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by veemjeem 17y ago
I don't think it's cutting competition -- these seem to be consumer protection. Say the popular flurry analytics tool decides they're going to perform background services to track users, you probably wouldn't even be able to opt-out to the
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Given that it's sold out everywhere, I'm sure he won't have trouble finding a buyer. He could probably resell it a slightly higher markup too.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
If you have a top 10 app on the app store, it's likely that you'll probably do the legwork to port the app to whatever language is necessary to run on the platform. It's probably a poor business decision to just "give up" $5000 per day of
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by veemjeem 17y ago
In other words, you were never a developer/user for the iPhone, and now you still won't be.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Sounds like someone is speaking without experience here. I signed up as an app developer for the iPhone, got approved in 3 days. I wrote a new app in 4 days (a decent rss reader that pulls feeds from facebook) and the app was accepted in
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I haven't seen a good 5th generation language that does visual programming well yet. Even the wonderful morphic libraries on Squeak or the ALICE virtual world still require lots of typing.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
You can already buy a normal windows tablet today... it doesn't make sense why manufacturers would try to "re-release" products they already have. You can probably buy a fast dual core tablet PC today that would blow the socks off the 1.6
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Too bad the joojoo and the ipad have the exact same price. It makes it really easy to do a side by side comparison. Engadget's review makes it sound like the joojoo was a product from 5 years ago -- it's heavy, slow, poor battery life, ge
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I don't think there are any ycombinator company that delivers their product in snail-mail form... maybe I could start one! You can write me what web address you want to go to, and I'll mail you a print out of the web page.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
The problem is that there are so few hardware manufacturers that have such attention to detail as Apple does. So if you want a really high quality laptop to run windows, macs are probably still the only way to go. I've owned dozens of Son
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by veemjeem 17y ago
hah. If your brain ran BSD, you wouldn't have to sleep for the next 650 days in a row... which would mean you'd have fatal familia insomnia, death guaranteed in a few years.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
the iphone version requires you to rotate the phone instead :-)
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by veemjeem 17y ago
A Chinese friend of mine had a similar experience. After getting her undergrad & masters engineering degree at MIT, she lands her first job as a writer. The job pays less than what she earned as a graduate student at MIT, but I've nev
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by veemjeem 17y ago
So we shouldn't use python, perl, or php either? The last time I checked, all of these languages are at least 30x slower than C.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I do think you should consider adding a safe mode sooner rather than later. It's actually a bigger problem than you might think. My mentor generally won't care too much if I use a 3rd party js library as long as it doesn't interfere with
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by veemjeem 17y ago
code size is rarely a good indication of productivity in a framework. There's lots of frameworks that allows the developer to have a smaller code size but few actually make it more fun for the developer to work in. I'd say jQuery is popul
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Crockford would then reply with: (inside his js file) window.location = "http://www.meatspin.com"; //that'll teach em
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I think a fair amount of early adopters who use chrome/chromium also probably use a fair amount of firefox extensions too.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
how is haskell the obvious choice? The parent poster talks about clojure & python -- 2 dynamically typed languages. It's going to be a world of difference moving to a statically typed one.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
freebsd can also run flash pretty well too, so it might be bsd based too... I haven't tried hulu on my system yet, but most flash sites work pretty well so I'd be surprised if hulu doesn't work.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I'm sure for every round of YC, there are a few companies that don't even make it to launch. The ones that don't launch are not even listed.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Sounds like a problem with your internet connection :-) I think too often we lay blame on websites when usually it's a user error.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I wonder if Google has a hit list of people to immediately hire should they leave their currently tenured job posting. It seems like it would be quite strategic to hire away top execs from a direct competitor like Microsoft. I can almost
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I'd sell facebook and then go sip a pina colada some place where I'm not scrutinized by everyone about how I should be running things. I think mark is doing a good job, sometimes immediate profitability isn't always the best route. He's be
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by veemjeem 17y ago
I think the whole notion of "you should be spending more time doing X" is kind of pointless. People do whatever they think is fun, especially for open source projects. Maybe you should be spending that time saving whales instead!
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Yeah, but the Apple tablet is not going to cost $300... probably more like $1000 if the rumor is even true.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
Congrats, so you figured out the difference between an intro/extrovert. Do you think an extrovert engineer at google would somehow produce software that less monopolistic than an introvert's software? I don't think introverts have a less d
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by veemjeem 17y ago
It's too bad that the iphone screen doesn't scan via the laser barcode readers, otherwise it would be great to just show the coupon on screen.
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by veemjeem 17y ago
The main issue of the cuecat is that every time you needed to scan something, you wouldn't have your computer around to scan it. Plus the scanning on that cuecat thing was highly annoying, it didn't work on some types of packaging and it r
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by veemjeem 17y ago
There are successful companies out there that don't adhere to the typical structure, and I'm glad to add another company to that list. For example, the 20,000 employees at Gore-Tex have no bosses, you're on a team. http://www.fastcompany.

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