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by mrshoe 17y ago
Shouldn't it be embarrassing for Dell to release a phone that looks like a poorly made iPhone? Have they no shame?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
We've been very happy with Google apps. It's nice not to have to think about infrastructure at all. It just works. We run our own instance of Trac and svn on a slicehost slice, which is relatively painless to maintain. Using github or bitbu
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Very cool, windsurfer! I like the subversive undertones, as well. :) Hopefully we'll have our bot API ready for public consumption soon. I'll let you know. We've taken most of our UI cues from irssi, so I bet our interface, although it's a
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Statistics show social media is bigger than you think(socialnomics.net)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I see what you mean now. Multiple rooms are definitely overkill for just a few people. The three of us also just use one room right now. However, my last startup grew to about 30 people, and at that point, multiple rooms were a necessity. W
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Thanks for checking it out. We have a search feature under development. I agree that search is key for this type of tool. I'd be interested to hear what you use the desktop client for. We have been thinking of creating one simply for DM ale
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I have to add a somewhat shameless plug here, because my startup is tackling exactly the set of problems he's discussing here. We really believe that Yammer's model is somewhat flawed, and in our experience an enhanced "internal IRC" mode
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Jeff failed to point out the most absurd aspect of the blog post he quotes: balking at new technologies because they make life easier. Isn't that the entire point of technology? How can you be in a tech field and maintain that attitude? I t
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It's cool that people are pulling this off, but I can't help but wonder if they're asking the wrong question: "can we?" instead of "should we?" Maybe this is just meant as a proof of concept. In that case, it's great. But if it's meant to b
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Radiohead has proven to be ahead of the curve in the music industry, yet frankly I'm surprised to see this coming from a "real band" first. Pop artists generally pay big name producers for 2 to 3 tracks per album, which they plan on releasi
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm sorry, but that web site looks absolutely horrible. Can the nation's CTO not be held to the same standards to which we hold "Review my startup" posters on HN every day? Certainly his budget is many orders of magnitude larger. Of all the
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The cynic in me sees two differences: 1) Much smaller user base 2) The Litmus ad on the right side of every page EDIT: The rest of me sees healthy competition and an interesting take on freemium marketing for their money-making app. :)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Those are all good suggestions, and I would add: 4) Use Mailplane ( http://mailplaneapp.com/ ). Disclaimer: Mailplane is not free and I'm not affiliated with it at all.
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The Perseids are Coming(science.nasa.gov)
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Anything that keeps mechanics honest is a great idea in my book. However, I think this misses the crux of the problem: diagnosis. It's easy enough for me to call a mechanic or two to find out how much they would charge to replace my transmi
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm a cofounder of http://shoptalkapp.com
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I really hope one of these projects catches on. Notifications represent a gaping hole in browser functionality. Does anyone know if it's on the HTML5 radar at all? We could definitely use this for ShopTalk ( http://shoptalkapp.com ). Keep u
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by mrshoe 17y ago
You're not the only one. The person who made the mistake isn't the only one who learns, either. We all do.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The site looks great and I think it's a great idea. Here's one small visual bug you can fix: you suffer from the Safari PNG gamma problem ( http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/ ). In short, a PNG of a certain RGB color will not match up with t
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Rolled our own in Python. EDIT: I should mention that CherryPy is at its heart. We love CherryPy. And our chat backend uses a secret sauce Python async framework that might or might not be open sourced very soon...
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but here is why other companies are entitled to access iTunes: Think back to the Windows and IE antitrust legal battles. iTunes is similar to the Windows monopoly. It's the biggest platform for buying
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by mrshoe 17y ago
For a given month, they probably recognize a portion of the value of cars shipped. So, in July they probably recognized less than $11,881,000 for those particular 109 roadsters. However, they also recognize a portion of cars sold in July,
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I highly doubt that their math was that simple. The article even mentions that the revenues reflect GAAP accounting standards . Also, 109 * $109k != $20m, so obviously their revenue numbers for July are not directly based on how many roa
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I can't wait for Silicon Valley to be the next Detroit! Hmmm on second thought... ;) Tesla, not government bailouts, represents the future of America's auto industry. In the computer industry we can observe relatively short regenerative cyc
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Well this effectively makes the parental controls useless. I don't want my kids to watch porn on their phones, but I do want them to have dictionaries. It seems that Apple is treating parental controls as way to check a checkbox in a featur
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It is quite cool. It's a shame they don't maintain that web site. Those PDF links worked not long ago... The only way to find out more now might be to email the project at dynapad@hci.ucsd.edu or the author of that paper at dsbauer@cogsci.u
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Longhorn was never slated to be nearly as revolutionary as what I had in mind. However, Longhorn's fate might prove wrong my statement about Microsoft's engineering (management) talent.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
As someone who officially became a desktop OS interface nerd while playing with Dynapad ( http://hci.ucsd.edu/lab/dynapad.htm ), it frustrates me how risk averse the big OS vendors are. They have all the market share, infrastructure, market
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm not going to suggest that pay walls are the best option for the newspapers. They probably aren't. However, I do hope that, over time, people get more used to paying for things online. I think that a culture of paying for goods and servi

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