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by phil 14y ago
What's wrong with it? It's like arguing about grammar. We've been going back and forth on the Oxford Comma for at least 300 years now, with no end in sight.
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by phil 15y ago
What makes you say that? (The article contradicts you, for what that's worth).
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by phil 15y ago
Oh. I didn't realize you could apply a device modifier to an image. Thanks.
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by phil 15y ago
There's a png in the project. Is it an icon that's used by both iPhone and iPad? A background image used by only one? A texture they share? The nib and @2x annotations don't handle that stuff.
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by phil 15y ago
This would definitely require more work on the developer's part! Right now the situation is: toss whatever you want into the bundle and it's there everywhere. For what you're proposing to have any benefit it would have to be: add files, ann
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by phil 15y ago
Well put. There's certainly a lot of that, and even worse it can often seem like a competitive advantage. But there is good work being done, like http://ourchoicethebook.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8Zrruo6fE and there wi
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by phil 15y ago
What would taking it seriously look like?
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by phil 15y ago
The crazy thing is, this is good news for RIM. If Heins really cleaned house with the execs and he replaces them with people that can see reality, that's probably the only chance for RIM to stay an independent company. It's not clear that
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by phil 15y ago
That's code for "we're talking to other companies about what we have that we can sell them."
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by phil 15y ago
acqq nails it -- there's an upper bound, and in the meantime you have to put all those panels somewhere. Get ready to write off a lot of land to scale up. (Get ready to write off a lot more if this is how you're planning to power the magic
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by phil 15y ago
You must mean the recent past, because that's exactly what happened for 10s of millions of years during the late Cretaceous. Edit: and of course a bunch of other times during the Phanerozoic - I just picked one.
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by phil 15y ago
If you really believe there's an infinite amount of constant-price solar power available, I've got a solar panel the size of Manitoba to sell you.
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by phil 15y ago
Who's got the open radar for this one?
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by phil 15y ago
Thanks for all the killer links in here - I got a bunch of useful tools (rotated iPhone image template) that I didn't know about out of it.
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by phil 15y ago
I question whether it makes sense to implement custom UI with transparent PNGs like the slideshow describes. It's pretty tough to get it exactly right, and that approach leads to a lot of interfaces that look a bit off. On iOS, with some dr
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by phil 15y ago
Here's an excellent blog post that explores that option (at the end): http://shapeof.com/archives/2012/03/brent_simmons_on_deflati...
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by phil 15y ago
I'm more sympathetic than usual to the part of the patent he screenshotted. At least pull to refresh is novel. But this broad construction? It attempts to patent any interaction where you start out scrolling then trigger something else: ht
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Apple Phlebotomy(mondaynote.com)
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by phil 15y ago
This seems exactly backwards. I took that essay as a call for more people to please start applying to YC with really big ideas so they can fund more of them.
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by phil 15y ago
I believe that -- and in particular, Newtoy seems to still be doing good work after being bought by Zynga.
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by phil 15y ago
That's cash/equivalents + short-term securities + long-term securities. Total assets are $138b. This all gets pulled from SEC filings. Here's the most recent: http://investor.apple.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-...
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by phil 15y ago
That's an interesting perspective; I wasn't thinking about the software side at all.
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by phil 15y ago
Well I was thinking of the major counterexample that they own essentially none of their manufacturing. They don't produce any of their components -- even the processors they design get built by (I believe) Samsung. As far as I've been able
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by phil 15y ago
Interesting post, but there's a lot that's wrong here. For example, it's really not true that Apple tends towards vertical integration.
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by phil 15y ago
<3 his use of the term "saltational leaps."
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by phil 15y ago
And they suck at advertising, and they suck at web services. Why go in deeper? The thing Twitter has that could be of value is a big library of users with accounts, but Apple already has that. iTunes accounts are (I think) roughly the same
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by phil 15y ago
That's more than they can afford, at least without substantial equity in the deal.
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by phil 15y ago
Don't you think their iBooks publisher and textbook efforts will do this at much lower cost?
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by phil 15y ago
I will eat my shoe if Apple buys Twitter. Edit: In light of this post ( http://dcurt.is/100-billion-units-of-strategy ) I'll add that I will also eat my shoe if Apple buys Netflix.
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by phil 15y ago
From the article: As disclaimers go, Glass' is weak, something he acknowledges. "It seemed best for the story if this were kept a little vague," writes Glass. "I thought it would be lousy and undermining and killjoyish if—at the end of a s

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