tewks

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by tewks 17y ago
Writing drivers is one of the most difficult aspects of producing graphics cards; perhaps you are right if competition in the space decreases.
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by tewks 17y ago
What concerns me is whether a pattern similar to the distributor's downward price pressure that you rightly illustrate will be mirrored for content creators, be they authors, musicians, software developers, etc.
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by tewks 17y ago
The level of transparency about which APIs a particular app uses on the iPhone is not particularly good. I have a feeling that some apps and libraries, particularly advertising/analytics solutions have been abusing this fact. The Android s
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by tewks 17y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/sports/soccer/23iht-SOCCER...
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by tewks 17y ago
The context was, based on the submission title, an iPhone app and its price, with a link to apple.com. Apple doesn't list any iTunes pricing on its website.
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by tewks 17y ago
Sorry. I thought that the apple.com link would be fairly indicative of this.
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Wolfram Alpha iPhone app costs $50 [iTunes link](itunes.apple.com)
31 points by tewks 17y ago|52 comments
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by tewks 17y ago
I'm not sure what your opinion of iTunes is, but, Apple's Airtunes works really well. Plug in speakers/receiver/whatever (either analog or SPDIF) into each Airport Express. In iTunes, check each Airport you want to play through, and away
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by tewks 17y ago
They had a YouTube video ages ago; it looks like they finally made it into the store the other day: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
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by tewks 17y ago
An augmented reality app for the Paris metro has been in the store for a month, as has Yelp's easter egg: shake three times to activate the feature so as to avoid the reviewers! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/first_iphone_augmented_.
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by tewks 17y ago
There is an important aspect that not many "fat clients" have solved except the iPhone (except for the fact many iPhone apps are pirated and end up torrented): a reliable way to charge users... 50% of Photoshop installs are pirated; I wonde
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by tewks 17y ago
Take some of this site with a grain of salt; the bogus PHP speed recommendations still live: http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-php.html http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster/browse_th...
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by tewks 17y ago
This design choice is significant because most of these properties, or their equivalents, will be or are already implemented in several CSS3 rendering engines: it's a great demonstration of what we will soon be able to do with cross-browser
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by tewks 17y ago
I think that one or two solid, relatively short, screencasts can sell me on a framework or language... DHH's screencasts back in the day sold me on Rails despite his unique voice :-) After that, something that is text-searchable is really p
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by tewks 17y ago
Most consumers purchase wine depending on the attractiveness of the bottle's label. We hope to change this by using our biologically inspired computer vision system to recognise labels and match them to entries in a database, returning qui
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WineFinder - an iPhone visual search application that we just launched into beta(youtube.com)
1 points by tewks 17y ago|2 comments
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by tewks 17y ago
Very cool stuff. It's nice to see another fallback for IE support aside from explorercanvas.
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by tewks 17y ago
Does the preponderance of MySQL users care about Windows?
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by tewks 17y ago
Definitely Imperial over Cambridge for CS (as well as most engineering and science).
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by tewks 17y ago
Imperial
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by tewks 17y ago
Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome, four of the top five browsers, now support the video tag. Despite the codec war, it can be argued that most browsers today do in fact support HTML5 enough to support the parent's comment.
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Ask HN: Any ideas as to why Google changed search result margins?
2 points by tewks 17y ago|3 comments
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by tewks 17y ago
splunk
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Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400 (arstechnica.com)
51 points by tewks 17y ago|17 comments
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by tewks 17y ago
I never implied that you had anything to lose; I think it's an interesting question. I asked, "why would they comply with your request" because I was interested if you thought it made sense for them to do so. I suppose it comes down to whet
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by tewks 17y ago
YC isn't a charity. They compete in a marketplace like any other business. Any optimization you speak of is a competitive advantage. Why would they comply with your request? Somewhat relevant: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/adeo-r
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by tewks 18y ago
Au contraire. http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/07/turns-out-por-1.html
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by tewks 18y ago
Six years on, they really haven't monetized the site. Its advertising system is seriously ineffective and they've dropped the ball in corporate-consumer interaction to Twitter. Beacon was a disaster. People like Marc Andreesen claim that
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by tewks 18y ago
It's similar to Bloom, the popular iPhone app by Brian Eno and a devloper. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
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by tewks 18y ago
Isn't this, rich web apps, what Steve Jobs originally said should happen when asked why an SDK/third party native apps weren't going to be made available?

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