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PI - What Square ought to be?(commbank.com.au)
1 points by teyc 14y ago|0 comments
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by teyc 14y ago
Interesting. What scenarios are you specifically targetting for Montage to excel in? e.g. mobile? touch? I noticed that you target Safari and Chrome. Does this mean it is more suited to an enterprise environment rather than consumer environ
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by teyc 14y ago
There really needs to be a YC-style company for scientists. Costs have come down - e.g. DNA sequencers are a lot more affordable today. What is needed is mentorship and some kind of exit that leads to employment.
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by teyc 14y ago
I was hoping to find something more substantial and was disappointed to read what is essentially a piece of PR fluff. One point got me curious though: what kind of apps are built in one day? Anyone in the app-space care to elaborate?
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by teyc 14y ago
This is so interesting. We now have: 1. Apple - who makes great hardware and great software winning 2. Google - who doesn't make hardware and gives away OK software winning 3. RIM - who makes good hardware and OK software losing 4. MS - who
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by teyc 14y ago
But that belies the point that someone managed to make HTML5 webview work reasonably well in mobile. From a technical point of view that represents an interesting data point.
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by teyc 14y ago
iOS won because it was a greenfield implementation, and benefited from having no backwards compatibility issues to deal with. In addition, the outsourcing model of building hardware was largely perfected. Taiwanese manufacturers proved to b
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by teyc 14y ago
If I were Microsoft, here might be some possible justifications that I would use: 1. Windows Phones - while competent, and people who use them like them, never managed to make any impact in terms of marketshare or market buzz. This is becau
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by teyc 14y ago
There are tradeoffs when you create abstraction layers. For instance, Apple's new ad talked about larger batteries they fitted by not making batteries easily replaceable - there were additional housing and adapters - which all took up room.
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by teyc 14y ago
Sony XPeria's photo gallery has a tilt effect. It was passable.
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by teyc 14y ago
1. Privacy and secrets are necessary because our society demands it. My identity is crucial for me to be able to borrow money, obtain a bank account, sign papers. I am therefore entitled to privacy to my own date of birth, mother's maiden n
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by teyc 14y ago
It is always possible to apply additional hashes to the MD5/SHA. First strip away the salt, then apply bcrypt or scrypt, next store both the new salt and the old salt plus the new hash. Validating passwords will require two steps. First, ha
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by teyc 14y ago
If you happen to have a web app that stores passwords in clear text or SHA-1 hashed, all is not lost. You can apply further secure hashes to the existing value stored on db and update your authentication validator.
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by teyc 14y ago
perhaps somebody should put some scripts together and sell them? I wonder how well would CloudFoundry run on this. The biggest concern is the database, since that'd be the SPOF that is hard to handle.
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by teyc 14y ago
I wonder if it is possible to tell ornamentation from writing from the degree of entropy present. For instance, if it is easily compressed, then it is probably writing, as opposed to ornamentation - which will like be random.
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by teyc 14y ago
The problem I see is that the WinRT API sits side by side with Win32. There is no intermixing. You'd either program to one or the other. Sure you can run WinRT on the desktop. WinRT is so sandboxed it is worse than virtualizing XP on Window
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by teyc 14y ago
Windows 8 is an interesting release from a historical standpoint. Microsoft has been a long proponent of preserving APIs. Just as Windows95 supported DOS, and WinNT supported Win32 APIs. Windows 8 is a totally different beast. It's a new AP
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by teyc 14y ago
The business model of licensing designs reminds me of ARM and Android. Less capital intensive, and allows people with imagination to elbow into the game.
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McLaren F1 Developer Designs New Auto Driving 100 MPH on 96 MPG(businessweek.com)
1 points by teyc 14y ago|2 comments
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by teyc 14y ago
Are customers actively looking for a solution? If that is the case, can you educate them on youtube etc? Also, consider reaching out to Patrick MacKenzie - patio11. I don't think this thread is getting enough attention.
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List of WebDirections talks(taitems.github.com)
1 points by teyc 14y ago|0 comments
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by teyc 14y ago
1. Quit jumping from framework to framework. There is no silver bullet. Commit to a platform for 3 years and work through its shortcomings. In fact, the older the platform, e.g. phonegap, the more likely you'll be able to find people to
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by teyc 14y ago
This is more of a story of how executives of large companies lose touch with customers and their raw business because they also have to manage strategically as well as management the entire business portfolio. This is why you hear of manage
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by teyc 14y ago
Maybe this is more of an internal fight between DevDiv and Windows. DevDiv's team had been stripped, their projects like WPF and Silverlight end-of-lifed, while the Windows team has made a fourth version of XAML. The only for DevDiv to rega
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by teyc 14y ago
I get the same visceral reaction. If anything, they are too broad and in a space where zipfs law rule supreme.
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by teyc 14y ago
Given their growth rates and cash in the bank, and the fact it is still looking for a business model, it is probably better for them to focus on their key problems before working on other issues. If they were self funded, like 37signals, an
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by teyc 14y ago
There are two types of people. When seeing other people who have problems and difficulties - one group only feels righteous indignation; while another group sees a business opportunity.
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by teyc 14y ago
+1 scrapbooking is a fad, bookmarking is a sign of interest.
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by teyc 14y ago
These two businesses are in entirely different industries. Not only that, they have very different market characteristics. Ford is a capital intensive industry that reminds me of Berkhire Hathaway - the textile company that Warren Buffett c
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by teyc 14y ago
10k for a start up looking for a revenue model is a lot of money. It is effectively another month's runway. If an offer has been made, and the person is still with the company, then it is not only a contract, but a business necessity. Obvio

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