Timothee

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by Timothee 16y ago
I end up with some reference to H2G2, but can't figure out if that's the end. I can't find any next step from there, so I don't know if that's it. (NB: not trying to spoil the puzzle, just confused by the next step)
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by Timothee 16y ago
Not surprising coming from AirBnB, but this app looks very, very polished. It doesn't look much but the customization of all these standard UI elements (e.g. UITabBar as mentioned by sudont) makes a difference in the end. I would say espe
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by Timothee 16y ago
You're Dr. Seuss's ghostwriter, right?
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by Timothee 16y ago
I thought I had "beginner's luck", but it wasn't since it wasn't ;)
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by Timothee 16y ago
I didn't see that they had the full email ( http://www.businessinsider.com/google-bonus-and-raise-2010-1... ). In that case, that person wasn't very careful. One easy way to identify people would be to fingerprint each email by permuting wo
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by Timothee 16y ago
With presumably 23,000 people getting that email, unless the person (if only one did) was not careful at all, I don't think they could be discovered. (I'm not sure that anyone would really care either)
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by Timothee 16y ago
I wasn't expecting an anime character, but more something like in the movie S1m0ne ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/ ). In that movie, the movie/pop star is computer generated but is a "real" person and there actually is a scene with a
908.
by Timothee 16y ago
This is not real. It's presented as if the app is reflecting what's happening on the phone through an app and the table is reflecting the gestures back to the phone. All of this is completely fluid in the video. However, a friend of mine ha
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by Timothee 16y ago
Facebook goes further than the mutual friendships and takes into account all sorts of interactions like "Like"'s, comments, etc. and probably re-sharing of contents, common events, common pictures, common places... I've been told they use t
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by Timothee 16y ago
I learned early on that this was a degradation of a smiley face, but what surprised me is when I'd see it in emails which had gone through only Microsoft components: from Outlook to Outlook through Exchange, the J would still sometimes show
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by Timothee 16y ago
Interesting story, but I doubt that the "!!!!1!!11one!!" part is to make fun of leet. On the contrary, I'd say that this was to make fun of people who type in all caps (using Shift). In their hurry to write a great all-caps comment, they mi
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by Timothee 16y ago
I've heard that too, but it's just hard to believe that a company that can pack so much stuff in such small spaces (be it iOS devices or MacBook Air's) and is praised for its industrial design and great hardware engineering, can't figure ou
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by Timothee 16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, because I had completely forgotten that this was the case. (I actually can't remember at all, but I figure that I knew that from when they came out) They did go a long way in a short period of time. Winter 20
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by Timothee 16y ago
Thanks for your comment Patrick! I know from your comments here that you wouldn't take any product and recommend it lightly so I took your word for it and just installed it. Well, this is a weird transition for now! My screen is all yellow-
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by Timothee 16y ago
I figure I might not be the only one slightly confused by the different names and what each does: PadPressed is the WordPress plugin that makes any WordPress blog into something that looks good for the iPad (including homescreen icon, fulls
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by Timothee 16y ago
Regarding using pen and paper, for certain tasks, I'm never fully satisfied with either working on paper or doing it on a computer. For things like UI, mapping out the basic architecture of an app, on one hand I find that pen and paper is m
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by Timothee 16y ago
I never noticed that before. The spotlight view works symmetrically: full on when it's bound to appear, fades out when it disappears.
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by Timothee 16y ago
Note: this is from almost a year ago and it had been submitted to HN by the author, progrium, then. However it didn't get picked up and I'd be very interested to read what people think of this idea.
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POSS - running OSS web services in a self-sustaining way(poss.gliderlab.com)
3 points by Timothee 16y ago|2 comments
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by Timothee 16y ago
From Startup School as well, Adam D'Angelo said they answered a lot of questions themselves at first, Mark Zuckerberg said they had interns scrape the course info manually, Brian Chesky talked about how they recruited the first people thems
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by Timothee 16y ago
I would think that the point is that it's virtually losing no battery time while in sleep mode. So, if you have 5 hours of battery life fully charged when you leave the house, that really means 5 hours of the computer on, even if you use it
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by Timothee 16y ago
Interesting, I didn't know they had a free plan. (never looked into it that much) 5MB of DB and 1 "dyno" would be plenty for what I have in mind (let's be honest: 1kB would be sufficient :)), so I'll definitely keep it in mind as well. But
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by Timothee 16y ago
This convinced me to use AppEngine for a tiny little project I've been thinking of this past week. It'd be useful to me, probably others, but knowing that I wouldn't have to worry about anything on the hosting side (be it bandwidth, uptime.
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by Timothee 16y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noted that! That's one of the things that struck me: in "regular" settings, the usual question is "what do you do?"; at Startup School, it was always "what are you working on?". Subtle but telling differenc
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by Timothee 16y ago
I liked Ron Conway, Brian Chesky and Tom Preston-Werner the most. But it's kind of hard to choose overall. pg's state of the funding was very interesting but can be found in writing on his site. Adam D'Angelo had some good insights (if you'
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by Timothee 16y ago
Based on the number of comments below of people who applied late and did get in, don't be surprised if you see a lot of hits to http://news.ycombinator.com/apply2 , http://news.ycombinator.com/apply3 , http://news.ycombinator.com/apply4.
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by Timothee 16y ago
I do, mostly because I believe that if I were ashamed of what I had to say here, it probably wouldn't be worth saying in the first place. Some here mentioned not wanting to be attached too much to a site that has "hackers" in its name, but
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by Timothee 16y ago
Looks like a good way to partly solve the hiring problem (or so I hear) for the startups by bringing some likely interested/interesting people in. pg, good use of that byproduct of Startup School!
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by Timothee 16y ago
Sure, but the 10/GUI is managing the windows though. It's a different way of doing window management, but that's still what is it. I'm curious to know if ary had something else in mind.
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by Timothee 16y ago
I have a suspicion that among other things, 10.7 will introduce some new conventions to the basic problems of window management (though I might be a little biased). For anyone not sure why mortenjock is biased, I recommend viewing his con

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