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by mcobrien 16y ago
This is good news for startups and I'm sure great for Goodwin Proctor. Nice to see the freemium model working in the legal profession.
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Meaningless: The Rise & Fall of the Chaos Report Figures(blogs.innerworkings.com)
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by mcobrien 16y ago
This was a problem, but it was fixed with the release of iOS 4.0. Now users have to go to the app store to rate an app.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
The rules and app store review guidelines are both protected by the developer NDA so no one's going to be eager to post them. This mostly affects registered developers anyway (and I'd say there are a fair few on HN), for whom the rules are
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by mcobrien 16y ago
If you're a registered developer, you can read the just-published App Store Guidelines here: http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guide... For those who aren't registered developers, it's basically a list of 189 rules, m
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English is forever going to be the main language of the world(meta.maxkle.in)
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Daily, weekly and snapshot backups with Linode are $5 on top of what I'm paying them anyway (and just a few clicks to set up). That's less than the cost of GitHub's micro plan and I can have as many private repos as I want. I love GitHub an
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Consolas is definitely my favourite. I switched over in Windows when I first saw it, and now use it in OSX too. http://www.wezm.net/technical/2010/08/howto-install-consolas...
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Perception of time is an extremely interesting area. One of my favourites was the cutaneous rabbit experiments ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneous_rabbit_illusion ), where researchers tap the arms of a blindfolded subject. They tap sev
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by mcobrien 16y ago
If the Khan Academy was new to you too, it's a giant library of training videos produced by one clever guy, Sal Khan. Subjects range from algebra to chemistry, finance and lots more. Looks great. http://khanacademy.org/ http://khanexerci
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Summary if it doesn't work or loads too slow: * You wait for a couple of minutes, wondering if the progress indicator will ever move * The song starts and a couple of windows open. * Video plays of a guy in a hoody running down a street * M
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by mcobrien 16y ago
Yeah, mine actually centred on my old house. A little less glamourous than the rest of the video, but effective :) Btw, it seemed to stall for me but eventually loaded after a couple of minutes (Chrome dev on MBP). Stick with it.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I don't know if they're exactly the same but I converted the Tapworthy one and it looked great as an ePub in iBooks on the iPad.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
All O'Reilly's books are available cheaper if you have an iPhone (or maybe just iTunes?). Follow the guide here to extract the embedded ePub from one of their iPhone apps, which retail at $1.99 - $4.99. Scroll down to "Extracting an EPUB Pe
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by mcobrien 16y ago
I was with Tichy until I saw that link. Amazing work.
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https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ioigddmjfpphkbam...
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by mcobrien 16y ago
"Apparently You don’t need a password. Posterous fail." http://blog.dustincurtis.com/apparently-765
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by mcobrien 16y ago
If you cut down a 50 foot tall tree with a swiss army knife, I'd like to see how you did it. I think it's clear the author isn't stupid and did this to see what was possible with a limited tool.
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by mcobrien 16y ago
So Android and the Pre both have wifi hotspots, but iPhone doesn't. I had hoped they'd add this for OS 4.0, but of course that might hurt sales of the iPad 3G (and all the free marketing it generates from mobile networks).
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by mcobrien 17y ago
It's not that all direct marketers are good, just that it's a more mature industry which has done more conversion testing than us web folk have had hot dinners. When a failed conversion costs real money (in printing and postage), every incr
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by mcobrien 17y ago
I have a pair. While they're good for simple actions to swiping to answer the phone, browsing or using apps is an exercise in frustration.
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by mcobrien 17y ago
It's not, but a lot of the size comes from a PNG sprite which is 30K. With yuicompressor ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/ ) and pngcrush ( http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/ ) I got everything down to 37K.
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by mcobrien 17y ago
Considering developers will pay for app downloads themselves, it seems likely that only wifi access will be available. That's going to limit a lot of the kinds of apps that are popular on the iPhone. Why even install a wifi-only weather app
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by mcobrien 17y ago
Definitely cumbersome, but you'd be hard pressed to find a 99c iPhone app that's 10MB. With the simplicity of typical apps and platform restrictions (black & white!), a lot will fit in the first 1MB.
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by mcobrien 17y ago
Sorry, I could have made my original comment clearer. I don't think there were any other IP addresses accessed. The "other industries" that were involved were using Google Apps, so Google has access to those records. That's why they have to
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by mcobrien 17y ago
Gmail stores the last IP that accessed your account - it's shown at the bottom of your inbox: Last account activity: 14 minutes ago at X.X.X.X My guess is they used that.
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by mcobrien 17y ago
Malcolm Gladwell's article for the New Yorker is a great start: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/08/05/020805fa_fact_gl...
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by mcobrien 17y ago
Here's my guess. Google initially detected an attack coming from Chinese IP ranges and subsequently checked what other requests the IPs had made. This is what led to the accounts that were accessed not "through any security breach at Google
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by mcobrien 17y ago
I like to have a few (maybe 5-10) chunks ready so I can pick up my laptop and start working any time, and not have to decide what to do next. This helps when I'm low on energy - I just pick something easy from my list and I can still make p
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by mcobrien 17y ago
I guess there's two kinds of attention here: short-term (I can't concentrate enough to do an hour's good work) and longer-term (a few weeks into a project I get bored and do something else). For short-term, some people love the Pomodoro tec

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