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by mikek 15y ago
One of the things that made Apple successful was having a very small number of products. Having a small number of amazing products is a good way to go.
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The author uses the fact that most apps are not used much after they are first downloaded to to justify his argument that non-standard controls are bad. But he fails to make a causal connection. On the contrary, people will use apps if the
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Here's what I don't understand about the USPS situation. They deliver 200 billion pieces of mail per year. So if they're short 2 billion dollars, then they just need to raise the price of a stamp by 1 cent. Problem solved, no? Can someb
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Android Could Be A Billion-Dollar Business, For Microsoft(blogs.forbes.com)
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It also relies upon Flash.
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If carriers could give away iPhones for free with a 2 year contract, iPhone sales would go through the roof.
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http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-refuses-to-endorse-webgl-...
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iCloud Logo Uses the Golden Ratio(alanvanroemburg.tumblr.com)
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I thought Heroku only suppoted Ruby and node.js. Can someone explain what is going on here? Does it run arbitary executables, but it handles Ruby in some more powerful way?
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There is attribution in the images themselves, but someone is cropping them out. Someone is going out of their way to make sure he is not attributed.
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Does anyone know how this compares to CocosDenshion?
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According to Wikipedia: "Mantophasmatodea is a suborder of carnivorous African insects discovered in 2002, originally considered to be a new order, but since relegated to subordinal status, and comprising the single family Mantophasmatidae.
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Ask HN: Location of YC Companies?
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by mikek 16y ago
The best quote from the article: "And it’s good, Tapjoy said, for publishers, who are able to monetize users who wouldn’t otherwise pay." So basically, Tapjoy admits that developers are paying them to send them users who don't pay for apps.
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Case shiller 100 year chart(ritholtz.com)
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How about notifying people when their comments have been flagged and pointing them to the site guidelines?
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Ask HN: Getting featured by Apple
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If you want to be given credit for some open source software, require it in the license. Otherwise you have no grounds to complain.
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Digital Age Is Slow to Arrive in Rural America (nytimes.com)
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Cocos3d(brenwill.com)
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Anyone know of any good coworking places in the Bay Area?
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Ask HN: Can you make the arrows bigger?
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Cannabalt for iOS now open source(github.com)
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The most interesting part of this story to me is that Jason Fried is on the board of Groupon.
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"Because it makes more money that way" is the short answer. While this explains why they have a free version, it doesn't explain why they don't have a paid version as well. There are plenty of people who would pay $.99 to remove ads. Pirac
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Especially on the iPhone!
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Does anybody know the answer to this? I too am quite curious.
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1-800-FREE411 is still going strong.
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Is it just me or is it amazing to think that such important footage could be lost and left to become damaged?
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Forbes 400(forbes.com)
1 points by mikek 16y ago|0 comments

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