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by timbowen 7y ago
As a practical matter, no. Legal told me I have to implement it for all users because it covers EU citizens who might be accessing our site from or living in non EU countries.
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by timbowen 14y ago
We fixed one of the issues. I processed enough returns on refurbished units to know that there were still several bugs. One of the main complaints is that the wristband would be dead in the morning - I believe this was caused by a firmw
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by timbowen 14y ago
1.) LOL I dunno! 2.) I never talked to PG, I can't speak to that. 3.) The problems were absolutely cumulative over the course of development. Neither Greg nor Arun were engineers or technical in any way and the hardware developer had a ful
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by timbowen 14y ago
I used to work for WakeMate - feel free to ask me anything. This insane action from Greg doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
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by timbowen 14y ago
There is no way this product will ever ship. Greg, what are you even going to do with 150k or even 250k or 1mm? You already burned up almost a million bucks on this exact same idea when I was working for you and it was a huge waste becaus
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What spaced out Burning Man revelers all need - an iPhone app(gizmodo.com)
1 points by timbowen 16y ago|0 comments
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by timbowen 16y ago
The integration process was really easy. You just include the iAd framework and then add ADBannerView objects wherever you want them. The ADBannerViews work like pretty much any other view with the exception that they must be a certain si
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iPad As The Ultimate Navigation Tool(forbes.com)
2 points by timbowen 16y ago|0 comments
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by timbowen 16y ago
This is true, and a good point. One thing we do need, however, is to take the opinion of prominent economists with a little bit more salt. I remember when invoking the name Greenspan among those interested in economics was like invoking t
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by timbowen 17y ago
As in any genre there is a wide range of talent and musical ability among rap artists. The record industry is really good at printing one hit wonders and then burning them up. Those are probably the guys who are making the songs you are r
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by timbowen 17y ago
Sounds like a good opportunity for someone to undermine iTunes, or at least make a decent music synchronizing app for competing smart phones.
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by timbowen 17y ago
This doesn't seem like an outlandish bet to me. It seems to me that Facebook has, up to this point, spent much more time and energy on their core product rather than improving advertisements. Six months ago the ads were totally worthless,
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by timbowen 17y ago
It doesn't need to be legally enforceable, they can just kick you out of the iphone developer program, and you have little recourse.
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by timbowen 17y ago
The utility of computer labs is huge, there's no doubt about that. What really surprises me is that only six out of over three thousand freshman ran Linux. Weak sauce! I guess coming from Carnegie Mellon University I'm used to a higher le
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by timbowen 17y ago
I have not seen a single instance of "the media" promoting these stereotypes at all. On the contrary, it seems like there is some covert Twitter media blitz going on all around me. From Comedy Central to C-SPAN there are mentions of peopl
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by timbowen 17y ago
There is really no reason that I can see to try and figure out why API methods do what they do. You send it something, it sends what you want back. That's basically the nature of object oriented programming, and why it's so popular. You
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Gamer Deaths Leave Their Online Lives in Limbo(tech.yahoo.com)
1 points by timbowen 17y ago|0 comments
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by timbowen 18y ago
Is there really a huge faction in our community who isn't in business to make money? When I left my middle class desk jockey job to work for trailbehind.com the chance (however small) to create and own a valuable business was the main moti
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by timbowen 18y ago
The web interview where Cramer admitted to manipulating stock values with his hedge fund seems pretty damning to me. It betrays a mindset focused on manipulation, rather than providing any kind of real economic value. While Cramer might b
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by timbowen 18y ago
Chemistry is fascinating. I'm really not too worried about mercury being the next terrorist secret weapon. It doesn't seem flasy enough to inspire terror, maybe just a creeping unease.
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by timbowen 18y ago
I think this is a very exciting development for the open source community. More and more applications are going web based, and I can see a future where the only application anyone will really need is a web browser. We already have Google
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by timbowen 18y ago
Thanks for the heads up and the link, I'll use that from now on :P
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Is developer.apple.com down for anyone else?
2 points by timbowen 18y ago|2 comments
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by timbowen 18y ago
I think forcing them to boot over the network to access the test is your best bet. While QuestionMark may run in a windows VM on some machine the vast variety of different Linux/BSD distributions will make setting up that VM a nightmare.
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by timbowen 18y ago
Extremely interesting discussion in this thread. When I first started reading sho's comment I was instinctively leaning the other way, but ensuing discussion has convinced me that these millions would be much better spent on... universal h
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by timbowen 18y ago
Interesting idea, but the presentation is remarkably unprofessional. I mean... cookies + me = job? I think that the enthusiasm and originality is great but I just don't understand the tone of the site, considering it's intended applicatio
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by timbowen 18y ago
This list is interesting, but it really doesn't surprise me that so many of the Google features we know and love were acquired. Acquisition for a company like Google is smart business. While we don't know the specific dollar amount that Go
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by timbowen 18y ago
Looks like an excellent product, what is the plan to generate revenue?
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Flickr, Django, PostGIS: Mashing up a world of photos(trailbehind.com)
12 points by timbowen 18y ago|3 comments
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Average iPhone app usage declines rapidly after first download(appleinsider.com)
3 points by timbowen 18y ago|0 comments

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