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by noahth 15y ago
If you're willing to call Max/MSP/etc work programming (I am but I'm sure some here will be willing to dispute that), you can add a lot of musicians to the list, including Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and a whole bunch of electronic artists
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by noahth 15y ago
Did you know that you can also add articles on iOS by copying the URL and opening the Instapaper app? I didn't realize that there was a way to add a bookmarklet to mobile Safari, and I discovered the clipboard method by accident. Not that
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by noahth 15y ago
As a Chrome/Instapaper user, Apple has not killed Instapaper for me at all. Then again, he's already got my $4.99, so that's probably not much of a consolation.
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by noahth 15y ago
I'd also attribute Ping's failure to 1) Failing to get an agreement for Facebook Connect in time for the launch and 2) Largely ignoring the portion of your music library not purchased from Apple. In this day and age, when I join a new netwo
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by noahth 15y ago
I'm not saying that they're a paragon of virtue or anything, but if you don't have respect for Zynga's abilities then you're missing some really valuable insights. Sure, they "ripped off" the idea for almost every game they've ever made, bu
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by noahth 15y ago
Zynga has proven their ability to cross-promote new games to their existing userbase again and again, most recently with FrontierVille and CityVille (although these games were - and still are - also bolstered by extensive advertising throug
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by noahth 15y ago
Hey guys! My limited anecdotal experience on this topic TOTALLY explains the situation.
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by noahth 15y ago
Great story, nice site. I have one small suggestion: replace FaceBook with Facebook. It looks weird with the capital B.
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by noahth 15y ago
why on earth would you trust anyone with anything? not saying I'm retiring my gmail account, just that there are plenty of ways that it might make sense for certain cases, despite some folks' knee-jerk inclination to distrust this one parti
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by noahth 15y ago
paypal.com
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by noahth 15y ago
Over the past year I've been slowly teaching myself python (mostly for stuff related to my current job) and django (partly just for fun, partly in preparation for the day when I'm not at said job, I suppose). Since I don't have a strong, im
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by noahth 15y ago
The rules around Credits, virtual currency, and the platform in general are still changing and it seems sometimes that Facebook is still learning what it needs to do to run a serious and dependable payments system. Until very recently, Cred
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by noahth 16y ago
Interesting piece pointing out some possibly non-obvious considerations about future food supply. However, it fails miserably at answering "How" the suggested change in diet for first-world eaters will come about. Sure, most who care to loo
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by noahth 16y ago
That was a pretty specific issue, with 2 complaints. One was the name, and the other was that the board layout was identical (location of bonus squares, etc). It relaunched very quickly as Lexulous with a different board. Damage done, but i
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by noahth 16y ago
Miscrits.
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by noahth 16y ago
Yes. Quite a few of us.
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by noahth 16y ago
Gotta wonder if this is an "adaptation" in the same sense as the "tiger mom" piece.
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by noahth 16y ago
it was only a weekend project, only running for a few days before takedown - under those circumstances I'd call $500 a solid outcome, especially when the alternative is $0.
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by noahth 16y ago
i've lately been espousing the opinion that colleges should add some scripting and data manipulation to gen ed requirements in order to adequately prepare students for the next generation of white-collar work. then again, i barely remember
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by noahth 16y ago
worth downloading just for the increase in max number of rows in Calc, imo.
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by noahth 16y ago
But in all seriousness, if you want to make a lot of money, it is in your interest to understand these people and make something that they want.
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by noahth 16y ago
You may not like the idea but that doesn't necessarily have any bearing on its truth. None of us does anything on our own - water, power, roads, schools, the list goes on and on (not all directly attributable to the country itself, but cer
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by noahth 16y ago
user acct is free; hollow, single-use email addresses are free. you can either be silly or more informed, take your pick.
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by noahth 16y ago
I'm a big fan and modest (but above-average! :D ) supporter of these Humble Bundles, but it's hard for me to imagine that the potential upside on this is big enough to warrant a YC investment. I suppose time will tell; either way I'll be h
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by noahth 16y ago
don't you think that a bunch of donations might be useful for this? call it crowdsourced vc if that makes it easier to understand.
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by noahth 16y ago
for a while I tried to start a collection of those "free install!" discs from various ISPs. it got too depressing.
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by noahth 16y ago
Extreme version of counterpoint: By putting all of this knowledge online, we're building an organism bigger than ourselves. Weak version: We're learning new types of information, and in many cases creating it rather than simply seeking to
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by noahth 16y ago
I think Silicon Valley has both broad and narrow meanings. The broad meaning mostly applies when mass-market magazines or people from the East Coast are speaking. But from where I sit in SF, the Valley is that area down south where the bi
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by noahth 16y ago
Enormous unspoken point in the article: masterful publicity scheme! Kudos to you dude.
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by noahth 16y ago
if you build it...

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