junklight

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by junklight 15y ago
it's got bugger all to do with any gods or deities. I can't help noticing that the natural tendency of the human species is to expand and adapt - that is what we are. I also notice that the various movements that advocate more basic livin
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by junklight 15y ago
So rather focused on my current company for anything to be fleshed out past the hand waving stage. Here are two that I would like to tackle but don't have the resources for. Both games which are not my field but which my daydream is to setu
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by junklight 15y ago
but the fascinating thing here is that evan Iran, who explicitly see it as an existential threat - which is way more serious than "won't you think of the children", seem unable to even think of disconnecting it entirely. There is a certain
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by junklight 15y ago
So we get all up in arms about the likes of Google knowing what we buy, and Apple knowing where we are but this information is already collected and I'm not convinced that it's always thought through. To pick two random examples from the hu
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by junklight 15y ago
the decision to invest the $100M is a business decision. Wanting the laws changed to favour your business decision is understandable I guess but if you extend that line of thinking - why aren't they lobbying for, oh I don't know, people ha
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by junklight 15y ago
We started our company just after the birth of my second child and then my daughter was born as we were in the early days. We are pretty much self funded (we've had some seed funding but not a lot) and it's been a long hard slog but all tha
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by junklight 15y ago
I started off building something like this a while ago (and never got round to finishing it). I like your implementation better. One interesting feature I had which you don't is polyrythms http://code.google.com/p/drumscript/source/browse/
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by junklight 15y ago
So as far as I can tell the kindle app is a big reason why a lot of people use the ipad - kicking it off is going to hurt Apple in terms of publicity and users. Apple tend to be quite good at acting in their own interests. What worries me m
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by junklight 15y ago
The current first answer is the best "Mayans won't know what day it is :)" ha ha More seriously I can't believe anyone thinks this has some currency and its particularly depressing to see it on HN
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by junklight 15y ago
Interestingly I've just been doing staff reviews with some of my team and one of the pieces of feedback to one of the team (who is very very capable) was "stop being so stoic" - complain more about the pain points. The reason being is that
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by junklight 15y ago
In one of those co-incidence moments cmsj predicted this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508174 Android may have lots of share but all the companies working on it are working on slim margins and don't have big resources to
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by junklight 15y ago
Excellent take on it. This has been bothering me for a bit in the "android takes the market share" reporting. It totally misses the point that Apple makes a ton of money off it's bit of the market but the android segment is full of lots of
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by junklight 15y ago
yes but your trivial "1 step" is actually - build a world class, global scale search engine that is at least as good as googles. There is no sign whatsoever that they are even trying - search in facebook is pretty basic IMO and frequently f
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by junklight 15y ago
It's interesting - the analysts paint these lovely pictures where android (I know this article includes RIM as well) is doing swimmingly, and of course it is doing well overall. But the individual stories of the companies that make up the '
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by junklight 15y ago
So seriously? you think that the risk I might go through a border crossing and have data that I know is there taken without warrant is the same as cell phone companies holding the same data (it's just the other end of the connection) and be
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by junklight 15y ago
So once again the message seems to be: promising but it isn't done yet. Logic would suggest that the positives of an early, not ready, release - say 100k sales would be totally outweighed by the negative: popular opinion saying "tablet X is
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by junklight 16y ago
Perhaps the intersection of people who think "it's just a big phone and I really want a laptop" and people who develop for android is quite high. Still - given Honeycomb is being touted as the "ipad killer", and ignoring the silliness of th
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by junklight 16y ago
-10 for piggybacking on the color hype +100 for a spot on idea. (and no it's not just dropbox for photos - it should find and deduplicate and centralise them. Plus it should be able to read the libraries of all of the major photo organisati
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by junklight 16y ago
I think is spot on. My children inherit my old iphones (no sims) and I'm going to set them up - will be interesting to see the photostreams from round my house and the places we go... (and if you are wondering I'm from the Bill Joy school o
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by junklight 16y ago
looks at my rant elsewhere on the page looks at this succinct post that gets right to the point learns a lesson
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by junklight 16y ago
And how is this the only review I will ever need? Someone who clearly wants a laptop and not an ipad? For me it hasn't replaced my laptop - I moved to an 11" air for that. The ipad replaces all the other stuff that filled my office and my b
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by junklight 16y ago
My ipad hasn't replaced my laptop (I got an Macbook Air 11 for that) what it has replaced is all the other crap I used to carry around when travelling - books, media, stuff I did on my phone but is much nicer on a big screen, music making
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by junklight 16y ago
new devices are going to change the way we use our windowing managers. For example on my air things close and open so fast I try to close most things (especially those that remember their state) when I'm not looking at them - I don't minimi
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by junklight 16y ago
you want the pre funding valuation: post funding is valuation plus investment normally so: $2m and your share of that - 2.25% if I've done my sums right. You could probably ask for a bit more for being willing to take a punt on them raising
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by junklight 16y ago
I work inside dropbox. Means I can leave my desk and pick my air and go and work somewhere else without thinking about it and without relying on a network connection. As a special bonus there is an extra level of backup (on top of the mercu
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by junklight 16y ago
Yes - I'm really struggling to see why anyone who delivers video would do anything other than: does it support H.264? if not then play with flash. which is easy. Especially compared to - re-encode all my stuff and change complex encoding wo
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by junklight 16y ago
"magic" devices to make you healthier/perform better/more wonderful have quite a long history of making money so with the right person probably is a great investment and there is a whole world of people investing in this, that and the other
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by junklight 16y ago
I missed this the first time round so thank you. BTW Dear Authors, I appreciate that your site context means that "book.pdf" is meaningful on your site but when I download it.....
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by junklight 16y ago
I assume this was posted for the comedy value. Phil Plaits debunking of it is much more entertaining though: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/27/gi... (update: I see the pravda version has lots of extra stuff added l
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by junklight 16y ago
hmm. My take on it was that he was trying to be "thought provoking" and that it came out a bit heavy handed.

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