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by megaduck 17y ago
Android seems like a more natural home for Bump. At a conference, I can keep Bump running in the background at all times and "bump" at the drop of a hat. With the iPhone, either I keep Bump open all the time or I have to spend the time to
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by megaduck 17y ago
You're right, they're pretty similar. The ZX Spectrum was a little personal computer, sold in Britain through the 80's. It was pretty cheap, probably the equivalent of $750-$1000 today. Certainly cheap enough for parents to buy for a bri
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by megaduck 17y ago
And yet despite all of those factors, I'll be using Snail. I have elderly family that greatly prefers getting physical letters to email. I also do a lot of foreign travel, where it's inconvenient and expensive to send letters. Snail is a d
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by megaduck 17y ago
Motorola makes a crapload of GSM phones, and they sell to virtually every major carrier. I would expect a Motorola Android 2.0 world phone sooner rather than later.
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by megaduck 17y ago
Phone-based GPS can't completely replace specialty units, but it can drive them into niche markets like backcountry hiking and boating. Most people spend 90%+ of their time with cell coverage, though. Garmin's going to lose those folks.
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by megaduck 17y ago
I don't think I'm a "good hacker", but my first instinct was to try and find an algorithm that would generate these kinds of messages. Language processing is always interesting.
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by megaduck 17y ago
It's hard to overstate how cool extended battery life can be. I replaced the batteries in my old Newton eMate with some modern NiMH rechargeables, and now get over 30 hours of continuous usage. In practice, that means I need to recharge a
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by megaduck 17y ago
The smartphone market is increasingly looking like it'll end up as a fight between Android and iPhone. Droid looks like an incredibly compelling phone, and Verizon will probably sell millions of them. RIM is going to be able to hang on for
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by megaduck 17y ago
That suite is out of date. They're probably testing using v5, the latest version. http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/run.html
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by megaduck 17y ago
Actually, these numbers are quite significant to anybody doing mobile web development. Android, iPhone, and WebOS all use Webkit-based browsers. Javascript performance is particularly relevant for Palm, since all of their applications are
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by megaduck 17y ago
According to all the benchmarks I've seen, IE8 is about an order of magnitude (10x) slower than any of the Webkit browsers. They're so far behind that you'd have to significantly rescale the graphs to include them. Here's an example of a r
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by megaduck 17y ago
It looks like the dedicated GPS manufacturers are in for some trouble. They're getting murderized on Wall Street right now. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091028-714636.html
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by megaduck 17y ago
Droid uses the default Android 2.0 UI. It's a "Google Experience" phone, which means that it's just running standard Android. AFAIK, Verizon didn't touch anything. If you don't like this, then you're probably not going to like any of the
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by megaduck 17y ago
This whole thing smells wrong. Check out the fine print at the bottom of the page: Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service provided by SUSE Studio. See the license.
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by megaduck 17y ago
I'm sorry, but you just described Apple in 1985. Thanks to the Mac and the Apple II, they were making money hand-over-fist. They also had the best designers, and were an incredibly trusted brand with both professionals and the education ma
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by megaduck 17y ago
If Apple remains tied to AT&T, then Android might very well become the dominant platform by gobbling up marketshare from WinMo, Symbian, and BlackBerry. Android will probably also gain share by moving down-market into "feature phones".
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by megaduck 17y ago
He's just running the numbers. In a best case scenario , he can pay rent and food with cashflow, but there's no money left over to pay for extra development cost. Art assets, music, and such cost money. Two updates a month is probably fu
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by megaduck 17y ago
This all feels really familiar. The PC application market used to have the same "get rich quick" carnival vibe, as did dot-coms. Eventually the craziness will die down, and only the more serious developers will stick around. There's bound
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by megaduck 17y ago
One of the things I really like about Concur.next, and Tim Bray in general, is the humility with which he approaches things. He's totally open to the idea that maybe he's going down the wrong road, and attempts to back up ideas with quanti
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by megaduck 17y ago
Plain old incompleteness. There's a number of bits where either the interface or the backend component aren't finished yet. Unfortunately, they're not optional. The launch will be soon, though. We've got a big roadmap, but that's not goi
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by megaduck 17y ago
In a pinch, you can go to justin.tv ( http://www.justin.tv/startupschool ). However, the audio cuts out so much that some of the talks (like Jason Fried) are unwatchable. Rumor has it that higher quality videos were taken, but those might
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by megaduck 17y ago
In that situation, the fact that it was a freak accident totally exculpates the pilot. He did an admirable job under impossible conditions. With the Gimli Glider, Captain Pearson took some of the blame because he flew the plane when the mi
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by megaduck 17y ago
I wish I was optimistic enough to mod you down.
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by megaduck 17y ago
So he would be better educated if you took away his money? Isn't that kind of his point?
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by megaduck 17y ago
I see that the pilot demotions were temporary, and didn't negatively impact their careers. They also received the first ever FAI diploma for "Outstanding Airmanship". Goes to show that any crisis, even a self inflicted one, can become a ne
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by megaduck 17y ago
This would make my proofs so much easier.
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by megaduck 17y ago
I strongly disagree. While living in China I encountered horrific racism and sexism, both widely accepted as community standards. There was a human cost to those "standards", and I grew to believe that we should all be held to a certain
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by megaduck 17y ago
Moblin, actually. I'm really enjoying the Moblin 2.1 interface. It's a pretty radical rethink of how you use your computer. Most importantly, it feels fast and easy to use even with the tiny trackpad and small screen of a netbook. However
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by megaduck 17y ago
I'd argue that Rails' use of DSLs and metaprogramming makes it materially different from straight ruby. It gets even more confusing with lisp where your libraries are, by definition, language extensions. Often with completely custom synta
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by megaduck 17y ago
Unless you talk in a monotone, talking and typing are inherently different. Talking has a dramatically higher bandwidth, because you can alter the pitch, stress, and semantic meaning simultaneously. For example, sarcasm is trivial with spo

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