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onmydesk

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    Comment #8097539

    The apps themselves are marketing channels of their own with cross promotion, social network sharing etc and word of mouth. Paid advertising is not possible when you make 70 cents …

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    Comment #8093385

    The app store that came with iOS6 totally destroyed the income of developers on iOS. Many developers pointed out the problems, many left the platform. With iOS7 apple plainly ignor…

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    Comment #8087877

    I started watching 'Portlandia' for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Its basically the HN readership. Funny stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfOKeZ-MWI

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    Comment #8001630

    I expect no more religious output from the bbc

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    Comment #7957935

    No, my point was plainly that I was embarrassed to watch people who until they took on these valuable roles were so unaware of what most of the world is like. If it was news to me …

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    Comment #7956129

    Im going to be down voted for this. To me, the speech was fairly embarrassing. Its as though some rich people saw some poor people on a poor person safari. Now they come back to te…

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    Comment #7931154

    When you get old enough you realise you wouldn't do what they do now not because you can't, but because it was pretty dumb.

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    Comment #7882703

    Blurry text is worse than the real life equivalent! Sorry can't play it, makes my eyes go funny. Can you turn that text blur off or down?

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    Comment #7862730

    My favourite part of the article. A few meanings I think are possible, I like the explanation that the observers were wrong to assume they knew where the target was ; It was after …

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    Comment #7842108

    40 minutes for a couple of bucks, you ever been to an amusement arcade? Not good value for money!! AN APP!!! And on HN as well. Unbelievable

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    Comment #7837212

    iOS only. Parse it is then.

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    Comment #7834189

    And the first thing I did was write a blog post

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    Comment #7830610

    > It's funny to start seeing more and more questions from people who started using computers with Windows 95. I don't know why they stuck with it! C64s and amigas.. when computers …

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    Comment #7813807

    Maybe Im just old, but HN seems pervaded with this kind of 'right on' ness, or competitive self righteousness, i don't even know what to call it. Sort of a che guevera hat wearing …

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    Comment #7812516

    The point was the drag is from user adoption. No-one is doing this.

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    Comment #7801336

    Users use apps on phones. They don't want to open a browser and navigate to an 'app'. They go to the app store to get apps. They don't open a browser and google for a web page and …

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    Comment #7752561

    Maybe humans are wrong about mirrors and the animals know it isn't them. Humans can be arrogant in their assumptions about animals. “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had alwa…

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    Comment #7675272

    "It looks like it supports a long-time pain of being able to direct someone to download an app and then open a specific location within the app. You could now have a QR code that w…

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    Comment #7606967

    Downvoted already! hilarious!

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    Comment #7606942

    "We believe this has made the comment scores and rankings better reflect the community." Is that desirable? A better debate surely entails more than one opinion. I also don't know …

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    Comment #7570466

    My bad, skimmed it a lot. Thats interesting, why am I making android versions?

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    Comment #7570423

    Relies on the app running in a browser? what about native apps?