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thorstadt

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    Comment #11571752

    Because lawyers.

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    Comment #11571742

    Yes, it's called "team driving".

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    Comment #11571716

    Computers have taken over tons of ridiculous and complicated tasks already, it's silly to think your specific niche is the special case. Liability and government regulation are som…

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    Comment #3529973

    As an example of exploratory development that's very difficult to do test-first, I've been doing a lot of image processing work lately with the objective of improving the legibilit…

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    Comment #3436115

    They let us keep that. There is a rule that the price has to be the same AFAIK, but we're doing that anyway.

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    Comment #3435925

    Alas, unfortunately it's not that cut and dry. We're SaaS, and were able to get through 4 or 5 releases of our app without Apple seeming to care about our model. Eventually we got …

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    Comment #3211233

    Hmm, I don't really think so. Arch packages are distributed as pre-compiled binaries (not counting AUR), and the emphasis is on simplicity (not customization or performance). I've …

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    Comment #3114994

    The 30% applies to all in-app purchases, and attempting to circumvent IAP is against Apple's guidelines. http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/ref=cm_cd_ttp_ef_tft_tp?_...

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    Comment #2996603

    I can definitely relate to the "outskirts of the roman empire" sentiment: I'm also launching a startup in Greenville, SC, and it definitely feels like the "middle of nowhere" in th…

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    Comment #2788369

    You can use other javascript libraries in addition to Closure (i.e. jquery). https://gist.github.com/1096382