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by thushan 16y ago
That's a damn good point.
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by thushan 16y ago
Though I think Apple is the only one that can pull it off. I'm a bit surprised that they'll be able to keep to a one year product cycle with things like the iPhone/iPad when the rest of the market is hitting a new product every couple weeks
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by thushan 16y ago
Is U of I local for you? I can't say enough how much pushing yourself by going somewhere new can propel your personal growth. I grew up in New England (a big college town no less) yet went to school in the South and I like to think I'm a
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by thushan 16y ago
I recently started using Sparrow as a secondary app for other email accounts (like my company's support email address) so that it doesn't clog my normal inbox, but gives me the power of a native app running all the time. Actually its a per
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The Next Six Months(daringfireball.net)
239 points by thushan 16y ago|218 comments
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by thushan 16y ago
A good person to read up on is Vanguard's founder John Bogle. He's the champion of low-cost/low-fee index funds. I'm pulling this straight from his wikipedia page: "Bogle argues for an approach to investing defined by simplicity and commo
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Toontastic by the numbers: One week on the iPad App Store(launchpadtoys.com)
5 points by thushan 16y ago|1 comments
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by thushan 16y ago
I never understood why plugs like that needed to go a certain way. On a technical standpoint, yes, I get that the leads need to be oriented in such a way, but why design it so people have to think about it? Apple's mag safe connector is a
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by thushan 16y ago
Glad to hear with it resonated with you. We're definitely looking at other platforms but for right now the iPad was the easy choice for us to target initially.
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by thushan 16y ago
Yes we are! That's another Lego concept that inspired us. We're seeing these characters/backgrounds like play sets that you can combine to make full story arcs. Space, robots, dinosaurs are the ones that I'm wicked excited about releasing
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by thushan 16y ago
Congrats! That's so cool that something that started off as a side project might have a nice payoff. I would say one thing in regards to this posting actually. You're almost taking a bit of your possible sale value by saying the items in b
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by thushan 16y ago
Hey ya'll - our startup just launched our first app for the iPad earlier this week. We're super proud of it. Though it's a kids creative play/animation app, I think it may appeal to a lot of the readers on HN since we built it with the min
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Show HN: Toontastic - our iPad animation app for kids (App Store featured)(launchpadtoys.com)
10 points by thushan 16y ago|5 comments
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by thushan 16y ago
I think it's important to note that this isn't a New York Times piece but a Read Write Web (and an amateurly written one at that) reposted in the NYT template shell. It's a bit misleading to call it an NYT article entirely, though they shou
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Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data(propublica.org)
3 points by thushan 16y ago|0 comments
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by thushan 16y ago
Interesting bit of geekery you found. I was mucking in there my self to see how they did it. Seems like they swing through a bunch of images to make that effect: http://images.apple.com/itunes/10-billion-app-countdown/imag...
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by thushan 16y ago
Great points that you've made. One thing though, I would argue that we've seen this issue in action: "Nahhhhh... this is like saying "We have too many car manufacturers... we all need to narrow down and settle on a couple key models" That
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by thushan 16y ago
I did a double take myself.
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by thushan 16y ago
Shouldn't the sites hosting deliberately manufacturing links also fall to the algorithm's reputation/inbound link values as well. We all know they don't, and that seems like that is one of the fundamental issues here. As much as I'd like
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by thushan 16y ago
Anyone have any ideas why the clone sites like efreedom are ranking above Stack Overflow when SO's inbound links and reputation values are likely far better than efreedom's in Google's algorithm? I'm surprised that search engine optimizatio
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by thushan 16y ago
Seeing the crapware cell phone service providers are putting (that can't be removed no less) on their Android devices, thinking of the future outlined in this TC piece makes me wonder how much worse it could get. And we thought the fragmen
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The Other Android Blueprint: FacebookPhone, TwitterPhone, And Ugh, VerizonPhone?(techcrunch.com)
3 points by thushan 16y ago|2 comments
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by thushan 16y ago
Might want to check this web app that's doing roughly the same thing: http://www.mercuryapp.com/
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by thushan 16y ago
Thanks for that info.
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by thushan 16y ago
I don't know if they are a startup or an offshoot of someone else's already existing technology, but the group behind WorldLens (QuestVisual) have my votes. Yes maybe I'm saying that in light of this week's release being on my mind, but I
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Vuvuzelas Blare on Pirated Copies of Michael Jackson: The Experience for DS(wired.com)
2 points by thushan 16y ago|0 comments
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Mac of the future: the CPU(macworld.com)
3 points by thushan 16y ago|0 comments
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by thushan 16y ago
Agreed. Also, the screenshot on your homepage doesn't tell me much about your app (and the screen is out of date). Granted most of the users that would find this app useful are power users, the teaser text on the site is probably more tech
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by thushan 16y ago
Doesn't Douglas Adams touch on that? Wasn't Earth a big computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galacy? From a wikipedia entry... "[The computer] Deep Thought does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but o
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by thushan 16y ago
Has anyone had their app get rejected for using SSL merely for authentication? What did you do to fix it? Remove SSL and resubmit, or wait it out through the government review process?

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