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Even more than that, if this is a success it could even increase the likelihood that Apple adds native NFC capabilities to their devices, by demonstrating that it's useful (and to …

Flomio was doing other NFC stuff before this, and considering the mentions of the SDK on the kickstarter page, I think that's their real play. I think they'd be perfectly happy in …

Yelp's points of interest are frequently at the wrong location. I've noticed this using Yelp's native app, which displays things on Google maps, ironically (ironically because Goog…

I think this is their "extensive beta and data collection period". Just using the entire iOS 6 customer base as the experimental set. I think it would be kinda cool if they'd push …

Actually, the open letter also recommends Google and Nokia maps, via their websites (because native apps don't exist). BTW: Am I the only one that thinks it's fishy that Google's c…

I just got back from a 2 week vacation to Ireland. I planned and executed most of the trip on the fly using Google Maps on my iPhone 4S (3G data is cheap in Europe, even for nonres…

So neither the instapaper blog post (linked here) nor the news.me blog post ( http://blog.news.me/post/21643399885/introducing-paper-boy-a... ) comes right out and says it, but the…

The puzzle-piece representation of structure is neat, but at a 2-minute glance it seems not to scale to real complexity. One of the big ideas in programming is abstraction/modulari…

Well. There's a difference between "lack of sympathy for those who would violate copyrights" and "indiscriminate sueing of file sharers". (Especially how it's turned out -- the few…

Just my opinion: Sun probably knew that at the time but due to hubris didn't want to admit it, so they just willingly looked the other way and kept doing what they were doing. So y…

It's not so simple as a magic section; AMT may or may not apply. If you got the stock as a gift, or (more likely in this startup context) an RSU grant, the entire value is taxed as…

The example you gave is pretty unlikely: (a) someone gives you a million dollars in stock and (b) you didn't know that was coming to prepare for it and (c) the stock immediately go…

Well, you shouldn't compromise on any of those if they're important to you. And if you don't care about your username, then great, one less thing to have to worry about. But I thin…

Yup, it's just one metric, and "after 3 years" is pretty arbitrary. Still interesting if you keep this in mind. But I'd argue the most relevant time (for comparison of how well the…

I actually think the transition from 3 to 5 (directly) is more interesting than the one from 4 to 5. Well, they're both interesting, so it's cool the visualization supports both.

I'm trying hard to let your valid points stand out from the rampant homonym abuse (effects should be affects, it's should be its, brake should be break)!

Instagram: - tints photos - uploads them - and has 30 million users I largely buy the gigaom explanation ( http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/here-is-why-did-facebook-bought... ). That's…

Yup. Also pointed out here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051585 ), sourced to the official terms and conditions ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?node…

As others pointed out, that is at odds with the previous paragraph ("We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf"). Also, unless they stop…

Yeah, that's what I find worrisome as well. And I don't see how it's possible for them to proxy SSL content without being MITM and re-encrypting. They could stay entirely out of th…

The forces in HP's favor in the tablet market are pretty different from the forces in Android's favor in the phone market. But that said, I agree the tablet market is just heating …

I'll echo the other reply to your post -- have you any experience with webOS? I've gone back and forth between webOS and iOS phones over the past couple years, and while webOS is n…

Who knows how much they will make on Nokia Windows phones, but right now they're making $0 from them since there aren't any yet.

He's saying if he could optimize away all the requests by crawlers and robots, he'd have half as much work to do. Doing twice as much work costs more -- on the server side to serve…