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by saddino 14y ago
Wow, nice work! I'm the author Trapeze, a once-shareware (now freeware and open source) PDF-to-Word/RTF/HTML/PlainText application for OS X. My approach was similar: trying to squash characters into words via a logical grid to determine w
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by saddino 14y ago
A little out of left field here, but if anyone is interested in working on the other multi-process browser (for OS X at least) I've just released Stainless as open source. Stainless was a hack that actually became quite popular while we
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by saddino 14y ago
Anyone who remembers Kozmo should know that the original pricing model is doomed to failure. Grocery delivery doesn't scale well, and 14 years of technological advancement doesn't change this fact.
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by saddino 14y ago
I've been thinking that Parse (and StackMob, Kinvey et al) need to provide a similar self-deployable solution at a reasonable price; this might be the motivation they need to do so.
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by saddino 14y ago
How does Apple responding that it has not been submitted force them to approve it???
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Inmates go high-tech as startup mania hits San Quentin(reuters.com)
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by saddino 14y ago
Same here. Have a pending payment in my Google Wallet account. Ah well.
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by saddino 14y ago
This at a time when printing from, for example, a non-WYSIWYG WordPerfect document on a a PC would print your entire doc in whatever printer font you had installed and selected. Seems crazy now, but printing to an ImageWriter from a Mac wa
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by saddino 14y ago
I too, made my first sale as a shareware author on AOL, selling a Tetris clone for the Mac called Blox. I asked for $5 checks sent to my home address, and while I sold less than 100, the feeling of accomplishment and the incredibly nice not
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by saddino 14y ago
Although I agree an AppleTV API is a given, I wouldn't assume this existing private "BackRoom" API represents anything interesting. The current slate of apps have to be developed in something and thus the existence of a private API for d
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by saddino 14y ago
No. Learn to code and draw and write and play an instrument. They are all the same thing really.
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by saddino 14y ago
It's a fad because you draw your "evolutionary diet" line at the Paleolithic for no reason at all. For 100 million years prior all your ancestors ate a pure vegetarian diet. Why isn't that diet more sensible from an "evolutionary" perspecti
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by saddino 14y ago
Which spawned Apple's MPW IDE and their MacApp C++ framework, which ultimately gave way to Metrowerks CodeWarrior and the PowerPlant C++ framework. It's actually pretty amazing that for most of the 90s Apple let Metrowerks own the develope
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by saddino 14y ago
Use Stock Photo of a 2-Year Old
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by saddino 14y ago
A year into my post-acquisition "stint" I find the most valuable lesson is to accept that, by design, everything about your startup culture will have to cede to your acquiring company's culture. Don't fight it; how well that transition occ
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by saddino 14y ago
Fucking nonsense. If you are passionate enough you will apply yourself and master your love until you (and perhaps only you) can figure out how to succeed from it. Contrary to the article, abandoning one's passion is what sucks the fun out
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by saddino 14y ago
I agree. We were an early Crashlytics adopter that also used TestFlight for Ad Hoc testing. When TestFlight launched TestFlight Live and introduced its own crash logging service, we saw no need to keep both in the app and shut off Crashly
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by saddino 14y ago
Light guns hit home video game consoles with Shooting Gallery on the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Because the included shotgun-style light gun was only usable on a Magnavox television, the game flopped. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
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by saddino 14y ago
Ah yes, I used the baby blue version. Probably my favorite terminal until the HP2621a (which had a great character set, "modern" housing, and nice loud beep). Since I used the line editor to program I only really used HJKL as cursor key
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by saddino 14y ago
Although I agree in general, there is a valid ulterior motive to playing the "stealth startup" game, and that is as a marketing strategy to generate buzz prior to launch and drive user adoption on launch day. IMO this is really no differen
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by saddino 14y ago
There is a great lesson here. For everyone on the outside of anything that requires experience to excel, it appears that there must be secrets kept by those on the inside that reveal the keys to success. But there are no secrets. You jus
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by saddino 14y ago
Premise 2 is flawed IMO. An MVP built by a lone, but talented techie for $5000 / number_of_hours, isn't likely to turn into something 'successful' at all because 1) someone who values their time so little is probably not that talented, and
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by saddino 14y ago
Said file will be virus checked before opening, of course.
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by saddino 14y ago
No. A goods/services provider has "common" trademark protection in the US even if without a registered mark, so this usage is not "within their right." http://tcattorney.typepad.com/ip/2008/06/what-are-common.htm...
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by saddino 14y ago
Although I am in agreement, I believe it best to re-emphasize the qualifiers for such an endeavor (totally IMO): 1) A single founder must have already had an exit; 2) A single founder must be able to speak to their own weaknesses and addres
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by saddino 14y ago
Now if Google really wants to finish the job and stick a fork in Siri, they should make a developer SDK available so other iOS apps can use this technology. Right now, the only ad hoc speech-to-text service available is Nuance's (which ye
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by saddino 14y ago
They can be called "milk" legally because the definition of milk includes the whitish fluid produced by plants. The dairy industry has tried to argue against its use "to prevent consumer confusion" to no avail: http://www.motherjones.com/
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by saddino 14y ago
Can someone explain how the economics of scaling this type of business works now in 2012 when it failed in 2001? (most famously, Kozmo). I thought the problem was that the all-in cost of delivery was greater than the flat delivery fee adde
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by saddino 14y ago
Parse should offer a dedicated enterprise solution to run their stack (as source code) and warehouse your data on your own servers (or own AWS account). That would offer a real migration path for apps that anticipate reach critical mass in
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by saddino 14y ago
Most interesting indeed is the Kickstarter approach outside of Kickstarter. Someone should launch a Kickstarter-as-a-Service startup.

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