tewks

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by tewks 16y ago
Your argument would be completely correct if the App Store were not the sole means of distribution of native software to iOS devices. Because the App Store is the sole means of said distribution, the validity of your argument becomes much m
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node-thrift: thrift implementation for node.js(github.com)
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Bump iPhone app now lets you send “location snapshots” to friends (thenextweb.com)
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Fitts's law(en.wikipedia.org)
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Dustin Curtis' Redis logo contest submission(i.imgur.com)
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Tell HN: facebook now seems to support TLS beyond login
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AT&T 'Speed Dating' With App Firms; Partnering with Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins(bloomberg.com)
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The New Yorker iPad app introduced by Jason Schwartzman(newyorker.com)
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Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews (marco.org)
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The End of Moore’s Law: A Love Story(techcrunch.com)
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by tewks 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/ask
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by tewks 16y ago
"Its like being an awesome carpenter and saying “I want to go work at Ikea” so I can churn out follower products like an open-source mobile OS 5 years after Symbian or web-based email 10 years after Hotmail or a webOS 3 years after Palm di
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by tewks 16y ago
Jobs already did this with NeXT. It would be interesting to see Apple do this as well. They have plenty of cash with which to do so though such a project is perhaps not the best diversion of resources for shareholders... http://money.cnn.
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by tewks 16y ago
There's is a distinction between a professional skill like programming and an artistic skill like painting, which could perhaps be expressed through demand levels and commoditization. Programming is easier to commoditize than painting. Pai
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by tewks 16y ago
Sorry, but which topics in particular do you find lacking on Wikipedia or mathworld, for example? The math and physics articles are generally pretty good, include derivations, background on the subject, and you can then click to learn about
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by tewks 16y ago
That's going to be true for any technical discipline. The majority of any engineering or maths curriculum is available on Wikipedia and mathworld in great detail. Why CS is different is due to less of a need of verification of skill. Many d
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by tewks 16y ago
Given the fact that the company relies so heavily on data when making UI decisions, I have a feeling that Google must have some pretty convincing data that would lead them to copy bing both in search results, and now with these iGoogle opti
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by tewks 16y ago
There is a story told, I think in Ken Auletta's book, by Eric Schmidt from the earlier days of the company where Sergey proposes starting a hedge fund because they have so much better data than anyone else. Schmidt cautions against the not
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by tewks 16y ago
The typography is pretty bizarre.
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by tewks 16y ago
I agree, especially with regards to the headings. Helvetica Neue Light is pretty but hard to read.
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by tewks 16y ago
Monthly uniques versus domain name length: http://images.rdujour.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/uniques...
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Imaginary Numbers are not Real - the Geometric Algebra of Spacetime(mrao.cam.ac.uk)
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by tewks 16y ago
It looks somewhat periodic: http://images.rdujour.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/domainL... I did not include the length of the tld.
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Frenchman Builds a Dream Château on a Grand Estate in the Ozarks (online.wsj.com)
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Is Amazon Losing Its Edge as a Media Retailer?(gigaom.com)
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by tewks 16y ago
A large contingent, not a majority, of my peers view studying engineering or science as the necessary prepration before entering finance. A surprising amount of those who have their head around making things have done the thinking and the m
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by tewks 16y ago
I'm studying for an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at the moment. My course consists primarily of electrical and mechanical engineering with medical science, biomechanics, some chemistry, et cetera. I can code pretty well.
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by tewks 16y ago
The other brk seems like a pretty decent idea if brk's advice regarding buying large CDs is incorrect: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:BRK.A
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by tewks 16y ago
Blackboard's biggest feature is document and grades management, which this does not provide.
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by tewks 16y ago
I think MobileMe uses ActiveSync. They were both introduced at the same time. They both have the same exact features. Anyone running Exchange or an ActiveSync licensee (such as Zimbra) can also support the same features.

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