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by pkaler 16y ago
Cold calling is underrated. My first thought would be to call every YMCA/YWCA in North America. Call every school in every district. Call every community centre.
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by pkaler 16y ago
I know very few hackers that can make great products for my mom or my sisters. Insert Steve Jobs' spiel about the intersection of technology and liberal arts.
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That was the whole point of the keynote today. Google is trying to lure developers by being free and open. Apple is try to lure developers with cold, hard cash that they are paying out. The keynote mentioned that Apple has paid out $1 bil
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by pkaler 16y ago
You're stealing my analogy. But I believe Bing is Pepsi and Google is New Coke. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400311 It looks like Apple takes 20% market share by size and 80% by revenue. Android takes 80% market share by size an
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by pkaler 16y ago
This is stuff you should have learned in school in a numerical methods or numerical analysis class. If you didn't, take a read of What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic . http://docs.sun.com/source/806-
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by pkaler 16y ago
Different situation. Developers make more money on the iPhone/iPad/iPod than Android at the moment. Developers will continue to target the platform where they make the most money. Apple treats Apps as a switching cost. The more Apps and
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by pkaler 16y ago
New Google is the new New Coke. I guess that makes Bing Pepsi.
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by pkaler 16y ago
"Hypercard was as big as Flash? Come on!" I assumed he meant in terms of importance or developer fondness rather than in terms of market share. HyperCard was shelved because Objective-C does objects better and because HTML does hyperlinks
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by pkaler 16y ago
Cart before the horse. You want to bring the web to the ten foot user experience NOT the other way around. The iPhone App model is successful because native applications make HTTP requests and custom render the results rather than just ren
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by pkaler 16y ago
Stop spreading FUD. iPhone devs would not have licensing issues. How about I point you to a number of frameworks that iPhone developers ship with today and have been shipping with since near day one. http://wiki.developers.facebook.com
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by pkaler 16y ago
There are about 75 million netbooks sold every year. Let's guess that the tablet market is 100mm at peak. Apple will be pretty happy owning the top 20% segment of that market. That is where all of the margin is at. The Android tablets wi
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by pkaler 16y ago
Forget the typo. This is the slowest, most naive implementation of memset possible. Is this actual shipping code? I've followed the changeset up to the top and it looks like it's in platform/bootable/bootloader/legacy. Hopefully this isn
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by pkaler 16y ago
"Google gets some flack for privacy (some deserved, some not), but it's undeniable that they care deeply about the health of the Web." That's ridiculous. Smart competitors commoditize complements. Google's goal is to commoditize content a
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by pkaler 16y ago
Wow, this just goes to show how irrational some of the hate for Apple's policies are. A framework is very similar to a library in C. It can also include data such as strings and documentation. You can read the formal definition of what a
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by pkaler 16y ago
Quoting NPD Group's online survey as fact is highly suspect. Take a read of the methodology in the original press release. http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_100510.html NPD trades surveys for sweepstakes. They are the Zynga of mar
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by pkaler 16y ago
I don't get this either or thing. I got a BSc in Computing Science when I was a kid. I'm 30 now and preparing for the GMAT. I also keep abreast of the latest on the lean startup and on the fat startup. Why not learn it all?
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by pkaler 16y ago
Clearly, you haven't heard of the XBox where the split is 60/40.
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by pkaler 16y ago
There are a couple errors in Jon Stewart's reporting. We don't know if the phone was lost or stolen. If it was stolen then Gizmodo has broken the law. If the phone was lost and Gizmodo did not attempt to return the phone then Gizmodo has b
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by pkaler 16y ago
Except for a lot of other things, too: iTunes client, App Store with millions of credit card numbers in its database, MobileMe cloud service, a chip design firm in PA Semiconductor, 5% of Akamai, 7% of Disney, a soon to launch iAds, and a s
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by pkaler 16y ago
What did you use to capture the video?
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by pkaler 17y ago
Vancouver BC is having serious trouble with people whining about real estate prices. My younger sister bought 6 months ago. My older sister bought last month. My parents are buying this month. The problem with Vancouver is that Vancouver
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by pkaler 17y ago
I don't believe in luck. There is only work ethic and understanding the probabilities.
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by pkaler 17y ago
Here is another post by Boris: http://bmann.ca/what-i-did-tonight Disclaimer: I've known Boris Mann for a while. He is a stand up guy. It's a crappy situation on all sides. Missed capital calls happen during downturns. It's shitty for
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by pkaler 17y ago
So, Weblogs Inc meets knowledge exchange. What I don't quite follow is why contributors would want to propose a Stack Exchange. For example, imagine I'm a shoe cobbler. I may want to contribute to a Stack Exchange so that it positions me
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by pkaler 17y ago
WebKit is a framework not an application. Safari is the application. The UI layer is still Cocoa.
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You can tell it not to. There is a setting to turn it off. I could give you details but I don't know how to turn Ow.ly's framebar back on!
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by pkaler 17y ago
I did a talk with Matt Galligan when he was in Vancouver last month. You can see the video here: http://blip.tv/file/3340542/ I can't seem to dig up a video of Matt's talk. Basically, Navteq and Tele Atlas own the base map data. Google,
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by pkaler 17y ago
Or email two or three people in your town that can help you, figure out how you can help them, and do that. Reciprocity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
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by pkaler 17y ago
1) See 37Signals post about working on your best idea. Does the creator have a better idea to work on? 2) Extrapolate a little bit. Others have mentioned sub-Chatroulettes. What if Chatroulette added Flickr style tags? Twitter style has
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by pkaler 17y ago
Part of this has to be a Git vs SVN. (I know that Google Code supports Mercurial, but I believe all project I'm subscribed to use SVN.) But I commit and push way more with Git than I did with SVN. Probably twice as often. I usually commi

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