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by umjames 18y ago
And Dreamworks just tries to copy Pixar films. Where's the creativity again?
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by umjames 18y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but what's specifically wrong with the HN site on the iPhone? I've been accessing it since the first gen iPhone came out, and I haven't noticed any problems.
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by umjames 18y ago
I believe it was the NDA that was preventing publishers from releasing iPhone native application development books. Since the NDA has been lifted to allow people to openly share iPhone development knowledge (only for APIs that have been rel
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New Games Powered By Brain Waves(physorg.com)
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by umjames 18y ago
Is it possible to keep the 6+ figure job and fund your business with your salary? Then, if it doesn't work you haven't really lost anything. If it does, then you can quit. You'll also be able to start now instead of saving up cash and go
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by umjames 18y ago
Try working a shit 9-5 job for years on end. You can get bored almost immediately. If people started living for 200 years, do you think they'd keep retirement age at around 65? The problem is the question makes no guarantee of the total q
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by umjames 18y ago
Hopefully, there's somewhere warmer to boil your hands afterwards. Do they at least wear latex surgical gloves?
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by umjames 18y ago
The most uncomfortable part of that sentence is "the first time". Apparently, this is routinely called for.
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What have you tried?(mattgemmell.com)
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by umjames 18y ago
Which university do you attend? At Drexel around 2001, all we got was free copies of MS Office. I feel cheated.
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by umjames 18y ago
Other, equally scientific explanations: He's happier. He's drinking more sunshine juice. The yellow humors are growing. Sunshine juice? Do you mean Sunny D? I don't think that's organic :) I always thought the yellow urine was a sign of
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by umjames 18y ago
I think it was another pg essay (possibly http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html ) which suggests that workplaces have office hours because they can't accurately measure an employee's productivity. So they aren't likely to know where t
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by umjames 18y ago
Honestly, a manager who was ok with him going home after one day would be stupid. Then he's giving them no additional benefit for his fabled skills, and their best developer wouldn't be there most of the time and the rest of the team would
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by umjames 18y ago
You're right. I remember when those movies came out. Even 1991's "Don't tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" follows that pattern. Ironically, Tron was this way also. Flynn sought to run the big tech corporation instead of that arcade. Now,
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by umjames 18y ago
How about sue early and sue often? Seriously, a law firm that deals primarily with tech startups and indie developers would be excellent. I'm thinking LLC articles of organization, EULAs, and website terms of use policies would make a good
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by umjames 18y ago
Man, that would make a lot of internet-related things unusable from Mars and beyond: online gaming, flash, software updates, etc. It would also make use of a DVCS like git a must for interplanetary hosting services.
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by umjames 18y ago
I was actually making a Family Guy reference, but thanks for playing. It wasn't my intention to start a reddit-style PS3/Xbox/Wii flame war. Sorry if that's how it came across.
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by umjames 18y ago
Tiredness in the physical sense or the mental sense? I associate burnout with mental fatigue. Sleep is the best cure for physical tiredness, but mental tiredness is much harder to overcome. Probably the best way to prevent mental fatigue i
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by umjames 18y ago
The sexbox's name is Sony, I believe.
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by umjames 18y ago
Are there any alternatives to selling to Microsoft? I can't stand the thought of del.icio.us, flickr, or even Yahoo Messenger being under their control. It's not like Microsoft has a great (or even good) history of web-based anything.
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by umjames 18y ago
They didn't lose market share in the Mac vs. PC war because Windows was so open. Windows is proprietary too. We won't really know who will win the iPhone OS vs. Android war for quite some time. As developers, we need a comparison of the de
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by umjames 18y ago
I don't think he meant that all employment is evil or akin to slavery. What sucks about work from the employee's perspective usually has roots in the employee's belief that he/she is not properly appreciated/respected/compensated for his/h
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by umjames 18y ago
True, but there are people who pay the bills while being happy and motivated at the same time doing things they like. So don't settle for being miserable just to pay the bills. Life's too short for that.
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by umjames 18y ago
Are you looking for one person to do the Mac, PC, and Linux desktop clients? That would explain why you haven't found anyone yet. People tend to become good at developing for only one of those platforms. I can (and do) both web and Mac pr
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by umjames 18y ago
the next DreamIt program will be (or include?) “Hacker Track”, which will address the problem DreamIt noted that was there were a lot of great ideas, without the technical developers to implement them. Steve mentions that this Hacker Track
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by umjames 18y ago
Geez, do you want fries with that? :) But seriously, I agree about the bulk. I don't need mine to be waterproof, just be able to let me read PDFs (including password-protected PDFs). A color screen would be good too. Let me plug it into m
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by umjames 18y ago
But did beta testers and other customers actually say they hated such applications? Is there any truth to this "satire"?
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by umjames 18y ago
Ballmer told attendees that he is going to stay on at Microsoft until Microsoft’s search share exceeds Google’s Not going anywhere for a while?
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by umjames 18y ago
What a great advertisement for getting out of enterprise IT and starting your own business! I'd always prefer to just try a new idea, then to get permission from my manager and my manager's manager to try that same idea.
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by umjames 18y ago
Yeah, I can't imagine playing a sequel to Portal in a browser. If it did happen, would Valve members be compensated with stock and cake?

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