Ygor

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by Ygor 15y ago
I am very good at failing standard captchas on many sites. I always blamed Captchas as being to hard and not user friendly. This title got me wondering - maybe it was by design, and I am an idiot.
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by Ygor 15y ago
Depends on the definition of the term vegetarian. You can go with the "no meat, but fish and bugs allowed" definiton? I wonder why do we, as humans, consider eating bugs strange, and why haven't they evolved as a regular part of the modern
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by Ygor 15y ago
I would argue that there are only two important questions when considering which of the two approaches to take: what are you building, and who you are building it for. Everything else falls behind. Points like "but than I will have to build
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by Ygor 15y ago
One of the best things about this type of games is the unexpected results you can get. And I am not talking about Easter eggs or different endgames some mainstream games boast themselves with. I am talking about really unexpected game situa
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by Ygor 15y ago
The question now is will this be the Hindenburg moment of this type of services, or is it just a speed bump? We'll see how all this bad press is going to spread across the rest of the mainstream media and tabloids. I know we are all disappo
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by Ygor 15y ago
Yep, it works now. Looks really good. I wish all the best to everything made in Croatia. Small remark: it is not clear what this is about from the front page alone. The about us link at the bottom does a good job explaining it, however. May
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by Ygor 15y ago
For some reason, your app crashes my browser. Firefox 4, it stops responding.
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by Ygor 15y ago
"Microsoft hasn't had good products or good intentions in a very long time." No good products? Maybe we define "good" differently, but saying that MS hasn't had any good products for a very long time is just not true. Maybe this proves
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by Ygor 15y ago
How about social search? Sparks has a huge potential, doesn't it? Facebook's greatest strength is its huge social graph. However, they still didn't create a really valuable social search. Facebook can easily mimic google circles. But, who w
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by Ygor 15y ago
I had the opposite reaction: At first only a couple of close friends were in my circles, and it felt like a true social site. Even though many of us are miles and miles apart, we were sharing, talking, hanging out and posting. All this with
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by Ygor 15y ago
When I think about all the issues being addressed in many talks such as this, one thought comes to mind: "This is why we can’t have nice things." We have the technology, the skill and the knowledge to do so much we couldn't even dream about
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by Ygor 15y ago
Wouldn't using an external service also put you in the same risk? Or was that what you said too, but just mentioned the service as an example? Isn't the best option to have the domain you control list all the details you want, including the
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by Ygor 15y ago
Last summer, when I got one of the then best Android smart phones on the market, from all the cool features and interesting capabilities, the question I got asked the most was: "How many megapixels does it have?". It took me some time to ge
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by Ygor 15y ago
"Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam." Hence the rubber duck debugging method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by Ygor 15y ago
Do you think that we need companies like IBM? I mean, by the income metric Apple is obviously better than IBM. But, if there was no IBM, would the space be filled with multiple smaller and more profitable companies, or would there just be a
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by Ygor 15y ago
Not really directly connected, but in embedded systems you can actually see a lot of hardware software codesign approaches. There is an approach called NISC [1] (No Instruction Set Computer), where the instruction set is completely removed
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by Ygor 15y ago
I personally do the complete opposite - avoid thinking about work stuff before sleep. I believe you should take some time for yourself, doing the thing you like other than working, and thinking about/doing that. Being relaxed and not thinki
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by Ygor 15y ago
It raises a valid question: How to find reliable sources for stories such as this? Is it even possible, concerning the usual secrecy of similar processes?
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by Ygor 16y ago
Yes, I agree. And, since I got a couple of questions about how to best find this, in this example google search query: "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer site:news.ycombinator.com" returns the previous discussions right at the top. I know most of
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by Ygor 16y ago
My chain of thought while reading this article: 1. "It would be cool if I had a web app for this." 2. "Hey, I can build a web app for this." 3. "There must already be an app like this" 4. "In fact, I bet someone has already commented on HN
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by Ygor 16y ago
Do you think releasing stuff like this might be bad for the university since the students have the possibility to learn without actually enrolling, thus depriving the university of some potentially good students? Or is the effect opposite -
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by Ygor 16y ago
Did you read the naming philosophy section? This bit is interesting: "Think about this scenario: You're at a party and someone asks you where you work. If you say "I work for shoes.com," it's pretty obvious that you work for a website that
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by Ygor 16y ago
You are correct, ofcourse. It is not the fault of the tool, but of a developer. The tool just made it easier.
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by Ygor 16y ago
After using GWT for a year as the basic tool for a project, I am not sure if I would choose it again. I would, but only for a certain type of web apps. I can't say it is bad. Actually, it has been pretty good. But, somehow when I look at al
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by Ygor 16y ago
It depends. For someone who has no experience with html/css layouts, and has the ability to build his own design from scratch, creating the layout in code might seem simpler. The reason: it feels similar to creating desktop app layouts (i.e
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by Ygor 16y ago
Yes, that was the problem. Thanks for the clarification. It indeed sounded very strange to me, since I am not familiar with the topic.
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by Ygor 16y ago
Does this statement sound stupid only to me? "We said you can drive a car, not a blue car."
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by Ygor 16y ago
Spread the word.
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by Ygor 16y ago
"they ought to clean up their very Web 1.0 UX" SO has one of the best UX on the web. I don't care if you call it Web 1.0, 2.0 or Blue Oranges 35, but don't clean it. And also - "clean up by letting people log in with Twitter and Facebook"?
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by Ygor 16y ago
Pro: People stop abusing and overusing ccTLDs. (maybe not?) Con: Many major services go done, which causes a lot of unhappiness and headaches. (does it?)

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