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by raquo 17y ago
> sacrificing performance for functionality That's what I feel about Firefox compared to Chrome or Opera.
782.
by raquo 17y ago
> the only way to lose is to not play I think you meant the only way to win is to play. There are always many ways to lose!
783.
by raquo 17y ago
Do software trial periods generate much buzz? Because that's what this is, only it's a website, it's free and I have to wait on average 12 hours to actually see it without registering. I fail to see any logic, sorry.
784.
by raquo 17y ago
Ah. This is so much in the "I want to believe" dept. :/
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by raquo 17y ago
So you say that a team of engineers does not understand that most frequent contacts != those whom I wish to share my stuff with? Are edge cases like the original post hard to predict? Did they do any testing, even with their friends/colleag
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by raquo 17y ago
The worst thing is that even though this story received a lot of attention in Russian media and people are well aware and furious about it, there is nothing that will be done about it. Neither the president nor the prime minister nor the pa
787.
by raquo 17y ago
Maybe they just want to prevent others from doing this. Or they could be preparing some location-based ads/offers for iPhone.
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by raquo 17y ago
Actually, I now see that I have originally misread descent angle for glide ratio, but still, even 1/2 of 747's performance is great. Natural selection!
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by raquo 17y ago
That's nearly as good gliding ratio as Boeing 747, FWIW.
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by raquo 17y ago
That's all great, but imagine how much self-evident patents were probably filed. Like that sparklines-in-a-document patent.
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by raquo 17y ago
The only real reason I see for the approval process is safety - your phone has direct access to your money, unlike your computer. Maybe Apple could make a "safe mode" which would not allow an app to be destructive, and only require approval
792.
by raquo 17y ago
1) Improve design in all aspects (change logo, colors, ajaxify (esp. simple things like renaming a file)) 2) Differentiate. Don't assume I don't know about dropbox and the like.
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by raquo 17y ago
Not a spreadsheet but any kind of document, if I understand it correctly. ADDED: So, they applied a patent for embedding "small graphics" in a document. Oh well...
794.
by raquo 17y ago
Have to fight other's choices every day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braesss_Paradox
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by raquo 17y ago
But Google is the concierge you're talking about. It has the description of the product on its page, and it has the description of what the shopper wants (your search terms). The algorithms just aren't as smart as a human being, and you r
796.
by raquo 17y ago
It's not the first post of this kind on Techcrunch, I can only imagine how annoyed they are with all this stuff if they keep repeating it every n months...
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by raquo 17y ago
> Stay calm and see what appears It is easier to fix bugs earlier in development
798.
by raquo 17y ago
Overreaction in this case is absolutely rational. You lose nothing by panicking loudly, but you bring more public attention to the issue.
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by raquo 17y ago
http://arclanguage.org/
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by raquo 17y ago
> Very truly yours (and hoping I don’t get fired for being completely incompetent) Last line from his email, ironically.
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by raquo 17y ago
I hope this will be on major news channels ASAP.
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by raquo 17y ago
It's not the engine that makes difference. Internal combustion engines don't vary by orders of magnitude in efficiency. It's less friction, higher scale and constant speed that make trains more efficient. Diesel or electrical, does not matt
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by raquo 17y ago
> The point of the puzzle is to work inside the constraints The constraint here is (your current resources + $5 + 2 hours), not just the $5 and 2 hours. And the point is to get profitable. It's an entrepreneurship puzzle, not programmin
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by raquo 17y ago
Not necessarily legal, just brilliant (the majority are legal I think). From finance you reminded me about these nifty tricks: http://www.themistrading.com/article_files/0000/0348/Toxic_E...
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by raquo 17y ago
Note that it "hijacks" search engine result pages just like Demand Media does... The source of evilness is different though.
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Ask HN: Evil but brilliant business models?
6 points by raquo 17y ago|13 comments
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by raquo 17y ago
While many apps provide zoom for content they present, I am yet to find an app that allows increasing font size in its UI elements (Though I think OSX should solve this problem in some standard way, not individual apps). Regarding screen
808.
by raquo 17y ago
How to increase font size in OS X?
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by raquo 17y ago
27" Screen would so much more useful if only OS X had system-wide font size settings^. Parsing 10px fonts from a distance of even a couple feet is far from accessible. ^ Resolution independence anyone?
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by raquo 17y ago
If you take web business for instance, all businesses a certain person knows about are near each other (in the address bar), so you have to actually differentiate your product/service to sell it.

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