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by tomasien 13y ago
I LOVE SQLITE - both only when Core Data handles it for me haha
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by tomasien 13y ago
That's what coffitivity suggests. The iPhone app even has a mixer to mix the ambient noise with your music.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Interesting JSTOR sidenote - before we made Coffitivity, this research was behind a Paywall, and we convinced them to remove it. It was weird timing when it happened, it was kind of emotional to speak to JSTOR at the time, but it's coo
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by tomasien 13y ago
A mild level of ambient noise is proven to increase creative cognition aka make you a better CREATIVE thinker. Just saying http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048 from coffitvity.com
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by tomasien 13y ago
Any argument that implies that the only thing that can achieve the proper energy density is fossil fuels is a dead argument. It's like arguing that computational speed will never overtake the human brain without knowing what Moore&#x27
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by tomasien 13y ago
When things run on electricity, the power grid becomes ready to be de-centralized, the power can come from anywhere. Right now, it comes from coal and fossil fuels, but things running on electricity make it easier for that to no longer be t
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by tomasien 13y ago
Isn't their continued investment in things like Google X sort of the more scalable replacement to 20% time, now that not all of the engineers are brilliant and driven? Just kind of a natural result of scale - find the people that were
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by tomasien 13y ago
"If your launch didn't work, launch again. We launched 3 times" - Something similar to a quote from the Airbnb guys I think. I'm too lazy to look it up, but this is the Internet! Keep launching! Coffitivity.com launched
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by tomasien 13y ago
That's actually on my plate for today, I only tested hotkeys on Chrome.
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by tomasien 13y ago
We're all very much part time, but that doesn't mean we don't have distinct roles!
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by tomasien 13y ago
Very good! I think kind of old though?
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by tomasien 13y ago
Tim is, in this blog, forcing you to REALLY define need, and I think "tons of marketing dollars for initial launch" is not a need, ever. What you need is to prove that, when they find the game, they'll download and pay for it
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by tomasien 13y ago
When is that a thing? I can imagine that those scenarios exist, for example you make a product that isn't nearly as good as a product that every savvy user already knows about (1and1mywebsite for example), but what is a common example?
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by tomasien 13y ago
May totally be "snobbish" but CNU is a weird place for him to have gone, from a variety of perspectives.
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by tomasien 13y ago
He's also my winner in the "you'll never guess what college he went to" contest. It's a college in my state from which my college roommate transferred, and it still would have been my last guess.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Stripes form for iOS is the GOAT
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by tomasien 13y ago
I have a friend named Nan, and I posted every "NaN" error I got in my code on her Facebook wall for about a year. She hated it.
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by tomasien 13y ago
I just learned today that Smalltalk was the inspiration for a lot of what NeXT ended up doing with Objective C, which makes so much sense. At the end of the day, Xcode is just another set of text files in many ways, but in so many others it
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by tomasien 13y ago
"You should spend time doing nothing" is a life hack. Life hacks aren't all about doing more more efficiently, what do you think the title "The 4 Hour Work Week" denotes? MORE work? (On the record - not a fan of the
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by tomasien 13y ago
Haha, very true. Very true.
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Show HN: PGannotations.js(tommy.authpad.com)
12 points by tomasien 13y ago|4 comments
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by tomasien 13y ago
This is amazing. Think the concept can be taken to another level in some way? Begin a universal translator of some small level?
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by tomasien 13y ago
Commenting to mark for myself to comment more later - huge college sports recruiting fan and this looks amazing. How did you get the data? I looked through my alma mater UVA and it was flawless, and I would know. Saturday night is a terribl
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by tomasien 13y ago
YES! We JUST stumbled upon this but it's huge - if you can ship something cool everything 3 months, and assume upkeep on a rolling scale (as in your upkeep the things getting the most traction) you can cross promote your way to serious
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by tomasien 13y ago
If you're going to make high value apps, your marketing can NOT be app-store dependent which is tough. I would employ highly targeted paid download advertisements either through Facebook or other methods, as well as an excellent web an
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by tomasien 13y ago
They pull you over any time you look like you might be underage. It's bullshit.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Tommy from cityswig.com here - been dealing with Virginia ABC for about 2 years now, and their uncooperative behavior and insane bureaucracy essentially killed any chance we had to survive as a company. Not only that - but stories like this
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by tomasien 13y ago
Btw - should artists get more royalties? My answer is no. There's no royalty scale I know of at which a band that isn't able to make a ton of money other places could make even a LIVING on royalties. Artists are much better of bui
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by tomasien 13y ago
I love this. Artists complain about Pandora, and that's fine, but they don't understand how much worse radio stations WITHOUT A DOUBT are for artists in terms of payments. I've had songs on the radio to 10's of thousands
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by tomasien 13y ago
Watershed moment for ADN?

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