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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
I say the more people employing themselves (+1 or 2 others, perhaps contracting out further work, as well) the better, as we'll then be less dependent on multinational corporations for domestic hiring. We already see what's going on in Japa
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Eminent Domain displaces people in the US all the time. When a developer wants a pretty lake by the highway to build a condo complex, guess where the trailer park that was next to the lake goes? Kelo v. City of New London for just one examp
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
If you have the chops to do multiplayer (either by turns or bluetooth/network-based), you can charge a premium for that. Play the CPU for free, play your _friends_ for 99 cents.
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
This is now probably the gazillionth time I've used this old data point, but Amazon was in the hole for 6 years before they even turned out a profit, often losing hundreds of millions in a quarter alone. The "strategic expansion" can also b
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
My guess is Maps. Every desktop gMaps and mobile gps app request would contain money-saving coupons targeted for any generic POI search (like "coffee" or "hair salon") in its results.
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
I saw this in a thread about poor people. I got in a long dialogue with a pretty prominent contributor about the nature of poverty and how it can be changed. You wouldn't believe how much people here feel that it truly is poor people's faul
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
What I find odd is that most of the kids profiled have really good grades. I mean, Vishal's friend has straight A's (even though he wishes to do better on SATs) and yet he's on facebook all the time? And, Allison the texter has only 3 B's o
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Amazon was losing money for the first 7 years of its existence. It didn't turn a profit until 2001, a full 6 years after it had sold its first book.
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
If id can sustain the 1.99 price point and stay in the top 10 (and there seems to be price sensitivity the higher in ranking you go in the iPhone app store; not so much so in the iPad app store, oddly), there is a chance id could make betwe
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
That's one thing I've noticed different in iOS vs. Android developers: business transparency. I guess it all started with Joelcomm basically opening his books about iFart mobile way back in '08 when the appstore just opened. Since then, the
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Come on, it's hacker news: Home of many libertarians, aspies (and wannabes), grammar sticklers, and concern trolls. Obama doesn't have a chance in hell here, even when he's trying to give a shout-out. He, and anyone who doesn't have a tax b
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"Let's all hope not! I cannot understand this argument, as there seems to be no substance to it. There's a weight of literature on the value of freedom (e.g. John Locke, Voltaire), and little inquiry in this regard." I mean, if we continual
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
I never thought it possible, but I think it's actually cogent to quote Jackie Chan in an HN thread! "I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we are not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want." In alot
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"If you tell a poor person "We spent your social security on the war and now we're going to lower the amount you receive" that's asking to be voted out of office. If you tell them "The greedy rich person got a tax cut and that's why your so
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
This sounds really close to what Mark Kostabi did (does?) with his art: He hires fresh or recent art-school students for basically teenage McJob wages and "collaborates" with them (basically affixes his signature on their work) and sells th
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Isn't this like that Flock "social browser" that popped up a few years ago? That didn't really catch on. Perhaps ahead of it's time?
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
There's a wide yawning gulf of difference between $17000 a month and $80000 a month. One is the average for a senior SW rockstar in the Valley and can afford you a nice 3BR/2BA "meh" house in SF that may very well be on the border of Sketch
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"My inner software developer winces, and fears, both professionally and personally, that the ever-growing number of such low-quality apps will eventually make it pointless for developers to invest in creating a ConvertBot or Instagram." Gim
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
But "haggling over a car, getting sick, stuck in traffic, selling stuff" are minor annoyances compared to sitting at a desk for at least 6 hours every day, 5 days a week, 261 days a year working on what amounts in your mind to be absolute B
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
But isn't the kinect the Wii360?
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"If the target market is kids or teen gamers, will they be able to afford the price of the device plus the monthly voice/data plan?" I know plenty of parents who give their kid a PSP+DSi, and/or an iPod Touch, and a "family phone" that may
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
It's one strategy. The other is opening it up so much that no one breakout distribution, application, or interface could possibly emerge "victorious" (meaning, the vast majority uses it), which is what Linux does. There is so much room for
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
It's the "Sophie's Choice" for mobile developers: Give up your sense of freedom and openness for smaller exposure but 2x the revenue, or work on your own terms in front of a large and receptive base of customers who loves the sizzle but is
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
It's likely somewhere around 7-8 million, give or take. And, I have a feeling alot of that goes to Rovio, the developer of Angry Birds. So, I guess EA's in-house "8lb. Gorilla" homegrown studio and mini-publisher for smartphones was stillbo
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Texts, tweets, and Facebook walls are the new slambook signing or passed note in class (or even Mad Magazine hidden in the textbook). It's a distraction, a thing to pass the time in homeroom or a really boring lecture. And, for the record,
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
My wife and I started running in them, starting with walking only, then running only a bit at a time (1/2 mile run, then walk another 1 or 2 miles). Now, about 3 weeks on, we run about 2 miles straight at a time (we've never run at all befo
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Some people want to pay for what they feel are "unbiased" points of view. The paywall is a sure prevention of "friends of friends of friends of the owner" 5-star voting bombs like in Yelp or Amazon. I guess that's the reason why Consumer Re
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"Sharepoint, SQLServer, Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows Virtual Server, CRM, Exchange Server, XBox, Xbox live, Bing, Zune, Microsoft Automotive platform, Win 7 phone." Has it actually been determined that Microsoft makes any profit at al
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
"solitary piecework that requires absolutely nothing from him other than his physical presence" Wow, that's not how I see it at all. I mean, if you remove the entire technological aspect with his setup and the gut determinations he makes on
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by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
I just went there. Seems pretty okay to me. If you mean those click-popups that drive everyone crazy, that's not the designer's fault.

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