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by padobson 15y ago
I haven't used the latest iteration of the AppleTV UI, but I did use the last version, and I found it to be pretty terrible. Any time text input was needed, it was a nightmare. I don't know if the new UI took care of that problem, but coupl
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Ask HN: What was it like to be at a Steve Jobs keynote?
4 points by padobson 15y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
Are we forgetting the difference between free as in freedom and free as in $0? Isn't that what open source is all about. I would never make the argument that musicians shouldn't get payed and payed well for their work, but for the copyright
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by padobson 15y ago
I'm dying to know the cash/stock split on this one. It will send signals about what a company like OMGPOP thinks of the social gaming space going forward. Considering they just spent 6 years working in the sector, what they think of Zynga's
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by padobson 15y ago
+1 for Grantland. Simmons should have become an Editor-in-Chief of separate (if not autonomous) sports site years ago.
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by padobson 15y ago
Everyone seeks validation. Everyone is looking to justify their existence. It is the very essence of the human condition to find something we can point to and say "I have value because of X" All too often, X = Someone else's flaws. This is
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by padobson 15y ago
I think this is too narrow a range to determine where bugs are in the process. Bugs in the application process can only really be rooted out by startups that apply and are successful. Startups that apply and fail could point to a bug in a n
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by padobson 15y ago
I just want to point out that the amount of cash it takes to take a public company private is not equal to Shares * Market Price. It's actually Float Shares * Market Price. This doesn't make much of a difference in Apple's case, because mos
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by padobson 15y ago
"Speaking is not about information transmission. Speaking is to make people do something." I couldn't have put it more succinctly myself. Motivation is speech's primary function. Getting you to vote, or buy something, or work harder, or lea
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by padobson 15y ago
"[A] person hearing a talk can only spend as long thinking about each sentence as it takes to hear it." This is where discipline enters. When a speaker says something that fires a massive neuron in your brain, ignore the next five-ten sente
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by padobson 15y ago
Well, here's a user story: You're Kanye West. Lots of other aspiring hip-hop artists want them to know about you because you're Kanye West. As a result, your regular inbox gets 250 emails a day from said hip-hop artists. So if you're Kanye
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by padobson 15y ago
I tend to agree with you. I spend 5-10 minutes a day getting to Inbox 0. However, the target market seems to have this problem in spades. I don't know any wealthy or famous people who haven't complained about their inbox here or there.
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by padobson 15y ago
Well, this should be used like any other email service. I, myself, have 5 email addresses. One of them I use specifically for things I think will eventually attract spammers. I never read those emails unless I need to change the password on
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by padobson 15y ago
Part of my problem might be that I don't experience this particular problem either. However, it is something I see the target audience complaining about a lot. I agree that there might be some problems with gaming the system - any system ca
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by padobson 15y ago
I agree that the quality of an incoming email needs to be measured relative to the recipient. By using some sort of genetic algorithm that takes the recipient's interactions with other emails (e.g. keywords that attract them, types of email
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Ask HN: Could this kill email?
5 points by padobson 15y ago|16 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
When I read pieces like this, it reminds me there are many reasons for learning to code. Some learn just because the technology is interesting. This is a fine reason, but what's interesting today will not continue to be interesting tomorrow
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by padobson 15y ago
From the perspective of an app developer, I was motivated to build Android apps by the section about lack of quality apps. It seems the Android app market is bigger, has fewer barriers to entry, and is more easily penetrated because of lack
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Ask HN: Legal to stream copyrighted material from Dropbox?
1 points by padobson 15y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
I dont think we're discussing real solutions to the mobile computing problem here - just stop gaps. The issue with doing real work on a tab or smartphone is that touch is not a fast or accurate input medium - mice and keyboards are much bet
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Guy Kawasaki: Google+ can beat Facebook(inc.com)
2 points by padobson 15y ago|0 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
Centralized? Not any that I know of. Secretaries of State seems to keep shapefiles of their districts, but its never all of them. Check those websites first. Local boards of elections are required to keep some record of the precinct maps on
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by padobson 15y ago
How specific do you get with Voter precincts/districts? The census site has voter districts from 2000 and 2010, but some of those are changed every year. Any applications built to analyze elections data with map overlays require this data,
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by padobson 15y ago
Thanks for the heads up. Both of the clients I mentioned needed to support IE8, and I couldn't find any reliable info on AJAX support of PUT and DELETE. This seemed like the most reliable way to get it done. I'll do a follow-up post on test
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POST Tunneling: HTTP DELETE and PUT requests with JQuery and Django-Piston(pdobson.com)
7 points by padobson 15y ago|3 comments
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by padobson 15y ago
The best point he makes is the one he doesn't raise. A one-dimensional individual will always hit a salary ceiling. A programmer cannot be just a programmer and not hit a ceiling. The very best programmers will hit a very high ceiling, but
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by padobson 15y ago
I have to believe that Dropbox is the company that will ultimately solve the television problem. A major problem with TV is that there does not exist a solution to buy once and watch anywhere. When I am one day able to buy the Walking Dead
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by padobson 15y ago
My problem with this article is that it seems to assume that every world represented in the Galactic Republic has the same GDP as Earth. I could agree with Coruscant being even an order of magnitude more productive than Earth, but Tatooine
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by padobson 15y ago
Voter registration files are also freely available. Here are CSVs for several million names, addresses and voting patterns for the great state of Ohio. http://www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/voter/f?p=111:1:322955311706...
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by padobson 15y ago
Both really. The client has a Django project that already had a REST interface for a handful of AJAX calls, and I have python expertise, so they hired me. The project is using a Django extension called Piston: https://bitbucket.org/jespern

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