metamatt

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Add NFC to anything - Flomio open serial interface to NFC reader(kickstarter.com)
1 points by metamatt 14y ago|0 comments
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by metamatt 14y ago
Even more than that, if this is a success it could even increase the likelihood that Apple adds native NFC capabilities to their devices, by demonstrating that it's useful (and to whom and for what). Like a couple others have said in this t
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by metamatt 14y ago
Flomio was doing other NFC stuff before this, and considering the mentions of the SDK on the kickstarter page, I think that's their real play. I think they'd be perfectly happy in a world where this product isn't necessary. In the meantime,
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by metamatt 14y ago
Yelp's points of interest are frequently at the wrong location. I've noticed this using Yelp's native app, which displays things on Google maps, ironically (ironically because Google knows the correct location if you search for the same pla
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by metamatt 14y ago
I think this is their "extensive beta and data collection period". Just using the entire iOS 6 customer base as the experimental set. I think it would be kinda cool if they'd push the new maps as an app available for iOS 5, and if Google
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by metamatt 14y ago
Actually, the open letter also recommends Google and Nokia maps, via their websites (because native apps don't exist). BTW: Am I the only one that thinks it's fishy that Google's claiming (a) they only had 3 months notice of this change and
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by metamatt 14y ago
I just got back from a 2 week vacation to Ireland. I planned and executed most of the trip on the fly using Google Maps on my iPhone 4S (3G data is cheap in Europe, even for nonresidents on prepaid SIMs!) running iOS 5. Just out of curiosit
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by metamatt 14y ago
So neither the instapaper blog post (linked here) nor the news.me blog post ( http://blog.news.me/post/21643399885/introducing-paper-boy-a... ) comes right out and says it, but the point here is that since iOS doesn't let an arbitrary progr
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by metamatt 14y ago
The puzzle-piece representation of structure is neat, but at a 2-minute glance it seems not to scale to real complexity. One of the big ideas in programming is abstraction/modularity/reuse, and I don't see how that fits in here. (I found th
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by metamatt 14y ago
Well. There's a difference between "lack of sympathy for those who would violate copyrights" and "indiscriminate sueing of file sharers". (Especially how it's turned out -- the few cases that went to court and proceeded to a verdict have ab
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by metamatt 14y ago
Just my opinion: Sun probably knew that at the time but due to hubris didn't want to admit it, so they just willingly looked the other way and kept doing what they were doing. So you get Jonathan Schwartz, in 2007, wishing that Google would
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by metamatt 14y ago
It's not so simple as a magic section; AMT may or may not apply. If you got the stock as a gift, or (more likely in this startup context) an RSU grant, the entire value is taxed as ordinary income at the time you receive the shares. I don't
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by metamatt 14y ago
The example you gave is pretty unlikely: (a) someone gives you a million dollars in stock and (b) you didn't know that was coming to prepare for it and (c) the stock immediately goes to 0 before you can sell it. Just noting that. Still,
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by metamatt 14y ago
Well, you shouldn't compromise on any of those if they're important to you. And if you don't care about your username, then great, one less thing to have to worry about. But I think for anyone that does care about their username, it's a sig
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by metamatt 14y ago
Yup, it's just one metric, and "after 3 years" is pretty arbitrary. Still interesting if you keep this in mind. But I'd argue the most relevant time (for comparison of how well these companies built stable long-term value) is now , and it
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by metamatt 14y ago
I actually think the transition from 3 to 5 (directly) is more interesting than the one from 4 to 5. Well, they're both interesting, so it's cool the visualization supports both.
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by metamatt 14y ago
I'm trying hard to let your valid points stand out from the rampant homonym abuse (effects should be affects, it's should be its, brake should be break)!
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by metamatt 14y ago
Instagram: - tints photos - uploads them - and has 30 million users I largely buy the gigaom explanation ( http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/here-is-why-did-facebook-bought... ). That's why the water-in-desert metaphor is, IMHO, very apt.
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by metamatt 15y ago
Yup. Also pointed out here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051585 ), sourced to the official terms and conditions ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=... ).
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by metamatt 15y ago
As others pointed out, that is at odds with the previous paragraph ("We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf"). Also, unless they stop doing the Silk combining thing entirely, I don't see how it
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by metamatt 15y ago
Yeah, that's what I find worrisome as well. And I don't see how it's possible for them to proxy SSL content without being MITM and re-encrypting. They could stay entirely out of the way for HTTPS requests, but if that's how they were doing
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by metamatt 15y ago
The forces in HP's favor in the tablet market are pretty different from the forces in Android's favor in the phone market. But that said, I agree the tablet market is just heating up. The iPad is a pretty formidable competitor, not just bec
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by metamatt 15y ago
I'll echo the other reply to your post -- have you any experience with webOS? I've gone back and forth between webOS and iOS phones over the past couple years, and while webOS is not better in every way, and is significantly handicapped in
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by metamatt 15y ago
Who knows how much they will make on Nokia Windows phones, but right now they're making $0 from them since there aren't any yet.
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by metamatt 15y ago
He's saying if he could optimize away all the requests by crawlers and robots, he'd have half as much work to do. Doing twice as much work costs more -- on the server side to serve it up, and on the network side to transfer it. It's not lit
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by metamatt 15y ago
And gratuitous roundtrips are fun, too :P (You're uploading the data in order to then convert it client-side. Groxx noticed this too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464347 )
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by metamatt 16y ago
What volume do you really need, to get enough data to learn from? I'd think that 1% of Google traffic would still be a pretty big firehose to feed whatever learning algorithm you need to feed. Don't Google, Facebook, et al run a lot of exp
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by metamatt 16y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I'm not sure the next frontier in web search is spelling correction. I feel like there have to be ways of producing better search results that work better than upranking the ones people click on.
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by metamatt 16y ago
On other CDMA smartphones, I've never seen data activity send callers to voicemail -- the call goes through, the data connection stalls until the call ends. Not optimal, surely, but nowhere near as bad as sending calls to voicemail without
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by metamatt 16y ago
"Locking" doesn't mean the same thing it does for GSM phones; CDMA phones have a builtin ID which is registered with the network, and there's no SIM card or equivalent to swap out to change that ID. Sprint and Verizon both use the same CDMA

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