Maciek416

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by Maciek416 17y ago
Exactly, the article mentions that it only applies to people who are burning far, far more calories per day than they are eating and are training pretty much all the time.
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by Maciek416 17y ago
This entire story smells like hogwash. The first line of the story disagrees with the HN headline: "Apple may be working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could possibly allow an attacker to" Notice the wording: "may". Apple hasn't said
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by Maciek416 17y ago
As the other poster suggested, teachers might not want to pay for your product. To really break [into] this market, you might have to make it free and look for other ways to monetize (which might open other doors of opportunity here..).
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Simple and easy to understand. I like your website. I would agree with YC's expert opinion, in that your biggest problem is attacking a market where the dominant player is fairly entrenched. They do suck though, and maybe this is your gre
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Can you explain the part about entering email addresses?
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by Maciek416 17y ago
This is very cool and I hope this idea spreads to other languages. There was a recent post on HN about compiling various dynamic languages to C (I've lost the link). Of particular interest to me was JavaScript. For writing js code targeting
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Some services/companies are very good at working internationally from the outset, some really aren't. As a Canadian, I get bit by this constantly. Amazon, Newegg, Grand Central (now Google Voice), pretty much all the big media video network
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by Maciek416 17y ago
I don't play but I compose quite a bit (mostly random electronic styles) for my own personal listening.
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by Maciek416 17y ago
I think what the data shows is that the average sort of wobbles around a bit. Check out the update to my post for a new image link to see it varying throughout the day.
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Another way to extract this figure is to monitor the ids of tweets like the Twitpocalypse site is doing. We've been monitoring Twitpocalypse for a while, and the data yields the following chart: http://img.skitch.com/20090529-xhhnr83xsy67b
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Motivational posters might work for some people -- I have a Ralph Steadman poster above my desk here ;) . He's definitely right about having a nice space to work in where you can feel like you can breathe a bit. Comfortable chair, good soli
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Strongly agree with your points. eBay has never really tamed the chaos or perception of risk. In fact, my perception degraded over the years -- I would say they even doubled their "discomfort" metrics in many people's eyes due to the diffic
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by Maciek416 17y ago
I'm not sure, I often ask myself how I ended up in those situations as well (I'm a coder FWIW) and I still ask many designers working on projects such as these why they're doing it. The simplest answer seems to be that it just seems like th
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by Maciek416 17y ago
"Another interesting demonstration of the fact that behind a lot of crappy companies are teams of talented individuals." I agree. I've worked in situations almost exactly like the one described in the reply, and at least one well-known publ
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by Maciek416 17y ago
There is a bit of that here when he mentions the teenager, I agree. He may have a point that professional environments may have to come up with solutions to deal with this kind of thing, however.
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Contrast: Up here in Canada we have a health care safety net. That's helpful when you're calculating "how bad could it get if I failed completely". On the other hand, I often hear the meme "you gotta be in the valley" to get anywhere with f
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by Maciek416 17y ago
I'm suddenly reminded of the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ). Google's algorithm would appear to still be in stuffed animal territory. I wonder if Google will gradually tweak their algorithm to become better
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by Maciek416 17y ago
I think the author might be referring to the "big companies [who] are cutting back and letting talent go". There seem to be repeated suggestions that YC alumni will nibble away or topple the Fortune 500's, uh, fortunes. With a lot of these
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by Maciek416 18y ago
The contrast here is being made between two development styles: A centralized, controlled, and focused production system at Apple, versus what Microsoft apparently had before Windows 7: A network of fiefdoms which fought each other over imp
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by Maciek416 18y ago
We're working on something remarkably close to what the article describes, but not taking the search engine approach you allude to. Rather, we're trying to make it into a useful multi-tool close in spirit to systems like Pachube, a componen