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by jyap 14y ago
Should be noted that they are all joke reviews.
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by jyap 14y ago
Nice gameplay and story. I found your earnings online which I found interesting. I'm thinking your poker career might resemble that of many other professional poker players: http://www.pokerpages.com/player-profile/kris-fields.htm But dat
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by jyap 14y ago
As a former Victorian now living in the US, I think it's apt to point out that 46 degrees Celsius is 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit and 70 kilometers is 43.495 miles.
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by jyap 14y ago
It is because the PC industry doesn't innovate. It was driven to commoditization and 4 to 5 percent profit margins.
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by jyap 14y ago
It's basic economies of scale. --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale So the actual view point is that the intention isn't to "rip off the early adopter". It is that the early adopter isn't subsidized by a product that i
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by jyap 14y ago
I wouldn't say a terrible waste of bandwidth given the novelty trade off it provides to people like us. Besides, there's more wasted bandwidth from dubious user generated content per second floating around the internet at any second. If you
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by jyap 14y ago
If you've initially installed a 32-bit OS and you expect a seamless upgrade to a 64-bit OS then it's honestly a use case that shouldn't be looked at or have resources devoted to solving.
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by jyap 14y ago
This is pretty funny. I was just in SF in June and was waiting around that booth for about 20 minutes while my wife shopped. Overhearing the guy (must have been the same guy Adir) was certainly interesting. It would start off with the fre
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by jyap 14y ago
TLDR summary: "I recently upgraded from a mid-2008 17″ MacBook Pro to a mid-2012 13″ MacBook Air" "I finally had statistical evidence to backup the feelings shared in the development community that Apple doesn’t prioritize OS X anymore" iOS
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by jyap 14y ago
I was playing around with jQuery Mobile the other night to create a simple iPhone compatible web form. I found the WYSIWYG builder Codiqa on their web site was really handy. It was literally 5 mins of building, download, and then tweak the
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by jyap 14y ago
I agree. I follow the cocoacontrols.com Twitter feed and this is exactly the same order of recently featured projects. Not cool. BTW, thanks for the site Aaron!
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by jyap 14y ago
In certain situations there is an engineering cost to miniaturization of components.
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The logos are practically the same. Cool story though.
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I think that more experienced programmers can achieve the same results as The Kid. In a larger organization, you may have separation of programming roles so you may not have a 'Kid' at your disposal. If you have a method for rapid prototyp
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by jyap 14y ago
A lot of places just have legacy code and policies. You have no evidence of your claim that they store passwords in clear text. Their restrictions may in fact have cut down on widespread security outbreaks from users who use the same passwo
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by jyap 14y ago
My main issue is that the article doesn't make logical sense and you signed it off: Tom, a grumpy developer. I think you are tapping into the negative sentiments of some other recent articles. Namely the "Do You Really Want to be Doing T
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by jyap 14y ago
To be fair, that page does mention: Currently, no API key is required, but this will likely change so we can better monitor usage and enforce the Terms of Use (below).
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by jyap 14y ago
2 troll comments in the same post. Man, I wish PG or someone would just ban some people.
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by jyap 14y ago
This is awesome. Anyone have a link to this? There is even an ASCII penis in the "sample output" section, but apparently none of this raised any flags from Hakin9's "review board".
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by jyap 14y ago
You can create apps on top of app.net that can be used by non-members Truth be told, that's not what they had in mind. No offense, all you're doing is data crunching. "3rd party apps" are all about user interaction. This then drives eng
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by jyap 14y ago
To give more of a background, Apple acquired Chomp on February 23, 2012. You can see screenshots of the horizontal card based interface here from the original Chomp app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chomp/id348286549?mt=8 IMHO, the team
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by jyap 14y ago
The problem with 3rd party apps is that the participation will always be a subset of the overall user base of App.net. The overall user base of App.net is constrained by financial limitations (pay to play yearly). So if someone creates an a
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by jyap 14y ago
Developers are already optimizing for keyword search. The article also assumes users aren't already performing long tail searches. The bigger problem is that the search algorithm is broken and favors apps which have more raw downloads. Th
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by jyap 14y ago
Apple is a company that doesn't make very many acquisitions. I think that the team at Chomp pretty much took over the App Store or at least have a very big say. All the changes are worse for indie developers. The changes also favor raw app
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by jyap 14y ago
For a count of number of users, check out the following count for: https://tent.tent.is/ Currently at 429 and growing quickly. That account auto-follows new users. That's also a good way (for now) to explore the other accounts ( https://
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by jyap 14y ago
This isn't Apple's style. Apple has planned obsolescence. The other thing is that there has been over the air upgrades since iOS 5, so people do upgrade their iOS version. From my multiple app stats (thousands of users), less than 2 perc
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"As traffic to the status site began to ramp up, we increased the number of dynos running from 8 to 64 and finally 90." Wait, why isn't there some caching layer? eg. Generate a static page or use Varnish. This part makes no sense at all. At
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No one's mentioned it but iPhone to iPhone the best alternative is iMessage.
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There's got to be a bug because this was on the front page 6 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486108 Well the link in the previous post had a trailing slash.
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It's late so maybe I'm missing something but is there a way to make money out of this for sellers and turn a profit? Not just recoup some costs of a reserved instance(s) they no longer need?

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