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by jonnycat 15y ago
There are a lot of interesting companies in the space now. A couple that come to mind are http://www.betterlesson.org/ , in Boston, who are building a way for teachers to share lesson plans and other resources; and http://www.learnboost.
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How and why iOS and Mac devs should use the iTunes Affiliate Link Program(coursenotesapp.com)
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We use Google Translate where I work for a some very small customer service related tasks. Our business is not "built on" Google Translate (and has nothing to do with translation), but it solves some small problems for us and is easily wor
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by jonnycat 15y ago
The section on deprecation appears to say that the service may be deprecated without a deprecation period "providing the Deprecated Version of the Service could create a substantial economic burden as determined by Google in its reasonable
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by jonnycat 15y ago
This is a bit of a slap in the face -- could they not rate limit the service and charge for it?
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The math is about the relative costs and benefits of altruistic behaviors. Altruistic behaviors must be a net benefit to an individual or group in terms of reproductive success, or else it would die out of a population. For a business ana
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by jonnycat 15y ago
Indeed, these kinds of altruistic behaviors have been demonstrated many times and in many different ways in simulation. It is interesting to see this implemented with real robots, but it is not at all surprising that the same dynamics wou
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I made the comparison in the sense that if you want to use another language on the client-side (like CoffeeScript, for example) you end up compiling down to JavaScript as the low-level implementation.
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Suddenly CoffeeScript makes a lot more sense to me: "the language itself is held hostage by browser vendors, some of whom have shown a strong inclination to not give a fuck about owning up to and fixing their egregious mistakes" So true. T
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by jonnycat 16y ago
I don't dare to make any sweeping generalizations about this, but I would love to see how age, location and amount of time spent working at startups correlates with some of the opinions here. I suspect there might be some interesting (if n
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by jonnycat 16y ago
Gaming is a cruel mistress for developers. It's so hit-driven that it can be hard to really predict what will do well and what won't. Something that is a smashing success on one platform might just be completely overlooked on another.
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Awesome idea -- very useful. Thank you!
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I "failed" (your word, not mine) on the App Store for almost two years before getting to some decent, steady success with an iPad app. I put out several apps myself and on behalf of two different employers since day one of the app store, a
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by jonnycat 16y ago
The universities are generally very good, but of course, it always depends on your specific field of study. Unless you're shooting for an academic career path, I don't think the competitiveness is likely to be an issue. In fact, because o
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by jonnycat 16y ago
Chalmers was great, and I miss Göteborg! I'm working at a startup in Boston now. The masters has been a huge benefit to me, though my job these days doesn't exactly relate to the program I was in (Complex Adaptive Systems). One interesting
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by jonnycat 16y ago
You may want consider doing a master's program abroad. In many countries (in Scandinavia in particular) the programs are free and you pay just for living expenses, which you should be able to cover with some contracting work. The programs
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As a fellow HN reader, I'd tell you to check out our app CourseNotes, http://www.coursenotesapp.com , though it's aimed at students, and isn't generally intended for handwritten notes. Oops, that doesn't sound convincing -- guess I'm just
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by jonnycat 16y ago
Have you been able to measure engagement of the FB connect users vs. the regular signup users? It's been said that while it's easier to get a user to sign in with FB connect, those users are less likely to stick around and do anything mean