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by nirvana 14y ago
It is a real shame there isn't an association of independant app developers that applied for the .app TLD. I am dubious about Amazon or Google owning it, as they may restrict it only to apps that are in their respective stores.
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by nirvana 14y ago
I read recently that the Mac Pro accounts for less than %2 of Apple's Mac sales. Since thunderbolt basically is a PCI express cable, there's nothing to stop people from building external cases that can hold PCI express cards, like the Mac P
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. Of your examples, all of them use stock widgets, except for the last two. In the last two they replaced stock controls with custom ones, even where they didn't have to, and that supports your hypothesis. Bu
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by nirvana 14y ago
Its really hard to comment on Hacker News without getting a reply from you where dishonestly exaggerate what I have said to try and impunge me. (which is, frankly, ad hominem) The fact of the matter is that "Goldman" had replaced "Soloman"
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by nirvana 14y ago
I read the speech. I also read Liars Poker. I knew Lewis had worked at Soloman Brothers, but somehow in the years since I read the book "Goldman" replaced "Soloman" in my head. So this is a typo. Of course that I named a different firm (
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by nirvana 14y ago
>It is the latter group that you are failing to acknowledge, which is perhaps why you are seeing so many down-votes. I wouldn't simply attribute it to "anti-intellectualism." That group, if it really even exists, is completely irrelevan
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by nirvana 14y ago
Did you read the article? He talks about how he got his goldman job as a result of a series of events that started with him happening to be sat next to the wife of a goldman employee. Yes, I did read Liars Poker. I think its kinda funny th
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by nirvana 14y ago
My success and failures in life have had nothing to do with luck. I've been both lucky and unlucky at various times, but none of them have determined my level of success over the short or long term to any significant degree. At the same ti
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by nirvana 14y ago
I see the everything below the new EX6S has dropped by about 90 Euros in setup fee. This is great news! I think I'll buy 6! People have brought up reliability and that they are using consumer grade hardware. This is an issue if you have
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by nirvana 14y ago
An IPO is a sale of stock. When selling any product there may be a guaranteed audience (e.g.: institutional investors) but groupon (and Facebook) both have the advantage that millions of regular consumers are aware of them. Thus, the avera
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by nirvana 14y ago
In fact, how bad they are doing would be an asset-- "We're running as big a loss as we can so we can grow as fast as we can!" -- I think Amazon is still using that line. (though they are growing fast.)
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by nirvana 14y ago
AAPL can generally be bought for under a 14 PE these days. An equivalent FB price would be $4.37. FB profit growth over the next decade may be much bigger than Apple's, but I have a lot more uncertainty about what it will be, so its hard
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm an engineer and I'm fascinated by the advertising space. In fact, one of the things on my side project list that's been there for the past four years is creating a mobile advertising network. I know its a big job and the technical cha
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by nirvana 14y ago
I find it astounding that you lied about what I said, managed to derail discussion, and are now trying to loop PG into making it verboten to talk about any legal issues at all. Since I didn't give any legal advice[1], but you constantly ins
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by nirvana 14y ago
An ounce of reason and facts should hold more sway than a pound of opinions from the chorus.
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're absolutely correct when it comes to legal advice, as such would need to avoid such land mines. But that's not the issue here. The issue here is whether one can suggest possible legal avenues of investigation that could be used to ge
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by nirvana 14y ago
>You are intentionally being disingenuous, now, because you're upset. I think curious is the appropriate word to describe my mental state. HN is populated by people who should be able to think fairly logically-- I would assume more log
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by nirvana 14y ago
Plus there's the fact that I wasn't giving legal advice, by any stretch. Further, like you, I'm quite comfortable with what I've said, and I am supremely confident that no liability has attached to me in this discussion. The claim that he's
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by nirvana 14y ago
> Let me respond point by point: I wish you had. >An ad hominem is me refuting your point by implying that you personally are not qualified to give it. Your claim that I am not a lawyer and therefore shouldn't be giving legal advice
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by nirvana 14y ago
The idea that only lawyers can know anything about the law, and therefore nobody else can suggest avenues of investigation is shockingly elitist. Imagine what HN would be like if only state approved programmers were allowed to have an opini
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by nirvana 14y ago
I do not apologize for responding on the topic and attempting to help this guy. I brought up a lot of possible avenues that could be useful for him building a case. You have merely engaged in ad hominem and quite successfully derailed the
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by nirvana 14y ago
I found a missing "possibly" and a spot where I clarified that something was my perception, but to be honest nearly every perspective I give is qualified with a "may" or a "it appears" or some other similar language. Nowhere did I give a si
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by nirvana 14y ago
I never went to law school so there's no way I could be a lawyer, I'm just giving my thoughts on things I would do in this situation. This isn't legal advice. I sympathize with your situation and I'm sure there are a couple lessons learned
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's something missing here. The Apple TV is still a hobby. 3M units a year is not significant enough to sustain an app ecosystem similar to the iOS platform. Apple has been in this position before with small platforms. A good example
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is true to the extent that the PEO takes care of administrative things that aren't critical to the culture of the company.... but there should always be someone at the company whose an employee ombudsman / morale officer, whose mission
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How Apple can win & Samsung can save face, like Microsoft in 1998(neomac.com)
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm sure this method works great, but the funny thing is you don't even have to go nearly this far. We use a custom bit of code that presents a dialog almost exactly like the one in the first picture. (We even localized it along with the a
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by nirvana 14y ago
Congrats! Building this has long been on my list of "rainy day projects". You've done a much better job of it, though, than I intended. One suggestion- I'd make a setting for letting you change the "Today" font from the handwriting one to
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by nirvana 14y ago
It probably doesn't make much sense taken without any context, so the best way to understand what's being said here is to remember that Rand escaped communist Russia. Imagine you're a russian and you're taught that the "code of morality" is
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by nirvana 14y ago
There seems to be a clear dividing line. On one hand you have things that benefit productivity-- like monitors and good chairs and a decent work environment. On the other hand you have convenience petty complaints like the flies in the pa

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