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by jpk 15y ago
Note that the software's EULA comes into play, as well. It could very well have a clause that disallows reverse-engineering or decompiling altogether.
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by jpk 15y ago
I think requiring an addon is optimal, and I'll explain why. I see "why can't it just be an option?" a lot. Maintaining an option has a cost. Every option introduced in software creates an additional code path that must be maintained, and
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by jpk 15y ago
"Skinny people who can eat anything they want without putting on weight tend to be very fidgety - they never keep totally still. Just wiggling a leg all day can use a large amount of energy." Hm, this is interesting. I've never heard that
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by jpk 15y ago
This thread may sound silly, but there's some truth here. Time you spend waiting for the idea is time you waste actually implementing an idea . PMF doesn't happen in your head, it happens when interacting with the market. Get somethin
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by jpk 15y ago
Related to your key #1, this[1] talk by Robert Lustig (who's work has seen some exposure on HN in the past) has a pretty good run-down of how some of the carbohydrates are metabolized. Specifically, he points to fructose as the culprit whe
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by jpk 15y ago
Probably because they're not mass-produced. For some enterprise-level prototype printers at Lexmark, it costs around 40-50k to produce one, but once they reach production, the consumer only pays a few thousand for one.
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by jpk 15y ago
I agree, this is a little dramatic. Another thing I'd point out is that the author is putting way too much emphasis on the login part of the experience. Is OAuth seamless? Clearly not. But it works, and it's a one-time thing. If you wa
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by jpk 15y ago
Not having worked, or knowing anyone who has worked in an Apple store, inferring the magnitude of the event given the procedure is difficult. Have they ever done this before? If so, what happened when they did?
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by jpk 15y ago
You're reading a comment I didn't write. I was replying to "Withholding the truth isn't lying." Telling the truth in the privacy of your office isn't withholding the truth. How public you should be about this sort of thing is debatable (
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by jpk 15y ago
This is an attitude I've never agreed with. Say you're an investor. Would you rather this CEO put on an I-know-what-I'm-doing face, and imply that he's got this all under control? Or would you rather he be upfront about his lack of exper
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by jpk 15y ago
I'm not sure crowd-sourcing this problem to youtube was the best idea, but I like his humility. I pushed it to my twitter/facebook to give it the viral-nudge.
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by jpk 15y ago
In addition to what openbear pointed out, it should be noted that the GPL requires build scripts to be included with the source. (What good would source do anybody without the three-bajillion-line Makefile that builds it?) GPLv3 also exte
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by jpk 15y ago
For sure, I'm not defending them. I'm just trying to drive home the point that Apple is going to do what's good for Apple. Unless the community makes the promptness of source releases a business concern for Apple, they have no incentive
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by jpk 15y ago
I think the problem is that doing so is a zero-revenue effort. Why spend man-hours putting together an automated workflow for source release when you can just do it manually (and lazily) every time someone complains? That doesn't justify
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by jpk 15y ago
There are, in fact, perfectly good methods for permanently disposing of nuclear waste, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires that the waste material be retrievable for a certain period after emplacement. So we have to get rid of i
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by jpk 15y ago
Indeed. http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
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by jpk 15y ago
The larger the retailer, the more likely they will offer payment methods other than/in addition to PayPal. As the retailer, it's in your best interest to give the customer the greatest possible number of ways to give you their money.
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by jpk 15y ago
> Airpush sounds like a really good way to turn inactive users into active uninstallers. Or inactive users of the Ad-full version of your app into buyers of the Ad-free version of your app. If your app is a vitamin, and the ads are ann
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by jpk 15y ago
I can't speak for Canada, but in the United States it's all in your employment agreement. I work as a contractor for a Fortune 500 company, and I have a project on the side. I made it clear to my contracting agency that I had a side proje
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by jpk 15y ago
> You set out to write a bash script to move some files, you suddenly realize an amazingly better way to do bash scripting, which makes you realize some basic change in the OS that would make UI 1000% friendlier, then you realize we sho
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by jpk 15y ago
Indeed. rhizome's quote is taken out of context. The google docs example isn't about word processing, it's about collaborative editing. When your options are using a tool like google docs or emailing around a file, only staunch idealism
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by jpk 15y ago
Solution: RSS! I'm a google reader user, and when I find things like this, I toss them in there. If it's not interesting enough going forward, I can always unsubscribe. Of course, if the author is using twitter/facebook/whateverelse to h
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by jpk 16y ago
Whether you can see points or not, I would think "I upvoted" comments with little content would still get downvoted. Although, one side effect might be: When you can see a comment is highly scored, a reader may think, "everybody gets this g
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by jpk 16y ago
Sure, I think it's fair to say YC skims good teams off the top and the average goodness of the remaining pool is decreased. I'm not disputing that. I'm disputing the idea that the negative signaling for a team that doesn't make it in is a
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by jpk 16y ago
Indeed, the YC rejection letter says basically this. (For the benefit of other readers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2422032 ) The problem here is that everyone is looking at acceptance/rejection as bi-implication when it's not. G
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by jpk 16y ago
I agree, it's a little obscure. But to be fair, the page is so simple, and there's so few things to explore, it's hard to not get curious about what's in the corners. On the other hand, a poorly calibrated monitor could potentially make t
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by jpk 16y ago
In your case, you had a user base you could pry at to push the next app up the chart. Knowing the method by which you did this is valuable for developers in a similar position, for sure. However, what advice might you give to developers t
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by jpk 16y ago
Very true. I almost expected there to be an "Add to cart" button at the end of the article. :-P But seriously, there are cases in which both hiding and flaunting prices make sense. If you believe cost is a competitive advantage and your c
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by jpk 16y ago
Indeed. Those giant dump trucks often employed in open-pit mines operate the same way. Like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebherr_T_282B Note the transmission type is listed as "AC electric"
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by jpk 16y ago
In fact, an article about this was on HN in the not-too-distant past. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359081

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