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by phil 15y ago
I wonder if the author changed the title or keywords when he shipped version 2. That's one of those hidden factors that can make a big difference in sales. (Not to minimize the importance of word of mouth and a great product, of course.)
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by phil 15y ago
How is the problem he is solving different? I guess using an actor chain and messages allows you to repeatedly drop many messages through the same sequence of operations. While you might express that slightly differently if you used GCD or
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by phil 15y ago
These days, why not use GCD and blocks for this kind of work?
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by phil 15y ago
This seems like excellent advice. I've got a heuristic for finding when you're not doing this: when you say "we'll make our product free for now, but we'll charge for premium features later, when we have some that people would be willing
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by phil 15y ago
Great writeup, and helpful for people like me. I often know exactly what message I want to deliver and the visual hierarchy I want, but coming up with a nice layout is harder. So the break down is good to see. It was pretty shocking to see
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by phil 15y ago
My own reaction was amazement at the obsessive detail they had rendered in CSS. But if you think this is sloppy work, why not try your hand at making something similarly detailed that you feel is done right?
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by phil 15y ago
This, however, is not "impact-less": when running truly memory-intensive games, they will experience performance degradation while the OS performs cleanup and shutdown of the various applications "hibernating". I'm not 100% sure, but I th
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by phil 15y ago
You don't get a signal handler; there's no opportunity to execute code.
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Flying Meat Software's 2011 year in review(shapeof.com)
2 points by phil 15y ago|0 comments
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by phil 15y ago
In that case you might also find this one of the greatest auto designs of all time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_2CV I'd love to create a modern electric conversion of a 2cv, but while I don't hate cars, I don't want to become th
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by phil 15y ago
Not within reach for most of us mortals, anyway: http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/
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by phil 15y ago
It's definitely clever marketing. But consider that a coupon for the transfer plus a $2 donation means that they are losing money on these transfers, at least until they renew or sell you something else. I'm sure they expect that to pan out
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by phil 15y ago
I think it's basically #5 in his list: > 5. Competition from other forms of delivery. If you look at the film industry as a whole, it's projected to grow over the next several years: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/film-industr
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by phil 15y ago
Yeah, but that suggests that the success condition is running a pawn shop. Probably not what you're after if you are a software startup that's just taken seed investment.
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by phil 15y ago
This one seems OK though -- he's attempting a taxonomy and does a reasonable job. They just made the headline sound like it was a fill-in-the-blanks top ten list.
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by phil 15y ago
Oh, hi there tvtropes.org. Welp, see you all in a few weeks then.
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by phil 15y ago
Yeah, I meant things like sample code for plain C frameworks, where the author has just decided "hey, why not do this in Obj-C++ instead of Obj-C." As I recall, many of the AudioToolbox examples are like this. Didn't mean to imply that ther
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by phil 15y ago
Unfortunately, much of the Apple sample code is also pretty terrible. Here's one heuristic: if you see any Objective C++ files (*.mm) in the project, you can probably ignore it as an example of good style.
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by phil 15y ago
OMG, Wikipedia talk pages are freaking impossible to read! Surely there are some serious Wikipedians floating around here. Hasn't anyone thought about adding a little bit of threaded conversation support to mediawiki so these back and forth
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by phil 15y ago
This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S._Smith Lamar Smith is a Texas Republican in a district that is 2/3 R -- any effort to unseat him would have to involve a primary challenge and thus speak to Republican primary voters.
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by phil 15y ago
It's cool that they published this letter. All that stuff about counterfeiting is not just an abstract concern. Here's a forum thread from early this year about counterfeit biners and ascenders: http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1409
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by phil 15y ago
tl;dr: They're too busy playing World of Warcraft to fart around with spaceships.
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by phil 15y ago
$550k per week? That pencils out to $1375 per hour, a pretty astronomical rate in any industry. Edit: dropped a 0 earlier. I meant to say $13,750 per hour. Nice work, if you can get it.
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by phil 15y ago
Early versions of Mobile Safari only showed the address bar. When you tapped to focus, you got both an address and search bar.
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I miss w(notes.torrez.org)
89 points by phil 15y ago|30 comments
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by phil 15y ago
"Don't fight the Internet." - Eric Schmidt
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by phil 15y ago
No doubt, if all music and video was released this way, a lot of it would fail. A lot of music released by major labels fails, too. Movies flop. There are no guarantees. So, I agree with you that Louis CK's marketing is fantastic. But it's
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by phil 15y ago
Undoubtedly, Apple would do it if they could get the licenses. The movie industry still has a little fight left in it, though.
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by phil 15y ago
I thought about this for a while. I'm not an expert in oil painting technique, but I think one possibility is, you tend to overpaint an area at a time. So: mix some paint, layer up part of the canvas. Come back later, mix some paint, do it
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by phil 15y ago
That's bunk. It boils down to saying, "sure, it worked for Louis CK and Radiohead, and Cory Doctorow and Humble Bundle. It worked for Trent Reznor, OK Go, and pretty much everyone funded by Kickstarter... But it could never work for you." T

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