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by patd 16y ago
People shouldn't be afraid to say something wrong. If you say something wrong, people should correct you and everyone will learn (including readers that don't know anything about the subject). The issue is if people that see that you're wro
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by patd 16y ago
The font on the homepage doesn't look good on my Windows XP machine under Firefox 3.6.12, it's nice-looking using Chrome though. Maybe due to the font you're using (museo), I don't have it on my system. Strangely, the weird looking font (as
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by patd 16y ago
He could still sue but : - Does a US court have jurisdiction on a foreign company operating from a foreign country and that has no legal entity in the US ? - Even if they could, what can they do other than prevent that company to make any
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by patd 16y ago
To give you feedback about isshort.com, I took me a long read in the blog to even start to understand what it does. For what I got, you use the shortener of each website (if available) to generate a short URL. Like use youtu.be for YouTube
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by patd 16y ago
You can try to contact other European startup groups. They may have some people willing to go to Copenhagen. In Belgium there is http://www.betagroup.be
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by patd 16y ago
I'm not really familiar with what Arch package maintainers do but aren't package maintainer mainly packager and not coders ? I imagine that someone could easily be packaging 10 Python apps or libraries. He can't be upgrading all that code t
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by patd 16y ago
They're doing bad in Asia and doing OK in Europe. The competition with the PS3 is hard in Europe, that's why I said "tough". They are number 2 in some countries (like the UK), but overall they're number 3. PS3 in Europe as of August 17, 201
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by patd 16y ago
Video games platforms are a cyclic industry. It's unprofitable during the first few years when they launch their new system then it becomes a cash cow when hardware gets cheaper to produce and they don't have to spend too much yet to launch
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by patd 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game... Total Wii games sold as of June 1, 2010: 573 million Total Xbox 360 games sold as of December 2009: 353.8 million Total PlayStation 3 games sold as of June 30, 2010: 315.3 mi
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by patd 16y ago
I'm wondering if this news is related to the fact that Amazon launched their own marketplace recently. Maybe the motivation came from realizing that if they don't do this fast enough, Amazon could eat the revenue from Android in a lot of co
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by patd 16y ago
That's not the suggestion I give to non-technical users, that's the suggestion that I give to you that took the time to learn what OpenId is but complains about it. What I tell website developers is to add a login with Google, Yahoo, ... +
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by patd 16y ago
I would have loved to see them sell apps in other parts of the world as well. After a couple of years, there is still no Kindle store for anything else than English.
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by patd 16y ago
Just put a delegate on a web page URL you'll remember. Like on your personal website. I use my own page and use the OpenId delegate meta-tag to point to the domain that I also don't remember: http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-1
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by patd 16y ago
I'm totally not in the market for InDinero but I've seent his happen on multiple sites before. How do people agree to give the credential info of their bank account ? I can't imagine giving out a login/password that is not restricted to jus
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by patd 16y ago
I can't use Spotify in Belgium. How does it compare with Grooveshark ? It looks to be the same concept, one is a desktop app, the other a webapp. Grooveshark doesn't have audio ads, no limit (that I know of) but does not seem to have a mobi
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by patd 16y ago
YC reimburses up to $600 according to their point 2 in the apply: http://ycombinator.com/apply.html As another European, I would also love a European counterpart. But to me, applying to YC is not really about the money, it's about the adv
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by patd 16y ago
It sure doesn't feel like they have a coherent plan. They have two new OS (Meego and Symbian^3), they say "QT everywhere" but most of their apps don't run on Symbian and Meego/Maemo at the same time. They don't provide much support for the
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by patd 16y ago
I liked sourcefully.com and grabbed it to use as a place for my friend and I to deploy app ideas. Visit it in a couple of months, we may have something good on it :) The list is really nice, I'm not sure if people would be willing to pay fo
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by patd 16y ago
This data is biased. Facebook.com is used all over the world while Google.com is mainly used in the US. There is a google.ca, google.fr, google.co.jp, google.de, but there is only one facebook.com So yes, the whole of Facebook will be used
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by patd 16y ago
He's saying he's been working on it part-time. Maybe he's also providing much more than what Fred was asking for.