Splines

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by Splines 15y ago
Probably some phpBB somewhere. There are things that start out as a labor of love and a "look at this thing I made" post.
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by Splines 15y ago
True enough, needless optimization is often unnecessary. The difference is that an expert will be able to make a good decision about that trade-off. A novice is restricted to the tools and practices they are familiar with - they might co
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by Splines 15y ago
Is there a standard to support web callbacks (or whatever they're called)? I wouldn't mind hooking up HN to Prowl, since that's what I did with Notifo anyway.
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by Splines 15y ago
As I learn C++ I have a more than once written little toy programs (class Derived : public Base) to verify my understanding and test that what I plan to do will actually work.
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by Splines 15y ago
I don't have much to add except that my toungue-in-cheek proper-nouning of your subject makes your post difficult for me to read.
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by Splines 15y ago
Let me be clear. There is NOTHING a computer needs your attention for that can't either be handled on its own or that can't wait until you're ready to pay attention to it. I think hardware failures are probably the only class of notificat
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by Splines 15y ago
On the same note, I've never understood how people could stand iOS' SMS notifications; it just plain breaks the basic rule of not stealing focus from what the user is doing. Irritates me to no end. In iOS5 there's a notification bar (simi
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by Splines 15y ago
I think more complicated machinery fits the analogy better. Photography, for example. For many people a simple point & shoot camera is good enough (e.g., notepad). They start quickly, they are cheap, and they get the job done, but pu
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by Splines 15y ago
Thanks for sharing that, I learned something new today already :). You can see the progression even over the last 10-20 years. We used to see the title of the movie, and then a few minutes of scenery with the actor's names on them. These
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by Splines 15y ago
Interesting how this article neatly intertwines with the "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" article that is also on the HN frontpage. After reading the cue-routine-reward bit in that other article, it's clear that many todo lists miss closi
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by Splines 15y ago
Ironically Live Mesh started life out as FolderShare which predates Dropbox. FolderShare was awesome and met my needs perfectly - I'm a little disappointed that MS clearly dropped the ball with transitioning it over to an internal product
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by Splines 15y ago
There's also a related radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/2011/apr/18/soul-mates-and-brain-dou...
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by Splines 15y ago
I use Trello like this. I have a list marked "To do (unplanned)", "To do (this week)", "Doing (today)", "Done (yyyy-mm-dd)". At the end of each week I archive the last list and shuffle items around depending on what happened that week.
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by Splines 15y ago
You can do this on SkyDrive today. Onenote & Word (and probably the rest of Office) know how to save to SkyDrive, and there are web editors for Onenote, Word (and Excel & PPT, I believe) available on SkyDrive. Granted, it's not enti
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by Splines 15y ago
I use trello in this way too and find it works fairly well. One gripe I have is that it's a little hard to go back and look at what you've done over the years, at least with the way I do it: I have a To Do (Planned), To Do (This Week), Doin
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by Splines 15y ago
Another interesting quote: The games themselves aren't where the action happens; the strategy component is: when do you reach out into your social graph? When are you going to spam that list? How frequently are you gonna do that? I'm thin
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by Splines 15y ago
An interesting snippet from the article: At IndieCade in October 2011, Adam Saltsman, Canabalt's creator, discussed the notion of "time until death." All of us have a finite amount of time on earth, and any time we spend on a particular ac
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The Zynga Abyss(theatlantic.com)
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by Splines 15y ago
At Google, everything is in Perforce, but since I personally need only four or five projects from Perforce for my work, I mirror that to git and interact with git on a day-to-day basis. At MS we also use Perforce (aka Source Depot), and I
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by Splines 15y ago
I've never heard of Pinterest before - my first impression was that this was somehow related to Path. The color scheme , logo, and favicon are eerily similar.
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by Splines 15y ago
I use VS2010 every day and the tabbed interface drives me nuts. I wish it was more conceptually like Emacs.
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by Splines 15y ago
So would it be ok to copy a site/game that doesn't have much traction if you have a better distribution channel and can get the copy traction? In this case the original creator isn't hurt at all and actually may benefit. Would you consider
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by Splines 15y ago
Personally, I think Pincus wrote the memo intending for it to be leaked. I'd like to be wrong, but I'd be surprised if somewhere there's a Zynga engineer truly surprised that the design of their game isn't fresh and new. I do wonder if t
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by Splines 15y ago
Why can't we use other people work to create our own. If someone took my thesis and turned it in and got an A, I would be psyched for them and happy they used my work. It doesn't hurt me at all. The problem is that Zynga isn't operating i
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by Splines 15y ago
This is a similar situation to Exchange's Message Recall feature. I found it amusing to create a rule that deleted all message recall requests.
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by Splines 15y ago
This debate brings to mind this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/372/defecting_by_accident_a_flaw_com... Interesting read, thanks for that. Brings to mind forum flamewars and the like. I wonder how a community would evolve if the default post w
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by Splines 15y ago
Although the 4 straight lines next to each other are also difficult to read. Having a differently shaped letter in there would help readability (people may think it's spelled "ilico"). Also, "illico" seems to be quite an overloaded term if
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by Splines 15y ago
I think we misunderstand. I'm arguing that children don't need to watch potentially disturbing imagery to ensure that they contribute to furthering science in the future. The argument "we should not coddle children because science" rings f
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by Splines 15y ago
Because if it wasn't for men like them, we would still be sitting in a cave poking a fire with a stick. That's a false dichotomy. Children don't need to watch a shuttle burst into flames in order for science to progress.
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by Splines 15y ago
I know it was just an example, but Tiny Tower is nothing like Sim Tower. Sim Tower is an elevator/people flow simulation. It's also much more fun than Tiny Tower.

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