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by kj12345 14y ago
So true about the documentation and APIs. In the network stack for example, if you do certain things to a POST, Flash actually stops using HTTP and starts using "XML Sockets" which runs over a different port, and AFAIK is something Abobe ju
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by kj12345 14y ago
It's not completely new functionality. Adobe Alchemy, for example, has been free since 2008 and is used by a number of popular Flash apps and games. Of course they can charge for it if they want, but they're now competing with Unity, NaCL,
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by kj12345 15y ago
I think it's this phenomenon of bloatware vs minimal software: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html Summary: It's probably not that any given customer actually uses even a third of the features, but that for any custo
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by kj12345 15y ago
Thanks I didn't know all that about Gelernter and his work.
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by kj12345 15y ago
To me these patents seem less transparently silly than many of those often at issue in high-profile cases, and yet they end up providing an even harsher argument against software patents. With the silly patents a couple tweaks to the system
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by kj12345 15y ago
Definitely. Particularly given that new tech will initially be costly and not necessarily fit in a car.
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Two small ideas for improving HN
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by kj12345 15y ago
As a relatively new user I'm genuinely interested: which 3 or 4 types of comments and posts do you find interesting or representative of the old HN? I'm willing to change what I comment on or just move on, but I'm just not clear what the ol
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by kj12345 15y ago
Great point. I think this concept of "disruption" is out of place anyway when the existing site is mostly free and works fine on mobile devices. You might be able to steal traffic bit by bit by doing a better job, but there's nothing to rea
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by kj12345 15y ago
For me the biggest goal is fewer lines to organize in the first place rather than any particular scheme for grouping. What I do is: 1) Use as few separate stylesheets site-wide as possible so any contradicting or repetitive rules will be ob
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by kj12345 15y ago
But is it reasonable to say that Google has "sacrificed any idea of openness" by delaying the release of source code for one iteration of its platform?
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by kj12345 15y ago
Yeah I think this sort of backlash hurts the overall push towards openness because for example Adobe probably looks at the possibility of publishing Flash player source but they know that instead of being celebrated that move will just crea
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by kj12345 15y ago
I think some HNers aren't bothering to distinguish between satire/parody and silly memes. So they kill great posts like that one off just to be sure, and then we're left with a bunch of posts where people make the exact same points using mo
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by kj12345 16y ago
So true. I've often read interviews with founders and things get very vague around the "how did you pay bills before you had revenue" question. It becomes pretty clear that there was some family money, but it's not talked about since it tak
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by kj12345 16y ago
And it's $180/year for an experience that is going to be diluted by their continuing need to please advertisers. It would be a stronger strategy if they said that serving the needs of their $180/year customers is going to be the sole driver
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by kj12345 16y ago
I agree with what you're saying, but I think the original post went much further. Even with respect to what you're saying I think the paradox is that if you discover that people don't like the product you rushed out the door, it might be be
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by kj12345 16y ago
So products which take a long time to initially build and release simply can't be successful? That just seems like an extreme and limiting economic theory to me, and one which requires a lot more data and lot less rhetoric than the current
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by kj12345 16y ago
What a classic strawman response. TechCrunch says Moviefone " asked us to change our post". Movefone responds "We never told TechCrunch to change the post in any way". But Moviefone very obviously did "ask", which was the original accusa
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by kj12345 16y ago
Right, we're getting a nice snapshot of technology with IE9, and if that doesn't include Web Workers or some other feature, fine. But the key advantage of Chrome is that WebGL barely worked a few weeks ago, it's better now, and it will be m
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by kj12345 16y ago
Yes, the name "Circles" is awesome. It's agressive and appealing when seen from the perspective of "what do you offer that's better than Facebook", but also generically pleasant if you just encountered it as a product.
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by kj12345 16y ago
Cool. Small copy change you might consider is something like "We export your Gmail contacts. And email them to you." Maybe also a sample of what the email's going to look like.
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by kj12345 16y ago
Yeah I can't figure out if "end of the low-cost startup" means that VCs are going to have to pay a lot since there have been so many big investments recently, or if it's about the infrastructure costs you noted.
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by kj12345 16y ago
You needed a service, so you searched for it based on features and cost? When I need to solve a problem, I wait for my social graph to to create buzz OR a lean startup to convince me to pay for a product that doesn't exist, but they promise
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by kj12345 16y ago
It's also an area where businesses have to work constantly to resist legitimate forces: the desire to know more about customers, the desire to reduce piracy, and the desire to outsource tricky business processes. VMWare might be an extreme
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by kj12345 16y ago
They have a history of this too. I remember trying to sign up for Palm Pilot development, and the form demanded a "DIRECT phone number", I think with the word "DIRECT" actually in caps. They need to understand that developers and customers
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by kj12345 16y ago
I wonder if it might also be that Microsoft has 1st-party knowledge of its own OS, and this biases them towards depending on specific new features of the OS in their applications, whereas Google et al have a 3rd-party mentality of just look
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by kj12345 16y ago
Right, and Firefox just switched to a Chrome-like iterative release schedule. The main problem with IE9 is that we're even talking about a specific version. If Chrome 9 was finalized today and a new one didn't ship for months/years, it woul
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by kj12345 16y ago
But "inside the app" means Apple In-App Purchase, right? I'm sure Amazon and Sony are capable of storing a user's credentials in an app, and then making the appropriate network requests when you click Buy or Subscribe. But from my understan
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by kj12345 16y ago
Great point - the implied equivalance between posting on the internet with a real name and having a real-world conversation is wrong. Posting on an archived system available to everyone is more like writing an editorial or giving a speech,
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by kj12345 16y ago
One thing I'm interested in is any skew in the questions from normal. In particular I hope they ask linguistically tricky questions where you can't even figure out what's being asked at first. I felt like they went a bit easy on that front

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