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by mrshoe 17y ago
My thoughts exactly. Doesn't this also hint to a possible solution to this HTML5 video problem? Someone should just make a FF plugin that provides the H.264 code to work with the video element. Maybe Google could be that someone?
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by mrshoe 17y ago
No, it's not. Given the choice between "better" and "worse", you (and Mozilla) would always choose "better". However, if the options are "closed and better" and "open but worse", you might choose the latter. Openness isn't irrelevant; it's
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by mrshoe 17y ago
When presented with two interface options, we should resist the urge to implement both and let the user decide.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
However, if your tour is longer than 2 minutes, you're doing something wrong. The designers of the original Macintosh had this goal in mind: a person should understand how to use a Mac after watching over another user's shoulder for 3 minut
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by mrshoe 17y ago
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112881 What's usually the biggest mental hurdle for hackers to transition into entrepreneurs? pg: Coming to terms with the effort required. Still, it's important to remember that some people w
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by mrshoe 17y ago
An even better reason to use clang: it supports Apple's new syntax for blocks. I'm trying to think of a new project to write in C now just to take advantage of the simple anonymous functions and closures that are possible.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Has Amazon's enforcing of their one click patent really affected them negatively? Certainly their customers have no idea about the whole ordeal. Have great hackers refused to work there because of it? Would some percentage of hackers refusi
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Interesting that they chose to save 3 characters on their short URLs via the tiny domain name, but are wasting 4 by using only numeric characters in their story slugs. Nine numeric characters provide for a possible set of 1 billion unique s
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by mrshoe 17y ago
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112881 What's usually the biggest mental hurdle for hackers to transition into entrepreneurs? pg: Coming to terms with the effort required.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Obligatory link to one of my own side projects: http://shoptalkapp.com Basically designed with exactly this use case and these issues in mind.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
The situations he describes are entirely typical , and he's right to call the founder-takes-all scenario the elephant in the room. Early employees often work incredibly hard and receive a payout that is a thousand times smaller than the
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I want to run for governor on this platform: per-lane speed minimums It would be hard to collect data to back up my hypothesis, but based on my observation on the highways, slow drivers cause the most traffic and dangerous situations. If
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by mrshoe 17y ago
My friend created a slick new alternative for the iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mr-moneybags-iou/id342122272?... (iTunes link) Check out Mr. Moneybags! It's cool.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Now I want to do YC just to get into these conferences.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I've spent a lot of money traveling and I've never regretted a single dollar of it.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Boy I'd like to open HN some day and see the headline "IE switching to open source WebKit"
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Kind of like Brad Fitzpatrick's Android proximity garage door opener? http://brad.livejournal.com/2394220.html
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I don't know what exactly was lacking from Bill's software presentations, but I really don't think it was passion about the subject matter.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Doesn't the article contradict this strategy? FTA: People who are in a relationship seem less happy compared to married folks
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by mrshoe 17y ago
They should use the same data to make a followup post which states that happy people are more likely to find a partner or that sad people have little chance of ever getting married.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
(App Store - iPhone) != App Store
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by mrshoe 17y ago
there are probably 100 Steve Jobs born every year. The vast majority just never have a chance or give a thought to starting a revolutionary new company. A Steve Jobs that doesn't give a thought to starting a company is not a Steve Jobs. T
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by mrshoe 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070545 I should add that learning to code != learning the LAMP stack. Hopefully she'll take her own advice and learn the fundamentals first.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Not all asynchronous code has to use callbacks. See http://dieselweb.org/
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Apple shouldn't open the gates to the App Store, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't open the gates to the iPhone. If you want to be listed in the App Store and have Apple handle your payment processing and even a bit of marketing for you,
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Ask HN: Review my friend's app (launched today)(meetordie.com)
5 points by mrshoe 17y ago|4 comments
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by mrshoe 17y ago
To borrow Jeff Bezos' analogy from Startup School, should all small businesses who pay a utility company for electricity also have enough generators to run their business should the utility company fail temporarily? The raison d'etre for co
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by mrshoe 17y ago
It won't be long before all applications are written in HTML/CSS/JS. This is beautifully done and should definitely convert more open standard web stack doubters.
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by mrshoe 17y ago
I'm not sure this would fix the problem. According to the pg quote in the article "There probably aren't more than a couple hundred serious angels in the whole Valley." There are tons of people in the Valley who make >$200k/year. Tens
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by mrshoe 17y ago
Hey, author here. I don't usually comment on my own articles on HN, but this comment was one of the more negative ones I've seen here. A lot of us here on Hacker News (formerly Startup News) are working on startups. One of the biggest chall

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