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by SeoxyS 14y ago
This is some really sloppy headline-writing right here. Not only is the company not bootstrapped, but in the context of job search, it seems to imply that Monster (the job listing website) was a party to the deal.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
For what it's worth, I know for a fact that the head of Graphic Design @ Apple is Swiss.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Please let the Swiss speak for themselves as to whether they are honored or offended by this. There's nothing more annoying than having somebody else tell you how to feel about something. For my part (and I'm Swiss, for what it's worth) I a
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The main problem isn't a design problem, it's a problem of the developers being incompetent. Accessing network resources on the main thread is a massive beginner mistake. Though pre-loading the card with cached data while the real data is b
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I think this is fantastic. Clearly you've thought this through, and don't use eye candy frivolously; but rather use it for a purpose. This is a perfect example of design done right, and what can come out of a job when practical consideratio
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I can't speak for the people who have interviewed you and rejected; but a couple comments spring to mind: 1) You're in London. Most of the companies you're thinking about are based in the San Francisco bay area, and this is where all the tr
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
After effects can do this easily: For the glow: duplicate the video layer, add a fast blur effect and set it to overlay or color dodge blending mode. For the scanlines: AFX has a scanlines/cathode effect that you can tweak to re-create that
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
For what it's worth, if you were working for me, you would be instantly fired. This is exactly the kind of opinion that perpetuates the mass of low quality crap in the world. It's an example of cutting corners, and long-term, it ends up cos
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
S3 has been around for a much longer time than Dynamo has been. Dynamo is a very recent introduction by Amazon. In fact, Dynamo did not even exist when this article was published. (Dynamo came out early '12, the article is from '10). And wh
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
> So you dislike one magic but you like an other for pretty much no reason at all beyond knowing one and not the other? Consistency not your style? The thing I love about Ruby's magic is that it's not really magic, it's an abstraction o
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
This feature seems seriously contrived and they could have tried to learn a thing or two from ruby here. The idea that the code flow is now no longer linear, and that the programmer now has to understand perfectly the odd rules by which the
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
The benefit is not in the data set size, it's in performance of querying. 63ms vs. 0.03ms is a HUGE difference.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
If you expect 100% reliability from a piece of software, that ought to be in your contract with the vendor. You ought to have a provision describing what happens if the vendor fucked up. And the only time it is okay to sue is if the vendor
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
What is it with every startup these days being named /Hip[a-z]+/?
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I thought startups did pretty well in '99 and only started crumbling like dominoes in 2001…?
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I've only ever had two true loves, when it comes to text editors. Like Marco, I was happily married to TextMate for a good 5 years or so. But over the past few years, I've slowly gotten over the divorce, and found true love again in `vim`.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Because then 3 of the 12 hours in that crazy day end up being spent on HN.
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A critique of the Apple indie developer community(kswizz.com)
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Two-factor authentication is by definition more annoying than regular authentication. The solution to security is not to add annoyance for users, who will simply hate your product, or disable two-factor. The solution to security is to come
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I've started writing Clojure code for production at Chartboost, and I'm absolutely loving the language. However, its basis on the JVM is a major downer. I decided to go with it over other lisps due to the practicality of the massive standar
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Wow, I just found out about Higher-Order Messaging. This is pretty awesome. Here are some links for more info: - http://cocoadev.com/wiki/HigherOrderMessaging - http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/16/hom.html --- As an as
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Learn by doing. And don't worry too much about it until the need comes. Luckily, the problem itself implies you're doing well, so the effort of dealing with it when the time comes will pay for itself.
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I find it somewhat sloppy when journalists simply publish the Q&A transcript of an interview. What I'm going to miss the most when real journalists aren't around anymore are the long-form articles and profiles that obviously took care a
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
You seem to be under the assumption that classes are always categorically better than a procedural API. I think you're mistaken. Classes aren't always a good abstraction. Classes being a good abstraction: $user = new User('John', 'Doe
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Sparrow and Tweetie's acquisition are kind of a slap in the face of the argument for making paid and self-sustaining products that don't rely on a exit event to be in the black. Both were widely-successful paid products, and yet they both m
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I use vim :). I made my own color Terminal theme, which isn't up anywhere. You can find my .vimrc and the rest of my configurations over here: https://github.com/kballenegger/dotfiles/blob/dotfiles/.vimr...
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I discovered Inconsolata two years ago or so, and it's been my go-to monospaced font ever since. I have it set to 11 points anti-aliased and it just looks gorgeous! For your viewing pleasure, here is what my typical development environment
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
Imagine if browsers reported a user-resettable uuid sent over on each connection open. Advertisers get the benefit of being able to track users, do it more securely since no data is ever stored on the client, and must eat the cost of actual
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
I'm with you here, I think San Francisco is an awesome and diverse city. But I think that people who talk about Silicon Valley being insular are talking about the actual valley: Sunnyvale to Menlo Park. And they have a point; if you're in t
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by SeoxyS 14y ago
As a designer, the OP should know better than to design webpages as a giant <img> tag... It's unreadable on my Retina MBP.

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