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by suresk 14y ago
I'm a little surprised that so many people see Facebook's IPO as being unambiguously good for Facebook. In any transaction, extracting the most value out of your counter-party without regard for what benefit they are getting from the deal s
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by suresk 14y ago
For one, the FB IPO was the first time most people could play any part at all in Facebook as a company. It is a little bit difficult to figure out how to argue with someone who sees absolutely zero value in public markets, but let me ask yo
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by suresk 14y ago
My experience in this regard comes from Java, not Ruby, but I think the basic concepts are the same: You are correct in that, for a lot of uses, ignoring abstractions like GC is just fine. If you are building something that uses a lot of me
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by suresk 14y ago
The flip side of this is that even if we decide to no longer issue software patents today , we still have 20 years of software patent lawsuits (I'm assuming that invalidating all current software patents would be too difficult), and so met
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by suresk 14y ago
How are the current laws any more favorable to the little guy? In the current situation, patent trolls "win" against small businesses, because even if you fight the patent and win, you still are severely damaged - if not bankrupted - by the
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by suresk 14y ago
> of all of the millions of registered domains, only those which are profiting their creators are truly taken without much chance of being reclaimed (probably 1% or fewer). I don't think this is true. Domains are so cheap to keep around
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by suresk 14y ago
Anyone signing an NDA without knowing what it is the NDA covers is needlessly incurring legal liabilities. I would never sign an NDA unless I knew what it was covering AND it was properly scoped (most NDAs tend to be too broad). Even then
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by suresk 14y ago
Really cool! A year or two ago, I was working on some automated deployment tools that basically called a bunch of Rest APIs. As I discovered how unreliable the API calls could be at times, I ended up writing something kind of similar (altho
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by suresk 14y ago
I would expect long-term investors to be least affected by HFT. Can you provide a concrete example of how HFT would hurt a long-term investor?
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by suresk 14y ago
Gamers may not make up the majority of their userbase, but it is certainly not a profitable segment that can be simply ignored. Games have undoubtedly held onto millions of users who otherwise would have switched to OS X - the only reason I
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by suresk 14y ago
$20 per month, per user seems a little high when compared to Gmail which is either free (personal) or $5/month (business). The fact that Google is able to charge for email is partially due to the fact that they offered it for free for so lo
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by suresk 14y ago
Disabling SSL is even worse - there is no way I'm going to trust someone with something as important as my email if they don't offer SSL or can't get it right.
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by suresk 14y ago
Since Clojure and Scala both compile to Java bytecode, I would assume so.
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No, In-App-Purchases are not a good alternative to paid upgrades(spenceruresk.com)
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by suresk 14y ago
Removing currency isn't the problem - removing the traditional dominant method of acquiring it is.
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by suresk 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I have to ask - how do you ration goods and services in an economy except for some kind of currency? And how do you propose we award people said currency besides some direct or indirect correlatio
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by suresk 14y ago
A little funny to see him say that, since I think Oracle's inability to come up with a mobile platform beyond feature phones and the Google/Oracle lawsuit are both related to Sun's attempt to protect its J2ME licensing fees while he was t
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by suresk 14y ago
IAP is (roughly) limited to unlocking functionality that exists in the app, offering a subscription of some sort, or offering new content. You sort of could deal with something like OS X Mountain Lion as an IAP, but it would be incredibly u
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by suresk 14y ago
I think IAP is a pretty kludgy way of solving the upgrade problem in a lot of cases. As a user, I don't want to be nickel-and-dimed for every little feature. As a developer, I don't want to shoehorn every change I make into an IAP feature.
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by suresk 14y ago
It wasn't clear on the initial page, but I found a better description of the various options [1] and time/feature limited apps are just an option - you can opt to collect the money upfront. 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/window
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by suresk 14y ago
One nit: There are exactly 0 apps on the iOS App Store priced $1.49, because it isn't possible to price an app at that amount (it goes up in increments of $1). That said, I agree with you - I hope it successfully makes apps in the $2-$10 ra
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by suresk 14y ago
Yeah, I can see that happening. Looking through my purchase history on my Mac and iPad - there are a handful of apps that I've purchased for one specific use, or are only useful for a limited time (ie, a fantasy football draft application).
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by suresk 14y ago
I don't have any particular problems with the 1.49 price point (and I kind of wish the iOS app store hadn't set a standard where a $2 or $3 app is considered "expensive"), but how does an extra $.50 prevent crappy apps?
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by suresk 14y ago
I agree that the number of patents granted every year should be relatively small. Concentrating on the issuing process, however, is only solving part of the problem. Even if we stopped issuing patents immediately, we'd still have 20 years o
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by suresk 14y ago
For 30%, you get: order processing, distribution, update management, and some marketing for your application. The order processing alone is is worth it in the case of a .99 app - the CC fees alone would usually be more than 30% in that case
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by suresk 14y ago
You could, but it would get really clumsy pretty quickly, especially if you were trying to ship multiple versions and only unlock certain ones. I'm not sure if Apple would even approve that.
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by suresk 14y ago
In Java, at least, it can be useful when the value you are comparing a String constant with can be null: if("test".equals(environment)){ vs if(environment != null && environment.equals("test")){
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by suresk 14y ago
I, too, wish Apple would allow campaign tracking, but there is (or at least, was at one point) a backdoor way to do this - signup as an affiliate (via LinkShare) and use that to track conversions.
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by suresk 14y ago
Indeed, you run into diminishing returns fairly quickly. I wish the various app stores had ways to allow upgrade functionality, as it would mitigate that issue. In-App purchases don't really work for a lot of situations and can make your us
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by suresk 14y ago
Hope a little bit of self-promotion isn't frowned upon - I have a similar app [1] on the Mac App Store. One nice thing it does is allow you to save a request in a a file, to be re-used later. A lot of folks I've talked to have used this to

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