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by stevenp 16y ago
Tried it briefly, but Dropbox won't even install on it. In addition, Evernote doesn't work (it seems to be relying on a private API that doesn't exist anymore) and NewsRack sync with Google Reader is completely hosed due to a memory leak th
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by stevenp 16y ago
Lots of funny comments here, but in all seriousness, I think a lot of social game studios have more female employees. It makes sense, considering the article on VentureBeat today that suggests that women play more social games than men: ht
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by stevenp 16y ago
My best friend applied to Twitter last year and was told that they were only seeking people who were already employed. The argument that everyone who deserves a job already has it is discriminatory and silly. Those of you who agree with thi
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by stevenp 16y ago
To be fair, "Hard Candy" is also the name of a cosmetics line and a Madonna album. I like the name and have never heard of the Ellen Page movie.
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by stevenp 16y ago
Wow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.
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by stevenp 16y ago
Are you looking for feedback, or is this a marketing post? :)
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by stevenp 16y ago
You should always assume that someone else is building whatever you've come up with. Ideas are always less original than you thought. It sounds like this is an opportunity, rather than a bad thing. Here's why: 1. Someone with more funding t
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by stevenp 16y ago
I'm pretty sure this isn't semantic. I expected that the footnotes would be in the source when I went to view it and they're not. It's a fun video metadata demo, but it's not semantic HTML.
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by stevenp 16y ago
I'd like to get more of a sense of why it took you 2 years... is anyone using it yet? A blog post on your process would be great. 2 years seems like a long time (assuming you don't have a bunch of customers already using it).
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by stevenp 16y ago
I'm the developer of Routesy (routesy.com), a public transit app for SF Muni/BART/Caltrain/AC Transit. My app has been around since the first day of the app store, and I get asked this question all the time. The short answer is that Apple g
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by stevenp 16y ago
Hopefully this is not another "Jerry Yang as new CEO of Yahoo!" thing.
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by stevenp 16y ago
Better headline: AT&T Network to Become 26% More Reliable. :)
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by stevenp 16y ago
The use of "information highway" in your text is a bad idea. It's a cliché that makes your site seem dated. Also, the UI on the search dropdown doesn't make sense. You select a field to search, but then if you start typing in the box you ca
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by stevenp 16y ago
Interviews like this make me feel pretty crappy. I've been a successful software engineer for 10 years, and I'm in a senior role at the company I currently work in, but these are not the kinds of problems that I find myself solving on a dai
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by stevenp 16y ago
This is why A/B testing exists. Try a few things and pick the one that converts. Period.
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by stevenp 16y ago
On the substance of the article, it's not "repurposing" RSS to use it in ways beyond traditional feed readers. RSS has always been an open syndication format, and still has plenty of uses. On to less productive comments... RSS may not be de
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by stevenp 16y ago
Does that mean if I steal a yacht that it's not theft because I wouldn't have bought one anyway? Your logic seems flawed to me.
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by stevenp 16y ago
You also can't schedule a sale for Christmas, because if you do, it will make your app unavailable for sale. So much for our "most important day".
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by stevenp 16y ago
Just don't switch to No-Carb Rockstar. One of these cans has 250mg of caffeine and I'm up to 2 per day. That's half a gram, which makes me feel like a true drug addict. I feel like Jessie from Saved By the Bell singing "I'm So Excited" all
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Want to Improve Your City? There's An App for That(time.com)
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by stevenp 16y ago
I agree. I have a small app that has about 1,200 users and I make $30 per day in iAd revenue. Assuming similar numbers, Instagram could easily have $25k per day in revenue.
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by stevenp 16y ago
Contact a few players in the gay media, or some of the more popular gay bloggers.
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by stevenp 16y ago
Looks like Dustin Curtis got a job designing for Twitter!
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by stevenp 16y ago
Yup, me too! It sucks that the developer resources aren't available yet, since it's not being open-sourced until 2011, but I'm happy to get the box since it's $299 if you buy it.
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by stevenp 16y ago
I hope that adorable real-life dog that they based their logo on is going to get some sort of diamond collar, or a dinosaur bone of some sort for this. It's rare that a cute pet makes a good logo. :)
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by stevenp 16y ago
Back in the day, I was a huge fan of IntelliJ (when I was still writing Java). I'm so tired of slow and buggy IDEs built on top of Eclipse ( cough Zend cough ) so I'm hoping that this makes my life easier.
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by stevenp 16y ago
The fact that this made it to the front page not only confirms the stereotypes that I'm representative, but made me giddy to be surrounded by so many other nerds. How many of you had Star Trek: TNG action figures? :)
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by stevenp 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. It's the only movie I've ever seen that references "wget", and the entire time as I sat there watching the early Facebook geeks write code, I kept thinking about how I should be at home working on my startup instead o
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by stevenp 16y ago
I think dogmatism is the worst of the three problems. So many teams seem to be looking for a catch-all solution for running a productive team. What I've found is that each team I work on does much better if we're open to experimenting with
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by stevenp 16y ago
I don't think it's available in a limited quantity. :)

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