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by panabee 13y ago
depending on the streaming quality, chromecast could help zynga port games to the TV and create new types of gaming experiences centered around the TV (where devices are controllers, and a laptop/desktop is the brain).
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by panabee 13y ago
you experimented with appgratis, trademob, or who? curious to know who didn't work for you. if you don't mind sharing, was it a game, or what kind of app was it? thanks!
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by panabee 13y ago
thanks!
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by panabee 13y ago
sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you find the relevant IRC channel? i googled the issue and found a few search engines like this http://searchirc.com/ . is this the best search engine for IRC? or what do you recommend? thanks!
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by panabee 13y ago
Thanks for the post. Would you mind sharing how much you were paying Heroku per month (on average and peak usage)? Thanks again!
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by panabee 14y ago
cool, thanks. that's one i saw before, but some people complained about performance degradation. have you seen any performance hit after installing the plug-in?
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by panabee 14y ago
what plugin do people use for highlighting brackets and parentheses? the default underline mode is faint and not very helpful. i have heard of one or two, but i'm curious to hear what people on HN use. thanks!
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by panabee 14y ago
you're right, sorry for the confusion. i didn't mean to suggest that every google employee works on world-changing software. what i meant to say is that engineers "price" google employment much like they price any product on the market. if
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by panabee 14y ago
your argument is sound, but i'm not sure how this contradicts my statement. my point is this: they want people who want to be at google, and offering a lower salary (or not the highest salary) is one way of filtering for those people -- b
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by panabee 14y ago
because one way of filtering is by not offering $300K and giving only $100K instead. if the candidate wants more cash upfront, go to wall street. google is testing how much you want to work there. put another way, google attracts engineers
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by panabee 14y ago
google can obviously afford to pay much more for talent. one reason they don't is to avoid attracting mercenaries. they seek engineers who love working at google and building great software and products -- not people motivated primarily by
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by panabee 14y ago
you are right that there are probably many people who see immigration reform as a way to drive down labor costs. you're also correct in asserting that it's wrong to equate immigration opposition to xenophobia. an elite investor like mike mo
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by panabee 14y ago
I'm very hopeful that MSFT will soon adopt a common standard, whether WebRTC or an adjusted WebRTC. However, the business case does not support such a push from Microsoft. They purchased Skype for $8B, and it's their every incentive to ensu
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by panabee 14y ago
i don't know enough about how inrix generates and maintains its traffic data, but perhaps waze could compete because its data is user-generated (and should be cheaper) ... enabling it to offer data at lower prices to less demanding customer
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by panabee 14y ago
perhaps you know more than me about the company, but from the outside, it seems like there are several customers segments who might pay for traffic data: (1) government agencies looking to maintain and invest in roads and local infrastructu
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by panabee 14y ago
quick question: how are you able to let users render sharp lines on the canvas elem? when we allow people to draw freehand on a HTML5 canvas, the lines invariably come out fuzzy at the edges -- not nearly as sharp as drawing lines on a nati
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by panabee 14y ago
the downside comes when you need to raise money from VCs. if the larger VC -- which made a proxy investment via the angel scout -- does not invest in you again, it becomes a red flag for other investors. this grants the larger VC more lever
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by panabee 14y ago
"It was missing a skull, so in 1883 when Marsh published a reconstruction of his Apatosaurus, Lamanna says he used the head of another dinosaur — thought to be a Camarasaurus — to complete the skeleton." Since the first Apatosaurus featured
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by panabee 14y ago
Interesting, would you mind breaking down the costs a bit more (e.g., fixed costs, cost per journalist, how many journalists vs support staff like IT personnel)?
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by panabee 14y ago
another suggestion for sourcing ideas is to identify weaknesses in popular products then build something where that weakness becomes a strength (e.g., browsing in smartphones => iphone, search in portals => google). re the unsexy fi
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by panabee 14y ago
what are you using for A/B testing?
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by panabee 14y ago
The motivation is to improve their service or risk losing users like you. They have no business model without happy users.
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by panabee 14y ago
Apple has designed its business model to cede the mass market. It focuses on capturing the majority of industry profits, not sales. It should surprise no one that more phones ship with Android than iOS. As a platform company, this strategy
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by panabee 14y ago
Agree wholeheartedly. Terrible names (e.g., Mad Cow for steak company) can sink companies, but companies by and large succeed because of their product, not their name. Amazon outshines everyone in e-commerce, even though one rival -- Buy.co
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by panabee 14y ago
the images are huge, but the quality is much higher than i expected for a GIF. is there something special rendering done to preserve the quality of the image, or is this fairly standard for animated GIFs?
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by panabee 14y ago
I don't think the argument is whether Apple pushed the industry forward. They absolutely did. The question is, if they knew no patents would get awarded for software features like slide-to-lock or gesture control, would they still have intr
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by panabee 14y ago
Thanks, rustynails77. I also agree it's very difficult to measure, which is why it fails to qualify as the optimal solution. There is no magical solution, but the contours of the ideal system will account for the capital requirements of an
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by panabee 14y ago
The patent system somehow has morphed from shield to sword. Protecting inventors is one path toward innovation, but it should be a byproduct of maximizing innovation and not the end state. If the objective of the patent system is to foster
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by panabee 14y ago
Excellent analysis. Agreed that valuing Square as a credit card processor makes for a very frothy, perhaps unjustifiable, valuation. My belief, however, is that some investors are betting on Square's potential as much more than a credit car

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