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7 years ago
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on: Don't learn Dvorak
I use colemak as well. I find it way more rare than you might think that you have to type in QWERTY. There are probably couple of times a year I need to, and I can always get away with some quick hunt n' peck in those rare cases.
drham
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7 years ago
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on: Twitter Will Show Who Pays for Ads and How Much They Spend
Among many other reasons referenced by others, the users who would be willing to fork over a subscription fee to access twitter are exactly the demographic that twitter needs in order to keep its advertising attractive to marketers. A successful subscription option for a service like twitter would greatly diminish the value of their advertising inventory.
drham
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8 years ago
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on: Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
Faster, probably, but 2x+ Faster like in PowerPC > Intel very unlikely. Which is why there’s much less likely to be enough performance budget for effective emulation.
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9 years ago
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on: This Is the Mindfulness App Apple Doesn’t Want You to Have
Ok I'm all for a good app store rejection story but this sounds pretty suspect: “any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store.”
It's way more likely because there isn't a public API for changing the application icon on iOS (at least until 10.3 https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiapplication/28...)
...and even when once there is a public API. It is certainly against app store rules to infringe on the trademarks of popular social network companies for what you use as your icon.
drham
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9 years ago
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on: Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface
"Up to $650". You plug in your exact model and get a value thats <= $650 based on resale value, similar to value to just selling to a service like Gazelle. Smart marketing though.
drham
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10 years ago
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on: “I want to respond to Marc Andreessen's comments about India”
Most of the time when people have negative response to something they refrain from leaving an internet comment, thats why everyone loves internet comments /s
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Ask HN: New Year's resolution – What projects are you planning to start in 2016?
My resolution isn't a specific project, but more of a general commitment to spending regular time on side projects.
I've very recently been enjoying using pomodoro[1] cycles to track my productivity at work and I'd like to translate the same behavior to my side projects and commit to getting 4 cycles done per week (~2 hours), and tracking that information to keep myself accountable.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Plan for New Stock Exchange Stirs Debate
I'm pretty naive on this topic, but wouldn't adding an artificial delay only create more opportunities for arbitrage vs other exchanges?
drham
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10 years ago
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on: The Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense”
91% could also pretty misleading because not all vulnerabilities are equal. It's easy to let 9 potential segfaults or memory corruption issues get disclosed if you get to hold on to the 1 iOS Zero Day/Shellshock type attack/etc...
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Interactive Visualisation of “Piano Phase” by Steve Reich
Mildly interesting (at least in chrome on os x) if you open a new tab on top of it the web audio api stops playing but doesn't seem to stop the timer in the animation leading to a jump and some interesting audio for a beat when you open the tab back up.
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Sam Altman's Twitter AMA
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Poker Theory and Analytics
The two plus two poker forums [1] are one of the best resources for learning about poker, especially so for online poker but live poker as well.
[1] http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Apple's Indies
Though if Apple removed its cut it would likely be even less incentivized to fix thing like app store review times/app store discovery, as those teams would suddenly become pure cost centers.
drham
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10 years ago
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on: Apple's Indies
It's not
just about Taylor Swift having way more pull than any developer, she was also presenting Apple with a problem simple enough that it could literally be solved by throwing money at it.
As Rob Napier pointed out in a great blog post [1]: The app store sustainability problem is definitely not the sort of problem you can just throw money at, and thus can't be responded to by Apple with the same way.
Even in this article it is immediately apparent there is no consensus among the affected as to what the real problem is: Is it lack of free trials? Paid upgrades? Review times?
[1] http://robnapier.net/throw-money
drham
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11 years ago
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on: List of URLs checked by Twitter for its app targeting
drham
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11 years ago
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on: List of URLs checked by Twitter for its app targeting
One common reason is that it is a requirement to do the fast app switching Facebook auth, which is why you see many URL schemes in that list in the form of fb[facebook app id][optional suffix]://
This is so that after auth the Facebook app has a URL to fast app switch back to and handle the authentication result.
drham
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11 years ago
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on: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
This trailer is really not helping my personal goal of keeping my expectations low for this movie.
drham
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?
drham
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11 years ago
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on: WhatsApp Lost $138M Last Year
"Research and development at the start-up, which employed just 55 people at the time it was sold, totaled $77 million"
I'm super-confused by this, can anyone explain what sorts of expenses would be this high and labeled as R&D costs for a company like WhatsApp?
