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shimsham··on Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage - ship your HDDs to Google
What next?! Access to our wireless networks?
shimsham··on Samsung: "Apple couldn't have sold a single iPhone without us"
I'm bored now. Can't we talk about Motorola or Mars or Google Sponge or interesting things?
shimsham··on iOS 7 vs. Android – A Quick Feature Comparison After the WWDC Keynote
My phone runs CP/M and already has all these features.
shimsham··on All the Mashed Potatoes
Rankles is a great word. Google appears to have at least as many googlepologists as apple does fanbois, tho one doesn't recognise that whilst the other sees it for what it is.
shimsham··on Apple’s Big Secret: The iOS Laptop
oh dear.
shimsham··on Show HN: A virtual guitar teacher (after 18 months of dev)
Thanks for the replies, I'll give it a roll and let u know how it goes.
shimsham··on Show HN: A virtual guitar teacher (after 18 months of dev)
ok. that wasn't obvious from my initial sign-up and look around, from my mobile. I'm a big fan of cartoon-style graphics but not at the expense of clarity and focus. I'm not really your target audience; I play piano, however my brother and father are definitely in your group. so, I could really use more information to help me decide if this could be for me. what do I need? why the wide-open space, sky and clouds? is my choice of avatar important? wasn't avatar an expensive movie? is this free? (hope this isn't too negative but I presume u would prefer constructive comments rather than 'awesome graphics' statements. we know they're awesome but that don't get u signups converting to payments.)
shimsham··on Ask HN: How do you manage your one-man project?
pen and paper, with me at all times. less distracting. less weight.
shimsham··on diary.io - should we build this?
please, no.
shimsham··on Show HN: A virtual guitar teacher (after 18 months of dev)
Hi

Who is your audience? It's not that clear from my first visits.

shimsham··on Apple SSDs and the fusion drive ripoff
So much anger.
shimsham··on If Samsung doesn't supply Apple's processors, who will?
So, nothing new to report.
shimsham··on $15 Dedicated servers from OVH
This post is just an ad, right?
shimsham··on What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?
Totally agree.
shimsham··on What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?
Agreed. As developers we should also avoid turning everything into another Bill and Ted adventure. Awesome!
shimsham··on What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?
You beat me to it. Ditto. Perhaps I should've pivoted my reply! Yes, that was just as meaningless.
shimsham··on Ask HN: is poutsch a good name for a web app?
The word poutsch doesn't evoke any feelings or sense of familiarity nor nostalgia. Its pronounciation is unclear and, depending on the regions where it will be used, it may sound 'too foreign'.

Noting the criteria above, you could consider a more obvious, clear and relevant name such as Declarium. This is just an example of course, and I'm sure you can find other names with a suitable path to help u decide on the suitability criteria.

shimsham··on Numu.me (beta)
Awesome. I can store my passwords here. And the icing on the cake? It's so beautiful.
shimsham··on Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate
"We're addressing these near-term challenges by targeted cost reductions and focusing our new game pipeline to reflect our strategic priorities."

Methinks someone has been raiding that bingo variant for phrases.

shimsham··on RockMelt For iPad
great. more cat fotos.
shimsham··on Core Values
Agreed. This sounds like unstructured hippy nonsense where we know that real hierarchies will exist and the loudest will reign, whether that's for the best or not. Life isn't a cosy co-op and neither is business. Unless it's a co-op, and they're not cosy.
shimsham··on Live Camera Feed On Facebook Page Cover Photo
Whilst not a topic that I'd normally post on, but are the people in these images aware that they're being recorded? I don't really care but someone might.
shimsham··on Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice?
Excellent, thoughtful and presumably experience-based reply. This gets my vote.
shimsham··on Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
Male soap. Male wet-wipes.

So, I never got as far as looking at the app cos the name made me shudder at the potential for similar behaviour underneath the surface.

shimsham··on [dead]
Hmmm, that was called irony.
shimsham··on [dead]
U forgot to add, "Awesome!!!" with a truly beautiful UI.
shimsham··on Motorola to release phone with no bezel by end of year.
Whatever next? Flat loudspeakers!?! Telegraphic communication!?!?!
shimsham··on What the Founder’s Email Address Says About Your Startup
employee.512145d3-893f-4de8-a9c2-fb3c60b81495 @company.com
shimsham··on What the Founder’s Email Address Says About Your Startup
That you're systematic, coherent and understand that there is often more than one way to solve a problem. It tells us you welcome communication and want to ensure that even if someone doesn't have your email address that they are given different common options which will get a message to someone, given a name. I presume you also have suitable group aliases. You're the type of people who don't rush things and make mistakes, preferring to analyse and do things properly with consideration for the future and the unknown.
shimsham··on What the Founder’s Email Address Says About Your Startup
I have. Check out yesterday's HN.
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