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by rphlx 16y ago
Come on, they wanted to give thousands of devs the chance to re-implement C apps in java. Poorly. Under the delusion that they can become ramen-profitable one day. OTOH, Angry Birds is awesome, so I suppose it wasn't a total waste.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Where's the promised math? Very little technical content here. Off to find a book..
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by rphlx 16y ago
Youth is simply one form of power that can be exercised to get publicity, guidance from older mentors, etc. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. Entrepreneurship and engineering are both about using what you have to build what you w
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by rphlx 16y ago
Dude, you don't have to move to SF. LA has a good startup scene and high-end engineering talent pool from Caltech/USC/UCLA, plus design/marketing/UX/etc people from the entertainment industry. There are no serious hurdles to founding a cons
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Tell HN: Last-minute carpool to Startup School from Los Angeles
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Oldie but a goodie: EEE PC Internal Upgrades(beta.ivancover.com)
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by rphlx 16y ago
GOOG and its partners seem to be focused on the US. AFAIK none of the EU carriers are spending anywhere near as much as VZ or Sprint on Android marketing.
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by rphlx 16y ago
a) Fair point. The justification is 'laziness'. The data is from 2010-10-05 04:00-05:00 GMT (late night PDT). 2). It uses a python script to save the twitter stream to json bz2 files, one per hour. And another script to analyze one bz2 to f
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Top 50 Twitter Clients By Number Of Tweets(bryanr.org)
2 points by rphlx 16y ago|2 comments
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by rphlx 16y ago
The cache coherency protocols do not scale as nicely as explicit message passing protocols, in terms of area/power.
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Remuco: Bluetooth remote control for Linux media players(code.google.com)
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by rphlx 16y ago
A boring diversified combination of ETFs?
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by rphlx 16y ago
Debatable. For gold to drop, world govts either need to destroy currency, raise interest rates, or somehow make other asset classes more attractive. I guess the stock market is becoming more attractive, as mass layoffs have temporarily boos
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by rphlx 16y ago
Consider using duplicity to backup to gmail IMAPS. 7GB in a luxury, sea-side GOOG datacenter, free of charge forever. Need >7GB? Create another gmail acct. The problem with paid services is that if you have even a temporary credit card/
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by rphlx 16y ago
You're going to make them tuck in their t-shirts? Seriously? Unless you are getting actual customer complaints, that just seems like a stupid power-tripping way to ruin morale.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Making money in these app markets is not really a technical challenge, but a marketing/social challenge. It is definitely not easy to reach $1k/mo+ For whatever reason, most people are happy to drop $200 on the phone but are really cheap ab
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Sprint 4G App Challenge(condenastdigital.com)
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by rphlx 16y ago
OK, the goal is independent wealth: a low risk passive income. The math for this is pretty simple. Say you are a rock star making $100k/yr. After taxes, in CA, that's ~$60k/yr. If you are single and super-cheap (i.e. celibate), you can live
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by rphlx 16y ago
Maybe they optimize for latency because NTFS still fragments really badly.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Nah, there are plenty of large tech companies that are run by sociopaths, with bad work/life balance, etc. At least at a startup, there is a small chance you'll get rich, or meet some productive people.
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by rphlx 16y ago
If your employees are willing to shift revenue/etc to fuck with the bonus plan, you've already lost.
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by rphlx 16y ago
I doubt it, but, regardless, AOT burns AC power once, on some development PC. JIT/interpretation burns power forever from a tiny LiPoly cell that barely lasts 10 hrs for many people. And with 160k new devices per day, I wonder how many unne
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by rphlx 16y ago
I was being snarky, but, AdSense payouts are trending endlessly downward as far as I can tell, and that scares investors. At least it should.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Apple wants to sell iPads even to people who are afraid of PCs. My grandmother got rid of her PC because it intimidated her. I doubt she would even consider using something named 'Android'. Even if it was exactly identical to the iPad. The
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by rphlx 16y ago
I call BS on this. Debtor democracies almost always end up rewarding debtors and screwing savers (through inflation, government bailouts, etc). Why fight the system? Get the largest fixed rate mortgage you can, at the lowest possible rate,
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by rphlx 16y ago
Maybe $4 per year. GOOG keeps reducing AdSense payments to help provide quarter-over-quarter income growth.
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by rphlx 16y ago
The recession wiped out real estate, wall street and Detroit, but one can still have a nice, well-compensated life being a lawyer, cop, politician, public school teacher, and almost any type of government employee. Why bother with all that
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by rphlx 16y ago
> more single-member households Do you have a source for this? I think the number of single-member households is actually declining in most parts of the US. People move in together to reduce costs during a recession. College grads movin
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by rphlx 16y ago
Maybe it was historically. But "Past events do not guarantee future results". Athough, people never really seem to believe that.
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The point of debt is that when the real estate market drops, you declare bankrupcy and let the lender eat most of the loss. Donald Trump has done this like 5 times. If you own outright, you eat the entire loss yourself. Basically -- debt in

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