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by kenrikm 15y ago
It's funny, that's the first thing that hit me (Lobster). If you're dealing with Graphic Designers/Art Directors they will notice right away.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I would be interested to find out how MikaMobile did sales wise with their Kindle Fire version of Battleheart. It would be a good gauge to base what the total potential a developer has for supporting the Fire and ignoring the general Androi
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I disagree, I have interviewed graduates of both for positions in my team and I have not found that the applicants that came from a prestigious university where inherently better than from a small obscure college. What you get out of your C
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I would disagree with #2, At work my email inbox is certainly a todo list. I use IM, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, Forums to converse. Actually 99% of my personal email is companies sending me updates (we got your online payment etc.) It's funny
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by kenrikm 15y ago
That's not always an option. Check out this Article (also on the HN front page) http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics...
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I think you're missing the point, If you're in this just to get wealthy there are many other professions that offer a much safer route to get there (Lawyer, Doctor) I don't think you just fall into being an entrepreneur for the money, other
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I don't think that the team at Loopt deserves anything less than a huge amount of respect. They built something big and it did not work out, it happens. It's easy to sit and play armchair quarterback but I doubt anyone who has ever tried to
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Good point, Sony still has the market for portable cassette players. The problem is that that market is dead and long replaced. I was just discussing this yesterday, the best thing Apple has done is to not let it's prior success prevent it
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by kenrikm 15y ago
It seems like that would be really, really expensive unless NASA actually wanted to help them out. I think it's mutually beneficial NASA is trying to reach a younger generation as they struggle to stay relevant given that they don't even ha
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Not sure how long this will last given the industries history of downgrading plans after launch however for now it's a step forward to be able to use the data you purchase the way you want to.
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Verizon offers New iPad Hotspot Feature Free(macworld.com)
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Totally understood, and I'm well aware of the increased memory footprint required once they are uncompressed. Way back in 08 when I was working on my first iPhone app you had to be very careful with memory a small animation with 120 images
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Apple pulled a clever ninja word dice, knowing that most consumers don't really know or care what the difference is. The problem Apple faces is that in BestBuy, Target Etc.. you will have sales people that don't know a lemon from an orange
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Loved the last sentence, I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm exercising. "I'm getting ready to dodge a truck"
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Do you think It's a bad thing to learn how to be physically healthy? There have been plenty of studies that show a direct correlation between being active and increased brain function.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
It's very easy to finde the OSM Licence and even easier to understand that the most important they ask for is to be properly credited. Whoever green lighted this over at Apple is going to have a very bad day.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
This parallels much of the photography community, there are people who know every technical aspect and could talk for days about what f-stop/shutter speed to use in certain circumstances etc.. And then there are people who go out and take b
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by kenrikm 15y ago
It seems Apple uses a "modified" png standard for iOS (enabled by default) that compresses the images even more when they are added to the App Bundle. http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/CgBI_file_format#Decoding
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Apple has been known to build the factories for the suppliers or at least contributing to the cost to secure the products coming out of said factory. I remember them building a factory with Samsung (ironic) and Foxxconn.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Exactly, Apple sells around 2mil+ Macs/Qtr most of which are laptops however they sell 15+mil iPads. It's easier to get volume deals on 15 million displays then it is 1-2mil.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I doubt they are using the same GPU that's in the iPad 2,I suspect that they went with a higher end GPU and made it Quad. We will have to wait for a teardown to know with 100% certainty though.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Ouch, Just ordered 32gb 4g (AT&T) $780 with tax. If I were not using it for development it would hurt a lot more however it still is about double what I would be comfortable with for my own use.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
IIRC the PS3 has 256mb of ram.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I did a test a 1024x768 PNG vs the Same PNG at 2048x1536. 299k vs 664k. So for raster images it more than doubles the footprint, however if you use vector assets there should be little impact.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
The Apple Store was live for about two minutes but a DDOS from everyone trying to pre-order brought it down and they went back to "We'll be back soon" I would love to see how many hits they are getting.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
I was a Master Armorsmith on Lowca I would bring in 20mil credits/week that had a value of around $200 on Ebay. I made thousands selling credits from SWG on eBay which was great for a teenager (I was 17 - now I'm 27) They killed the game in
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by kenrikm 15y ago
Anyone ever play SimCity? if you don't keep a good balance between growth/revenue bad things happen, I don't see why that same concept does not apply to startups. Now I have not seen their revenue numbers but I would think that they must b
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by kenrikm 15y ago
The wisest people I have ever known spoke very little however they always asked great questions that cut through the crap once they had all of the facts.
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by kenrikm 15y ago
For a scientific study it's really lacking facts which makes this is little more than fluff journalism/science. It states that someone driving a BMW is more likely to cut someone off then someone driving an economy car. However did they tr
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by kenrikm 15y ago
ClicktoFlash/ClicktoPlugin (Mac) is great, you only execute flash if you want to. This little app saves me hours of battery life on my Macbook Air. I don't know what's available on Windows/Linux however if you're on a Mac I can't recommend

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