seminal | 11 years ago | on: Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results
Some are arguing that the death of the iPad means that Apple is now basically a one-product company which could be an achilles heel no matter how many phones are sold.
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seminal | 14 years ago | on: Project Management for Startps: Thoughts and Musings
Good project managers are rare but such regimentation can stifle the free flow of ideas if the PM is not careful. The good ideas come from nature and leisure, not from where the Deadline looms.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Facebook acquires team behind YC alum Caffeinated Mind
Expresso is a nice idea. Somebody should fill this vacuum, definitely.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy
I think you nailed it with 3. A constantly changing UI makes people hesitant to submit their credit cards. Whereas Amazon has looked pretty much the same for twenty years.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Backbone 0.9.0 released
Rewrite one of your existing javascript-heavy apps in backbone. Having a clear goal will help.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"?
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: derecha.de, play logic games in the browser
Thanks. I should change it so that it automatically resets when a user submits a wrong answer.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Did you shutter a startup in 2011?
Nicely put.
seminal | 14 years ago
not quite working but it does seem like a fun sunday morning project.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)
LOL
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Learn Knockout.js in 30 minutes
My favorite is still Cows and Closures. http://nathansjslessons.appspot.com/lesson?id=1000
seminal | 14 years ago | on: "I've got an idea for an app"
I'm with you. I lie about what I do to half my friends to avoid their hurt expressions when they find out that I'm not going to bunker down for the next 2 weeks writing their app for free.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Why Ubuntu Linux is now ready for primetime
>Also, when I run into a hitch during development, Google takes my operating system into account. Googling answers to development questions provides me much more relevant results on Ubuntu than it ever did on the Mac.
This isn't said enough. Type a coding question into google and 9 out of 10 hits seem to be good tutorials involving the linux terminal.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion
Facebook too. Can't think of many recent instances where the winner of the early adopters won the space. Netflix?
seminal | 14 years ago | on: I Like PHP
The SF2 docs have really come along since the early beta. As a beginner looking at both for the first time SF2 seems more clear.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: What's a Closure?
Agreed. Once I converted all the exercises to coffeescript (syntactically similar to python) they made more sense.
seminal | 14 years ago | on: Progressive Internet Explorer
"twelve handwritten steps on Post-its for how to open their timesheet on the intraweb" It's funny to watch this in action.
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