TJensen

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by TJensen 17y ago
Cow farts are carbon neutral. Grass sucks the carbon out of the atmosphere, cows turn carbon into dinner and flatulence, carbon re-enters the atmosphere. Get rid of cows, and you'll have grass fires returning that carbon to the atmosphere.
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by TJensen 17y ago
More interesting to me (since Overstock.com and Traverse Mountain are nearby) was the linked article ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overst... ). It is interesting to think about how much power the Wikipedia inner
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by TJensen 17y ago
I wish I could vote this up more for Be wary of code maniacs who don't care what the product is. That is true, regardless of the size of the company. I've seen those "code maniacs" drive a company into the ground because the technology wa
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by TJensen 17y ago
The real problem is not the string concatenation, it is that stupidlyExpensiveCalculation() will evaluate, regardless of whether debugging is on or not (at least in Java, not sure about Ruby), since Java doesn't do lazy evaluation of argume
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by TJensen 17y ago
I really hope they don't. Apple is able to spend far more resources on making a great experience because they aren't focusing on supporting unknown hardware of the week. For the most part, OS X is rock solid on Apple hardware as a result of
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by TJensen 17y ago
The airlines have services for that (see Delta Dash) without needing to use airline passengers. :)
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by TJensen 17y ago
This statement suggests to me that you missed the entire point of Gruber's essay. You are right that I made my point overly trivial. It was supposed to be the extreme case of understanding the importance of UI design: how it looks and wor
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by TJensen 17y ago
I agree. However, if you won't do the easy stuff (which is critical to making a good interface), how likely are you to do the hard stuff (understanding the user to know how they are going to use the software)?
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by TJensen 17y ago
I agree with you. More often, what I've seen is that engineers aren't interested in it. It is tedious in ways that are not interesting, often involving working with non-technical people. Most engineers I've worked with find things like "yes
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by TJensen 17y ago
Upvoted since I just got done with six hours of tweaking my iPhone app on my macbook on my dining room table. :) More often, I'm reclined on the couch, though. I used to be a cave-type, but now I find that I'm more productive when I'm aroun
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Ask HN: NoScript worth it?
1 points by TJensen 17y ago|1 comments
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by TJensen 17y ago
So get the nurses to do it for them, which, I believe, is what the researchers who were looking at this had to do.
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by TJensen 17y ago
Which is one service I do pay for.
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by TJensen 17y ago
That is an interesting take. While I haven't gone to that extreme in my thinking, perhaps I'm being too conservative. I have definitely thought about a free, time-limited version. Use it for free for two-four weeks and see if it makes your
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by TJensen 17y ago
I can honestly say I don't understand that. Why pay the mac tax, then do away with 50% of the reason for that tax? I love my MacBook and OS X, which made it worth paying more. I can't imagine paying more for a windows machine.
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by TJensen 17y ago
Tools like GetSatisfaction can help (note: I have no affiliation, but have received good help there).
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Ask HN: Charging for an application
3 points by TJensen 17y ago|3 comments
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by TJensen 17y ago
Java and ActionScript 3 (Flex) at work. Right now, Objective C, Python and JavaScript (jQuery) at home. Yes, I do occasionally run into idiomatic problems as I switch languages, but it is better than coming home and doing Java. :)
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by TJensen 17y ago
Ugh, yes, as others obviously smarter than I mentioned, it is that they are NOT driven by those dates. sigh I shouldn't post in the morning.
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by TJensen 17y ago
This is my favorite thing about using open source tools: they are driven by the "end of quarter" profits that put so much crap out in the the commercial environment. Ideally, we could get that mindset to move upstream to customers so commer
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Pearls From Multiple Languages(softwaremaven.innerbrane.com)
3 points by TJensen 17y ago|0 comments
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Do you really need $5k to bootstrap a business?
3 points by TJensen 17y ago|2 comments
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by TJensen 17y ago
I applaud FB for this one. I do not want somebody exporting my status updates into their RSS feed with no controls whatsoever. I have Twitter if I want a public feed. :)
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by TJensen 17y ago
That is the description of my life at the moment. Unfortunately, life demands (wife, children, mortgage) make it difficult to move on. In the meantime, getting out of bed is a chore. OK, I'll stop whining now. :)
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by TJensen 17y ago
That was my first thought. I agree that $100k is low for medical research, but it is very similar to the YC idea: fund something for a few months to see if it can get legs. If it can, additional investment can be found.
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by TJensen 17y ago
I'm not MS-hating. I tend to agree with the article that very few companies do something completely new, including MS and Google. MS did a brilliant job marketing. Regardless of whether you agree with their tactics, they executed on them in
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by TJensen 17y ago
My read of that was not that Microsoft wasn't a brilliant company, they just did not have any brilliant product ideas. Instead, they took ideas from others and did brilliant marketing. The point being that a really amazing idea is a very sm
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My iPhone and Django Application Beginnings(softwaremaven.innerbrane.com)
1 points by TJensen 17y ago|0 comments
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by TJensen 17y ago
YC should fund startups that have a chance to succeed. If women entrepreneurs come in with unique perspectives to target the under-served community of women on the intertubes, then great. Otherwise, it is a waste of money that doesn't benef
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by TJensen 17y ago
FWIW, I switch from django-rest-interface to django-piston. The models are very similar, but I think piston is a little cleaner. It also seems to be a little more actively developed (at least, according to the source histories).

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