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by spaghetti 14y ago
You're right about the money being at the traditional app stores. I'm trying to think ahead and see if this will change. The enforcement of Apple's "guidelines" for apps harm developers' ability to make money on the app store far beyond por
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Indeed the feeling of safety from the app store is important. However I'd rephrase your last sentence as "If you can find a way to make the "free and open" system seem safe enough that average users believe it's safe then you have a winner"
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by spaghetti 14y ago
I'd love to see control of the "mobile space" be in the hands of individuals instead of large, for-profit and often evil companies. Clearly mobile computing is here to stay. If it wasn't then companies like apple and google wouldn't be figh
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Interesting. +1 for sharing actual numbers as that helps the learning process along quite a bit imo.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Indeed. Glad it's not a Friday!
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by spaghetti 14y ago
I found the "myspace" trend interesting: https://www.google.com/trends/?q=myspace Perhaps the facebook trend so far is a repeat of the myspace trend through mid-2007.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
By what percentage did you increase your initial investment? I'm just curious about trading options in general. Would be interesting to learn how holding onto your postition for that time period paid off.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
This is unfortunate. I worked like crazy yesterday to get a build out only to be thwarted early morning by this. Just FYI it seems like distributing an ad hoc build without validating doesn't work. The app won't run on the device.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
The only bridges that were burned were from the candidate to the company. In other words the company made the mistake. Not the candidate. Having a blanket policy on not walking out of interviews is ridiculous. The manner in which one walks
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Your first sentence implies that the interviewee wasn't acting professionally. I didn't get this impression from the post. It sounded like he just politely tried to end the interview process. Without more details and perhaps both sides of t
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by spaghetti 14y ago
It's 100% fine to end the interview early as the OP did. The interviewers/hr will end the interview early the moment they're sure it won't work out. The fact that the interviewers acted rudely is a great sign that it's an awful place to wor
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Memoization and dynamic programming come together in top down DP algorithms. These are also referred to as recursion with memoization. The recursive function often looks something like: f(arguments) { results = memoTable[argum
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by spaghetti 14y ago
My suspicion is that EA has relationships with all sorts of overseas shops that do things like testing, artwork, prototyping etc. Part of PopCap's integration into EA is leveraging these low-cost service providers. Would be nice if the arti
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by spaghetti 14y ago
The "social web" is no where near as important as search. Imagine removing search from the net. Now imagine removing Facebook or other social networking sites. The difference is staggering.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
I'd be interested to take a look at the research you've done. Either way your mission/goals are admirable and I wish you good luck!
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Good point about the expiration. If I was betting on the $17 figure I would buy options that expire in a few months. The 48 cents was just a conservative number to throw out there (value of puts w/ $17 strike price would probably be higher
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by spaghetti 14y ago
I'm all for improving performance in the workplace. Many businesses desperately need it. However I feel like this product is striving to be a faster horse instead of tackling the underlying issue. Namely that performance reviews of any type
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by spaghetti 14y ago
I've always been curious about trading options. It seems like now is a good time to buy the FB120818P00017000 put for example. I honestly don't see the downside to this. That option is trading at $4 for a block of 100. So investing $400 get
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Only if you're doing a lot of string parsing. Just like learning about algorithms on graphs is a must only if you're working with graphs of a non-trivial size.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
The iOS app review process is insanely long. So long that I started and released my first Android app while waiting for an iOS app to be reviewed. FWIW there's some ways of mitigating the iOS review times. For example my apps download a sma
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Citing examples isn't necessarily rude. Present it like impartial analysis. That helps the audience actually learn something from the article.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Yeah it would be nice for the article to compare and contrast, say, Instagram and Color. The author could probably cite Color for an example supporting his argument. However Instagram is a notable counter-example that needs to be addressed.
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by spaghetti 14y ago
This could be an opportunity for Google to leverage the strength of their maps product. Why not just ignore the iOS Google maps app? This would motivate me to switch to Android since the Google maps app is in my top three. Perhaps only seco
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Serious question: why do app developers choose iOS over Android today? I vaguely recall reading about developers having trouble with paid apps on Google Play. Any other reasons? I was a hardcore Apple fan for the first few years of the app
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by spaghetti 14y ago
The iOS app review process is astronomically fucked. I've had apps rejected for comically ambiguous reasons such as "app is just a website re-packaged as an app". Right. IMO one can argue this for many apps. I've had apps rejected because "
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by spaghetti 14y ago
You're right that no one is forcing the people to work the long hours. However imo programmers and gamers are often naive. Spending high school and college working alone or with friends of a similar mind-set can prevent someone from seeing
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Good question. I wonder what a good strategy would be for figuring out the near optimal pricing plan? The strategy would need to start off w/o painting yourself into a corner. In other words the initial pricing can't constrain future pricin
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by spaghetti 14y ago
Here's an idea that's only partially a joke: segment the user-base by yearly membership fees. Have the free tier, $10/year, $100/year and $1000/year. All tiers are 100% quarantined from each other. There's upsides for Twitter: when 90% of m
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by spaghetti 14y ago
First of all my advice is go for it. Don't let pre-conceptions about age hold you back. In my last job the older engineers were far more talented and productive than the younger fresh-out-of-college or college drop-outs. Another thought: yo
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by spaghetti 14y ago
The article reminded me of a thought I had regarding FB's monetization strategy: strictly local advertisements. The ad matching algorithm would place the most weight on geographical distance then interests etc. FB's ubiquitous nature today

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