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by abk 12y ago
Thanks!
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by abk 12y ago
I feel like to a large extent this is just techcrunch being techcrunch and writing link-bait articles. My thoughts on this: 1) Just about everyone is "interested in making money" from their apps. I'm not sure how they're
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by abk 12y ago
I kind of skimmed the post, so maybe I'm missing something, but what exactly is the "architecture" described here? Dynamically-typed languages will allow the passing around of objects of different types as long as they implem
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by abk 12y ago
He doesn't negate your points because there were none to negate. Well, except for that clearly accurate "90-99%" figure you quoted. Your personal crusade is not a rebellion, and no one is trying to cut off "you're&q
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by abk 13y ago
IANAL, but I'd be surprised if the police was allowed to raid me, launch tear gas through my window and shoot me in the head. Even with a warrant. I'm not worried about this happening, because it doesn't. If it did, I'm
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by abk 14y ago
Oh I agree that graceful degradation is a very viable option for older browsers.
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by abk 14y ago
You'd be surprised by how many people won't do that. In my opinion, it's your job as a designer / developer to make sure your product works for as many people as reasonably possible, and not expect users to jump through hoops (no matter how
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by abk 14y ago
I skimmed the article, but it sounds like free apps that make money through in-app purchases are still eligible.
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by abk 15y ago
Not a fan of zynga, but tiny tower and others do that too. It seems pretty standard for games to prompt users for reviews.
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by abk 15y ago
Non-combattants should be off-limits imo, yes. However war and terrorism are completely different. It's generally accepted that there may be civilian casualties in a war zone, and that is clearly not terrorism (intimidation, maybe). Unprovo
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by abk 15y ago
IANAL and I hate to sound like a fanboy, but can't Apple claim that the 2007 iPod touch is prior art, since it's basically a small black tablet with rounded corners and a single button at the bottom? It looks much more similar to an iPad th
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by abk 15y ago
Yeah I'm curious about that too. It seems that in the very rare cases where a commercial plane goes down spectacularly, the ones that make it alive were flown by formerly non-commercial pilots (military or otherwise), who've flown planes th
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by abk 15y ago
Surely there must be more to it. Clearly all of us who've played a flight simulator know that going up too fast will cause you to lose speed and eventually stall and fall until you regain enough speed to stabilize. Sadly in this case it sou
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by abk 15y ago
I feel that work habits are a very personal thing. I find that I'm more productive if I work on multiple projects throughout the day instead of dedicating to just one. I don't know if it's because I'm putting artificial deadlines for myself
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by abk 15y ago
I was just about to post the same thing. I agree with the underlying thesis that a good shipping product is better than perfect code that never ships, but the author seems to be confusing good code and over-engineering. Good code does exact
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by abk 16y ago
Many shy people tend to avoid situations where they think they may get rejected. I think the point of the experiment is to show them that they could be happier / better off if they didn't take rejections so personally / weren't afraid of ge