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I never quite understood why they don't just rebrand the Pfizer vaccine (or effective one) and move on. What is the point of having all that propaganda apparatus if you can even do…

Interesting angle there for a form of 'insider trading' - people in tv/film industry could easily buy this up and slide their assets into their own creations. What I don't quite ge…

A brief article about the lessons learned on our recent adventure with Flutter. TLDR - really quite liked it.

Hi, we (two man company) have just release what we think is the world's biggest mobile crossword (single grid of 103x103) for iOS and Android. It plays pretty well all the way down…

A minor tip I saw on a video about the development of the Doom levels was to do them in reverse. The theory being that you get better at designing levels with time and the best lev…

Just released a new app to teach people how to solve cryptic crosswords - initial version is on iOS but the Android version is coming soon.

https://wolfstreet.com/2017/11/07/how-can-a-company-once-wor... Has a fairly bleak write up. It makes the point that if enriching the founders is the aim they are doing pretty well…

What is remarkable is that given how low interest rates have been and the whole thing still collapses, it makes it looking very suspicious the leveraging was ever in the company's …

Interesting analysis of the death of Jawbone. Wolfstreet is the other site I tend to visit along with HN, between the two bubbles I'm hoping to get a sensible average :) They (wolf…

Full process and results here - https://github.com/Alnaimi-/database-benchmark

I think a more accurate example is it like saying: "don't they know cars predate the Tesla" and given it is electric all prior cars don't matter. Just showing my age really :^)

I would agree with the pre/post iPhone shift - but the likes of EA/Glu and other major games companies shifted an awful lot of apps pre iPhone. The big shift is that touch became t…

Small nit pick, but I would be worried about a mobile development place that thinks it has only been around 8 years, not heard of J2ME, Symbian and Windows CE etc? I do agree with …

First of congratulations on the app, it is fulfilling a real need. You have cracked the first problem of getting people to download + use +care about the app. I like the idea of do…

From my view of the world the "pre Apple" app marketplace was much worse. With our J2ME apps (doing apps since 2002) we would have to distribute to 30+ different middlemen (Telcoga…