meursault

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by meursault 8mo ago
You’re operating with massive hindsight bias here. It wasn’t a foregone conclusion in 2007 that iOS and Android were going to win. BlackBerry (and indeed many of the players you listed) had a chance to compete and they simply didn’t. Also I
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by meursault 9mo ago
This is 100% the reason. I watched BlackBerry fail from the inside and there’s always been an extremely vocal minority of former BB users who want to go back to a physical keyboard. This is a niche product for that audience at best, it will
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by meursault 2y ago
MacOS is a brand that Apple owns, so that makes sense? It’s like saying in the market of Tesla cars there is only one manufacturer.
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by meursault 5y ago
My mind immediately went to surveying the participants in a Skinner box on their perceived well being. It would be incredible if people DIDN'T self-report feeling great after pulling the dopamine levers
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by meursault 5y ago
Any "competitive advantage" gained by these points will be more than wiped out by the extreme difficulty companies will have attracting talent if they don't offer remote flexibility. All of the data I've seen so far is p
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by meursault 5y ago
Have you tried the recently added container support? There's a component provided called the Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator that exposes an API for the locally running container. In my experience this is miles better than the origin
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by meursault 7y ago
This sounds interesting. Would you consider Unreal rather than Unity?
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by meursault 14y ago
I eventually found it by searching "burner phone". Fyi, your iTunes link on the site is broken for me, giving a generic "can't connect to iTunes Store". Thanks :)
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by meursault 14y ago
Awesome idea. You don't seem to be listed in non-US app stores (Canada, in my case). Any plans to be available internationally, or at least in the same countries served by Twilio?
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by meursault 16y ago
great idea. this is actually how my wife and i met. no joke. i had just ended a long relationship and changed my status on facebook. she noticed and started messaging me.
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by meursault 16y ago
Love the idea. Chore tracking would be a really cool feature I think.
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by meursault 16y ago
My favorite: "Don't jam your computer -- download this screen saver, and never again will you need to suffer the indignity of burnt phospor." That's some truly awful copy.
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by meursault 16y ago
At the risk of sounding trolly -- I hope the next big thing, US origin or not, will be able to handle more traffic than whatever this is.
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by meursault 16y ago
If you like hacking in Lua, I've been enjoying Luna. It's a little IDE with an embedded Lua interpreter. The interface is weird but it works.
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by meursault 16y ago
Doesn't bypassing the SQL parser kind of make this a NOSQL solution?
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by meursault 16y ago
Sure, it's volatile. But do you think Justin Bieber chose BlackBerry because he wants one, or because he got a huge paycheck to use it? Product placement does not end at television and movies.
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by meursault 16y ago
The Bieber effect is an important point. I think RIM realized that they don't need bleeding edge tech to stay competitive. That's how you sell to people like Bob Lefsetz and David Pogue, but those guys aren't even close to representative of