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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   I recommend that magazine for entrepreneur types. One of the few print magazines I feel are worth a subscription.
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   congrats to Loren! i love his app. a true craftsman.
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   Agreed. I had used lots of cellphones and mobile devices BEFORE I tried iPhone. iPhone & iPod Touch were just light-years ahead of anything I experienced before. And it was all about UI/UX superiority.
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   I wrote the Postabon iPhone app (heavy location-based features), and wrote and shipped about 8 other iPhone apps before that. Your dev time expectations sound approximately right (without knowing more details), but I can't speak to current
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   Between this iPhone dev license change, and your claim that folks have gotten Python apps running on Android, this is probably the final straw pushing me to jump to Android.
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   When he said 'kiddie' I interpreted his intent as saying there were insufficiently advanced or sophisticated. While on one hand I agree they are 'hardcore' languages (pointers, memory management, compiled, type declarations, header files, #
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   Apple should filter by quality, not by what language/technology was used to make the app. It makes more sense to reject Fart apps -- or least the 100th Fart app. It does not make sense to reject apps written in Python or Clojure, for exampl
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   Great post, but I'll disagree on one point. (First my credentials: I was an avid player of Atari 2600 games at the time, so I remember the period in question first-hand.) My take is not that there was a decline in quality due to any sort of
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   by mkramlich 17y ago

   Good point. About Mac, agreed, especially software-wise. Hardware-wise, it may not be as hackable as the Apple II was, but it comes with way more powerful and interesting and useful software.
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    I agree it's a blow against Android/Java and Flash/ActionScript, but also (probably and to a lesser extent) C#/.NET, and any other cool, modern, high-productivity language like Python, Ruby, etc. I've shipped about 9 iPhone titles over the
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    The very selective process that allowed the Fart app, but rejected the Google Voice app? That one? :)
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Number one I think it's a pretty obvious smack at Adobe, countering their planned CS5 which was supposedly to allow you to use Flash tools to compile to an iPhone app. I don't believe there is any legitimate move for this, it's purely busin
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Thanks for advice! Unfortunately I think if I applied that standard to the main articles on Hacker News, for example, then most would fail. :)
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    vim, ssh, *sh scripting & Unix tools in general, rsync, git, GitHub, Basecamp, python, web.py, sqlite3, Apache, Firebug, DropBox, Mac dev & Linux prod (mostly), Linode or EC2 for hosting. also Gimp, Grab, Skype, Gmail... these are t
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    A concise, one sentence joke, that is even more on-topic than the OA, because it's truly hacker related, and it gets down-modded? Tough crowd tonight!
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Posting to HN is like playing roulette. Post a comment in one thread that you think is true and funny, bingo, gain 26 karma. Do it again in another thread, bang, lose 4. I never know ahead of time which case it will be. The net trend is pos
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    I was offered co-authorship of a book from a somewhat big computer publisher, about a year ago, and the publisher's initial offer to me was 5% of the retail price. Granted, only co-authorship, and I don't have the leverage of a Stephen King
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Less surprising: the bugs were written in COBOL.
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Let me guess: somebody near the top of Microsoft said, "Apple's kicking our butt. Time to copy^H^H^H^Her, I mean, try to catch up again." And somebody else said, "Yes, boss." And the result: Windows 7. I haven't used it as much as I have Vi
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    I suspect it's because Apple's success story is louder. (ie, bigger, more so, better, etc.)
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Be clear, concise and to the point. Entertain or inform. Do both for bonus points. Be logical and honest.
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    I played with an iPad today at an Apple store. My take: It is both awesome and meh , at the same time. The web browsing experience is really fun and satisfying in a way that's different than on a desktop, laptop or iPhone. The Google Maps
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    This illustrates an important way of staying competitive globally: You don't want to be the country where people fold towels. You want to be the country that designs & builds robots that fold towels.
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    A brain the size of a planet and all you people have me doing is folding towels. - MtPA
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    In a similar spirit to the article's question I've recently switched the emphasis of my economic thinking from, "How can I make money?" to "Are there any real-world problems I encounter frequently, or know that others are experiencing, that
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Here's my take. When I was a kid, yes I had the Apple II, I had HeathKit radio kits, etc. And yes we now have iPhone, iPad, etc. But folks those all have SDK's. And Linux exists now. Arduino. Mindstorms. Roomba. All kinds of electronic and
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    1. funny! but doesn't surprise me :) 2. I like how even the name Silverlight pretty much tells you it's their Flash knock-off: silver + light = bright light or lightning = flash. It's like they're thumbing their nose and saying " neener-nee
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    Smart guy, great writer, successful entrepreneur, pretty woman -- all of this is full of win. Congrats to both!
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    It's interesting how "idealist" sounds like a good thing and yet "ideological extremist" sounds like a bad thing. And yet, they are both probably the same thing. :) The abolishing of slavery was led by ideological extremists. Voting rights
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    by mkramlich 17y ago

    My own take on C#/.NET, and I bet a lot of others had this take as well, came down to 2 elements: 1. when it appeared, it looked a lot like somebody within Microsoft said to some other guys, "Hey, go make us a Java. Like Java, but our baby.