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by watmough 17y ago
I call my wife Farmer Pixel because she's never off Farmville. I've tried to get her to go out in the garden, but no avail!
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by watmough 17y ago
Thanks for the answer. I just got round to trying it. It's awful. From the first screen onwards, it's everything that the iPhone is trying to leave behind. Clunky, unresponsive navigation, non-standard user controls. Utterly wretched. Delet
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by watmough 17y ago
Chinese labor is competing and slaughtering the US machines. There was a story on feats of Chinese manufacturing on YC not long ago, showing a guy sewing Chumby covers in 4 seconds flat. No machine could do that. If you go look at HobbyCity
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by watmough 17y ago
Of course, cats have been using advanced AV equipment for years. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2o5j1_sony-c6-betamax-adve...
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by watmough 17y ago
So, hypothetically, wage parity might be achieved by Chinese workers making 5 - 7x more than they do now, whilst American worker would make 5 - 7x less . Obviously prices in the US for healthcare, food and housing need to come down somewha
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by watmough 17y ago
Since Opera Mini apparently uses an intermediary cloud server, how does it handle ajax-heavy sites? I'm thinking of sites that update every second or so.
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by watmough 17y ago
Yes, the books are excellent, great reads, though the first one as you say is the essential one. Once you read these, you will start seeing 'Data Ducks' everywhere! I speak from experience.
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by watmough 17y ago
Damn! Is this one of those moments (like Safari on the iPhone) when you realize what a particular form-factor is for? In this case, living books...
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by watmough 17y ago
Excellent stuff. I notice there are some questions about how to make money. One may be to position yourself as a way to get PDF reports generated from phone apps, in which case you may want to do per app licensing and provide facilities for
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by watmough 17y ago
Excellent article. I support an iPhone app and occasionally get emails where the person is obviously not expecting a real person to read it. Almost without exception, I write as nice an email back as possible, and usually people are disarme
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by watmough 17y ago
The only way I've found to address this issue is a healthy diet, rich in fiber. For me that means: - homemade brown bread - lots of vegetables - drinks lots of non-sugary fluids - cut out the candy and sweet baked goods
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by watmough 17y ago
We had a party on Saturday and someone brought a couple of tubs of potato salad / pasta salad. You'd think these might be a bit starchy, or contain fat, but be basically pretty healthy right? (It does have salad right there in the name) P
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by watmough 17y ago
From my possibly simplistic understanding: Insulin resistance is a factor in Type 2 diabetes, which wrecks the body's ability to handle glucose. Once you get to this point, damage to body systems starts to snowball, obesity, kidney failure
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by watmough 17y ago
What kind of problems did you have? One of the strengths of Clojure is that you can develop in the repl / notepad with essentially just jline and a valid java install. I worked like this for a while, but have recently moved to TextMate, now
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by watmough 17y ago
I don't think this is blindingly obvious. I always imagined something 'called us', then just returning from that would be enough to get everything shutdown. Certainly when I wrote 6502 code, or 68000 code, I would just return. On the iPhone
916.
by watmough 17y ago
For those on Macs, there's a TextMate bundle here: http://nullstyle.com/2008/11/09/ann-clojure-textmate-bundle-... Works well, though it contains its own clojure install, which may not be ideal. It looks fairly hackable though. If you do
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by watmough 17y ago
Funnily enough, this is exactly what already happened to the USD. The current greenback is worth approx 4% of its level in the early part of the 20th C.
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by watmough 17y ago
Here's a recipe for living on one 'median' income: * Pay your cars off. * Get down to < $300 / month on food. * Stop eating out except on special occasions. * Turn the thermostat up / down in summer / winter. * Cap mortga
919.
by watmough 17y ago
Yeah, we've been spreading the word. I'm not a big guy, but I was getting kinda burly. I made one change, which was eating only half a Chipotle burrito bowl for lunch, instead of the whole thing. That ONE CHANGE dropped me 10 - 15 pounds. N
920.
by watmough 17y ago
Based on my wife, who has lost a whole bunch of weight, some weight loss tips: * Other than say breakfast cereal and snack soups, eat mainly or only food cooked at home, * By implication, no fast food, * Lean toward simple minimally
921.
by watmough 17y ago
As I commented elsewhere in the thread, people will avoid situations they are uncomfortable with. If app store searches fill up with sex apps, then less people will be interested in searching and buying.
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by watmough 17y ago
I think Apple's mistake was to permit adult content in the first place. My wife was looking through apps the other night, and she was appalled to see the number of sex apps showing up in searches. Apple needs to maintain a reasonable tone i
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by watmough 17y ago
Actually 'unlucky' if I remember correctly. The 'lucky' ones were unreachable. Didn't Teela end up as the protector?
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by watmough 17y ago
Yep, in 1996 I hired on with an oil co in Scotland. One of my first tasks was to migrate everything from gawdawful Performa 6100s to Windows 95 boxes and laptops. Being in IT, I was lumbered with one of said Performa's. It was awful. Unstab
925.
by watmough 17y ago
I always imagined that it might break an agreement between publishers and Amazon, if people could price compare easily in bookstores. Obviously, B&N and Borders would likely be toast if you had an 'Amazon in Your Pocket' app that really
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by watmough 17y ago
Yes, looks great for browsing, music, photos, video. I'm disappointed there isn't a camera, but you can't have everything. It's intriguing that it has very limited power requirements. Apple must have done something very special with the pro
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by watmough 17y ago
I'm not trying to suggest this device works. On the other hand, we hired a guy to dowse and dig a water well when I was a kid. He dowsed, and drilled a well. Just an 'anecdatum'.
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by watmough 17y ago
If you're dis-incented to work, that may allow you to lead a better life on less, say one partner earning instead of both, whilst someone who needs a primary income will take that higher paying job. Don't underestimate the beneficial effect
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by watmough 17y ago
I'd love to do some Palm development, but even the photo upload stats (recent news on YC) show Android is the next best place to be, not that far behind Apple (l)App(land). On first play, the Palm WebOS is really nice, but if there's no aud
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by watmough 17y ago
Like the first Mac, the iPhone is the first phone good enough to criticize. Sure, plenty of limitations, but overall, the iPhone completely redefined how well a phone could work, and has massively expanded what people expect from their phon

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