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by trimbo 14y ago
So basically this is the Columbia House[1] of shoes. That's not a scam, it's "a catch". When a consumer hears the pitch -- in the case of Columbia House, it was "get 8 CDs for 1 penny", in the case of JustFab it's "get any pair of shoes f
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by trimbo 14y ago
> Most are looking rather worried as yet again the rug has been pulled from underneath them. They got burned with Silverlight and the first drop of the Foundation series of products and Entity Framework. Not one dev saw that coming with
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by trimbo 14y ago
Not sure where you live but this may help: http://www.mastercard.us/mobile/paypass-locator.html
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by trimbo 14y ago
Android is winning for Google in a massive way once you understand their goal. Google's Android and even Chrome strategies are that _no one_ should win at the OS/platform level. They never want another Windows, or Mac, or IE, or anything
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by trimbo 14y ago
> Tech writers have a natural aversion to lock-in, high prices, and dominant market leaders. You mean the same tech writers who have been breathlessly talking about tomorrow's iPhone 5 announcement for months? A device that fits this de
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by trimbo 14y ago
This is fantastic. A must read, IMO.
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by trimbo 14y ago
As I said, call it whatever you want, I'm not outraged. Simply put: it's up to you if this project is something you want to put on your resume or Linkedin and be taken seriously,
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by trimbo 14y ago
I doubt people are outraged. I know for myself, I don't care what he wants to do. I just think he should rename it if he wants to be taken seriously.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Rename it.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Yeah, it's kind of like developing for the Nintendo platform. There are, of course, a handful of third party app developers who do very, very, very well. These are the outliers. Mostly, third party devs don't succeed and their apps are s
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by trimbo 14y ago
The real app millionaires are all working at Apple. They're the ones who win when people develop apps.
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by trimbo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full-time. Radius Intelligence is looking for back-end, front-end and full-stack engineers. http://jobs.radiusintel.com
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by trimbo 14y ago
> Think about a web developer who shows up to a hackathon [...] He just wants a quick way to persist and retrieve data. This is the _worst_ reason to use Mongo. If you are doing a hackathon or just prototyping and need persistence, use
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by trimbo 14y ago
Sendgrid. At first glance, their pricing is better than mailgun anyway.
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by trimbo 14y ago
> Her approach seems to be to make Yahoo a great place to work, attract and empower talent, and let said talent churn out great products Why isn't that, in itself, "visionary"?
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by trimbo 14y ago
Microsoft, I think, will be looked back upon as a great example of stack ranking's failure or success. At GE, it is looked upon as a success. But GE's workforce is (mostly) not in the world of knowledge-workers. They're not expected to c
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by trimbo 14y ago
Do Mexican drug cartels count?
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by trimbo 14y ago
> very few very bright people would prefer to work in at a big company Citation needed?
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by trimbo 14y ago
How is traction measurable? [edit] What I mean is, we've witnessed startup after startup with millions of users that go bust. The only way I know of to measure "traction" of a _business_ is revenue.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Are you aware of any that have revenue? If so, please reference it.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Having spent 7 years in the games industry, I am really interested to see how the kickstarter projects work out. TBH, I don't think some of the more high profile ones raised nearly enough money to make a game to the level of what people ar
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by trimbo 14y ago
Wow. That's really interesting news. They raised $1bn in the IPO. Their current assets have dropped from $2bn at the time of the IPO to $1.4bn today -- so half a year. Balance sheet: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ZNGA:US/balance-she
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by trimbo 14y ago
> Pincus is quite directly attempting to mimic Bezos' strategy with Amazon Well, that's a terrible strategy if that's what he's doing. Zynga has almost been entirely dependent on acquisition throughout their history in order to grow t
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by trimbo 14y ago
> Stories like this come as no surprise, but the industry press rarely deals with the core problem - and nor does Google. Yeah, except the part where Google announced encrypted applications from the Android Market at Google I/O. The pr
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by trimbo 14y ago
They'll do bulk. In fact, they will do all of the things normal bulk senders will do... dedicated IPs and such. They don't have any UI though, which will make it hard for most email marketers.
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by trimbo 14y ago
So... I just let mine bake for 30 minutes on the same game he did. The device was hot by the end of it. No problems with touch/multitouch recognition afterwards.
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by trimbo 14y ago
How about the companies that have too many "managers" and not enough managers. I've experienced that as well.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Weird. I've had great success with DLNA and my Samsung TV. I had an HTC Thunderbolt and it was ridiculously seamless to play stuff on the TV. The Nexus, not so much. Either way -- if the Q had been DLNA, wouldn't that have been better th
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by trimbo 14y ago
I agree with you -- I imagine that's why it is the way it is. But do iterative designs work when the initial product is such a dud? The original iPhone was an hugely unfinished product, but still impressive in its own right. This is both
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by trimbo 14y ago
"Meanwhile Apple Airplay is not getting remotely enough attention" Better than Airplay is DLNA.... a standard that is implemented by most modern net-connected TVs that I've seen. It still boggles my mind that I have to download an Android

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