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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
Google doesn't even need experience in building cars. They can license their technology to UPS and Fedex and make billions. They can license their technology to Uber, ZipCar and taxi companies and make billions. They can license the te
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
You can install both at the same time. "Default" here refers to what is installed by by default, and what the distro internal scripts are written in. /usr/bin/python should remain symlinked to python2, and never pyt
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Even in the world outside of "hipster palo alto", 70% of active Android users are on 4.0+: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html It seems to be growing 5% per month, so already by the
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
BART is already almost automated: the train drives itself. The "drivers" only close the door, and stop the train if something unexpected happens. Some other light rail systems around the world run with no drivers on board at all.
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
Perhaps you need a small amount of passion to get started. But passion and success are not independent, they form a very strong feedback loop. It is much easier to be passionate about a project that other people love (measured in download
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No extra, I only offer one rate that includes full source code and copyright transfer. Some clients have been surprised by developers asking a lot of money for copyright once they want to update the app, sell licenses or raise funding - for
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
The "ideas are a dime-a-dozen" and "nobody wants to steal your idea" are situation-specific. Most often, they come up as a response to first-time entrepreneurs who have a very vague idea ("facebook for cats"),
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
Neither of those cases are the situation in which "stealing an idea" comes up. Both projects were launched in public . As soon as any "idea" is proven to be successful in the market, competitors will arise. In fact, it
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All of my contracts include a full copyright transfer to the client upon full payment. They paid for it after all, and not owning the copyright would put the client in a difficult position if they ever try to raise funding or sell the compa
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> So I don't see Edgerank as a band-aid fix, but a fundamental requirement for a large-scale system like this. Because (a) on the demand side, recommendations are what people actually want - let computers do what they're good a
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Automated filtering approaches like Facebook's edgerank are a band-aid fix for fundamentally wrong user interface. For me, there is no content on the internet that is time-critical and has to be consumed in the order it was posted, o
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
Could someone more familiar with U.S. laws explain why is it mandatory for federal employees not to work, even if they are unpaid? I'd imagine there are people who would rather continue with their side projects, research or other fun p
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A $5 coffee also buys you a place to sit down and use WiFi, and a bit of social interaction or "lifestyle". Nobody pays $5 per cup of coffee at a supermarket. No app developers include "installed by a human" and the perm
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All of these are also apps for businesses, not casual entertainment for consumers. Also, they are mainly delivered via web, not Apple or Google app stores, which makes it possible to offer a time-limited free trial with no free plan. I&#x27
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
ghshephard gave a good answer to the question "why do many people consider in-app purchases evil". However, there is no doubt that "evil" approaches are more profitable than the doing the right thing. Techniques such as
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
The major difference between a mouse and a controller stick is the type of input. Mouse is a pointing input - for a movement of 1 unit, your view changes by 1 unit. If you stop moving the mouse, your view stops moving. Controller stick is
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
A friend of mine is working on http://www.giflike.com/ It's "like animated gifs", but implemented with JPEGs + javascript. JPEG encoding is much more efficient for photos, and doing the animation in javascrip
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
They can. A number of well-built apps pause background data sync if battery is too low. However, changing behaviour based on battery level is trickier than it seems. * The point of reducing energy usage is to leave the user more juice for t
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
That seems to be very weak compared to traditional captchas. * It is no more than a weekend project to extract the Xs from the image and write a solver. * Even without a image processing, the number of possible answers is 7. A 14% success r
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
Microsoft Research is still one of the most influential and visible industry research labs in Computer Science, publishing more great papers than most top universities. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/de
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Having a premium product could also mean that the open-source version grows faster. Having stable revenue means the ability to spend 100% of the time working on the project (instead of it being a side project), and hire more full-time emp
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
It's difficult to predict what the outcome of the situation will be. It could be that the founder keeps himself officially "unaware" on purpose. This way he can shift the blame to others if it becomes public, and still make a
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
It's of course oversold, anything else would be an incredible waste of network capacity. But I believe ISPs should be forced to publish in detail what their acceptable use" thresholds and limits are, and ban advertising any connec
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
> For me, the "Zen" as sysadmin, is to impose as few toolchains and dependencies external to the _app_ to support, as possible. Going to "go" for me is as say that "java" is the lang to go if you're a s
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No. But I believe copyright and patent laws should be refactored based on their contribution to society, not the individual copyright or patent holders. * The purpose of copyright is to encourage creation of more works of art than would h
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I can't speak on behalf of the author, but I have been "stuck" in similar limbo projects myself (an iOS game). Admitting to yourself that the project has failed, and "just one more push" can't rescue it, and sh
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
Once the API gets to the stage where you need authentication, access controls, blocking access, proper rate-limiting or billing, you have outgrown the "email address in request" method. After all, the abuser might not be a former
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
One good bit of advice I have seen for people who are just starting out with publishing an API: require a "developer email" parameter in the request instead of API key. Yes, it could be spoofed or faked. But: * You can detect hone
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
I wish Google disclosed more statistics than "worldwide active users" for the Android versions. If they published additional details, for example: * filtering by country/city, * filtering by age or demographics, * "total
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by ProblemFactory 13y ago
While this is true in theory, compartmentalizing services and data can add security in practice. Attackers may not know the details your internal systems, and any unusual behaviour helps with detecting intrusions. * For example, if credit c

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