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by paulhart 17y ago
Wil Shipley also tweeted his progress at getting his barcode stuff working on the iPhone - from what I recall he claimed success, but said it probably wasn't good enough for productization. The 3G camera truly sucks for macro work (though t
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by paulhart 17y ago
You make an interesting comment about the larger brokers. In my area there is one that is, relatively speaking, bigger than the other 'big fish', but there are probably three or four "significant" brokerages, and a lot of smaller ones too.
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by paulhart 17y ago
I'm curious to know if Ryan has spoken to any of the local (I live in the same town) agents about the lock-in to see what they think? I don't know a huge amount about the industry, but it has some interesting dynamics. There are a handful o
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by paulhart 17y ago
For those of you attending one of the iPhone Tech Tour stops (if it hasn't already occurred): get the UDIDs of Apple folks' phones while you're there. I know I'll be doing that (or dying trying) in Toronto on the 3rd.
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by paulhart 17y ago
I look forward to someone writing a free "FoxEwe Beta" app very soon.
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by paulhart 17y ago
Nice, thanks :)
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by paulhart 17y ago
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by paulhart 17y ago
Last time I looked this wasn't ads.ycombinator.com (I say that as a happy repeat customer of VMWare's products, including Fusion).
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by paulhart 17y ago
Having taken a look, it's more the ultimate collection of icons stuffed into a directory tree.
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by paulhart 17y ago
There are patents involved, maybe the licensing costs were too high? I've been asked to work on something similar, but my lazy/distracted ass hasn't gotten around to it yet.
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by paulhart 17y ago
Once upon a time Symantec (in the era of "Visual Cafe") had something akin to a radio program, complete with "DJ", who basically did a routine modeled on morning radio, complete with "updated traffic reports" that told you the current hold
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by paulhart 17y ago
About a decade ago a group of contract software developers (of which I was one) decided to figure out how many seconds it took each of us to earn a cup of coffee (working for a bank, nothing was free!). For the person who earned their coffe
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by paulhart 17y ago
Not any more apparently - the content is gone from their blog, link results in (literally) nothing being returned.
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by paulhart 17y ago
It's not the 1% that's killing them - it's the fact that they're spending at their limit and they don't have that 1% available. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty p
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[Ask HN] Entrepreneurial Events Calendars (esp NYC)?
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by paulhart 17y ago
Seems the contest will be announced in the Fall... so this is the announcement that there will be an announcement (don't you just love politics).
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by paulhart 17y ago
My understanding, from a contact within Apple, is that the reviewers are indeed Apple FTEs. It wasn't clear if they were somewhere on the main campus or in one of the satellite buildings, but I was led to believe they are in Cupertino. Cert
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by paulhart 17y ago
My first (significant) paid programming job was writing FORTH for an industrial laundry control system. All the software was written in FORTH, regardless of the platform - the PIC CPUs that drove the counting systems were FORTH-based, as wa
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by paulhart 17y ago
This is true... today. Lots of utilities are already starting to install smart meters. Unless Wattvision is able to build a large installed base in the next 2-3 years, their technology won't have meters to attach to (or they'll be doing a n
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by paulhart 17y ago
Looks to be quite a secluded place: http://bit.ly/10yjcY
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by paulhart 17y ago
How many iPhone and iPod Touch sales have they made based on the availability of third party apps? The ecosystem is heavily pushed to consumers.
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by paulhart 17y ago
The best opportunities are those where you create a new marketplace - an inherent result is that you own the market, initially at least. Big risk here though is overestimating the potential size of the market. Second best is to attack an ex
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by paulhart 18y ago
As I mentioned in a comment earlier today, I have some experience in this field. Yes, the ISOs (Independent System Operators) have Internet presences. Yes, they can send out dispatch signals to the generators over the Internet. Yes, the gen
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by paulhart 18y ago
The app lives on a dedicated server, running a "secure by default" OS (hint hint), on a private network. The network firewall is configured to only allow inbound connections for one protocol from two public IP addresses. All other public tr
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by paulhart 18y ago
No surprises there. I've written software for a electricity generation company that provides operator guidance on the level of generation requested by the market on a real-time basis. Eventually, said company is interested in linking that s
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by paulhart 18y ago
Thanks for the link. It's another data point in a line of thinking I'm currently researching. Unlike donw, I don't believe teepees are the answer though ;)
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by paulhart 18y ago
This brings to mind an old saying: You can't polish a turd The underlying assumption to the post is that somewhere deep within the turd being polished there is a nugget of gold. Not every turd is hiding a nugget of gold. And not ever
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by paulhart 18y ago
My understanding (as an outsider who has heard some UI-related people from Apple talk) is that they iterate on their designs, but it's all in-house. There's no A/B testing going on, they make a decision based on experience and give that dec
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by paulhart 18y ago
It appears to me that SBUX has lost sight of the premise (at least in my opinion) that what they're selling is an experience, and people pay for the experience by buying a coffee. As with any other franchise or franchise-like operation, the
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by paulhart 18y ago
Something very like this was pitched on CBC's "Dragon's Den" in Canada (think 'American Inventor'). One of the investors on the program ("dragons") happens to own a pizza franchise company, and they were already in talks about the product.

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