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by saddino 15y ago
Wait, I thought Rogue popularized hjkl? ;-)
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by saddino 15y ago
If a significant portion of his return is tied up in the retention, he's going nowhere soon.
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by saddino 15y ago
Actually, it's a complete paradigm shift. http://gigaom.com/mobile/uh-oh-pc-half-of-computing-device-s...
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by saddino 15y ago
So my choice is easy, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to delete my Path account. Both online and mobile interfaces appear to be missing this function. Help?
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by saddino 15y ago
"Who are the rising stars in general-purpose web search?" duckduckgo.com
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by saddino 15y ago
My indie band's self-produced CD cost us only $16K in 2001 (we were signed to a small label), but to be completely candid, we cut corners all over the place: 1) We dropped two tracks because the live lay down (which we used as the base for
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by saddino 15y ago
"A service like foursquare can be useful to different people in different ways." Which indicates that their focus is too broad to capture a critical mass of users that use it in the same way. I don't think a pivot is necessary, just a focu
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by saddino 15y ago
As someone who was limited to 300 baud for learning UNIX and C, I actually preferred Joy's ex over vi. I found that I could type ahead very quickly and just let the edits scroll in as they were echoed from the mainframe. Watching the edit
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by saddino 15y ago
Hmm, something tells me L&B would be a bit peeved if all G+ ends up being is the "default medium" for "communication for actual research collaboration."
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by saddino 15y ago
And the reference for me is the version that was bundled with 4.0 BSD in 1980 (also the distribution that introduced Zork)
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by saddino 15y ago
s/users/anonymous devices/
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by saddino 15y ago
You would create a payment system over IP: a client app for consumers to pay, a client app for merchants to be paid and a server to handle the handshake. What's more disruptive that completely sidestepping the entrenched players who hold t
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by saddino 15y ago
I think you may be missing the forest for the trees. My personal insight from psychedelics was that what I perceived as "reality" was simply wetware converting signals from my senses into perception. When something changes that perception
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by saddino 15y ago
Hertzfeld also published a book compilation of folklore.org: Revolution In the Valley http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... And (non-affiliate) Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Valley-Insanely-Great
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by saddino 15y ago
The problem for big (and small) media is that hype (and its counterpart FUD) drives page views. Even good writers are more apt to fall for the "big" story even if they know it sounds fishy. Wishful thinking and greed (for clicks) leads to
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by saddino 15y ago
Actually, I expect every Color pivot (including this one) to be a trojan horse to execute the original big idea. The invite mechanism via FB is still "take a picture" and post to FB, so the implicit network is still being built. The truth
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by saddino 15y ago
You can already replace the last two groups with a loyalty card aggregator app like CardStar and its ilk.
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by saddino 15y ago
"Oh dear," says TechCrunch's journalistic integrity and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
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by saddino 15y ago
The fact that Bethesda has engaged counsel means they've already invested in defending their trademark rights. Agreeing to any "contest" in which they'd abandon their mark would serve as record (to other competitors) that their mark is dil
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by saddino 15y ago
Well, hopefully this HN thread won't be filled the comments like "you can't trademark dictionary words" (you can) and "do I infringe if I use the words scrolls in this posting?" (no). But just in case, in an effort to get some facts in: 1)
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by saddino 15y ago
Fukime in the Parse -- it's so Kinvey!
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by saddino 15y ago
Provide a "merge" mechanism. Keep track of merges. When merges exceed a threshold, HN merges them for all.
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by saddino 15y ago
Actually, that's exactly how the world works. Design patents and trade dress protection can indeed protect the look of a product, even a color from use by competitors, e.g. Tiffany's defends its "robin's egg blue" color used to sell jewelry
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by saddino 15y ago
Issued patents certainly can add tangible value to a deal, but take years to make their way through USPTO and require a lot of money to file, respond to office actions and the examiner. However, most startups with time and not too much $ ca
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by saddino 15y ago
Agreed. Given it's a nascent product with few users/retailers and low barrier to entry (there are at least a dozen similar scan-code-for-punch-card apps), it sounds like a pure talent buy. And $10MM sounds high if that is truly the case.
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by saddino 15y ago
s/open source/free licensing model/
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by saddino 15y ago
Today's "I have an idea for an app" = last decade's "I have an idea for a website"
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by saddino 15y ago
You can play zork in your browser here: http://thcnet.net/zork/index.php
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by saddino 15y ago
The guy from the Bourne Shell Identity?
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by saddino 15y ago
And when you get that startup off the ground and start kicking butt I highly recommend adding Fred Wilson (avc.com) to your regular reading list. Great insight into financing, what makes startups successful, etc.

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