Maciek416

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by Maciek416 13y ago
This reminds me of an English teacher I had in high school who disallowed us from using a list of banned words in a writing assignment. In previous assignments students had overused them to pad their word count and to inflate the apparent s
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by Maciek416 13y ago
Agree. It's definitely a sub-par user experience. You often have to sift through dozens of connection invitations for people who clearly haven't found you on the cousin identification list -- instead they've simply searched b
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by Maciek416 13y ago
Hey Cameron, it's sad to see Kera shut down, there were some really neat ideas in there. On the other hand, I'm pleased to see that you guys have seen an idea through until it either succeeded or failed. There are too many long-running proj
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by Maciek416 14y ago
I attended the conference, and the topic (framework vs. framework vs. library) was definitely timely. There are strong points of contention between the major competing frameworks/libraries right now, and this was reflected in the panel disc
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by Maciek416 15y ago
At first I was a little irritated at the article's style and how it holds back the truth for a few pages, but the truth of this story turns out to be absolutely fascinating stuff. A quote: "Cheerleaders frequently come up in case histories
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by Maciek416 15y ago
Agreed, the almost non sequitur mention of VR feels like a straw man. The authors seem to sort of dismiss VR as a fad that disappeared with the headsets and Powergloves. Meanwhile, every year, we're seeing a steady march upwards in GPU powe
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by Maciek416 15y ago
Thanks for the link.. I find that thread kind of fascinating, not because of anything in particular about the original comment, but because somehow the person causing so much trouble managed to convince a large number of HN posters to jump
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by Maciek416 15y ago
We got some advice from RIM on how to run this inspector, and it's been quite useful to improve our compatibility with the Playbook and especially the 2.0 OS. That said, there are drawbacks to the Playbook that are hard to ignore and make i
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by Maciek416 15y ago
I just want to add a datapoint to your "where it's going to be" point, which I agree is the way to go for RIM. Out of the blue, our startup started to receive suggestions directly from RIM on how to improve our performance and compatibility
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Wow, this is an interesting spin on a lot of previously-disconnected ideas. I really like the branding and name. The intro screencast was well done. I'm looking forward to hearing how well this takes off, especially with the pricing plans c
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This is a great idea. This goes beyond just which digital services you can't get in Canada, but also many other types of products which aren't offered here for whatever reason. Models of automobiles, consumer electronics (TVs in particular,
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Was anyone able to find a way to easily contribute to this project? There seems to be no SVN or git repo.
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This is awesome. How are the spammers identified? What are the meanings of the column headers "FrC FoC TwC" ?
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Works well and snappy. I like the tiled presentation Entered my neighborhood and actually got a bunch of instagrams of locations within walking distance of my office.
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Perhaps a given automaton could be told to open a bucket of paint and then have that paint expend itself over time (drop in color intensity, increase in opacity, or whatever).
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This is awesome. I'd love to add color generation options. Here's my favorite so far: http://demoseen.com/langton.html#*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/... . [EDIT: and its cousin: http://demoseen.com/langton.html#*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/....+-+... ]
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I agree, it would be nice to see some data on that. A few days ago we had a discussion here on HN about the viability of Montreal as a startup hub, and when I raised the question of what Canadian cities in general could do to counter the hi
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by Maciek416 16y ago
One simple immediate consequence may be that you cannot answer a question like "do you have any reason to believe that you may be at risk for XYZ" anymore without potentially having to rely on a result that may or may not have statistical s
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by Maciek416 16y ago
The health results didn't freak me out either (for the most part, I got lucky with nothing unexpected or terrible). On the other hand, I like yourself also thought I had a "boring white Polish as far back as anyone can remember" background.
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I've had better luck with relative finder as well. My very first contact was able to trace his great-great-grandparents roots to a village that is only 30 minutes away or so from my Dad's ancestor's town. This person is marked as a 5th cous
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I think climate also counts too. I can't remember where I saw this mentioned in the context of tech startups (pg's essays, probably), but if you're good enough and ambitious enough to choose whatever location you like, why not choose a loca
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I got the surge of nostalgia too. Another heartbreaking (but no less attempt-discouraging) bug that would occasionally happen would be that after loading a saved game you'd discover that the contents of your bags had all turned into UW's ub
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Counter-datapoint: I'm in Canada (Toronto) and have fiber to the home, and have had it since about 2002. If you see more of this sort of thing in Canada, I suspect it will likely be brand new neighborhoods in metro areas, large scale condo
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I'd really like to move to an IDE that understands js code as well as Netbeans does but without the sluggish performance of the editor. I like Sublime Text so far, but I really miss the ability to see out-of-scope variables and catch minor
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This flow chart seems to leave out quite a few "work for free initially" scenarios I've seen happen to friends, etc, that eventually led to companies being formed, productive connections, etc. While nobody should work for "nothing", there a
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by Maciek416 16y ago
If there's one example of this out there showing that it could in principle work in the Windows world, it's gotta be Steam. I wonder if Valve has thought about expanding beyond games?
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Wow, the map at top left when expanded looks awesome. This seems to draw nicely and fast on the iPad, but I can't get it to scroll around. Anyone figured it out yet?
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I've been doing some tests with sprite.js. For what I want to do, it seems a bit sluggish and has some bugs. You can switch between DOM and Canvas mode, which is neat, but there are some bugs in the canvas mode that cause my sprites to disa
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A vision of the future from 1958: Magic Highway(howtobearetronaut.com)
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by Maciek416 16y ago
The automated video interview idea is really cool. This would have been useful to us earlier this year when we were filtering through many candidates for a junior role, where you don't necessarily want to disqualify people with a lack of ex

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