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I would prefer if we figured out what other than cultural changes is making everyone have symptoms of inflammatory dysfunctions.
I personally hope it's just cultural and sugar/hfcs. Because some alternatives might be grim to reckon with just from a humanistic/grief perspective: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34484127/
I've been using F15 since it was released and these are both things that had user add-on patches within a week. Finnbarr Murphy is responsible for a great deal of extensions that I use: http://www.fpmurphy.com/gnome-shell-extensions/
I remember when facebook was the "grown up" MySpace... oh wait, I mean 6 years ago.
That was my initial thought too. Instead of having to type all of your information using a tiny keyboard or on-screen one, you just snap a picture. I suppose, though, that most online markets allow you to save your information and the problem really isn't that big after the first entry. Something like this is kind of neat, but nothing new or novel. OCR has been good enough to do this for a long time.
To be fair, I can't say that I wouldn't have downloaded it if I hadn't stumbled across it. I don't know if we're accepting your immediate decision that it's a bad game on what we should all know as "common sense," or if you're just giving your opinion. Either way, it doesn't answer what I think is a pretty interesting question: How do you effectively market a mobile app?
I at least agree with the understanding that quality is an effective marketing tool. I just can't say that his app lacks quality without trying it.
And the answer to the question of marketing doesn't stop there anyway. Plenty of crappy things have sold well due to good marketing.
That said, I'm by no means a marketing expert, so I'd be interested in hearing others tips / suggestions.
Edit: I guess I just wanted to add, that regardless of whether or not his game is good, an iterative feedback/dev cycle is obviously a good idea in (almost) every case. :)
Perhaps we could do the reverse? Provide search suggestions if the user explicitly tells us to by beginning their input with a special character. '?' perhaps.
Alternatively, although not intuitive, if the user enters focus with the search bar through a specific key-stroke: CTRL + L for a regular URL entry, and re-route CTRL + K to our web-bar, but with suggestions.
What? I thinks the author goes a bit far with his idea that people need to talk. Does anybody remember how and why BBS' were so popular? It's because you had a voice, an anonymous voice, and you could share information without being judged. I don't know why the author thinks that people on sites don't communicate (maybe I missed the jist of the article entirely), but just because people aren't doing VOIP doesn't mean they have no 'voice'.
How is this any different than e-mail? What I would enjoy is a way to browse, categorize, and rate everybody's ideas. Ideas are neat to read about even if they're terrible. The only problem with such a facility is that potentially businesses could come and steal an idea and perhaps even profit from it.
I don't think that this movie is free (as in speech) to distribute. It came out in 2001 and is still being sold by retailers*. On that note, thanks for bringing it to my attention, now I may buy it! (* http://preview.tinyurl.com/2w6tob )
It's brave to drop everything you've been working so hard for in sights of opportunity, but is it really in the electronic part search market? Sorry, I don't mean to sound negative, but a PhD in physics would have opened such a large expanse of possibilities. You're going to throw it away for a chance at more women and on the whim of one man (PG's) advice. Best of luck.
This is great. It's always a pain in the neck to open up an editor to do something as small as resize to make an avatar. Another thing I like about this is that the image is already in your browser and to-size, so you can kind of get a feel for how it's going to look on an actual page.
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Blast, meant to do a self-referential post and instead accidentally linked my post to one of my comments instead! Oh well.
Really? I was most interested in the role that news.ycombinator.com is going to play in their application process. I think that it's an absolutely great idea and not only helps Paul but start-up-would-be's as well.
I absolutely agree with his thoughts on the power of admitting fault. It's a matter of taking responsibility for ones self and it shows character. If only everyone took this advice. PS: nice reddit-esque dealio you have going on here :)