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by mirsadm 15y ago
I think this is really silly. How is living uncomfortably in a car make you relentlessly resourceful? It seems entirely counter productive. You won't get good rest and even have a decent work environment. Half the fun of creating a start-up
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by mirsadm 15y ago
My guess is that it's sluggish because it uses HTML/Webview for the UI (according to the article at least). I am yet to find any app that feels like a native app which uses any of the javascript/HTML5 platforms.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Chances are those people are high achievers outside of University as well. If you are really capable and have created cool stuff then I doubt it will matter much.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Considering all signs point to "we fund people not ideas", I'm surprised by the reaction as well.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Unfortunately most of us aren't able to buy the million devices out there to test with. More annoyingly we usually only find out about a device not working when someone writes a 1 star review such as "dont work HTC <xyz> cm7". I've
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Agreed. I would be very very careful about using this. The headaches it could cause far outweigh the (arguable) benefits.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I'm running it on my Android phone now. It works pretty well. I wish it uses Facebook/Google/etc. for user accounts though. The last thing I want to have to do is have another user/password. Also, what is the difference between this and Not
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by mirsadm 15y ago
What are you guys using for voice recognition? Seems to be having some trouble with my Australian/German/Eastern European accent :)
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I'm also pretty curious to know what happens now. Are the investors going to lose their money?
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Both myself and my co-founder left well paying (not as well as yours though! :)) jobs to create our startup. It was definitely worth it and we plan on doing this as long as possible. I love programming and always have. I realised I needed t
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Once you work at a few places and go through this process many times you get sick of it and create your own startup :P
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Do you guys read the applications before the deadline?
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by mirsadm 15y ago
My first job out of university was for a failed start up. When I joined it was fantastic. There were only a handful employees and the company was making good profit. Then somebody decided to expand as quickly as possible. They hired a new C
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I don't think its such a bad idea but you're effectively asking people to make an effort view ads. If you're after interactive ads then it might be more interesting to use something like Kinect to provide interactive advertising at shops. F
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Sounds like you guys have it sorted out. I bring up Android mostly because we found lots of customers asking for specialized hardware (for military, police and fire department contracts). They were really picky about that because the guys u
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by mirsadm 15y ago
It is the leader in sales but I'm not sure that will matter in this case. This is domain specific so the choice of tablet is determined by the availability of the software. Just my thoughts, great idea though :)
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Nice! That looks quite interesting. Is there any particular reason why the iPad was targeted first? I wonder if Android would have been a better choice because some manufacturers offer rugged tablets these days which seem like a better fit
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by mirsadm 15y ago
That's hilarious. We just bought the cheapest stuff with the best hardware we could find. At the end of the day it gets the job done and we saved a bunch of money that we can use to keep going longer.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Interesting read. Can I just ask, why are you guys giving up so easily? It seems like you only launched Whim 3 months ago. Granted it might not have been successful as you anticipated but you shouldn't shut it down. I've released a few apps
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by mirsadm 15y ago
What they are doing is pretty frustrating but they appear to be doing it pretty well. Copying an existing business is not always trivial so I suppose they must be doing something right. Now if they were churning out half-assed businesses ju
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by mirsadm 15y ago
If all he has is an idea then you're basically taking all the risk. I've been approached by people with "the next most amazing iPhone app" ideas. They expect you to do all the work and split the profits. Everybody has ideas but they're wort
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I am from Australia and currently in Canada on a work visa. It was so easy to get (a 2 year visa) and have been enjoying living outside of Australia. Every time I have looked into working in the US it is so difficult that I don't even bothe
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Quite a few apps do this already. Hasn't the Android browser been doing this for yonks now?
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Actually in my experience it is always the small details that make a product great. Granted, source code indentation is probably not one of them but it was indicative of a group of people that really cared about their work. You tackle the l
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I completely agree. I really meant to say that we looked for someone who was passionate about coding and they could defend their style/structure because they cared. We always worked in the style/structure of the original author because the
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Some annoyances with Android development(blog.gravityfour.com)
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by mirsadm 15y ago
My last job was with a big French company that makes stuff for trains. We had good business case for the use of some see-through displays at train platforms (2D was enough though). We tested a few displays/prototypes but they were all still
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I can't help at being annoyed at the part where he has a group of programmers churning out 5 iPhone apps a day.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I have noticed that the example you set when you start somewhere new is what is expected of you for the rest of your time at that company. To clarify, if you start a new job and work for free an extra 40 hours a week then you will forever b
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I can't really think of any recent companies that have killer IP. The difference might be an elegant solution vs someone from high school copying samples from codeproject/stackoverflow.

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