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by kylec 16y ago
Eh, Joanna's a good writer but she's not really that good on the podcast. I'd prefer Myriam Joire (tnkgrl) instead - she's very entertaining on the Mobile podcast and would make a good compliment to Josh and Nilay.
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by kylec 16y ago
I don't think it's as simple as comparing the percentages - the App Store generates much more revenue than the Android market and other, similar stores on other platforms. As it stands now, the decision of whether or not to port a successfu
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by kylec 16y ago
Outright removing and/or rejecting non-exclusive apps is a recipe for a huge backlash, but I could see maybe giving better terms for exclusive apps - maybe only taking 20% instead of 30% of the sale. I'm sure there are a fair number of app
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by kylec 16y ago
Possibly, but I think it's more likely that Apple is trying to get publishers into its iBooks store by edging out Kindle and Sony.
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by kylec 16y ago
Initially I thought this, but Amazon has to pass on 70% of the sale to the publisher, and with Apple taking 30%, regardless of how much the ebook was sold for, Amazon is left with nothing.
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by kylec 16y ago
Well, it's hard to tell. When looking at the photos without any frame of reference, the phone looks enormously thick because it's hard to visualize how much smaller the face is. Apple had a similar problem when they announced the iPod 5G -
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by kylec 16y ago
It might also be due in part to the ridiculous and potentially humiliating procedures required for flight, especially international flight, that puts many people off of the idea of travelling.
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by kylec 16y ago
I must have missed something as a seven-year-old, because this is the first I've heard that blue and yellow were supposed to be opposites. To me, it always made sense that blue and orange were opposites, both conceptually and visually. The
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by kylec 16y ago
This used to be true, but there's a feature currently in testing that will allow anyone (even someone coming from Google) to propose an edit to a post. This edit proposal can be approved either by a moderator or several users with suffici
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by kylec 16y ago
If you have more than 200 rep on SE site A, you can associate that account with your account on SE site B and get a 100 rep bonus on site B. This lets users that are already familiar with the system comment and vote up on any site without h
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by kylec 16y ago
It's definitely true that there are a lot of people waiting for new questions so they can pounce with a quick answer and get a few upvotes. However, there's also a large backlog of unanswered questions as well ( http://stackoverflow.com/una
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by kylec 16y ago
Not just new users - I had no idea the page existed and I've been here for a while.
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by kylec 16y ago
I'll admit that it is a little busy (and there are a lot of gradients), but I wouldn't call it terrible . If you have specific suggestions, the designer is open to making changes: http://meta.apple.stackexchange.com/questions/291/new-desi
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Ask Different (a Stack Overflow site for Apple) has officially launched(apple.stackexchange.com)
11 points by kylec 16y ago|7 comments
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by kylec 16y ago
I came up with this question when I was reading my RSS feeds when I got to an "Ask Engadget" post that requested users to email questions to "ask [at] engadget [dawt] com". It seemed pretty silly for a popular website to obfuscate their ema
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Does email obfuscation actually work?(superuser.com)
1 points by kylec 16y ago|0 comments
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by kylec 16y ago
You are right to expect this from Microsoft, they've done it before: http://robertnyman.com/2009/01/26/microsoft-force-installs-f...
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by kylec 16y ago
The problem with that is that unless the screen size is increased proportionately, the apps will be physically smaller. On a laptop this doesn't matter, but on a touchscreen device it would make buttons on the screen harder to hit.
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by kylec 16y ago
I'm using the new Twitter client from the Mac App Store - it's quite good: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12
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by kylec 16y ago
Besides, a researcher smart enough to cure cancer is smart enough to back up their computer.
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by kylec 16y ago
I don't know, I think it's much more likely that letting Verizon host the event was a concession made to retain other control, like keeping Verizon branding off the device and letting Apple publish software updates without Verizon review.
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by kylec 16y ago
Is it possible to draw up an employment contract for yourself that has steep penalties if you're terminated? That way, even if you lose control of the board there's still a strong disincentive to getting rid of you.
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by kylec 16y ago
Initially when Quora was launched it seemed quite similar to Stack Overflow, but as the site has progressed it seems to me that it's actually quite divergent in terms of the core focus of the platform. Stack Overflow is all about getting gr
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by kylec 16y ago
It comes across as looking like a bit more of a publicity stunt than anything else I'm pretty sure that's exactly what this was
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by kylec 16y ago
Wake me when these things finally ship
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by kylec 16y ago
most startups reckon you are past it if you are over 23 Is this true?
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by kylec 16y ago
Yes, the poster is from the UK where companies' names like "Posterous" are considered plural: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
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by kylec 16y ago
You could start by spelling "Spolsky" correctly
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by kylec 16y ago
Some states may have a 30-day window, but I don't think the US does as a whole. I only had 14 days to return my Nexus One.
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by kylec 16y ago
Perhaps the anti-counterfeiting measures are too effective if the U.S. Government is having trouble printing them.

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