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by zach 15y ago
Why not let Apple sell the devices and Amazon sell the content? Great question. It does seem efficient, what with comparative advantage and all. Because then then that's an experience that's either customer-integrated or concessionary. A
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by zach 15y ago
Oh, do I ever remember jamming pluses in front of all my search terms. So annoying. When I switched early to Google, I would chuckle at people who said "search for +firefox +windows +download". Because I didn't have to do that anymore, I us
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by zach 15y ago
I had the same problem (actually ten hours) until I was 27. It made my academically-rigorous engineering school an extreme challenge. But then I was able to get by with 8 and now 7, which makes things a lot better. No idea why.
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by zach 15y ago
And yet see for yourself: http://www.jacksonfish.com/ They're the developers of A Story Before Bed, which was the subject of a previous Show HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917235 Reminds me of a company here in LA, the Kowloon
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by zach 15y ago
With a rhythm-game type app, you can dictate what the user is supposed to be playing. With a sheet music app, not so much. People will want to play the first few measures over and over, try something again after messing it up, stop and tak
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by zach 15y ago
The hurdle for this is that to do it well, you need polyphonic pitch detection, which you could say is a little tricky. However, I worked on the prototype for a music app that does polyphonic pitch detection for a greater effect than page t
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by zach 15y ago
Congrats, Dan! What a great write-up. So glad to see how far this has come. Leaving aside the practical matters native to the iPad, I think not having an extensive classical selection is one of the best ways you could be dinged. It speak
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by zach 15y ago
I had a C64 as well and recall now that my friends with Apple IIs were all pretty well-off. This went completely over my head at the time. Purely incidentally, my C64 floppy drive's case was cracked because the family acquaintance we got it
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by zach 15y ago
Consumers can get over a weird name (Wii?!) but what hurts is when they can never remember it. It's easier to remember names that are concrete (even though monkeys have nothing to do with surveys) or have a memorable connection to the produ
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by zach 15y ago
Note that the 6502 documentary holds a decisive lead in the number of backers (25 vs. 11 for Arcade and 3 for Tape). I presume this is a result of the huge amount of Apple II affection still out there. When I got into the game industry in t
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What are some commonalities in how Pixar, Valve and Blizzard are run?(quora.com)
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by zach 15y ago
This is uniquely entertaining. I would love to see this more often. What this really highlights is that entrepreneurs aren't put face to face with someone as incisive and BS-resistant as PG or Harj nearly often enough. Maybe there's an opp
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by zach 15y ago
It does seem like there could be a breaking point. Are they really going to stick to treating everyone to the same perks? The ones they use to compete for engineering talent in Palo Alto? I would keep it up if it up to me, knowing that the
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by zach 15y ago
In his profile, rimantas mentions he's in Vilnius. Lithuania is impressive. Not only are there the 13 public holidays, workers with a child under 14 get an extra week. Now that's how you prevent population decline! So that's five weeks p
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by zach 15y ago
Yelp's unique value and innovation has been in finding ways to psychologically reward users for submitting reviews. They work hard to make the user feel like they kick ass at reviewing places. More recently, they also work hard at crooked
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by zach 15y ago
Good to see. Zagat's had problems finding a great business model in the digital world. They've gone through ads, memberships and endless partnerships. Zagat is still the prestige name in local reviews though. This is a great resource fo
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by zach 15y ago
Oh wow, how could I miss that? Well, now it comes out that I've never seen Goldfinger . And I've listened to all the Bond discussions with John Gruber on The Talk Show . Shame on me!
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by zach 15y ago
Wow, that's an excellent point. That doesn't happen easily with gold. People retrieve gold from ships sunk hundreds of years ago. Actually, is there an efficient way that physical gold or other precious metals can be intentionally destroye
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by zach 15y ago
Hmm. FarmVille was released shortly before that time, wasn't it? Just a thought.
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by zach 15y ago
With the Mac App Store, it's a lot easier to get Mac developers to do things like sandboxing... or supporting the ARM. Just tell developers it's going to be required as of such-and-such a date if they want to be in the App Store. No need t
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by zach 15y ago
The application of this research on sports performance don't seem to have been explored much as far as I've found. Which seems surprising to me seeing that Dr. Baumeister is a professor at Florida State. You'd think at least the ability of
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by zach 15y ago
Looks like a good candidate for a re-startup like I was mentioning in the knockoff thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2954987 Spend a week working on a prototype and go tell the press you're going to pick up what Aardvark dropped
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by zach 15y ago
I was talking with a friend about how, if we were just starting out, our best strategy would probably be to pounce on the market abandoned by an acquisition, particularly a talent acquisition. For example, after Fflick got bought by Google
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by zach 15y ago
keiju> But, perl is related to a shell. matz> Oh, I don't know that matz> never noticed that Whoa. So today I learned that. Never noticed that either, all this time.
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by zach 15y ago
I think a lot of companies would stick with subscribe-outside apps. Again, same rules as the iPad, so that's okay. Netflix and Hulu would for sure. But: There are 200,000,000 iTunes accounts with credit cards. I really can't fault the es
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by zach 15y ago
I think they're fine with sharing their platform with as many other services as want to be on there -- and that play by their rules. I think there are two clues to Apple's approach: 1. They're clearly evolving their offering towards purcha
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by zach 15y ago
This is the right move for Starz. They should focus on moving onto the iPad and the app/channel stores for Apple TV and the next-gen Google TV. Re-upping would only antagonize their existing content partners who they also have to renegotia
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by zach 15y ago
When I moved into an empty office last year to work on my startup, I had a dilemma. I didn't have a desk or chair. At my last couple jobs I had an Aeron and I knew that a good ergonomic chair is worth the expense. I haven't had back prob
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by zach 15y ago
Wow, awesome. Just what I was hoping for and impressive, thanks for sharing the link.
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by zach 15y ago
Any night that ends with losing a confidential Apple prototype device was probably a heck of a night. Apple needs some kind of proximity sensor linked to these field testers' keychain or something. Maybe they just need to upgrade Find My i

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