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by adriand 13y ago
> You can argue that we can communicate using images, but that communication is limited when compared to words. Like so many other things, it depends. When people are online looking to book a bed and breakfast, buy a pair of shoes or fin
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Perl-style Regexp Matching in Ruby(factore.ca)
5 points by adriand 13y ago|1 comments
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by adriand 13y ago
This product is a sad example of the lengths to which some people will go in order to avoid spending time on tasks which are generally necessary and often quite enjoyable and rewarding. Cooking certainly fits this description: it's an enjo
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by adriand 13y ago
Another awesome thing about Flickr is how good its API is. If you look around for web apps and mobile apps that do something interesting with photos, they're almost always built using Flickr's API, for good reason: it's likely the most ope
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by adriand 14y ago
> only a tiny minority here actually code I don't think that's true at all. I would guess that the majority of HN users can code, and that many of them - certainly not a "tiny minority" - do on a regular basis. If HN polls are at all
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by adriand 14y ago
This post is somewhat odd, because their site design is so clean and simple that it seems like an easy candidate for RWD. I don't really see how this design is unconstrained compared to what they'd be able to implement if they used a respo
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by adriand 14y ago
The problem is that these clients have a particular budget. Perhaps they have $15,000 to spend. I tell them it's going to be $18,000. Someone else tells them they can do it for $7,000. They go off and spend $7,000, then come to me becaus
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by adriand 14y ago
I've started to feel that todo apps have one major problem: they don't do the work for you. And this is why we're so obsessed with todo apps - we don't really want to do the work, we just want to play around with how we prioritize and organ
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by adriand 14y ago
That is really cool! Seems to me you're close to having a product you could sell. Nice work!
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by adriand 14y ago
Agreed, this is really cool. Can you post a video that shows you driving it while tilting your phone?
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by adriand 14y ago
There's Rails Mentors - http://www.railsmentors.org/ I've been a mentor on there for ages and I've "mentored" several people - probably around 7 or 8. The reason I put quotation marks around "mentored" is because of all the people who ha
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by adriand 14y ago
Looks interesting. Just a quick tip, the <title> tag spells Atreides wrong.
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by adriand 14y ago
Could people who picked up pieces of confetti and stuck them together in order to decipher their contents be charged with a crime, similarly to how people have been prosecuted for "hacking" by retrieving information through trivial tinkerin
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by adriand 14y ago
> What makes Mars so great for producing software that would cover the added expense of firing a programmer all the way there in a rocket? I'm not sure if you're asking this question rhetorically or not, but one answer might be that you
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I'll be watching over you - letters from space(lettersofnote.com)
1 points by adriand 14y ago|0 comments
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Markdown Here - a browser extension that lets you write email in Markdown(github.com)
1 points by adriand 14y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 14y ago
This may be a stupid question, but if the device requires power in order to move air over the water-collecting surface, would it work without power if it were outside in a breeze? Or is there something about the air flow in terms of its ch
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by adriand 14y ago
This article, and the author's critique of Ray Kurzweil's latest book, which was also on HN last week, makes me think about a powerful point made by David Deutsch in his book "The Beginning of Infinity". He says (excuse the paraphrasing) t
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Mastering the Art of Bosslessness(updates.lifehacker.com)
2 points by adriand 14y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 14y ago
On the rare occasions when my five-year-old son gets his hands on my Macbook, he frequently tries to interact with it by tapping and swiping the screen. Growing up with tablets around, this is natural to him. I know that's just one anecdo
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by adriand 14y ago
He wrote the Helicopter game when he was 16 years old and went through YC when he was 19 and you're criticizing him for making a clone of some other game? That's a hell of an achievement for anyone, let alone a teenager. And let's not for
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by adriand 14y ago
Nice find! I watches the video and I believe you are correct.
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They Work Long Hours, But What About Results?(nytimes.com)
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by adriand 14y ago
Classy response. Now here's your chance to take lemons and make lemonade. Clearly your pet project is something that people find really interesting and useful. So it went public before you intended and had some security flaws: oh well, t
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by adriand 14y ago
The actual title of this article is "Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users", which casts less blame than the modified title here on HN, "Another Way Apple's Fight Against Google Is Hurting Users". It is unfair to present th
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by adriand 14y ago
Looked at in an alternative light, this video can be seen as rather courageous. It acknowledges the problems that developers for the BB platform have faced, and directly addresses some of the doubts and fears developers must be experiencin
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by adriand 14y ago
Frankly, if I can't get there in less than 1/2 an hour on my bicycle, I don't think I'm interested.
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by adriand 14y ago
I understand the experience may not be ideal (I haven't tried it out yet, either), but take a moment to reflect on what they actually did: in a little over a year Apple completely replaced one of iOS's core technologies, one that relies on
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by adriand 14y ago
I can't stand these coffee capsules. The amount of waste they generate is absurd for a process which should really only produce negligible compostable waste (coffee grounds and perhaps coffee filters). Plus, I doubt the plastic capsules a
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by adriand 14y ago
I really appreciate the offer, but just to be clear, I didn't fund the whole treatment! (I'm a beer drinker, but I live near Toronto and won't be near San Francisco any time soon - but if plans change, will do.) I know you've had a ton of

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