skywalker

7 ms·

1.
by skywalker 17y ago
I would guess they have 95% of the 3D mobile games market now. And I didn't say they have additional responsibilities to the market at all. I was just making the case that to limit choice of your partners (and, therefore, your consumers) to
2.
by skywalker 17y ago
What I mean is that it is much more than "you may only use Objective C to develop on this device". You also haven't thought this through. It has many more long term implications than the language choice. And we have a disagreement about wha
3.
by skywalker 17y ago
"I will use my operating system monopoly to put you out of business if you don't assist me in putting an unrelated competitor of ours out of business" is worse to you than "you may only use Objective C to develop on this device"? What abo
4.
by skywalker 17y ago
Isn't the radiation dangerous for small children? EDIT: whoa! I have been downvotted after asking if it is safe for children. So, here are some references. "Children have much thinner skull bones and their brains have a lot more fluid, so t
5.
The Bounty For An Apple Bug(blogs.forbes.com)
3 points by skywalker 17y ago|3 comments
6.
On riding the mistake wave(mindhacks.com)
1 points by skywalker 17y ago|0 comments
7.
by skywalker 17y ago
People don't need to type the url. Wikipedia is already installed as a search engine on Firefox's search box (and maybe in IE?). Eventually users will learn to use it. Crome's omnibox search also takes users to wikipedia without visiting go
8.
by skywalker 17y ago
Wikimedia is not only a non-profit, but also Google's more sucessful competitor in organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful, albeit with some factual errors and unsourced statements. Google benefits
9.
by skywalker 17y ago
"We've heard from lots of developers over the past two years who are excited to build on top of Kindle" So, why didn't they do nothing for two years? One week before Apple supposedly will announce the iTablet, Amazon creates a press release
10.
by skywalker 17y ago
Sorry. I thought the cheaper N1 was locked and under a contract. But apparently only the later is true.
11.
by skywalker 17y ago
That is why I said "would". I based my calculations on estimates. http://www.isuppli.com/News/Pages/New-iPhone-Carries-173-BOM...
12.
by skywalker 17y ago
"...Google looked... the way they were being sold (exclusive to specific carriers, and used to lock consumers in, just like all prior phones) and felt that it just wasn't doing the job the way they'd planned. Android had a reason for exis
13.
by skywalker 17y ago
How do you go from a cost of $174 to an unsubsidized price of $529? How much does manufacturing cost?
14.
Google Nexus One costs $174 in materials(isuppli.com)
1 points by skywalker 17y ago|2 comments
15.
by skywalker 17y ago
And why don't they do the same with DNS queries? Quoting from the recently released public DNS service: "The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using... We _delete_ these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours."
16.
by skywalker 17y ago
"Americans let the Patriot Act be passed into law, not Google. Stop blaming Google and start blaming your democratically elected government" Just like Google is putting their lobbyists where their interests are in cases where government i
17.
by skywalker 17y ago
Yes. When I write anything in Perl I frequently try to compact what would be several lines in just a few obscure expressions. But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to understand a large code base you probably aren't familiar wit
18.
by skywalker 17y ago
..until a big company acquires this new startup and kills their product again. This is one more problem with the cloud computing era. In the 90's, you could continue to use a product even after it was discontinued. I remember reading that S
19.
by skywalker 17y ago
It can be irrelevant after 8 years, but could be relevant for someone that could act on it at the moment it was captured. Maybe for some social engineering attack.
20.
by skywalker 17y ago
I see several YC startups in Google's collision path and for some time I have wondered if the advice of not competing with Google in things they are good at is valid. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/02/an-interview-with-vc-pa... My opin
21.
by skywalker 17y ago
YC is pretty recent and he did it in his forties. I was thinking about what he did when he was younger, just like the situation of someone that would apply to YC.
22.
by skywalker 17y ago
PG, please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.