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by ammmir 15y ago
sounds like a paid version of http://builditwith.me/ also, ditch the name, it's terrible if you have to spell it for people to get it.
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by ammmir 15y ago
pyobjc is how i got exposed to objective-c. it's a joy to use if you have your app in python, but i've heard complaints about the python-objc bridge leaking memory, so you may end up doing memory management in python (alloc, init, etc.) on
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by ammmir 15y ago
amen. it's far too easy to get stuck in a rut of just building and not shipping and getting feedback. this happened to me recently. i kept wanting to add one more little feature and improve efficiency, but all that time could have been used
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by ammmir 16y ago
i've recently started using f.lux [1], which adjusts the color temperature of the screen based on the time. after a night of coding, i've noticed i've been able to fall asleep more quickly, probably since my eyes adjust to the ambient warm
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by ammmir 16y ago
didn't load for me; you should throw up an example screenshot of what the score looks like. have you thought about making an embeddable score widget (similar to what ohloh has) that you could put on a blog?
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by ammmir 16y ago
yeah, no point in me stopping when the product is 80% built already (of course the last 20% is the toughest). i applied with a social photo search app... it's like greplin for photos and videos. if you want an invite to the beta, sign up at
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by ammmir 16y ago
is there an S3-like (or simplified) API for this service?
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by ammmir 16y ago
i believe you can edit your application, although unsure if it'll be reclassified as a "late entry."
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by ammmir 16y ago
is it really necessary to collect all applicants' passports even if only a fraction will be accepted?
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by ammmir 16y ago
you should prune the 404's. thanks for posting this, though. some of these are hilarious and great examples of what not to do!
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by ammmir 16y ago
great idea. i just signed up for the mountain view one. can't wait to find out who else is applying!
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by ammmir 16y ago
it would be nice to get something equivalent to X11 forwarding that would work with all native Mac apps.
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by ammmir 16y ago
yeah, i remember waiting in that line. everyone wanted the hero and people were frantically installing the SDK while in line.
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by ammmir 16y ago
good. don't worry about polish, just make it easy to find. i use github for this since it's very code-centric. doing stuff like this (it might not even need to be OSS) can be a bullet point or URL on a resume. you'll be ahead of many candid
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by ammmir 16y ago
programming is all about learning. when i was in high school, i started my first open-source project, an smtp server, and put it up on sourceforge. it was the crappiest C i've ever written, and even djb (of qmail fame) sent me a mail about
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Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-founder? (February 2011 Edition)
6 points by ammmir 16y ago|3 comments
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by ammmir 16y ago
woah, i just posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163688 about my startup camp experience and doing something similar but in reverse: calling you for new tweets. doing my app with the google speech recognition API would be awesome!
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Speak It, Baby [my StartUp Camp idea/experience](amir.unoc.net)
2 points by ammmir 16y ago|0 comments
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by ammmir 16y ago
exactly. it's as if your phone company were to reroute calls to non-existent numbers to toll number instead of the usual intercept message "the number you dialed is not in service." the catchall search/ads page wastes way more bandwidth and
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by ammmir 16y ago
someone at google referred me (but never told me), so i got to the onsite interview. on the application, i didn't put down the name of the googler who referred me. that definitely didn't help my chances :( i haven't applied again because co
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by ammmir 16y ago
anyone know of similar events around the peninsula? i'm in cupertino and as enticing as lunch in the city sounds, it's a bit far.
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by ammmir 16y ago
a modern look is nice, but it doesn't really add any functionality that was missing. how long will it take for them to offer full-text search? could someone else provide it?
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by ammmir 16y ago
this is just the motivational kick i needed to get back to finishing my prototype, thanks pg!
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by ammmir 16y ago
this reminds me of the geocities shutdown. you can't trust companies enough to keep data available and around forever. if you get too popular, controversial, or inactive, you should accept the fact that your data could be removed at any tim
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by ammmir 16y ago
i have fond memories at 7 or 8, of stealing the local computer club's QuickBASIC and Turbo Pascal compilers so i could finally create my own EXEs!
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by ammmir 16y ago
security and fancy crypto on the server don't mean much if your frontend interface submits passwords in plain text over the wire. a secure service shouldn't even serve up content on non-https URLs.
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by ammmir 16y ago
youtube could as well detect if you're running chrome os and use their HTML5 player instead of the Flash-based one. any idea why they don't do this by default on supported browsers? last time i checked, the HTML5 player was opt-in.
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by ammmir 16y ago
although i'm not using it yet, i'm looking at adding http://www.elasticsearch.com/ next to my MongoDB store for indexing and search. i particularly like its support for "rivers," and support for push vs. pull method of indexing remote sou
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by ammmir 16y ago
i'd say if you're just starting out and have a chance to work for a big company that's been around longer than google, go for it. there's a lot to learn from large orgs that you aren't necessarily exposed to in small team environments. afte
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Continuous availability deployment of node.js apps(amir.unoc.net)
1 points by ammmir 16y ago|0 comments

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