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As a hobbyist, you could always use MonoMac. It is still free and you may have to wrap the StoreKit APIs yourself.
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There was a passing mention of union dynamics in all this. Without outsourcing, a lot of the improvements could never have been brought on board.
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I'm of Chinese descent watching my children grow up in Australia is interesting. While they speak Chinese, they tend to think in English. This means that their sentence structure is totally messed up (from a Chinese standpoint). Perhaps a s
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Sinofsky doesn't run Office anymore. His charge was to deliver Windows. The basic problem is that both Windows and .NET are platforms, .NET has been the developer-face of Microsoft. When Windows projected its API to C++, Javascript and .NET
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I enjoyed your talk recorded last year. There was a time when you felt that doing a game is too competitive and it may be better to do some other app. What are your thoughts now?
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Say before wireless, you had to check your email over a wired connection. Someone patents the idea of checking email over radio waves. If multiple people came up with the same idea, and lodges the same patent within 6 months of one another,
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I suggest that rather than limiting effects of patents, it is easier to exclude obvious ideas. By this, if two identical ideas are submitted as patents within a designated time frame, then the patent is not novel enough. This has several ad
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On the bright side, the internet will make it possible for linguists to reach out to these people in a way that is not accessible before.
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Both A and B have valid viewpoints. The OLPC is a bold experiment. After all, it is bringing a piece of technology that is ahead of the prevailing infrastructure or markets. We don't really know what this will lead to. These kids can't turn
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Are there libraries that can turn voice into phonemes? It would be cool if I had to say a phrase and the computer scored me on how close I got to it.
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Perhaps people who tolerated milk reared cows. Given that those who were exposed to cowpox survive smallpox, the advantage conferred would have been huge.
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Given this is a multinational, it is reasonable for you to come out with an overall roll out strategy. In any complex project, you should expect implementation costs to be a certain percent of development costs. Develop a project rollout te
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taking this back to technology, and I'm thinking of Apple vs Samsung here. What do you all think? Is scroll bounce magical, the way Teller's Shadow is? It is a lie, we all know that digital screens do not have bounces, and that's what surpr
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Rob Pike said it best when he quoted his friend: My late friend Alain Fournier once told me that he considered the lowest form of academic work to be taxonomy. And you know what? Type hierarchies are just taxonomy. You
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+1 Also don't want to help competing services. Another data point - spammers used to check their work against spam assassin, fine tuning them. Another data point - leaked password databases are a source of heuristics for generating word lis
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Let's have a look at how much marginal effort this takes: - time spent thinking about what needs to be on the page (not extra) - time spent thinking about what order the data should be displayed (not extra) - time spent laying out the d
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The discipline of being posix compliant forced Linux to innovate across the defined boundary. I recall Chris Click's talk about JVM and its definition of garbage collection APIs, class libraries etc each enabled innovation to be done indepe
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I can imagine several issues, but is hackernews the right forum to discuss tax reform? You can either go the respectable economic modelling route and be prepared to do a lot of work to justify it or perhaps try a tea-party forum where simpl
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Might as well shop around after you have some sales. Tried angellist?
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Very relevant. I was listening on Mixergy about how BrandStack shut down because of credit card fraud. For anyone contemplating building a marketplace, for heaven's sake, outsource this. For digital sites like BinPress, an automated capture
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Perhaps one way to mitigate this is by wrapping the calls to another system such that all trading is supervised. Another technique is to provide API keys in the wrapper so that test programs will not have the keys to a live system. The real
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I read the nanex article. Regardless whether it is true or not, the general trend is towards development of more sophisticated load testing programs. The most benign ones were developed for use in IT systems. E.g. Apache bench. While these
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Probably because it is a bit too close in name to KissMetrics? KissInsights was sold to another company a year ago?
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That's amazing. Assuming the valuation of $5B, YC is now worth $250m.
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I'm curious. What's Navicat do that cheaper clients/don't?
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Uniloc is Australian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Richardson and it won more than $300m from MS.
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It isn't bad for Microsoft. It is bad for Nokia. The customers who are prepared to spend top money with a brand obviously has some affinity for it. These are the people a company needs when it goes through difficult times. The last thing a
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I have to use TFS at work. I have to say SVN is much nicer.
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Given how MS effectively osborned Nokia's flagship Lumia series by refusing to upgrade it to Windows 8, Nokia has no credibility left. (Note: I don't own a Lumia, and I'd be wary now) Phone contract runs for up to three years, and people wh
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Yahoo has fantastic loyal customers. It also has niche consumer businesses - finance, weather, groups, mail. These are very big niches. However, precisely because Yahoo is a conglomerate of diverse businesses, it has been difficult to descr

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