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by shib71 16y ago
Rovo could easily release a paid version without ads. It's practically ancient tradition on the iPhone, which everyone is arguing is completely different to the Android market. I just assumed that Rovo must be making more money from ads tha
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by shib71 16y ago
This is awesome. Zynga has data mined their users for value and Brian mined their game for the insights they gained. The links between the sharing-creates-personal-value mechanism and virality becomes really clear when someone describes the
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by shib71 16y ago
One uses neon bulbs embedded in a clear sheet, the other uses marshmallows. This link provides a substantially easier-to-replicate version, and is therefore valuable.
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by shib71 16y ago
I haven't, thanks for pointing it out. A superficial look suggests that Locale is simpler and more polished, while Tasker has a wider range of options.
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by shib71 16y ago
There is a killer app for me: Tasker ( http://tasker.dinglisch.net/ ). Being able to set up different configurations of my phone based on where I am, what time it is, what apps I'm running is very useful.
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by shib71 16y ago
I can understand why he's equivocal. Facebook has pushed the social graph as far as it has by becoming the medium it manifests in - and in so doing has put itself in a culpable position. The people who use it can now blame Facebook for thin
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by shib71 16y ago
Those were my thoughts as well. I like the idea of a language where multithreading is the default, but all those back slashes - it reminds me of * in C.
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by shib71 16y ago
Granted. Mobile devices are handicapped in terms of embeddable functionality, but that isn't limited to Flash. Java applets, the only obvious alternative for this use case, are in the same boat. I think that if mobile users want to upload &
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by shib71 16y ago
As fashionable as it is to deride Flash, the vast majority find it quite stable. I believe a good Flash developer could produce a solid upload client for this service. I also believe that every developer on HN would use such a client withou
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by shib71 16y ago
This is very good - uploading large files is a PITA. Now all we need is a Flash client we can add to a website, and we'll have a reliable way for website users to upload huge files.
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by shib71 16y ago
Facebook pioneered random-walk as a design strategy.
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by shib71 16y ago
Too many commas. But otherwise engaging.
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by shib71 16y ago
It sounds more like a customised TV-channel than an advanced search feature.
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by shib71 16y ago
I could easily see this being like the classic "orange" captcha - block robots by raising the bar to ankle height. Actually testing the "correctness" of these submissions would be far more complex and resource intensive than typical captcha
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by shib71 16y ago
33, which surprised me as I'm extremely introverted. I got the sense that the expressions fell into different categories based on where the tension around the eyes was, and the matching word had been randomly chosen from the category. The "
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by shib71 16y ago
This is the same argument people have been making about the desktop Apple products for years, and they were wrong then too. Apple is aiming at the luxury market and seems content to ignore the rest of the market. What Apple should worry abo
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by shib71 16y ago
Rubbish. I don't "self identify" with any particular political label. What matters is which candidates (or parties, if that's how policies are represented) best align with my priorities. And people who are driven to be "loyal" would simply
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by shib71 16y ago
It's not often you get to say something like that outside of science fiction.
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by shib71 16y ago
This is how science reporting should be done. Not only does he intelligently explain the core findings of the research, and he also examines its quality. More of this please.
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by shib71 16y ago
On a side note - veni vidi@vici.tv? Well played.
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by shib71 16y ago
3133.7 = eleet
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by shib71 16y ago
It looks like this is an answer to the EverCookie ( http://samy.pl/evercookie/ ). You can quickly select and clear a whole range of caches and cookies. http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/
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by shib71 16y ago
Articles like this make it seem that HTML5 aims to solve similar problems as Flash. It is less clear that it is a better solution. The primary argument against Flash is that in performs poorly, and the primary counter-argument is that Flash
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by shib71 16y ago
I keep seeing these posts discussing strategies for selling "mobile apps". How is the situation for apps not in the various Feature lists any different from the situation desktop software has always been in? Isn't "free and paid versions" t
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by shib71 16y ago
I work on one which gives developers total control of front-end views, and is mainly intended to make it easier to develop new models/behaviour, and add administration UI. But it gets dismissed because of the server-side language (Coldfusio
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by shib71 16y ago
That's a very odd hold for a mobile phone. It's more likely to be a lady holding a small purse, frozen in a moment of awkwardness by a camera.
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by shib71 16y ago
Every community values different things. On HN it's insight. If your writing style or attitude obscures such insight, it will be voted the same as if there were no insight at all.
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by shib71 16y ago
That's still a problem that money can solve - hire more interviewers.
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by shib71 16y ago
To a degree it is, here and on sites like Stack Overflow, by doling out privileges based on karma. Randall has just described a more extreme version of the same idea, where membership itself is one of those privileges.
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by shib71 16y ago
He's using Google Charts ( http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ ). The center piece is actually several charts with transparent backgrounds layered over each other, and the right and bottom are two more separate charts. Very cool.

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