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by nika 16y ago
What would really make my iOS life easier is a good RSS client. I'm hoping for something that I can give a URL to and which will give me back an NSArray of dictionaries of entires, or something like that. Too much to ask? Or should I just
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by nika 16y ago
Apple was founded with the proceeds from selling a VW bus and an HP calculator. Maybe with inflation that's $20k in today's dollars. And they were building hardware . If anything the cost of doing significant startups in the intervening
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by nika 16y ago
You answered your own question. This article is exactly the kind of thing the people on this site upvote, and that tells you exactly the nature of the people on this site.
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by nika 16y ago
Yeah, I failed to toe the party line that Apple is evil, and therefore everyone else is good. So long as ideological purity is demanded by ideologues, hacker news will continue to be a thought-free echo chamber.
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by nika 16y ago
I find it kinda amazing how rumor becomes mythology which eventually morphs into accepted fact. Apple has good relationships with game developers. They may not kowtow to egomaniacs, and it always seems a roll of the dice whether a given i
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by nika 16y ago
I had the kindle app for about a year before iBooks came out. I bought some books, but having had an unfortunate incident with Amazon taking a book I'd bought away from me in the past, I didn't invest much time in it. The Kindle app is so
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by nika 16y ago
The rule has been in the T&C since launch of the AppStore. Apple didn't provide a mechanism for in app purchase of subscriptions, and so was lax in enforcing it. But it isn't like this is news to anyone who read the T&C.
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by nika 16y ago
That policy has been in place for 2.5 years, since the original AppStore terms and conditions. It wasn't enforced because before now, Apple didn't offer SDK support for subscriptions. People have had 2.5 years to prepare.
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by nika 16y ago
When he doesn't, and when he adds in-app subscriptions, will it cause you to revise your perspective? Instapaper is exactly the kind of app this is directed at. It is a SaaS subscription. It would be foolish to turn away all the additiona
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by nika 16y ago
I think it is worth noting, because everyone seems to have forgotten, that this has always been the rule. I remember it from the very first reading of the terms and conditions (back when they were under NDA). It has always been against App
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by nika 16y ago
Interesting, he makes the argument that lack of protection for IP reduces innovation. I know that todays hipsters think that IP is not real property, and I agree philosophically. But the patent system causes the inventors to publish their i
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by nika 16y ago
You want to be a startup founder, right? Look forward. Your Ex may turn into a valued contact in the future, or might be your future boss, you never know. If they lied then it will really depend on whether they can do the job or not, and
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by nika 16y ago
... and a MacBook Pro is a ripoff because AT&T has a netbook for 1/10th the price (on 2 year contract)!
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by nika 16y ago
I don't see what will change between now and christmas. Many of the android tablets are vaporware at this point so there is nothing to stop them from advertising that they'll be cheaper... yet they seem to be more expensive for the most pa
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by nika 16y ago
This makes Time Cook my dream date. Seriously, and I hear he swings my way too. There are many ways to innovate in business and technology and design get a lot of time in the spotlight. Operations, especially of a very large enterprise, wi
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by nika 16y ago
I specifically focused on the standard of living of the poorest %20. "income inequality" presumes that everyone should make the same amount of money. This is silly, and the only way to achieve it is to have absolutely everyone be poor. The
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by nika 16y ago
First off, the idea that apple is buying a bunch of screens is speculation. It hasn't been confirmed by anyone involved. It is imformed speculation. Apple talked about making an investment in supplier to insure adequate supplies at their
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by nika 16y ago
I'm glad to see this. I for one am looking forward to the day when javascript is at the point where it offers a level of programing ease for animations, etc, that you get with flash. (It may have happened already, last time I did lingo pro
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by nika 16y ago
Give it a second and it replaces it with a javascript site. I have click to flash set up and before I could click, it replaced.
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by nika 16y ago
Or, for those who aren't quite ready to do a steady job, the legalization of interent or part time jobs. Let them work when they are sober and not when they are not. Unfortunately the burden on businesses for "hiring someone" is so high du
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by nika 16y ago
That's about $1,300. Or about $7.50 an hour for one month. This is about minimum wage. If they could get minimum wage jobs, they would, and they'd quickly not be homeless. But they can't because students and recent graduates and stay at h
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by nika 16y ago
Am I supposed to cite Godwins Law now? (Just kidding... ) There are many cities where these permitting and zoning laws work as a subsidy for wealthy people. For instance, they do not want walmart and they do not want more apartments built
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by nika 16y ago
Thanks for digging up that link. Larry got taken care of because of the stink, but here are thousands of other stories of a similar nature, up and down the spectrum. Many small businesses started by "amateurs" run afoul of regulations, or
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by nika 16y ago
"when Apple commands such a large portion of the global market for a key component it creates enormous barriers to entry for potential competitors. " This is true, but it also creates enormous opportunity for potential suppliers of the comp
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by nika 16y ago
Leo focusing on value offered! Imagine a programmer resume. None of this "have you worked with ruby"... "I know how to construct complex system that are able to scale such that the cost per given unit of load declines as load is increased"
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by nika 16y ago
Also the motivations of the state are based on the motivations of any government. Buracracy is unavoidable. If you're going to be handing out money, it would be better to give it to genuine charities that have an interest in helping the ho
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by nika 16y ago
Sigh. This reminds me of the story about the poor guy in San Francisco who developed a small business (selling flowers? shining shoes? can't remember) but was caught and fined and made homeless (he'd just put down a deposit on an apartment)
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by nika 16y ago
There's only one law, and it is pretty specific: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
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by nika 16y ago
Strawman.
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by nika 16y ago
So you're saying that the standard of living was worse or no better in 1900 than it was in 1800? People talk about the "Robber Barrons" but this is really a pejorative. Standard oil, for instance was able to lower the cost of gasoline dram

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