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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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Google's mismanagement of the Android Market
Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google’s response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users’ permission to access sensitive information”. While this is technically true, one should not need a PhD in Computer Science to use a smartphone…
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Competition is overrated
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Antenna designer writes about the iPhone 4
I received a phone call today from PC Magazine. They were running a story on the new Apple iPhone 4, specifically the reports (PC Mag, Gizmodo, Engadget) that people are experiencing decreased reception on their cell phone when they hold the phone by the metal frame.
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YouTube wins case against Viacom
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Apple forces users to pay full price to redownload already bought ebooks
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Google Voice open for everyone (In the US)
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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We just released VLC 1.1.0
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework , that plays most multimedias files, medias and streaming protocols.
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Officially our best-ever cease and desist
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Maybe Jason Calacanis isn't being totally honest about Mahalo?
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and the plethora of keyword rich domains they were apparently building out) I wrote a post explaining in some detail how the latest…
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Thoughts on OnLive
Today OnLive officially launched. If you haven't heard of it, OnLive is an ambitious new gaming service with a unique proposition: instead…
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How To Be Your Own Boss
The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison’s “99% perspiration.” And in the spirit of how to get your ideas to happen, they asked me to talk about entrepreneurship and the myriad […]
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'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'
Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.
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How I Almost Got Acquired By Apple And Then Snubbed
iTunes Semantic Search Project Derailed By Apple2010152 points131 commentsTech Industry & Business details
This is a report of my interaction with Apple Inc. I have been watching Apple’s iPhone related news lately and i remember one of the iPhone OS related event where Apple executives took questi…
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