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by tomkin 14y ago
Please don't. As a current Flash/HTML5 developer - just let it die. I don't say that with hate towards the platform - so I'm not pandering to that crowd. Honestly, the pro-Adobe, anti-Adobe crowds are both nuts and introspective to a fault.
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by tomkin 14y ago
Well, based on the comments it sounds like you've exposed a need. People want it to be stable and don't seem comfortable with the idea of it being your hobby. Make them pay for it before someone else decides to.
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It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it(blogs.computerworld.com)
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by tomkin 14y ago
Off topic, but I just remembered that when I was a kid there was some snippet on the news about a new treatment which would allow the gums to be softened (??) which would give the doctor/ortho time to reform the teeth. This was supposed to
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Apple launching iPhone 5 in Sep, iPad mini in August: Rumours(ibnlive.in.com)
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by tomkin 14y ago
What I hate is that there is nothing that tells me explicitly what is going on. If I am about to search for a gift for my wife, I don't want to have wheels spinning in the background figuring out what to do with my search. I already get par
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by tomkin 14y ago
OK. So there is a Metro bar on the right side. Looks like a lot of work. But..why (Google+ should hear this, too) would I want everyone to see what I am searching for all the time? "Well, you don't have to tell anyone!", you say. Exactly. A
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by tomkin 14y ago
Thanks for hearing me out. I don't want to put your team down because I do know that a lot of sweat was put into the thing. It's not a knock against your team, but more so your strategy in general. When I want to share something with my wif
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by tomkin 14y ago
I actually wanted to like this app for iOS, but from the get go it malfunctioned routinely. I tried to post a video to my wife within the app, which has been queued for 2 weeks. Notifications are delayed by hours and sometimes not sent at a
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by tomkin 14y ago
Like any other technology, people will grab the wheel when the incentives don't pay off. Take for example the iPad. iPad is great as a media consumption device, or the occasional email. But as soon as I have to write longer than a few minut
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Could an Oracle Win Against Google Blow Up the Cloud?(wired.com)
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3-D Video Pod Delivers 360-Degree, Holograph-Like Projections(wired.com)
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by tomkin 14y ago
I wonder how differently this story would have played out if it was Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos? My inclination is that there would be a resounding ya, but he's doing a great job so why does it matter? So...does it matter any way
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by tomkin 14y ago
10 years ago only enthusiasts could create a website. 5 years ago more people could thanks to Wordpress. What will come in 5 or 10 years from now? I feel like Weebly is coming close to that 99% consumer's needs tipping point.
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by tomkin 14y ago
I don't disagree. Trouble is, no one cares. And if you have have your cake (SUV) and eat it, too (cheap fuel) I don't know how or where these changes will occur.
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by tomkin 14y ago
This is a conversation that I think we all need to have. In the future... creeps up faster and faster. Our mind's eye vision of how fast technology evolves is fixed. Looking back only a few generations, people will conflate that this can
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by tomkin 14y ago
The main over-arching point is perfectly palatable, but the probing element ("That’s not what I meant. I know YC is a great place. But why do YOU want to get in?") in the post comes off as passive-agressive.
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by tomkin 14y ago
> Too many startups are focusing on areas that are over like 'Social'. See, I like to think of a startup as any other brick and mortar business. If it manages to leap into a world-wide success, nothing wrong with that - but don't expect
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by tomkin 14y ago
No, but they openly embrace digital downloads. Nintendo came kicking and screaming and with a pretty poor end result. The Wii pulled a Blackberry – alienate your base audience and fall short on expectations. I was once what you'd consider a
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by tomkin 14y ago
You deserve it. You put a lot of work and effort into essentially helping people learn, which makes people's life easier.
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by tomkin 14y ago
Wow. This is absolutely genius. You want to be more productive with vim, but this is generally due to the fact that you have little time as it is. Learning vim hasn't always been in the best interests of my current task. Then there is this
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by tomkin 15y ago
I agree. The article itself is correct, but if you read through the comments here, you'll find it often gets to be about purity and how entire applications should be written to degrade gracefully. When you start talking about that kind of
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by tomkin 15y ago
I agree with that, that they are very different. What I'm saying is, if you're going to start coding for minor audiences – where do you draw the line? And how would you explain to your client/employer that you will take extra care to make s
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by tomkin 15y ago
> ...is that these topics are ones that anyone who calls themselves a front-end developer will need to be familiar with I don't know about that. With Github you profess that experience with git is necessary to take advantage of "the ric
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by tomkin 15y ago
I have a completely different viewpoint on this topic that probably won't be very popular – but, if we're talking about writing experiences for those with JS turned off, isn't that the same as having to write code for an IE6 experience? I i
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by tomkin 15y ago
I often read these types of articles and wonder if the author considers that there are many flavours of what one might consider a "baseline". While I have cloned a repo or two, I wouldn't say that it is a mainstay of how I evolve my abiliti
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by tomkin 15y ago
> A glass of water can be worth more than the New York Times if Zuckerberg is lost in the desert and you happen to have water. What if you don't bother to drink the water? What do you call that? Call me naive (I am), but there has to be
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by tomkin 15y ago
I went back and forth between a MBA 13" and a MBP 17". There are stark contrasts here. So why did I end up with a MBA 13"? It has the form factor akin to the iPad; in that you can take it anywhere. When you're carrying a MBP or other larger
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by tomkin 15y ago
The author sees his time better spent addressing each comment rather than just do something simple like using the Posterous tagging feature. A 'fiction' tag would be sufficient and no one would be confused. I doubt the author would tolerate
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by tomkin 15y ago
I've read plenty of articles about political, corporate, structural viewpoints – all with details of recent experience, personal findings and data on HN. I'd say fictional short-stories would be the odd man out at HN.

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