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by johnrob 16y ago
It also improved the field of view for the display — you can view the display from an oblique angle and it looks great. This could get annoying in public places, where you don't want people looking at your phone.
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by johnrob 16y ago
"DuckDuckGo does not include referrer information in their links. This means that when you click on a link at DuckDuckGo, the site you are going to does not know where you come from." Assuming they're refering to an ad, and not a search res
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by johnrob 16y ago
Yes, but this site would be incredibly dull if people didn't. It would just be employees making factual statements about their own companies.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Is the app store trend finally showing a crack? At some point, devices are going to discover the same thing that PCs already know - web apps are better than native software for most things. Once flash arrives for real this trend will real
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by johnrob 16y ago
I lost any trust for Skype the first time they emailed me that I had 7 days to use some credit or they would confiscate all of it. How is that not theft?
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by johnrob 16y ago
I like your take on smartphones. People are grossly underestimating their potential due to current limitations of computing power. My prediction is that as the iPhone gets faster, the iPad becomes less desirable.
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by johnrob 16y ago
I completely agree. Most folks interested in working for a startup have founder ambitions themselves. When you really think about it, if you're going to ride the roller coaster, you may as well do it as a founder. Otherwise (unless you c
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by johnrob 16y ago
There is a law of nature at play: the greater your desire to make money, the more time you spend selling. Holds true in every field.
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by johnrob 16y ago
8.25 million / 20 K per startup = 412.5 startups!
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by johnrob 16y ago
I wonder if rejecting flash is Apple's 21st century version of not licensing their operating system. In the 80's, nobody knew such a move was a death magnet. Perhaps missing the mobile flash train could be something similar today. Interes
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by johnrob 16y ago
There's not nearly enough data to make decent conclusions about national teams. They don't play often enough, and when they do the rosters are never the same. To make a decent prediction you have to use the final roster (submitted to FIFA
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by johnrob 16y ago
Every time I propose that the web will win out on devices, the argument of inaccessible mobile hardware always comes up. The best counter argument is justin.tv - that runs in a browser, and clearly has no problem finding your camera. Why
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by johnrob 16y ago
Very interesting. I would love it if mysql server natively supported a json interface like this. The db would become a web service... how trendy!
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by johnrob 16y ago
What's the major difference between eTacts and Xobni, or are they more or less competitors?
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by johnrob 16y ago
"I’m coming to the market several years behind most of my competitors and will be playing catchup for quite some time" Unless your competitors have significant secret sauce, playing catchup is a lot more efficient than leading. The unfair
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by johnrob 16y ago
Exactly, I don't think this project will get far trying to deliver privacy at the expense of redundancy/availability.
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by johnrob 16y ago
"What if your HD drops dead or something?" This is the crux of the matter. You've got two options: store your data locally, or store it in the cloud. Local storage minimizes the chance of loss; Cloud storage sacrifices you privacy. Pick y
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by johnrob 16y ago
I think it's the loyal fan base that allows Apple to define new products. They listen to Apple, because Apple has repeatedly delivered great experiences in the past. Very few companies have this power.
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by johnrob 16y ago
That device would be very useful for crooks. [EDIT] Combined with some custom software, that device could be the easiest way to copy someone's CC information. A waiter could swipe the card on his iPhone, before running it on the restaurant
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by johnrob 16y ago
Discoverability on iPhoneOS also suffers from the lack of a mouse pointer, since that takes 'hovering' out of the equation. On the desktop we take for granted the ability to mouseover something to test for clickability (the common case bei
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by johnrob 16y ago
When I order a computer with more memory and a bigger monitor, is that a new product too?
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by johnrob 16y ago
The iPad is very similar to the iPod touch... calling it a new product is a stretch.
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by johnrob 16y ago
How about adding this to the header or footer? <a href=" http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&#62 ; Search</a>
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by johnrob 16y ago
Same goes for Apple and the uprising against their banning of non-native development tools. Facebook is not the web, and iPhones are not computers.
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by johnrob 16y ago
Does anyone know how to get rid of this new left bar?
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by johnrob 16y ago
The poem got me thinking critically as well. Here is how I rationalized it: No single program can ever predict the output of another one, because the program doing the predicting could theoretically be embedded in the program being analyze
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by johnrob 16y ago
I think we have as much a knowledge problem as a food problem. If cheaper food has more calories, then for heaven's sake eat less of it! Split a supersized big mac meal into breakfast/lunch/dinner and you'll hit your daily caloric target
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by johnrob 16y ago
I'd go a bit further and say that the web has already won. At the moment, mobile hardware is still too slow to provide decent web browser experience (which is why we use native apps).
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by johnrob 16y ago
I definitely wouldn't hire a job hopper who is dumb enough to not somehow cover that up on his resmue...
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by johnrob 16y ago
He probably informs clients of the terms before providing services.

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