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by nir 16y ago
Exactly. Every developer, working on any platform, might tweet stuff like that from time to time. Coming from someone of his experience it's definitely interesting as HN discussion, but completely insane as a Yahoo!Finance story (with AAPL/
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by nir 16y ago
If the price is comparable I think Apple will maintain leadership, regardless of platform openness (at least in the short term). It remains to see if Apple would be interested at all in competing at the low range. They mostly avoid it in th
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by nir 16y ago
They are correct about the iPhone, and will be correct about the iPad - it's not really about closeness in this case, but price. Cheap Android tablets are already popping up and Apple will probably prefer maintaining their domination of the
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by nir 16y ago
People who put $119m into Ning either believe there will be a bigger sucker to sell it to (hey, AOL is still around) or are the kind who reads Wired & TechCrunch seriously and get star struck when a Valley celeb attaches their name to a
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by nir 16y ago
It depends what you use it for. For relatively small apps that don't need much system level tuning I find it pretty awesome. Scaling wise it's fantastic - I have an app serving >100k hits/day (admittedly doing very little for each hit)
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by nir 16y ago
You don't read Wired for the articles.
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by nir 16y ago
If an analogy is the exact replicate of the subject, what's the use of it to begin with? The lottery card is an exaggeration, to make a point, which is that randomness plays a significant part in a startup's success, enough to make it almos
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by nir 16y ago
As I wrote, a worthy goal unto itself but not "sitting on a goldmine".
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by nir 16y ago
I'm happy for the author and wish him success. But the assumption that being a good developer can make you rich is misleading. Reading PG may create the impression that building a successful company is an engineering-like process, determini
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by nir 16y ago
Thanks for the advice, everyone! BTW, does anyone have a data/voice plan they'd recommend?
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Ask HN: Nexus One or Droid/etc?
8 points by nir 16y ago|7 comments
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by nir 16y ago
The electric one seems promising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagtVoAQuEw
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by nir 16y ago
At least as long as iPhone is AT&T only, doesn't Verizon need Android as much as it needs Verizon?
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by nir 16y ago
All this was before unemployed people could spend 12 hours a day killing people in Call Of Duty 4, though. I think the availability of cheap distraction ( interactive distraction at that) might have some effect here.
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by nir 16y ago
NYC cafes where I've personally witnessed coders at work include: Housing Works & McNally's at SoHo, Amrita in Harlem, Gorilla Cafe in Park Slope, Esperanto on McDougal.. I definitely agree the NYC startup scene is overhyped - this is t
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by nir 16y ago
SMS gateway running on an Android device. Lets you setup an SMS service without messing with hardware/software installations. Particularly useful in developing regions with no Twilio/Textmarks/etc and strong need for SMS apps. * Looking fo
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by nir 16y ago
http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
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by nir 16y ago
I think in that case, it would probably be a problem in most countries (unless, say, you're from the EU and pick another EU nation etc). There are nations like Costa Rica that have an entrepreneur visa, but AFAIK you have to employ certain
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by nir 16y ago
I think most immigrants past a certain age do a shortened military service, measured in months rather than years. And there are perks like certain tax exemption and free graduate studies (though even paying the full amount for grad studies
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by nir 16y ago
Officially, certainly not - I don't know of any country where you're allowed to work on a tourist visa. But in reality, you're sitting in a cafe with a laptop. Who can tell if you're building a web app or checking Twitter? I mean, you go in
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by nir 16y ago
Good points. I remember how weekly R&D meetings at a startup I worked for switched from Hebrew to English when a single, junior level American member joined the team. I didn't give it much thought at the time, only after a few years liv
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by nir 16y ago
The problem they have now is illegal immigration - either people coming on a limited time work visa and staying after it expires, or East African immigrants coming in via Egypt. Either way, it's tough to get a work visa, about as difficult
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by nir 16y ago
I recall a number of expat-ran startups in Tel Aviv when I lived there during the first dot com boom. US/UK presence is strong in the industry, and English often serves as a common language to Israelis, Russian immigrants, American expats,
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by nir 16y ago
1. Why are these mutually exclusive? I think it's possible to believe that both Iraq/Afghanistan and Wikileaks' release of these documents without checking to see if they put people's lives at risk are irresponsible. 2. If exposing the trut
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Extreme DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nir 16y ago|1 comments
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by nir 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
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by nir 16y ago
I sometimes work with developers in China, it's pretty common for me to send a link to some tech info on a blog etc and then have to copy and email the content instead, since the site is blocked for them. Even one site I created myself, whi
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by nir 16y ago
I definitely don't believe in Socialism, having personally witnessed its failures, but I've begun to think the free market beliefs I hold don't always benefit most people either. Seems like the majority of people are more suited for holding
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by nir 16y ago
(I submitted this) - don't agree with all their stats and the article could be better, but thought it would be interesting to hear HN community's views on the issue.
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The Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out Of Existence In America(businessinsider.com)
6 points by nir 16y ago|5 comments

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