bproper

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Any employee can build apps and it's hell for developers(writer.com)
6 points by bproper 1y ago|3 comments
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by bproper 1y ago
Sounds about right: "Business users are spinning up AI agents left and right, feeling like they can build anything. Meanwhile, developers are stuck being the ‘reality police’ — trying to make these things actually work in production wh
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by bproper 9y ago
Kickstarter acquired a startup called Drip last year, and this product was built off that team/idea. https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/drip-joins-kickstarter
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by bproper 10y ago
At this point, however, they have built an interesting business beyond their own league and live events. They have a subscription service - $10 a month - that has both the biggest library of important MMA fights and acts as the streaming pl
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The Void opens its first public virtual reality experience(theverge.com)
2 points by bproper 10y ago|0 comments
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by bproper 10y ago
"The song “Drag Me Down” by One Direction appeared on YouTube 2,700 times after the service was asked to take down unlicensed copies. These 2,700 pirated uploads allowed Google to continue profiting from advertising while the artists g
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YouTube will now support live streaming of 360-degree video(theverge.com)
1 points by bproper 10y ago|0 comments
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Good news: automation already destroyed most of the jobs(vox.com)
2 points by bproper 10y ago|0 comments
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Aereo founder's new startup offers gigabit internet over the air(theverge.com)
5 points by bproper 11y ago|0 comments
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by bproper 11y ago
Does it have a button to reverse the functionality and create a younger, stronger you?
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MIT building wireless tech to sense people through walls(arstechnica.com)
1 points by bproper 11y ago|0 comments
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by bproper 11y ago
Going from a seed stage startup to a feature on 10 million TVs in less than a year sounds fun. Only downside is you aren't going to build your own billion dollar business with this model.
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by bproper 11y ago
You can't log into HBO now with you HBO Go credentials because they are two totally separate business models. You need a pay-tv subscription to authenticate HBO GO, while you pay a la carte for HBO Now and don't need cable. Cord c
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by bproper 11y ago
Another nail in cable TV's coffin
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by bproper 11y ago
I can see this being useful for sharing 3D models and perhaps some items in augmented reality commerce, but I doubt it will have much of a role to play in serious VR
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Quirky has paid its inventors $9m, but lost $150m in the process(theverge.com)
4 points by bproper 11y ago|0 comments
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by bproper 12y ago
Jelani did not waive the right to a speedy trial, and in fact his lawyer filed the motion demanding one on three separate occasions before it was granted. This was more than one year into his incarceration.
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by bproper 12y ago
That's exactly what it was IMO
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by bproper 12y ago
The DA needs to present enough evidence at a grand jury to get an indictment. After that, at least in NY, much of the evidence does not have to be shared until trial. Plea deals in these big crew conspiracy cases often occur without the def
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by bproper 12y ago
I started the story after a friend, who is a social worker and civil rights activist, told me that he knew several kids from a large Crew Cut raid in Brooklyn, and that they were good kids who had left the city for college, but been dragged
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by bproper 12y ago
The state's attorney and mayor's office have both called for major changes at Riker's and threatened to sue if conditions are not improved there. But sadly that won't solve the problem of a clogged court system that allo
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by bproper 12y ago
Hey - writer of the story here. The goal was to show two brothers, very much two sides of the same coin - born one year apart, raised in the same environment. What choices did they make, how did that lead to different outcomes (or not). It&
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by bproper 12y ago
Hey - I'm the reporter who wrote this story. Feel free to ask me any questions.
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Google's Internet balloons are staying aloft longer than anyone expected(theverge.com)
12 points by bproper 12y ago|0 comments
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by bproper 12y ago
Hey Tomp - I wrote that post. I cited the author, linked extensively, and gave credit in multiple places. If there had been a contact on his HN bio, I would have reached out that way as well.
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by bproper 12y ago
This seems like cutthroat tactics, but not illegal as far as I can tell. Anyone know if this is by the book?
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by bproper 13y ago
This app never had any users outside the media bubble...seems like a soft landing acqui-hire.
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by bproper 13y ago
One of the attractive things about Blackberry is that they have no debt. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry...
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by bproper 13y ago
Can anyone find meaningful detail in here about how Google hopes to solve the problem of death? Beyond the name of the company and the guy running it, this seems like a stock profile of Google X.
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by bproper 13y ago
CyanogenMod, the company’s free open-source replacement firmware, has more than 8 million users, CEO Kirt McMaster says. But that counts only users who have elected to share data with Cyanogen, he says, estimating that the true number is tw

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