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by phil 15y ago
Works for me.
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Show HN: Archivist, stream live concerts to your iPhone(itunes.apple.com)
12 points by phil 15y ago|1 comments
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by phil 15y ago
Actually, quite a few of these ideas persistently succeed. Dating sites, t-shirts, rss readers -- how many times have those worked since the dawn of the Internet?
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by phil 15y ago
Broadly, Hypercard got replaced by the web. There's still a good business in making web authoring environments that are as easy to use as Hypercard. That used to mean Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and friends. Now it's more like Weebly, and I thi
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by phil 15y ago
It's correct usage.
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by phil 15y ago
A classic. This keeps getting more credible as it ages. Now it's been at the same URI for 13 years.
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by phil 15y ago
What a great idea this would have been 3 years ago.
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by phil 15y ago
What field? What kinds of things are you interested in?
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by phil 15y ago
I think this is often not true, and the examples in the post show that. People had already been willing to put their real names online. Friendster launched 1-3 years earlier, grew very fast, and if they hadn't been alienated their users and
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by phil 16y ago
Works better than other web chat, enough so to overcome the generally meh usefulness of web chat. You need to join a group that has lots of activity and then leave a tab open (or fire up one of these apps) to really get why.
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by phil 16y ago
I've been beta testing VorePad for a couple weeks now. It's a good iPad app, and really impressively fast. In fact, it's kinda gotten me hooked on Convore. I don't have any especially important reason to spend time on there, but now I keep
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by phil 16y ago
This does happen: iOS writes a snapshot of the screen when an app moves to the background. You can notice that when you open an app that you ran recently and a stale, slightly artifacted screen appears briefly before updating. That's the sn
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by phil 16y ago
Do you know how they're able to create a top 500 list? I thought the app store rankings only went to 200.
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by phil 16y ago
Reminds me of another classic Feynman/Gell-Mann quote, from Surely You're Joking : Telegdi also sent us a letter, which wasn't exactly scathing, but nevertheless showed he was convinced that our theory was wrong. At the end he wro
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In Semi-Defense of Twitter(blog.wilshipley.com)
2 points by phil 16y ago|0 comments
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by phil 16y ago
There's already a refund mechanism; it's just buried, inconvenient, and kinda hard to figure out. I bet a lot of the crapps would go away if more users knew they could get a refund when they got scammed.
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by phil 16y ago
Check the slides -- that's not what he's talking about.
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by phil 16y ago
This sounds right to me. I've tried lots of non-successful games in the iOS app store, and haven't found one that's much fun to play yet. On the other hand you see game developers who have sublime gameplay, have done no marketing, and succe
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by phil 16y ago
Sure, but aren't Google, Salesforce, Amazon and others doing much the same thing by building/buying cloud computing platforms, social networking products, and so on? That's widening the companies from those Ben Horowitz named, so maybe valu
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by phil 16y ago
In other words you're saying that a bubble might only affect new companies spawned by that bubble. That wasn't true in the late 90's though -- just look at the telecoms. Many of them had substantial trading histories, but they also saw big
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Who’s knifing what?(asymco.com)
2 points by phil 16y ago|0 comments
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by phil 16y ago
This has got to be at least partially about UberMedia. Still makes me glad I don't depend on Twitter's platform at all.
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by phil 16y ago
I've heard this argument from medical residents, too. They say it's important for training to see full 24-hour cycles in a patient's care, and that shorter shifts would make that impossible.
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Welcome to GeekWire(geekwire.com)
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by phil 16y ago
“I went back in my mind: what am I not eating enough of?” he told me. Definitely not fruits and vegetables: he crams as many as 20 of them, including pulverized banana peels and the ground-up rinds of oranges, into the smoothies he drinks
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by phil 16y ago
For what it's worth, the author of the article is the real deal, has written one of the best books on Yosemite climbing and a memoir of a year in which he surfed N Cal every day. It's not like he's some wide eyed dilettante who has never be
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by phil 16y ago
Can you find an example of a pre-PowerBook laptop that has a form factor with these traits? * Clamshell with hinge at the back of the case, not in the middle. * Keyboard at the back of the case. * Blank area in front of the keyboard
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by phil 16y ago
It's funny because this kind of article always ends up recommending a simple, classic free weight program. Then you look at the gyms they refer to, and they've got people doing stuff like this: http://www.mtnathlete.com/page.php?page_ID=2
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by phil 16y ago
> defines the category and the expectations of the users It's stunning how long that has been true. The modern desktop OS is patterned after the Macintosh, modern laptops all use the form factor introduced by the Powerbook 100s, and now
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by phil 16y ago
>Plus, if you need to draw something with Quartz, you can mock it up first in Opacity, and then have it generate the source code for your drawing, which you then integrate into your class. Wow, that's worth the price of admission alone.

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