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by padobson 14y ago
Terminal IDE allows Android development on Android devices: http://www.spartacusrex.com/terminalide.htm
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by padobson 14y ago
You need to get excited. The creative folk at Pixar and Disney have been killing it in comparison to what's come out of Lucasfilm lately. Watch The Pixar Story (streaming on Netflix: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Pixar_Story/700835
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by padobson 14y ago
Disney paid $4B for Lucasfilm. Six years ago, they paid $7B for Pixar.[1] Pixar used to be a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. This means that John Lasseter is now going to have control of all of the assets that allowed him to get into making movies
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by padobson 14y ago
I haven't read anything here about the environmental effects of stopping hurricanes. Yes, it sucks that they show up and flood our cities and destory our houses, but they are definitely a common part of the carribean ecosystem. It seems imp
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by padobson 14y ago
If you're one of the 60 million Americans whose going to be affected by hurricane Sandy, you probably want to give this a look through.
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Food and Water - FEMA [pdf](google.com)
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by padobson 14y ago
You may have heard of paying yourself first to gain success in personal finance. Well, if you're looking to expend your energy on some passion project, you need to dedicate your first energy of the day to that passion project. If you have t
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by padobson 14y ago
The last two years, Apple has done things that no company has done in the history of capitalism. It really is remarkable, and should be taught in history books. To say that they've peaked is not to say that they're going to fail or flop or
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by padobson 14y ago
Cool, send me an email (check my HN profile), and we'll discuss.
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by padobson 14y ago
I'd agree with you if Apple had said they were going to use all that cash to force content providers to let them change TV. But seeing as Apple TV isn't trying anything ambitious, and they've decided to pay all that cash back to investors i
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by padobson 14y ago
I don't know if it was stupid or not, but I wouldn't know how to use Linux at all without switching to Ubuntu desktop from Mac OS when I couldn't afford the Apple premium after college. It released me from dependency hell, forced me to lear
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by padobson 14y ago
I don't know that we necessarily miss it for the information that was in it, but I think we certainly miss it for the progress we lost without it. Electricity was discovered and even used in the ancient middle east. Steam powered perpetual
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by padobson 14y ago
Sure didn't stop me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t82lixl5mzhiea/IMAG0746.jpg Although Jill Stein or Virgil Goode would also be acceptable alternatives to the parade of bozos the status quo puts in front of us.
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by padobson 14y ago
Anybody want to put a HNers team together for this?
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by padobson 14y ago
What's more exclusive that you can openly apply to?
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by padobson 14y ago
Pretty good writeup. I've used all of these tools in Django production, and he's right that they're all necessary if you want your development to scale in any way.
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by padobson 14y ago
I couldn't agree more that these companies need to find better ways to monetize. Watching Zynga slow to a crawl at the same time they represent 14% of Facebook's revenues is proving we haven't found the best business model for social media
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by padobson 14y ago
User: Oh, hello Facebook. Can you help me find out what my friends are doing? Facebook: Oh, definitely. Just have a look at your NewsFeed and see what they're doing. User: Wait, I've got 2000 friends. Why am I only getting a NewsFeed post t
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by padobson 14y ago
This doesn't eliminate prep time, it just separates the prep and eating.
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My sweet mother, subscribe and save? Hacker News pays for all the productivity it costs, one hundred times over.
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If nothing else, the article made me want to eat some Mediterranean food.
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by padobson 14y ago
Either he was very good at misdirecting competitors, or he was good at changing his mind. I'll take the latter. I have every reason to believe that he vehemently and even violently against putting iTunes on Windows, but that, more than an
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by padobson 14y ago
Amazon Web Services has been an integral part in opening up the web to the glut of software startups we've seen over the past 10 years. Fulfillment by Amazon[1] could be a big part of the rise of hardware startups. Couple 3D printing with a
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by padobson 14y ago
I don't think the author of the post is arguing that GroupOn isn't a good product, it's just not a sustainable business. The company they build fills a need for its customers, but it doesn't make money for GroupOn by fulfilling that need.
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by padobson 14y ago
+1, I stopped following them on Twitter, I stopped reading their blogs, and I read less TechCrunch. Call it strife, call it drama, call it whatever you want, I have much less of it without those two. This is just a reason to avoid TechCrunc
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by padobson 14y ago
The good thing about having lots of users is that you now, also, have lots of guinea pigs. So you can listen to your users clamor for more features, and then monitor how often those features are being used once you add them. Then you can fi
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by padobson 14y ago
I recommend Django because it's much more widely used. You'll find more write-ups, Stack Overflow questions, podcasts and conference videos. Instagram uses it. Disqus uses it. There's just a ton of help out there for a new developer. While
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by padobson 14y ago
I've always felt the term was neutral. You could put a user on a pedestal, or condescend to them. In any case, I don't think using "customer" as a replacement is necessarily enlightened or inspired. There's got to be a more creative term. B
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by padobson 14y ago
+1, Playing by the rules of a broken game does not make you less credible when you say the rules need fixed.
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by padobson 14y ago
I graduated from high school in 2004, I took every AP course that my school offered. As an IT major, the English AP courses I took in high school were the most challenging liberal arts courses I have ever taken. Reading 30+ books over the

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