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by karterk 16y ago
From a marketing perspective - I know lots of people and blogs who monitor the app store for new apps and try them out. An HTML5 app means that you will not have access to this crowd.
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by karterk 16y ago
As much as I appreciate the effort that goes behind benchmarks like these - it's important that these should not be taken as some sort of holy grail. Every project is different, and those factors are far more important than generic tests li
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by karterk 16y ago
Being there at the right place at the right time definitely makes a difference. But - somehow I feel that there is always an element of luck involved in deciding that. You don't want to end up waiting and waiting and realize, oops you were
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by karterk 16y ago
Regrets are a funny thing. We did what we did because we lacked the help of "hindsight" which we have now. In that context, it's far too easy to end up criticizing ourselves. As for me, I prefer to not regret, but just learn from my past.
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by karterk 16y ago
Being already familiar with Erlang, I wish I had this resource while starting out. This is way easier to read for starting out from scratch on Erlang, and is definitely a light but comprehensive read.
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by karterk 16y ago
Actually, I think quite a lot of people won't care about this golden key thing. If they did, they wouldn't be using Facebook either.
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by karterk 16y ago
This is definitely a terrific way for learning new stuff (you have now the HN community watching you). However, don't also forget that for most applications, their success/failure will be also determined by the spit and polish applied on th
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by karterk 16y ago
Haven't we already put an end to this "PHP is crap" line of thinking? Every language has its good and bad. Any dev worth his salt should be able to understand it, rather than attaching blind faith and getting tied to one specific language o
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by karterk 16y ago
The biggest issue I see is that people are really very comfortable to emails. It's about changing their mental model. Email is something I notice people to use all the time and something which they check religiously. Convincing people to us
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by karterk 16y ago
If they had done that, I am sure you would have commented here saying it looks like a cheap imitation. Have you actually used the phone?
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by karterk 16y ago
Too early to write them off too.
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by karterk 16y ago
To their defense, that demo did look very much like a clone of Campfire.
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Ask HN: What do guys think about the Chrome web store?
2 points by karterk 16y ago|1 comments