simonholroyd

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by simonholroyd 12y ago
>> It's also really hard to convince people to come work for you for no money I think this may have been why his face dropped. If your pitch isn't convincing anyone to take a risk with their career/time on you, then th
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by simonholroyd 12y ago
This article really fails to answer the question its headline poses.
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by simonholroyd 12y ago
Another great tool to help with this process is Pivotal Labs' LicenseFinder: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder Disclosure: I work there
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by simonholroyd 12y ago
I think Bostonians would take issue with your assumption: - Boston has one of the best public transportation systems in the country (ranked #4 by Us news) [1] - Boston and the surrounding area is very densely populated making things general
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
I also hold the phone this way. The author's grip puts the home button halfway outside his "thumb zone" forcing an awkward claw whenever you need to multitask or return to the springboard. Our grip puts the home button in a m
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
2014 will be the year of the ____________ . There's got to be some better alternatives. Ideas?
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
Good candidates should prepare for interviews. Interviews typically require that a candidates are able to reflect on previous successes and failures and provide insights so a hiring team can review their candidacy. Failure to do show show
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your point regarding wealth, but football is the most popular men's high school sport (by participation) in the country so your experiences aren't likely the norm. Also track, tennis and gymnastics a
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
You're right it's more difficult to pull off a soft launch on mobile if you're also aiming for a feature in the App Store (Apple seems to favor new-ness when selecting apps for features). I've heard of iOS apps launchi
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
If there really is a substantial difference in the quality of two software developers then that should play out in the amount of value delivered. The article lost me at: > Conversely, what about the guy sitting in the corner who works 9
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
Not sure if this is what you meant, but I don't think it's fair to call The Economist "right wingers" in the American sense, and probably not in the general sense either. http://www.economist.com/blogs&#x
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
Seems curious to me that (at least by visual comparison) London looks to be about 30% larger than NYC, and NYC appears to be about the same as Paris. By population, you'd expect NYC = London > Paris. Is NYC really still that far b
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
the ads i've seen in the subway are from wag.com, which is indeed part of a generalized delivery service.
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
This doesn't seem like a very fair comparison. Most browsers account for this (by default) by using a different cursor symbol for linked text vs. non-linked text. Some also show the linked url in the browser UI also. A web developer c
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
It's different because prior to this change, you could make an educated decision about whether to support an older version of your API based on usage of your app. When the legacy version reached some threshold percentage of your user
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
>> I'm very careful with my fingerprints. What does that even mean? You wear gloves in public all the time? You wipe down everything you touch? Which makes me wonder, aren't one's finger prints all over your iPhone ex
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
Priced out, but apparently also losing jobs while lower incomes gained jobs: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51308385 I agree with you I don't think the income gap is the cause of lower crime. Also these crime rates
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
On one of the Apollo missions (11), a medal commemorating Yuri's first flight was placed on the moon by the NASA astronauts. The medal was commissioned by the British government and contained inscriptions in both English and Russian la
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
My team has done similar user testing in Starbucks quite a few times. Here's my $0.02: If you're willing to be bold, walk right up to people and ask, you don't need to offer free coffee or gift cards. We've found this is a better strategy
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
Why not add a link as the 3rd step in addition to the invite code? Once the app's installed on a user's device you can pass through the code via a custom url scheme and avoid the possible drop off of having a user mis-enter their code. (y
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by simonholroyd 13y ago
> For zero dollar sales of apps, you will not see any transactions reported. Aren't most of the apps that AppGratis links to discounted to free for the day. Apple doesn't pay commission on free downloads, right?
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
I'm not sure why press, media, futurists insist on pushing the idea that the future of user interaction is via replicating 3-dimensional physical interaction. There's a reason the keyboard, mouse and (small) touch screen are so successful
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
I certainly sympathize with the stress, I've been there. But programmers are much more effective at resolving downtime in low stress situations, so the best strategy is neutralizing those high-stress moments and just accepting that "downtim
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
It's interesting that you'd say the downtime was relatively overwhelming. From an outsider's view HN seems like it must be a relatively low stress site to maintain. If it goes down, YC suffers very little. Its community views the site as a
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
well, FDR was the only President elected to more than two terms (and some pretty historically significant terms). Grover Cleveland might be more of an outlier, especially as both his two (non-consecutive) terms appear much further from the
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
Also, the Nevada Gaming Commission frowns upon changing the odds of a game while a gambler is playing (at least for slots -- I believe this is true for most other games also): http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/feb/17/dont-worry-your-..
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
Does anyone here know whether sexting is actually a major use for SnapChat? It's often thrown around as the 'obvious' use-case for the service, but having not tried it I'm not sure if there's any curation/content flagging or banning system
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
And The Wire ranks below The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in "Law" themed tv shows? huh?
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
It seems to me, if Instagram could really only chose one metric to track it would be an app visit, not a photo upload. Instagram must have users who are primarily content creators and another larger group (probably a superset) that are cont
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by simonholroyd 14y ago
This stuck out to me too, but some googling of "Illonois" brings up a lot of census records from 1930 using that spelling. I can't find any concrete confirmation but maybe it's intentional and accurate?

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