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by mind_heist 12y ago
Wow ! That's huge, I did not expect such a big difference between prices in Germany and USA . Thanks for pointing this out - 1. Are these due to local taxes in Germany ? 2. Is this price difference common in other parts of Europe as we
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm.. You are right though. Here is an implicit Premise that this works on & and its not being declared verbally. - "The way airports works in these destinations" - Customs officials don't stop and question everybody ; i
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm .. This is expected though! The customs in developed countries are far more stringent . But I m not sure if this is targetted at European customers at all . Is the price difference between USA and Europe big enough for any one to try th
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by mind_heist 12y ago
- If there is a lot of risk involved in carrying stuff through backpack , does it offer a certain insurance policy for the travelers ? What if the product gets seized by customs ? or you are levied a large unexpected fine ? The service doe
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by mind_heist 12y ago
- Well,I have a partial understanding of this. Its typical for people travelling back to South East Asian countries to buy stuff that are super expensive there ( like mentioned in the original explanation , MacBooks are expensive ; Xbox , P
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by mind_heist 12y ago
BTW - I always thought of CASIO as a watch company. I had one of those vintage electronic watches with a ton of little buttons on them as a child. Never knew of their remaining product line ! Thanks again :)
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm .. interesting ; thanks for you reply :) So, if the city bought these in mass , who programmed them for you ? I suppose these were then given to third party companies to program 1.Like Enter the header for the printed out tickets 2.Rela
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Mailbox, the Innovative Email App, Is Now Available for Mac(wired.com)
1 points by mind_heist 12y ago|0 comments
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PlayFab Raises $2.5M to Level the Playing Field of “Games as a Service”(recode.net)
2 points by mind_heist 12y ago|0 comments
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Interesting ! But celebrity investment doesn't guarantee anything apart from a lot of initial press and traction,do they ? Those startups continue are vulnerable to the same failures like any other. Ashton Kutcher invested in the socia
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Julian Assange publishes anti-Google book(emerce.nl)
4 points by mind_heist 12y ago|0 comments
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Well , Tom Hanks being associated with the App definitely drove a lot of traffic to it. But would you consider this as an endorsement ? Like Britney spears endorsing Pepsi ,where you arent involved in any of the development process and simp
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Tom Hanks’ Typewriter App Is No. 1 in the App Store(time.com)
24 points by mind_heist 12y ago|14 comments
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Someone on this thread mentioned Kangaride.com as the closest comparision to this service. I haven't personally tried Kangaride at all , But another popular service in this sector is "ZimRide" (which offers intercity ride sha
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Quick question about the music for the game ; I see you have already answered a few questions along those lines. When the bunny dies , there is a sound for its micro-explosion. I remember "Dangerous Dave" died with the same sound
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Read thru all of the pages in this PDF - Here are a few quick observations & requests. (1)Could you reword this ? "You could start at the start" - to something like "You start at the beginning of the Phone book" Or &
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Hmm interesting ... if I may ask a couple of more questions .. What devices did you previously use ? and I suppose these were manufactured by a company specialized in the parking industry ? And What are the new Apps that have replaced the h
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by mind_heist 12y ago
I guess there was a startup recently who tried to solve SF's parking woes by actually doing this. The City them tackled them down .. Techcrunch wrote about this christening them "Jerk Tech". Edit ( Adding Links to Monkey Park
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by mind_heist 12y ago
Wow ! Thats a pretty cool game. I haven't gotten a chance to actually download and play this game yet, but a quick question : How do you actually decide what tile to spawn next ? Is that a chance that you spawn tiles so randomly that t
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Performance Parking(cmu.edu)
28 points by mind_heist 12y ago|17 comments
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by mind_heist 12y ago
interesting ..thanks for pointing this out[1] & thats an interesting angle. I m not sure what teams inside Cisco got the axe , but I suppose its clear that foreign customers are in fact getting paranoid with these networking devices. An
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In Latest Restructuring, Cisco Will Cut 6,000 Jobs(recode.net)
6 points by mind_heist 12y ago|2 comments
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by mind_heist 13y ago
This looks really good! Downloading the game in a bit as a token of my support. Just a couple of questions How did you learn to do pixel art ? I guess thats what you would classify the art in this game. And why did you mention 'sound&#
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by mind_heist 13y ago
>"I'd go as far as to say that the first world's biggest asset is the collective trust it has accrued over the centuries." Interesting, This is a trait that I often find myself admiring about the societies in the west
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by mind_heist 14y ago
same here as well. It did find a random image that was not safe for work. Please do add a warning somewhere above.
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by mind_heist 14y ago
there was a similar article sometime back on HN.It spoke about achievement (ie) if one should compare them self to Silicon Valley stars or not . It addressed issues of peer pressure and depression among folks in the Valley. I ve been lookin