hard to borro
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Secular Humanist, so I filed under non/agnon/etc. http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?page=what&secti... My opinion is that the argument FOR the existence of God is just as philosophically bankrupt to argue AGAINST the existence
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    On mobile webapps/sites, absolutely. I have built a gracefully degrading/progressively enhanced mobile website here: www.zocalodesign.com (hit/spoof with mobile browser) The effort it took me to make this site gracefully degrade was compl
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Anyone know what tech stack/language the SDK is in? Java? C++?
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    I can't imagine Safari 5+ or IE9 not supporting WebM.
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Could Google be using their search data for... equals easiest way to drive traffic to your site. Quite frankly, data that is scraped and analyzed by the algos and quant funds is probably much more relevant, but it does not mean Google could
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Was planning on doing something similar using YQL. Nice one.
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    This is complete horseshit. The "trader" was a "computer".
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    From a lofty level, yes.
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    I never said anything about a "blip" and it is far from it. The equities markets are easy to manipulate; all you need is more $$ than the other guy and if all your friends are on board, that's a lot of $$ to move the market in the directio
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    They make a ton of money on rebates: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/TraderNews.aspx?id=ETA2009-47
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Honestly, if you don't know that CNBC is to the financial markets as what the Hee Haw is to the news, then I can't help you. CNBC does NOT know what the cause of this was. The exchanges will come out with some "computer glitch" story or th
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    by joe-mccann 16y ago

    Welcome to the world of High Frequency/Algorithmic trading. In this case, essentially every person that had a "stop loss" order was just hunted down by a wave of HFT programs and all those stop loss orders were triggered, which send "market
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    by joe-mccann 17y ago

    Paul Irish is a major contributor to a number of OS web projects and a leading evangelist for HTML5 and CSS3. Yeah, like you said, he's a nobody.