PedroCandeias

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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
See, everything is a toy to a six year old. Everything they see, hear or handle shapes their development in some way. Devices like smartphones and tablets have great unique uses, like people in other comments are saying, so I'm not suggesti
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
It's not a matter of romantic notions. E-books all look and feel the same, plus they lack texture, smell and make no sound when a page is turned. They're an abstraction of the reading experience. Everything about handling a book stimulates
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
I agree with Hawking. But we need to understand why space exploration isn't happening and what's being done about it. Space exploration is different from earlier forms of exploration because the technological and financial requirements are
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Right now I'm sitting in Portugal, Europe, typing this on a laptop which was designed in America and manufactured in China. And we're not at war with one another at the moment. I believe there may have been a few consequences to exploration
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway at the moment, you may want to try and fix that.
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
I love web based software because I can access it from any device that has a decent browser. Hotmail was the first such service I used, and when gmail came around I gave it a try and was hooked. Not only did it boast an unheard of 2gb of st
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets this a lot. There's also a hilarious variation when you google for an error, the first result is a thread on stackoverflow, and it's closed. The only reply being a mod's assertion that the question has
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Wisdom of the Ancients (on googling errors)(xkcd.com)
15 points by PedroCandeias 15y ago|2 comments
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
People from outside europe (which I suspect you are) have this annoying tendency to over simplify things. You can't neatly split europe into "new" and "old". Also, check your dates: what you're calling "new europe" actually joined a decade
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Thats the whole point, the whole Europe and its citizenry would like to live in Germany That couldn't be further from the truth. One of Europe's fundamental problems, actually, is each country's profound dislike for one another. Imm
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
That was anecdotal evidence of what I thought was the pretty clear and relevant point that casual gaming, from Bejeweled to Farmville to Angry Birds, is bringing video games to a host of people who previously refused to touch a controller.
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
My girlfriend is 27. She has never touched a console and doesn't own a personal computer. She absolutely loves Angry Birds and Tiny Wings on the iphone. Whether or not Jobs should take credit for that is irrelevant. What's important is that
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
You'll get none from me. Funny reading your post, because it perfectly describes my own experience this year: starting to learn another language (ruby), then getting pulled right back into php for a big client project. And I also decided to
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Nice joke. But do you really mean to critique the current state of JS library development? Why? Personally, I'm thankful for the bounty of useful libraries out there. Long may jackasses with keyboards [sic] keep shipping *.js.
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Looks pretty straightforward. But why use this over, for example, crate? Also, how are you going to make revenue out of it? S3 does cost money. #edit: Almost forgot. Well done on the UI front. Minor gripe: an actual button to select the fil
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
$4 / $8 cpm? Isn't that a tad high for websites which use gmaps and rely on advertising revenue?
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
"this months of fallen giants" Indeed.
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Shame so many webgl apps refuse to run properly on the 2011 13" mbp.
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Doesn't work on my early 2011 macbook pro 13" running lion. Anyone running one of these can get it to work?
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
A tradeoff we've been accepting since the dawn of civilization, in a way. It's a bit like living in a city as opposed to surviving in the wilderness. Yes, there are laws to abide to and limits to what you can do if you live in a city, but o
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
In my opinion, a phone needs to be extremely portable and easy to use with a single hand. I'm a tall man and the thumbs on my large hands have no trouble reaching anywhere in a 3.5" screen. I'm also rather athletic in build, so a device the
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Just adding my voice to the millions who will be mourning the man and the visionary. As someone who works with computers for a living, I'm thankful for the beautiful tools his company created. As an entrepreneur, I'm intrigued and moved by
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Great. Who?
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
I know this has already been stated and it doesn't add much to the discussion. However, I feel it's important to add my little two cents just so the Stripe team (and others in the same space) can hear it (again): Please, please, PLEASE make
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Well, it was a matter of time, wasn't it? For now it's a bit too fiddly when compared to the likes of Hipmunk, save for the booking process which is quite streamlined. And the search itself, which is blazing fast. On second thought, this is
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Kudos for the perfect message. Sad to see it go, though. It works so well and it's so easy to integrate. I'd gladly pay for the service, even the basic level, simply for the ease of use. Why can't we save notifo?
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Funny you should mention shame. I used to feel it about my code. Then I realized everyone else's code was probably just as ugly from their own point of view. We coders tend to be perfectionists. Then I met _why. Then I (almost) stopped cari
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
I'm gradually putting all my shit up on github, even the half-baked projects, for this reason. Especially the half-baked projects. I wish more of them were actual products with commercial viability, but they're not. By releasing them, there
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by PedroCandeias 15y ago
Between the sweet successes and the fearsome failures, how many of us are stuck in startup limbo? Nowhere near success, not really dead yet, still some chips left to play? I'd say a few. This post is also for those people.
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You keep my startup dream alive(blog.pedrogilcandeias.com)
2 points by PedroCandeias 15y ago|1 comments

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