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by rythie 16y ago
It seems from reading that post that PayPal's and Flickr's original ideas were ahead of their time. Paypal's original idea is still a problem for people and it's similar to what Square is doing now. Flickr's original idea is lot like the so
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by rythie 16y ago
http://colorillo.com/ is good too.
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by rythie 16y ago
Because some people think the idea is important and if anyone were to hear it, they would surely copy. However, people don't tend to copy unproven ideas, they see traction then copy.
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by rythie 16y ago
I've got that as a feature in friendbinder and no one uses it.
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Why the cloud is critical to Apple's TV Strategy(stevecheney.posterous.com)
2 points by rythie 16y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
Seems like they are just deleting comments at the moment, some detail here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485646
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YouTube Hacked(posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk)
27 points by rythie 16y ago|1 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
They just fixed in the last minute it seems
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by rythie 16y ago
I saw a talk the other day done by an independent researcher saying a similar thing, comparing a high end Nvidia card to a Intel quad core chip. The speed up was really only 1-2x most of the time and researcher thought maybe 10x could be ac
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by rythie 16y ago
AnandTech had some good details on the mapping from dB to bars: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2
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by rythie 16y ago
It is based on the same chassis as the Elise and is assembled by them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster
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IOS devices will and are disrupting the desktop space(posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk)
2 points by rythie 16y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
Not like that in the U.K. I think
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by rythie 16y ago
Many of those writers actually read hacker news and I've seen them break stories that were on hacker news the previous day (e.g. note Jolie replying in one of the threads on this page).
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by rythie 16y ago
The one at Leicester Uni was cool, kind of felt dangerous, have to be careful when you get on.
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by rythie 16y ago
I'm not sure that the best solution, it's just a solution. Even interesting people have spammy days where they most too much (like at a conference) or stuff that's uninteresting to you. Permanently unfollowing is not a good solution to tha
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by rythie 16y ago
I believe Facebook already does that, try toggling "Top news" and "Most recent" to see it. I've been thinking about adding something like this to http://friendbinder.com for a while now, though it's quite hard to get the filtering right t
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by rythie 16y ago
Mac Mini $699 + iPod Touch $199 + iPhone Developer program $99/year = $997 $997 is a lot more than 25% of $2000
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by rythie 16y ago
A degree makes it easier to get a tech. job, at some point you will care about how much you earn and having a degree will affect that. Getting a degree later in life will be much harder, I know from friends who later decided they wanted one
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by rythie 16y ago
Apple had to do the copy+paste work because no one else could. However, the could have put the front facing camera on without the software, since people can write apps to use. As for doing it right, I don't think an app that only works from
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by rythie 16y ago
Who got fleeced exactly? No one force them to buy it. Seems like Aol destroyed all the value the site had by losing to the competition.
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by rythie 16y ago
With all the hype around retina displays, will we see this type of thing reappear?
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IBM's 22 inch, 204 DPI, 3840×2400 resolution monitor (not longer sold)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rythie 16y ago|3 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
IBM used to make a 22inch 3840×2400 which was 204 DPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
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by rythie 16y ago
We should discuss that page it's self not this 'article' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1435233
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by rythie 16y ago|6 comments
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by rythie 16y ago
Google made a smart phone OS based on desktop OS, so did Apple. They were both aimed at the do anything smartphone market. Blackberry and Windows Mobile were in that market already. It doesn't really matter what the early Android prototypes
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by rythie 16y ago
I don't think those need to be transactions they can be done with atomic operations - Adding to a shopping basket is adding a row to a table which is atomic (same for deletions) - topping up a online credit is "UPDATE credit_balance SET cre
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by rythie 16y ago
Why did they put the SD card slot on the back?
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by rythie 16y ago
I thought this guy was being sarcastic the first time I read it. If he is serious, there are so many problems with it. - Getting 823 requests/second should more than achievable with one server and memcache. Nginx can serve over 2000 request

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