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by phil 14y ago
You say that because you think Square is a little gadget for taking credit cards from a phone. That is the little goal, though -- the big goal at Square is clearly to take over all real-world payments. The cheap reader was a simple place to
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by phil 14y ago
You might find the parallel structure listing grievances familiar, since it was used in the Declaration of Independence (and many, many times since).
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by phil 14y ago
For another approach to this problem, see the Urbanspoon iPad app. It shows every restaurant in a city, drawing them as dots in a map overlay then swapping for pins when you zoom in enough that a manageable number would be shown. This doesn
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by phil 14y ago
Preparing food is one of the most rewarding activities in my life, and the same is true for many of my friends. Maybe it's an attitude thing?
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by phil 14y ago
The advantage -- and it's often a big one -- is that you don't have to have a corresponding server component to translate session id to session state. The state is all in the client. Edit: wouldn't have written this if I'd seen FooBarWidget
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by phil 14y ago
Well for starters, it's common practice (e.g. in Rails' cookie store, but many others too) to leave the cookie contents as plaintext and just append a HMAC so that you know they haven't been tampered with.
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by phil 14y ago
As always, depends what you're doing, but this is not a crazy statement. There are certainly fewer bombshells in iOS6 than iOS 5, but it's no stretch to say that adopting iOS 5 early on was worth 100s of hours -- it had huge improvements fo
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by phil 14y ago
You still have to be pretty pessimistic to think taxes will rise faster than your rate of return!
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by phil 14y ago
Come on - your local bakery (even if it's a chain, even if you don't like it as much as you used to) is a low-margin enterprise. Getting screwed out of thousands of dollars is tough on places like that. Plus that was just the example. If th
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by phil 14y ago
Just hate to see this part: OnLive was a frequent customer or Prolific Oven Bakery in Palo Alto, said Regina Chan, daughter of the owner of the local chain. By the time the company went through its insolvency in August, it owed the bakery
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by phil 14y ago
This is common in the kayaking/climbing community. Every paddler I know living out of a van gets an old Toyota Previa. Why? They're cheap, fuel-efficient, readily available, easy to gut the back, and deal with dirt roads fairly well.
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by phil 14y ago
Yeah, they totally picked the wrong 4-letter domain.
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by phil 14y ago
It's still pretty magical to see an actual picture of actual alluvium on the surface.
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by phil 14y ago
I wonder if that was part of the reason for the redesign.
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by phil 14y ago
I'm concerned about this. App store search has had a heavy bias towards the top 4-5 results. This will only make that bias stronger.
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by phil 14y ago
Or sue to maintain control of it. You know, either way.
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by phil 14y ago
Impossible to offer pricing advice without knowing about your traffic. Done right, you are offering a fairly valuable form of advertising and one that restaurateurs understand well.
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by phil 14y ago
That's kind of a strange attitude to have. Your competition (more or less) charges $50: http://www.charlesproxy.com/
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by phil 14y ago
I think Mark Singer's writing is great. Did you think he represented the situation accurately, though?
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by phil 14y ago
Actually, if you plant hybridized seeds, you have to buy seeds each year since you can't grow your own seed crop. That's farmer DRM. If you go organic and plant all heirloom/non-hybrid seeds then you won't have that problem. That's kind of
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by phil 14y ago
Have you spent time in many Gehry buildings? For example, the EMP here in Seattle looks pretty weird from the outside. I can see how you'd call it unpleasant/memorable based on pictures or driving by but once you go in it's great. Some beau
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by phil 14y ago
Thanks -- I had no idea you could just buy a tape library off the rack (more or less).
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by phil 14y ago
Storage experts: I'd love to know more about what might be backing this service. What kind of system has Amazon most likely built that takes 3-4 hours to perform retrieval? What are some examples of similar systems, and where are they insta
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by phil 14y ago
The operative difference between buying cups of coffee and paid apps is actually this: If you try to spend $50 on cups of coffee you'll quickly become twitchy and have to stop, but if you keep pressing the Buy button in the app store you ca
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by phil 14y ago
How about this? http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=s12...
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by phil 14y ago
Whoa, yeah. These guys have the #2 free iPad app and have been gained in sales rank every day the game has been available. Freaking out because conversion rate on their IAP is lower than expected seems a little premature. If they keep getti
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Dark Sky Version 2.0 (with sales figures)(journal.darkskyapp.com)
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by phil 14y ago
That approach worked great for Quora early on.
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by phil 14y ago
Agreed, but that fight is over: it's going to be on the ballot.
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by phil 14y ago
That's what they meant. A yes vote on Ref 74 will legalize same-sex marriage.

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