SandB0x

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Ask HN: Previous employers, blogging and anonymity.
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Madness! I guess my "idea" depends more on engineering advancements then. When I wrote the parent I'd just finished watching a series of the excellent Peep Show (filmed mostly via helmet cam), and I was thinking how I'd like to be able to j
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Custom reality tv. Users pay to see a day/hour in the life of another user - possibly a celebrity, though other fun people would be popular - who wears a tasteful camera strapped to their head or neck. Witness an afternoon as Michael Schum
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Start eating a proper breakfast.
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by SandB0x 17y ago
A touch off topic: For people in a management role: what do you use to demonstrate that you're good at your job? If you're interviewing for another company, is it a steady record of promotion? Successful projects (but is that due to you or
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by SandB0x 17y ago
I've been in an office where the free fruit was removed. Towards the end of the afternoon I normally get quite hungry. With a bowl of fruit I would silence my stomach rumblings for an extra half hour and get some more work done. Without - s
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Zed shaw talks at length about (roughly) this kind of thing in his talk "The ACL is Dead". Tbe video is at: http://blog.cusec.net/2009/01/05/zed-shaw-the-acl-is-dead-cu... And there are summaries in the comments here: http://news.ycombin
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by SandB0x 17y ago
To me studying business because you want to be good at business is like studying the concept of winning if you want to be good at a sport. That could probably be phrased a little better, but I am just amazed at the number of smart young peo
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by SandB0x 17y ago
gitk / git-gui works fine for me whenever I need it.
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by SandB0x 17y ago
On Monday the entire cover of Metro (big London/UK free commuter paper) was a four side Chrome ad. It attempted to explain open source, javascript performance and the independent tabs. Not exactly normal advertising material. And today I sa
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by SandB0x 17y ago
I think he may have created his with the Google Chart api: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ Edit: On closer inspection, maybe not. However the link is worth a look.
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by SandB0x 17y ago
I've worked in financial software - this is spot on. It seems to be one of those unfortunate industries where nobody's interests are aligned with designing decent software: Programmers don't use their software, users (often back office admi
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Except with a convergent sum of money...
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by SandB0x 17y ago
On my window this wrapped so the first line read I was fortunate enough to know these guys while they were building the wakemate prototypes, and even luckier to have had the opportunity to sleep with one Joking aside, if this actually wor
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by SandB0x 17y ago
This really reminded me of a Steve Yegge essay: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirement... The easiest way to build a product that kicks ass is to start with someone else's great idea (camcorders, for instance), and
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Mainstream software: Skype Coolest software generally has got to be Photosynth. The video demos just blow my mind: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_dem...
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Monopoly?
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by SandB0x 17y ago
So users want a list of items, without massive duplication (many shops selling the same toaster), while at the same time knowing the best price for each item. Seems Amazon have this nailed with their multiple retailer options. Maybe I'm bei
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Mornings - Project Sleepalot. Afternoons - build something fun using OpenGL, as I've always wanted to learn it properly. Ideas welcome.
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by SandB0x 17y ago
For spaghetti code problems the classic book is Refactoring. He has a whole chapter on "Code Smells" and most of the book is basically an extensive catalogue of techniques you can use to eliminate these. More modern languages like Ruby will
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by SandB0x 17y ago
All these people hang out at: http://www.wilmott.com/
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by SandB0x 17y ago
A touch off topic, but is anyone else dismayed at seeing so many bright friends disappear into banking as soon as they graduate? Nothing wrong with making money, but I just wonder how many inventions and discoveries are lost this way.
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Perhaps the LTS version should be offered more prominently, and the regular releases billed as experimental?
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Exactly. The other perspective: When you see 'difference', think 'derivative' . Approximately, what the difference table is doing is differentiating until the leading term is constant. If we end up with a constant k levels down, we must hav
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by SandB0x 17y ago
You can define a second function in a file, with the constraint that it can only be used by the main function (I think). The following could happily go in one file named foo.m: function rtn = foo(x) rtn = bar(x) + 1 function rtn = bar(x) rt
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by SandB0x 17y ago
Yes, the closed system is a big thing. Anything interesting I may create will have to be re-written in another language if I want to extend/share with others. While it's not reasonable to use something like c to test out (computer vision in
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I would be incredibly happy if we were taught in Python or anything other than the hideous monster that is Matlab on my MSc course. After using Ruby and Python it's rather painful to use such a clunky environment.