hymanroth

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by hymanroth 16y ago
Sounds obvious now, but I remember advising quite a few people "not build their house on other people's land" several years ago. It was true then, is true now, and will always be true.
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by hymanroth 16y ago
I agree it's all about trade-off. Cleaner, faster, cheaper development vs risk of alienating some percentage of users with older mobile browsers. I was trying to get a feel for what people are currently thinking - but there doesn't seem to
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Very interesting. Thanks
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Excellent comment, thanks. We would require location and touch functionality. The core use case is really quite simple: users provide both text and numerical feedback based on their location - that's basically it. Nothing fancy. It needs to
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Well, we'd basically want to target them all! Given that people change their phones more often than their PCs, one would expect the installed mobile browser base to 'fresher' than the PC one. In other words, over the medium term (say 2 year
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Yes, but that implies the app is an end to itself. What if you just wanted to present an existing web service to mobile users in an "app-like" UI?
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Sure, cycle intensive use cases will probably use native code for a long time to come. The idea of adding native wrappers around a pure HTML/JS implementation sounds very interesting - like having your cake and eating it....
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Yes, but it implies the user anticipating the use case... Would you download an app which talks you through fixing a car engine before you actually needed it, for example?
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Thanks - that is exactly what I'm talking about. But don't you have a problem with older mobile browsers not being able to render the site correctly?
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Good point. I should have mentioned monetization is not an issue. In other words, if what we aim to build were in an app store it would be free anyway. Basically I'm asking whether HTML5 will be mature enough both in terms of functionality
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Ask HN: Mobile dev - Bypass apps and go straight to HTML5?
42 points by hymanroth 16y ago|54 comments
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Farmville for people with more than 1 neuron(youtube.com)
4 points by hymanroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Yes, but Google's valuation is confirmed by trading volumes. In the early days of computerized trading it was quite common for even quite liquid stocks to be suspended limit up/down because of programming bugs. But by Joel's logic, the mark
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by hymanroth 16y ago
Hi Joel, ex stock analyst here. What you say re minority trades is correct in so far as that is the way market valuations are calculated. However, what David says is also correct: just because someone pays X for a tiny fraction of the compa
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Interactive HTML5 Presentation(apirocks.com)
2 points by hymanroth 16y ago|1 comments
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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate(bothsidesofthetable.com)
3 points by hymanroth 17y ago|0 comments
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Scope, Garbage Collection and Closures in Javascript [slides](lmframework.com)
4 points by hymanroth 17y ago|0 comments
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by hymanroth 17y ago
See http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm for an amusing counterpoint to PG's original post
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by hymanroth 17y ago
Thank you
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by hymanroth 17y ago
Yes, some might find it offensive.
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by hymanroth 17y ago
Very diplomatically put..
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by hymanroth 17y ago
That's useful feedback, thanks
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Ask HN: Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea?(lmframework.com)
5 points by hymanroth 17y ago|15 comments
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by hymanroth 17y ago
"apple is refusing to support flash in favor of html5" I would argue Apple is not allowing Flash because it has the speed and graphics ability to compete with native apps (which Apple are monetizing). Apple are ambivalent to HTML5 - on the
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Building Products for Mass Adoption(bothsidesofthetable.com)
1 points by hymanroth 17y ago|0 comments
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How to disrupt Wall Street(cdixon.org)
5 points by hymanroth 17y ago|0 comments
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by hymanroth 17y ago
Dunno. That's why I asked. Pretty high?
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by hymanroth 17y ago
Losers! Bring it On!
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by hymanroth 17y ago
What the fuck is wrong with clapping ?
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by hymanroth 17y ago
Is you real or is you fake?

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