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by phil 15y ago
Cool, a screenshot from Game Never Ending! It had never occurred to me that those might be out there. Turns out there's actually a museum: http://www.gnespy.com/museum/
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by phil 15y ago
You've got to admit that, if confirmed, these results would raise new and troubling questions...
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by phil 15y ago
I'm surprised to see nearly 100 people signed up so quickly. Excited to be in town and finally able to make this one.
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by phil 15y ago
Back in the day when Meebo was a web IM client, they had a similar heat map updated every few minutes. I wrote a script that grabbed it and stitched the grabs together into a visualization of their traffic over a month or two. Never got aro
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by phil 15y ago
We don't know that yet! I'm quite interested to see how they handle user data in the split -- will each company get a copy? Will the Netflix side maintain a complete database of movies, even if it can't stream them, so that you can continue
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by phil 15y ago
Oh, you meant the Mac app store -- my bad, I was thinking iOS. I know a lot less about sales in the Mac app store, but I'm still a little skeptical. The #5 paid Mac Music app today is MP3-Converter. It's #137 overall paid. Is the Mac app st
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by phil 15y ago
Specialization often pays well because there aren't enough skilled practitioners of the specialty. There are two types: legacy specialties (like COBOL and C++), and cutting edge specialties (Java in 1998, Ruby in 2005, Objective-C in 2008).
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by phil 15y ago
That's not true. The #5 paid app in US Music right now is I Am T-Pain, which is the 116th most popular paid app overall.
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by phil 15y ago
Heck, why not go even further back? http://atomsandelectrons.com/blog/2010/04/apple-t/
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by phil 15y ago
Facebook used to have a distinctively irreverent voice ("I don't even know what a quail looks like"). It's slowly been whittled away as they've gotten huge. Google, on the other hand, maintains their voice but keeps it out of the main flow
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by phil 15y ago
Wouldn't Sequoia be more like Roc-A-Fella or Def Jam or something?
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by phil 15y ago
Are you personally liable for the services you provide? That seems scary, to say the least.
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by phil 15y ago
All armchair commentators would do well to consider this one: Q: There’s a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic? “You’re missing it. This is not a one-man show. What’s
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by phil 15y ago
That would be pretty sweet. Fingers crossed.
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by phil 15y ago
You have to be careful with that word, though. I know it sets off my bullshit detector. When I see a Solutions section on a company's website I think, "oh no, they're not going to tell me what they're selling, instead they're going to hand
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by phil 15y ago
Yeah, that's totally one of the best spaces in town -- it always seemed like kind of a waste as a Borders. I don't think it should be offices though, it deserves to have lots of people moving through.
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by phil 15y ago
The funny thing is, none of this would have been an issue if their initial real-name enforcement had been to temporarily suspend a profile, prompting users to change their name in order to turn them back on. It's the lack of recourse that g
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Bradley Horowitz on Google+ naming policy(plus.google.com)
43 points by phil 15y ago|40 comments
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by phil 15y ago
It's not even plausible. Native binary plist reading is typically about 2x as fast as JSONKit (in my informal benchmarks). So they claim to be about an order of magnitude faster than binary plists, which would be astonishing if it were true
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by phil 15y ago
I think the Samwers are the exception that proves the rule, since their ventures seem explicitly designed as clones. The strategy is the same, it's just been translated into German.
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by phil 15y ago
Gee, that's a funny way to say "we're raising the price of your subscription by $5.99"
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by phil 15y ago
So obviously they should disable auto-renew by default and start emailing you the day before expiry, right? Except that's nuts -- many of their customer's certs would lapse before they renewed. That's so bad that most sites should even put
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by phil 15y ago
What a fantastic splash page.
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by phil 15y ago
Attention Bay Area people! If you are in SF: some of the best running terrain in the west is just over the Golden Gate bridge. Hop on your bike, ride to the Marin headlands, and go for a walk. If you're already pretty fit, go for a run. The
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by phil 15y ago
Restrepo is great. I thought it captured two things very well: what modern war is like from a grunt's perspective, and the disconnect between US officers and the local Afghani leaders they are supposed to be working with. It's also got some
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by phil 15y ago
Dark Days is great. It's about people living in a train tunnel in NYC: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/ Errol Morris' movies are all good. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is pretty widely known. But also check out The Thin Blue Line, w
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by phil 15y ago
Hey, what are those other two icons in the screenshot? (in the left side nav). They aren't in my account!
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by phil 15y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another is that Visa believes that Square is a threat, thinks they may be successful and has invested to mitigate that threat, get visibility into their activities, and so on.
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by phil 15y ago
Yes, they could charge $35/mo and still make the subsidyback... provided it costs nothing to provide the phone service. Back in the real world, why would anyone want to own a phone company? Even the phone companies don't want to be phone co
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by phil 15y ago
See also: http://healthmonth.com/

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