onmydesk

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by onmydesk 12y ago
The apps themselves are marketing channels of their own with cross promotion, social network sharing etc and word of mouth. Paid advertising is not possible when you make 70 cents per sale. It costs more to advertise a copy than you make fr
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by onmydesk 12y ago
The app store that came with iOS6 totally destroyed the income of developers on iOS. Many developers pointed out the problems, many left the platform. With iOS7 apple plainly ignored the problem. With iOS8 some changes are coming which
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by onmydesk 12y ago
I started watching 'Portlandia' for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Its basically the HN readership. Funny stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfOKeZ-MWI
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by onmydesk 12y ago
I expect no more religious output from the bbc
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by onmydesk 12y ago
No, my point was plainly that I was embarrassed to watch people who until they took on these valuable roles were so unaware of what most of the world is like. If it was news to me too Id be as amazed by these observations as they seemed to
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Im going to be down voted for this. To me, the speech was fairly embarrassing. Its as though some rich people saw some poor people on a poor person safari. Now they come back to tell of what they saw, as if everyone in their audience woul
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by onmydesk 12y ago
When you get old enough you realise you wouldn't do what they do now not because you can't, but because it was pretty dumb.
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Blurry text is worse than the real life equivalent! Sorry can't play it, makes my eyes go funny. Can you turn that text blur off or down?
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by onmydesk 12y ago
My favourite part of the article. A few meanings I think are possible, I like the explanation that the observers were wrong to assume they knew where the target was ; It was after all his shot to take, he wasn't conforming to the expec
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by onmydesk 12y ago
40 minutes for a couple of bucks, you ever been to an amusement arcade? Not good value for money!! AN APP!!! And on HN as well. Unbelievable
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by onmydesk 12y ago
iOS only. Parse it is then.
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by onmydesk 12y ago
And the first thing I did was write a blog post
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by onmydesk 12y ago
> It's funny to start seeing more and more questions from people who started using computers with Windows 95. I don't know why they stuck with it! C64s and amigas.. when computers were cool before microsoft ruined it! Now we&#
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Maybe Im just old, but HN seems pervaded with this kind of 'right on' ness, or competitive self righteousness, i don't even know what to call it. Sort of a che guevera hat wearing teenager kind of flavour. Makes my eyes rol
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by onmydesk 12y ago
The point was the drag is from user adoption. No-one is doing this.
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Users use apps on phones. They don't want to open a browser and navigate to an 'app'. They go to the app store to get apps. They don't open a browser and google for a web page and expect it to operate like an app. Als
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Maybe humans are wrong about mirrors and the animals know it isn't them. Humans can be arrogant in their assumptions about animals. “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins b
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by onmydesk 12y ago
"It looks like it supports a long-time pain of being able to direct someone to download an app and then open a specific location within the app. You could now have a QR code that when scanned from a shop didn't just download the r
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Downvoted already! hilarious!
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by onmydesk 12y ago
"We believe this has made the comment scores and rankings better reflect the community." Is that desirable? A better debate surely entails more than one opinion. I also don't know what a 'jerk' is, someone that di
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by onmydesk 12y ago
My bad, skimmed it a lot. Thats interesting, why am I making android versions?
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Relies on the app running in a browser? what about native apps?
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Outside of the valley bubble skeuomorphism is what people require in order to use the devices. A button needs to look like a button or people are confused. Im talking about customers. Not the people that designed it and live the technolog
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by onmydesk 12y ago
The box is the box. The box is supposed to be subtle. The software is the point. Design the software like the box and you have ios7.
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Agree completely, I still can't believe ios7 made it to the market. I am embarrassed to ship software that conforms to their new look. The man makes beautiful boxes, but they are blowing it. " "We saw Apple with Steve Jobs,
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by onmydesk 12y ago
> "'Their attitude was, We can leave you with nothing because you’re a girl and you have a rich boyfriend,' she said She wasn't an engineer. Perhaps they wanted engineers. Whats wrong with pointing out she happens t
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by onmydesk 12y ago
Its dated only a year ago.. Id have hoped they would have been working on this obvious problem for a lot longer
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by onmydesk 12y ago
who?
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by onmydesk 12y ago
This is not unique to startups. I have never worked anywhere where I thought everything was done well. Such a place likely doesn't exist. But guess what.. the owner is making money, the employees get paid and get to work in more int
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by onmydesk 13y ago
What you get a reaction to is not sexism is bad. It is that sexism in favour of women is bad. You're not allowed to say that.

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