rbarooah

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by rbarooah 16y ago
Won't developers recoup their costs by selling software through a platform strengthened by Apple's massive infrastructure and marketing?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Based on the general sentiment in this thread, I guess the HN community doesn't want people to be able to charge money for software. For some reason I am experiencing cognitive dissonance...
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Right, because you don't expect to get anything out of it.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Open source that Apple had contributed very heavily to. Do you feel the same way about Canonical etc.?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Seems like a CYA kind of policy.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
If that's all there is, it proves the point.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
And yet curiously people don't doubt that he's going to ship it.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Format wars have sometimes ended up with one winner, and then there's the windows precedent. I think a lot of the polarization comes from fear of one side or the other 'winning' - a fear that isn't entirely baseless.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Could it be that the human nervous system just didn't evolve to keep doing the same thing for years on end, and so our industrialized culture isn't good for us?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Generally you're probably right, but people do get stuck in jobs for real because of external constraints. A mortgage is not always one of them because it usually means you have capital to trade for your mental health. Divorce, Healthcar
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I think it's a mashup of multiple startup memes. If a referent has to be singular rather than a general class in order for it to qualify as parody, then I stand corrected.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The title is parody - he's commenting on the general amount of gibberish that gets written about startups.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Who could put it together simple as an RSS feed or delicious tag? Are you suggesting I make it for myself? Which would defeat the purpose. Or are you suggesting that I hire someone else to make it?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The list is 'top grossing'. You get there by having a high sales by dollar per unit time. They put the price up and bought the app a few times. They get 70% of what they paid back. And the app is suddenly grossing the same as a $0.99 app
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The irony; no support for loading music from Linux.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Interesting. I wonder if they did that and then bought it themselves a few times to juice it into the list.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Agreed - Ars is the closest thing, but it's actually a lot more tabloidy and much less technical than byte actually was.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
> I'm shocked that you would say that about LWN, or Ian Lance Taylor's blog, or Landon Dyer's blog, or James Hamilton's blog, or Google Research Videos. It's so far from reality that I feel compelled to ask if you've actually read them.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I respectfully disagree with you. There is obviously a far higher quantity of technical 'information' on the web, but almost none of it reaches the standards of the professional writing that was done by Byte. The articles I see on the site
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by rbarooah 16y ago
No - you can only redownload apps. This is because of the contracts with the content providers. Apple is apparently trying to renegotiate this at least for music, so that they can put your library in the cloud.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It has a lot of potential, but it's not quite as exciting as it sounds in reality - each app that wants to use the external display has to support it.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The most interesting point to me was the fact that one of the people mentioned had a finance job with the government and still has to squat in this tower.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Would that this were true. There just isn't anything on the web that compares. (or if there is, please please tell me!) After writing my comment I did some research and found this: http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html It turns out that B
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I've never understood why Byte magazine was shut down. There's been nothing like it. I can't imagine it not being popular in today's tech culture. I'd pay $100 or more for a year's subscription to it right now.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
I had one of those sharp pocket computers - though I was a but younger at the time. It was 4 bit!
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Right because in 10 years time when we're all using Android tablets that will be because the Xoom and the Galaxy Tab started it all.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Your argument actually shows that weighting by volume is a necessity if you're trying to represent people's experiences - which are driven by the likelihood that each given video they want to watch will play - not by the abstract number of
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Why isn't weighting for volume appropriate? Sure, fewer than 54% of sites may support HTML5 video. But who cares if those sites aren't where most of the videos are? You're trying to claim that your handpicked list of sites which deliber
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by rbarooah 16y ago
In case you hadn't noticed this is a thread about the MPEG-LA and WebM. Saying that discussing WebM here is evidence of some kind of weird agenda is crazy talk.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not at all. If google wants to they should go ahead and delist Facebook.

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