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by ruswick 14y ago
Does Appacademy offer housing? If not, attending the program would be near impossible, as rents in NYC and SF are exorbitant, and would necessitate working another part-time job just for the luxury of sharing a room with several other peopl
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by ruswick 14y ago
I'm in what might be considered a precursor to this situation. I'm a high schooler and although I have a fair amount of technical skill, finding employment has been a fruitless endeavor. I fear that my inability to find freelance work or se
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by ruswick 14y ago
This is logically incoherent. The fact that a larger disparity exists between the ultra-wealthy in the West and impoverished people in the third world (though, to be fair, many parts of the West are beginning to resemble the third world) do
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by ruswick 14y ago
That may be fine for some, but newsletters are inherently limited by the amount of space they are willing to provide to links, and by their domain, because most letters are topic-specific. While newsletters can support maybe 20 links per we
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by ruswick 14y ago
That is not "teenage" behavior. That is sociopathy. He outright lied to this reporter, then berated him with dozens of emails. Regular people, "teenagers" included, do not behave that way. (I, as someone who is comparable in age to D'Aloisi
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by ruswick 14y ago
Frankly, I'm jealous and I don't see why that's a problem. Who wouldn't want $30m for an relatively-mediocre app? Is this not what a large portion of the entrepreneurs strive for: exits for inflated sums of money?
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by ruswick 14y ago
The issue is that "tallent" is nebulous, and difficult for companies to both define and measure. How does a company determine one's capacity to adopt new technologies? How do they adequately determine who is "smart" and who is not? The reas
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by ruswick 14y ago
No, but getting celebrities to invest does, which is a natural consequence of being hyper-affluent.
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by ruswick 14y ago
Indeed. I haven't tried the app in months, but downloaded it shortly after launch, and it unequivocally sucked. The summarization simply wasn't effective and often gave incoherent information or incomplete sentences. This story seems to boi
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by ruswick 14y ago
I concur with the point about the ridiculous "rockstar" terminology. It's ambiguous and non-descriptive. However, the titles that truly irk me are "code artisans" and any variants thereof. I've seen this in use several times in the past few
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by ruswick 14y ago
Rarely if ever do I find myself in agreement with Marco, but he articulates a valid point quite well. Monopolies and effective monopolies are obviously quite detrimental to the web, especially when they fail. But, there is little that can b
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by ruswick 14y ago
Craigslist's elegance exists in it's utter simplicity. This site does not attempt to be visually simple; it intends to be conspicuous and eye-catching, and does so in a way that might come off as annoying or excessive.
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by ruswick 14y ago
The actual page has several conspicuous issues. First, the typeface is consistently too thin. You really ought to be using more robust type weights. Second, there are too many textures that are too profligate. They distract from the actual
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by ruswick 14y ago
The fact that the orientation of the view changes based on the orientation of the block necessarily precludes this from truly being "first-person Tetris." (Unless the implied viewer can rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the scre
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The Free Manifesto(ruswick.tumblr.com)
1 points by ruswick 14y ago|0 comments
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He specifically accounts for this by stating that Apple is and ought to be held to a higher standard because they were previously the overwhelming hegemon in the industry. I don't necessarily agree with him, but the fact that Google also us
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by ruswick 14y ago
I'm not sure that this can be reduced solely to a conflict of interest regarding Crunch Fund. Arrington left, and the piece (really more of a rant) never accounts for that or for any of the other possible motivations: it just asserts some s
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by ruswick 14y ago
Do you mean "the old Reader" or The Old Reader ( http://theoldreader.com/ )?
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by ruswick 14y ago
Insofar as a lot of sites publish their entire feed to Twitter, composing a huge list of publications could replicate Reader to an extent. I've considered doing it as a stopgap, but it's just too laborious for sets of feeds numbering over 1
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by ruswick 14y ago
Are you certain that they are specifically trying to eliminate it? It seems as though they are merely abandoning it within their product line and within the company as a whole. Accusations of an attempt to extinguish the RSS format probably
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Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million(techcrunch.com)
74 points by ruswick 14y ago|56 comments
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The methodology used in this study raises some questions (which were exacerbated by the poor interpretation on the part of the writer) and makes me quite hesitant. First, the link between leisure time and "eliteness" is incredibly weak: fre
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by ruswick 14y ago
I think $13 is right. Shipping makes the shirt ~$15, which is pretty standard if not above the market precedent for a shirt. (It's probably 10x the average price of my shirts.) Obviously, rates become really burdensome for international cus
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by ruswick 14y ago
I highly doubt that he had "perfect SAT scores." A 2400 with good grades is an effective guarantee at most state flagships (and most mid-range private schools for that matter.) He is either mischaracterizing his merits or didn't apply to re
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by ruswick 14y ago
This is a testament to how much weight luck holds in achieving a successful career, and how one's life is largely governed by people's whims and general arbitrariness. (This is true not only due to people taking chances on others, but becau
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by ruswick 14y ago
In my opinion, the app is not deserving of 5 stars. The mechanics are grating and difficult to use. I spent 3 minutes trying to draw a path on level 10, and every time after rounding the corner a that I did not intend to change would change
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by ruswick 14y ago
The overwhelming majority of app users would not pay a cent for any app, much less a game. Free sells.
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There are some irksome mechanics issues, and the game is far from novel, but it is excellently implemented and aesthetically pleasing.
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Except, that analogy is true: purportedly, doping is really pervasive in pro-cycling and is basically necessitated to be anywhere near competitive. The same is true of the app store. It's not optimal, but it's the status quo that tens of th
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by ruswick 14y ago
I'm quite pleased with the device overall, but the interface, although certainly an improvement, still appears inferior to the Apple TV (which itself has a large number of intolerable flaws.)

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