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by portman 16y ago
RE: PayPal. It gets worse. There are several situations where the docs say one thing, the sandbox behaves a different way, and the live API behaves in a third, different way. It's a mess.
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by portman 16y ago
I wasn't clear in my original comment: it's not that I require API docs (though they're nice), it's that I require the API itself , usually a REST web service, or in the case of mapping, a bunch of remote resources (images and JavaScript
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by portman 16y ago
What kind of work do you do that allows you to code without an Internet connection? These days, I can't go more than 10 lines of code without having to call some API* that requires me to be online. * Examples from just yesterday : Amazon,
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by portman 16y ago
"Facebook makes almost no money. That's not going to change." I doubt that you honestly believe that, but if you do -- want to make a longbet? I bet Facebook will 5x their revenues in the next 2 years. Loser pays $5,000 to a charity of th
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by portman 16y ago
It worked for me growing up. I attended 8 schools between ages 12 and 18 (yes, more than one per year) and was bullied throughout. And that's why comparing parenting strategies is almost never fruitful -- nearly every decision a parent make
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by portman 16y ago
You make a good point (and it takes guts to admit being a bully): the anti-bullying strategy is to make the bully pick a different target. You don't have to be "un-bullyable", you just have to be less bullyable than the next guy. However, I
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by portman 16y ago
O'Reilly called this a "mortgage hack", which I love: http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/2414447138177024
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by portman 16y ago
I just wrote a long-ish hypothetical further up the thread. And you know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe Google DOES understand this just fine. But I think the strong language they're using, the bombastic language of "fairness" and "protect
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by portman 16y ago
Again, this hinges on the meaning "my data". From your statement, I am guessing you believe that the email addresses of your contacts is your data. So here's the thought experiment: Amy uses GMail and has been corresponding with Bill, who w
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by portman 16y ago
Language like this makes me think they don't understand: "essentially locking up your contact data about your friends" Note the first 'your' in that sentence: From Google's P.O.V., the email address of your friend is your data. From Faceb
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by portman 16y ago
That's not what I said. With Facebook, you delegate authority to manage email address to YOUR CONTACTS (not Facebook). In Google or any other address book, I can go into my friend Ted's contact and change his email address if I want to. In
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by portman 16y ago
Le sigh. I think Google has lost sight of something very simple in this fracas: With Google Contacts, the user directly manages his contacts' email addresses . With Facebook, the user delegates management of email address to his contacts
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by portman 16y ago
I would use it, but probably not pay a TON, as my interest in Android development is as a hobbiest not a professional. I'd definitely pay $99, probably pay $199, but definitely wouldn't pay $499. By the way, you might get a better sample po
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by portman 16y ago
> W3C is owned by Microsoft It is?
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by portman 16y ago
"You're not going to get investors coming to you." My experience has been the opposite of this. Traditional VC firms have "Associates" (1-2 years out of grad school) and "Principals" (5+ years out) who work for the partners. Often, there
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by portman 16y ago
Am I the only one who finds Ray's language hard to parse? In the first few paragraphs alone, Ozzie uses: - the realm of the service-centric ‘seamless OS’ - shifted Office from being PC-centric toward now also robustly spanning the we
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by portman 16y ago
"The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead." - first line of the article He never claimed that desktop Linux itself was dead, just that it would never achieve equivalent market share to Mac/Windows. You guys are say
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by portman 16y ago
I don't know about Woz/Jobs, but Page/Brin were definitely friends when they started a company . They may not have been friends when they started collaborating on their first research project, but at the moment they were "co-founders", the
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by portman 16y ago
It sounds like you're trying to find a cofounder amongst people you don't currently know . I'm not aware of any examples of successful cofounders who hadn't previously worked together. What about your current colleagues? Long lost friends
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by portman 16y ago
Rovio is the maker of Angry Birds. They have NOT been acquired. Chillingo is the publisher of multiple iOS games. They were acquired. Rovio is most likely worth much more than $20m at this point.
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Apple Has $51 Billion and a Shopping List. Is Facebook On It?(mediamemo.allthingsd.com)
48 points by portman 16y ago|52 comments
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by portman 16y ago
he is a bit "empire" focused What does that mean? I've only ever heard stories about his legendary niceness, and that makes him sound political and, um, not-nice.
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by portman 16y ago
I believe the only dataset that YC needs to furnish is the official list of alumni. Follow-on rounds, exits, and current status can all be provided by the community. But there seems to be no authoritative dataset that shows which startups
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by portman 16y ago
I think this comment at 3:51 PM EST on 10/17/2010 may be the official death knell of structured data. A few years ago, YC would have maintained portfolio data in a spreadsheet or database. But in today's world, it's probably in a wiki. It m
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by portman 16y ago
portman.ww.com CNAME www.portmanwills.com Not sure what I would want to do with it yet, but very cool and generous idea!
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by portman 16y ago
Would you mind expounding a bit? What, in particular, makes you uncomfortable enough to take on the burden of cycling through accounts? Are your concerned about your safety, politics, job prospects, family? I'm genuinely interested in peopl
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by portman 16y ago
thefind.com is also tackling this For example, last Christmas, I learned that a local crafts store carried Thomas & Friends wooden railway. All of the local toy stores had been sold out, but A.C. Moore had a few in stock.
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by portman 16y ago
"AT&T gave up its exclusivity deal with Apple for the iPhone back in the spring of this year." Source? I thought Apple was still in the middle of their 5-year agreement. http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atand...
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by portman 16y ago
For me, Dropbox.com is up but scripting.com is down. I believe this is one of those rare circumstances when I can use the word "irony" correctly.
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by portman 16y ago
Here's one example: Senior Scientific Software Developer http://www.eyesopen.com/careers#sssd Not sure what level of O-Chem you studied, but from the limited salary data that I am privy to, it seems that you need a graduate degree in Chem

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