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The original author appears to be using an iPhone for prototyping, and clearly states that it is the "tablet form factor" that is making things so interesting. Even if they were us…

There is a difference between competing in a business environment and limiting what your customers can do with your product. Although competition may indirectly determine what cust…

Another idea is to make things so confusing that the customer is no longer sure what they're getting. Just name a managed fund something confusing that makes it seem like an index …

The technology behind it seems to have made it into Google Docs (real time collaborative editing). There are plenty of people using Google Docs.

If its anything like the Archos 7 it will have a resistive touchscreen and a less powerful CPU, which probably explains the price difference. Android is painful to use with a resis…

Not to mention speech to text on Google Voice (usually laughable results) and translation (works a bit better, but breaks down hilariously e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/shibb…

In the US, medical devices are regulated by the FDA. When it comes to using 3rd party software, the company manufacturing the device has the responsibility to ensure any 3rd party …

Averages can be skewed by outliers. I imagine there are quite a few outliers in San Francisco using Mint.

Differential equations are great for modeling these sorts of problems. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/education/calc-init/population/

Apple's "There's an App for that" marketing is certainly demonstrating the features and capability of the iPhone, but if you think back to the iPod it had far fewer features than a…

I would love to see a video demonstration of the answer (my intuition was apparently wrong which would make a video that much more entertaining).

Although it looks like that is a Google ad, so maybe they didn't intend to accept it?

Wow. Nevermind then!

Btw, this is awesome: http://ww.com/dilliecam

Perhaps its not that they're threatened by marijuana but disinclined to accept controversial and divisive advertising?

Do you have some evidence to support this?

Check out this other story about Jobs: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... I understand you probably did not have this story in mind when you made your comm…

What software did you use for this? I have tried a few cookie blocking extensions for Firefox but haven't found a good one. Also I notice you say "Back when I experimented.." -- wa…

Google Docs already has the most important feature from Google Wave (allow multiple people to edit the same document simultaneously). Wave's mission statement was a bit grandiose -…

Herd effects, and company policies. Americans != programmers at startups.

I wonder if the outrage over this is part of the same trend described in the 20-somethings article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1614280 ). If kids are more sheltered, then…

Why is this comment not welcome here? I would like not to repeat my mistake in the future but I'm not sure what I did wrong.

Anything that can be learned via talking to people can be learned via Stack Overflow assuming you can communicate well using text (although it may get tagged with the feared Subjec…

I haven't used paypal via phone, but paypay via the web is free for person-to-person transfers as long as you mark the transfer as such. There is only a charge when transferring to…