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Then Welcome To Android(daringfireball.net)
79 points by mrshoe 16y ago|69 comments
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by mrshoe 16y ago
My friends and I have been happily using Mr. Moneybags for some time now. Give it a try: http://itunes.apple.com/app/mr-moneybags-iou/id342122272?mt=...
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by mrshoe 16y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a solution to the wrong problem. I switched from AltaVista to Google back in 1998, not because their search engine returned results more quickly, but because their results were much more relevant . In the past few ye
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Jobs may well provide more severe threats than Gates, but I still think there's an important distinction between firing/choking/maiming employees and refusing to ship (or canceling) a product.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
If Gates had maintained a dictatorial death grip on his company like Steve Jobs has, MS probably could have made some decent products. It's one thing to yell at the people who made this system via email. It's quite another to never allow t
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by mrshoe 16y ago
I think this article is missing the long-term changes Jobs wants to see with TV. It's pretty shortsighted to say that Apple should just build a better TiVo (with more input options), which is essentially what this article argues. The talk t
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Worms (diesel + websockets)(worms.jamwt.com)
4 points by mrshoe 16y ago|2 comments
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by mrshoe 16y ago
At the time of this comment this submission has 5 upvotes in its first 22 minutes and it is #5 on the front page. This means if you can convince just 5 of your friends to quickly upvote your submissions, they will all get promoted to the to
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Ironic that transactions and guaranteed data integrity as performance tradeoffs are now being used as arguments for MySQL and against those pesky new up-and-coming open source databases.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
I don't remember ever seeing this many companies in a single YC batch that were successful and/or well known before they even applied to YC.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Right you are. The $145/month was a bit of hyperbole. I think expecting this market to allow 50% of its revenues to dry up is pretty optimistic. 93% (as the article suggested) is just very naive. They'll find a way to extract our money.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
This sounds wonderful, but I think it's unrealistic to expect this model to go mainstream. The pricing logic here completely ignores the costs involved. It's like saying that some people are sick of paying $20k for their cars and predicting
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Here's a pretty good comparison of the two techniques: http://www.artima.com/designtechniques/compoinhP.html Having worked with a lot of C++ code recently that employs both methods, I personally prefer inheritance for the majority of case
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by mrshoe 16y ago
My interpretation of his comment is that by "raise your views" he meant "express your opinions publicly" (using the "bring to the surface" meaning of raise), not that your opinion of Yahoo! has somehow changed or improved in the last 2 days
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by mrshoe 16y ago
No, it's not. That gets at the very essence of my original comment. One of the assertions in the article is that a hacker culture is a necessary ingredient for a successful technology company. I see Apple as a counterexample to this argumen
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by mrshoe 16y ago
It's neither. It's ship-great-product-y.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Oh, there are plenty of great hackers at Apple. That doesn't mean the company has a "hacker-centric culture", though. Does Apple make "a point of hiring programmers even for jobs that would not ordinarily consist of programming, like HR and
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Apple is very conspicuously absent from this article. ...the kind of single-minded, almost obnoxiously elitist focus on hiring the smartest people that the big winners have had. Is Apple a big winner, like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Sure, but they rarely go to #1 and I've never seen one leap frog a pg article as quickly as this one did. Could be perfectly normal, but it just seemed anomalous to me. Maybe Flash-based gantt charts are the new hotness. ;-)
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by mrshoe 16y ago
I'm sure some people on HN would find this app useful, but how on earth has this submission garnered 39 votes in 22 minutes? I hope their aren't "pay $50 to get your post to the top of HN" services cropping up...
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Service: Open URLs in Safari Tabs(daringfireball.net)
4 points by mrshoe 16y ago|0 comments
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by mrshoe 16y ago
This article is pretty far off the mark. 37signals don't advocate charging for social media apps. They advocate building software that people are willing to pay for. It's a little ridiculous to simply say "The majority of start-ups are soci
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Ugh. Here's some unpacking, then: I never said Google should write something on a Microsoft platform. I implied that Google should implement this Street Slide method in Google Maps and mused as to whether the Google brass would allow them
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Microsoft researchers didn't let corporate politics stand in their way -- they wrote the mobile version for the iPhone, not Windows Phone 7 (Street Slide is still unreleased, mind you). Now, will Google Maps engineers be able to perform a s
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by mrshoe 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/243/
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by mrshoe 16y ago
I wanted to see sections about things like geolocation, drag and drop, Web Storage, Web SQL Database, Web Workers, WebSockets and so on. Instead I was greeted with this quote in the book: The [JavaScript] APIs in HTML5 are very power
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by mrshoe 16y ago
One company might choose to give an early hire 20%, possibly even making them a cofounder. Another company might give an early hire 0.5%. Hence the 40x variability in the amount of equity given to early hires.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
I think the iPhone 4 gives the original iPhone a serious run for its money in the industrial design department. The 3G and 3Gs weren't even close, in my opinion. A rounded blob of plastic isn't very exciting.
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by mrshoe 16y ago
That’s a little like hearing what Brad Pitt got paid for his last movie and wondering why the producer didn’t instead hire Brad Pitman for scale. Oh you’ve never heard of Brad Pitman? You’re not familiar with his work? But you are familiar
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by mrshoe 16y ago
Run this over IP/AC to make it even harder to trace ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html ).

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