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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Just awesome. I'm so glad google did this I can barely describe it. I can't help but think of the old saw about "feeding the alligator hoping he will eat you last". It appears google has realized that the alligator sometimes comes after you
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Having just gone through this with Apple for a major name organization, I can assure you they take the identity of developers very seriously. You have to be who you say you are.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I've been thinking about the keyboard issue, and I think that no matter what, the ergonomics aren't there for a keyboard, hardware or otherwise in fact. It's really inconvenient to type on a 10" tablet. It's almost impossible to do one hand
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Having worked in Oncology drug development before, I don't waste my time with articles where the headline is "X kills cancer in (mice|cell lines|rats)". We've cured cancer so many times in rodents, if I were a mouse, I'd take up smoking unf
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
And the distraction of MS continues.... Microsoft really needs some focus. Their incessant desire to go after every single area of the consumer space (no matter the cost) is a massive drag on their ability to execute. Contrast that with a c
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
When I read this article to my wife (a physician) she was not the least bit surprised. She asked me why it was even news. She has spent the last several months trying to convince patients that Tamiflu isn't indicated for people who are othe
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Bingo. The big attraction is that developers can make a silly puzzle game that would have to be free on the web, but they can charge 99 cents for it in the app store. Plus, billing and credit card processing is just done for you. It makes m
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Part of Paul's reasoning depends on Apps being central to the iPhone experience the same way software is central to the desktop experience. I'm not totally sure this is the case. While apps are certainly a major component to the iPhone, are
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm always suspicious of anything that people claim "works like the human X". In many cases (the brain especially) we have only the most rudimentary understanding of how things actually work. Our ability to create something that works the s
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
The detail you forget with gaming is that the basic PC hardware is more or less guaranteed to be there: mouse, keyboard, 3d graphics accelerator, monitor capable of a certain minimal resolution. In particular, the ergonomics are also consis
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I think it's hilarious that Jobs and Woz were all into phreaking and giving Ma Bell a headache back before they started Apple. Now the next generation is essentially pulling a similar move with them. I can't help but think this sort of thin
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I distinctly remember that my typical workflow involved searching on AltaVista plus another search engine. The advantage AltaVista always seemed to have was that it had a larger index than a lot of competitors. Often, the ranking was not es
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Excellent list for those of us who have grown up taking this stuff for granted. One minor nitpick: it's very difficult fore to agree that "refactoring" belongs in the same list as relational algebra and Boolean logic.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Not only should they be free, in my opinion they should discount my monthly fee if I handle traffic for phones not on my account. That would give people an incentive to set these things up all over the place.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I recently discovered mvim on OS X and it really convinced me to buckle down and start to learn and more importantly use vim again as my primary editor. One thing I find is that you need to do a fair bit of customization before vim fits f
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm struck by how incredibly simple the software looks. It's admittedly a very unfair comparison, but when I compare the UI and ease of use in that demo to something like Blender, it does make me wonder if graphics software has fallen off i
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I have no experience with SMS other than as an average user. I'd love to know from someone more knowledgable than me, how secure this would be? From my basic understanding it seems that SMS would be hard to intercept on the phone network, b
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I actually think his "clueless behavior" is one of the reasons his stuff resonates with people. Everyone makes mistakes, some of us make them a lot . Lots of people in Joel's position are tempted to leave out the mistakes they made when te
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This is really frustrating. Years of filling out forms and hitting "submit" have me thinking that this is a small form, only to have my hopes dashed as new segments keep popping up. This violates the principle of not surprising your users.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
From the article:"I wonder why no company has thought of this easy way to cut energy use in fridges?" I suspect they probably have thought of this. But to me, this is one of those ideas that looks good on paper. The obvious main problem her
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I find that reading fiction on vacation really stimulates my programming brain. There's a lot to be said for letting your mind roam free for a bit. I believe PG talks about the value of letting your mind roam in one of his essays (or possib
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This is solid advice. When I was a kid, my first computer was a Commodore Amiga. I hated PC's and felt the need to go trolling on BBSes about how the Amiga was superior in every way (sorry, keep in mind that I was 12). Of course, there we
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Headline is a tad misleading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755041
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Man, the Helicos PR machine is running at full speed. This headline is grossly misleading. Yes, you can decode a human genome for 50K, but if I'm not mistaken, the instrument itself is a million dollars. So, anyone decoding your genome cert
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Well, Helicos is certainly not the only game in town in the current crop of new sequencing tech. Each of the new technologies has its strengths and weaknesses. This is clearly a bit of PR on their part. I believe their technology is more ex
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I think these kinds of stories are interesting because all these tech pundits act like they are the only people who have thought of these shortcomings. I think one of the reasons there hasn't been a product from Apple yet is for precisely t
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I think you bring up a very interesting point. Microsoft is indeed tightly embedded in the enterprise. If they ceded the home PC market to focus on the enterprise, I suspect they would see much better revenue growth. Enterprise needs often
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I love what SpaceX is doing and I really, really hope they succeed. I'm not sure if it's founded or not, but I fear we're at risk of losing a bit of institutional knowledge as the original crop of "rocket scientists" retire. In my mind, Spa
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I love Google reader, but this new "feature" is the first time I'm thinking about looking elsewhere. It's so irrelevant which people "like" something I'm reading, I just can't fathom how they could think it's a good idea to shove that info
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This really struck me: "One low-enriched fuel pellet weighing the same as three pennies contains the energy equivalent of 1,780 pounds of coal" I knew nuclear had a higher density, but wow, that's a pretty striking way to put that informati

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