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What's stopping clones from replicating your UI right now? Are you concerned with loss of IAP revenue to clones? I would suggest you open source it under a non-commercial license. …

(Copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7132790 ) If you're using Android, I'd highly recommend using a combination of XPrivacy [1] and Android Firewall [2] (iptables fro…

If you're using Android, I'd highly recommend using a combination of XPrivacy [1] and Android Firewall [2] (iptables frontend). To make your life easier, disallow everything from a…

It was a bunch of different tasks. For some, we did use a read only account. Other tasks (updating top 10 scores, updating the users table with their geo-ip based location etc) req…

I was in a situation very similar to yours. Also a game dev company, also lots of user data etc etc. We did have test/backup databases for testing, but some data was just on live a…

Thank you for that voice of reason. You make two very good points here and in your other post. 1) Kids are different. There is a whole spectrum of right and wrong decisions dependi…

Nicely done! Tried it out and will definitely be keeping it. I like the website as well, the utility of the app is obvious from one quick glance. I think it'll be useful in convinc…

The 13" Air and 14" Carbon are fairly similar in screen resolution (right?), however I believe that font rendering on Mac OS seems to be sub-par.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is a way to achieve both. If you want a reasonably sized keyboard, the screen will end up being too large (as is the case with Surface). Or…

The e420 is of the 'Edge' series. What you want to get is a T, X, or W series thinkpad. The E series is just thinkpad in name, so its no wonder that you had a bad experience. Ofcou…

Why is this the arch linux demographic? I have a working arch install. I don't touch it unless I have to reboot for some reason and then I read for known issues, do the upgrade and…

A lot of ideas sound great to management, and they work too! I mean, other than killing employee morale and resulting in long term loss ;-) At one of my past jobs, we worked like c…

This is great. Keep up the fantastic work! The FF mobile team deserves a lot of kudos for the way they've been able to fight their way back onto Android. I remember it was kludgy b…

Absolutely, price is on the higher side. I feel that they're looking to make it the "really really Pro" line. The existing MBPs (specially the 13") is used by everyone (students fo…

Absolutely. Time and time again they've shown that they'll do the right thing. Like with firefox sync, where data is encrypted on the client. And its not like they're lacking in fe…

Hmm. This was a fresh vanilla install that I tried recently on the same hardware that runs debian wheezy. I wanted to have all the benefits of ubuntu's large community (PPAs for a …

Debian is fantastic. I tend to stay on testing (wheezy atm) because it is fairly modern yet stable. Stability is the biggest problem with Ubuntu I believe- people will generally ad…

I have this year's MBA. Its pretty good, except for the 4 gigs of ram. I find the the T/X series more ergonomic for longer periods of typing though (matte screen + plastic wrist re…

The thing with lumping all 'Android' together is that it gives the wrong picture. Similar to lumping all PCs. When you buy anything non-Apple, you have to be a smart buyer. This ca…

This is exactly right. It is the presence of a keylogger, which (at the very least) is echoing keystrokes, that is the problem. Whether they 'send' everything or only parts of it, …

I dont see how meta comments on HN help the discussion? Directly from the article: > “Our technology is not real time,” he said at the time. "It's not constantly reporting back. It…

I think it is certainly a lot worse. All user data (since it is a keylogger?) being logged and sent to a third party without user knowledge or consent, how is that not worse than j…

Completely agreed. I dont see why valid criticisms of what Apple is doing get such a negative response. A lot of us love Apple software and hardware, and have invested a lot of mon…

For those criticizing- He has given one example of what he thinks is wrong. Not all posts are meant to be essays... Briefly though, (as another user who switched from Mac OS X), I …

I use awesome wm on my debian laptop, but I prefer Unity and Gnome Shell to the old gnome 2 or kde or xfce. They are really starting to come together as coherent interfaces instead…