antileet

13 ms·

61.
Drive: The surprising truth of what motivates us [video](youtube.com)
1 points by antileet 16y ago|2 comments
62.
by antileet 16y ago
Remember when voice recognition was all the rage? I remember when I was younger and some kid on the block got a copy of some voice recognition software. Plus, he was the only one with a computer with horsepower to run it. Anyways, we all sa
63.
by antileet 16y ago
> You know a company can work on more than one thing at the time. I too feel that they need to experiment and push the envelope forward. But Canonical doesn't seem to have _that_ many developers that they can focus on too many items. Of
64.
by antileet 16y ago
It was an interesting proof of concept. I'm not sure how much the parallax-correction or full-screen toggling would help but there seem to be many more possibilities. This is a great opportunity for Canonical or other developers to build in
65.
by antileet 16y ago
A major selling point of this seems to be that you can package your application into a nice little bundle and just push it into your deployment environment. In fact, I would appreciate if there was a way to make static files (like js and cs
66.
by antileet 16y ago
This seems to be what Flask is to Django and what Sinatra is to Rails (From a very brief amount observation). There's a huge trend to move into more "lightweight", "self-hosted" types of development. After building a moderate sized applicat
67.
by antileet 16y ago
I'm primarily a .NET developer on Linux. While I'm comfortable with other languages, and am quite proficient at using vim & and a little emacs - it simply makes no sense to not use an IDE for Java or C#. These are tools built around the
68.
by antileet 16y ago
We've been building our web-based product on Mono and MVC2 for two months and are set to launch in under two weeks. Initial benchmarks showed that the performance isn't that great compared to the same application running on Windows, but com
69.
by antileet 16y ago
Hi Zed, Can you please elaborate with some details about how "broken" python is on systems, and the situation with python 2.4? According to the article, "recent Ubuntu releases" had broken/deprecated python installations. A quick search rev
70.
by antileet 16y ago
"What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones
71.
by antileet 16y ago
I actually set out looking for a co-founder a few months ago when I was starting to build the product. Since most of my friends went to big-name jobs right after graduation, nobody was particularly keen on starting up. I hit up all the netw
72.
by antileet 16y ago
Funnily enough, the auto-completion censors profanity.
73.
by antileet 16y ago
Seems it is easy enough to confuse even Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0+degrees+kelvin+%2B+0+... Funnily enough the original query is handled well[1] by W|A: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0+degrees+celsius+%2B
74.
by antileet 16y ago
Right. That makes sense. However, since this solution isn't spectacularly scalable, I'm not too worried.
75.
by antileet 16y ago
The author states it might be useful in guessing valid company email addresses. Isn't it easier to create a CSV/Outlook compatible file containing hundreds of generated addresses, and then ask Facebook to find new friends for you. Plus, th
76.
by antileet 16y ago
Ah! Found a few really nice plugins which I hadn't heard about before. Thanks. I was looking for something like yankring.
77.
by antileet 16y ago
I use Bufkill and bufexplorer for a very special use case. I've got $EDITOR set to "gvim --remote --wait" which means that the file is opened in an existing instance of vim. Unlike "gvim --remote" which will return control to the shell the
78.
by antileet 16y ago
I have my entire .vim directory on github. You can see my plugins folder here: http://github.com/ninjagod/etc/tree/master/vim/plugin/ I've been using Vim for three years or so. Apart from the usual bunch of plugins (NERD_tree, snipmate, e
79.
by antileet 16y ago
Your point is very valid, and I would imagine that prevents really high-quality and groundbreaking applications to be built. However that would not explain why a majority of applications are sub-par quality. If I was a developer and wanted
80.
by antileet 16y ago
I have met a good number of people who have immigrated without any problem. The policies are sufficiently liberal last time I heard.
81.
by antileet 16y ago
OP was inquiring about opportunities in Asian cities, so I just pitched the positive sides. Sure there are tons of negative sides (some of which I have to deal with as well) and isn't exceptionally friendly to non-locals. But if you're look
82.
by antileet 16y ago
If you're caucasian, yeah - there will be a few people who will try to take some kind of advantage of your naivety. If you're a little careful and take some time getting used to it, you should be fine. OP was asking for relatively cheaper,
83.
by antileet 16y ago
I'm going to go ahead and recommend Bangalore (Disclaimer - I live here right now). While popular belief and stereotypes might have you believe that the city only has Call Centers and Outsourcing companies - it has a pretty bright startup c
84.
by antileet 16y ago
Thankfully Steve Yegge is popular, and there are enough mentions of him online in a positive light. If such an article mentioning someone's full name in the Title and URL was published about someone less famous - regardless of how baseless
85.
by antileet 16y ago
Well, the author clearly understands best practices much, much, better than he understands satire.
86.
by antileet 16y ago
After about four years of using Vim, I'm starting to see it's more of a paradigm (and almost a philosophy) built into an editor, rather than the editor itself. One thing many people complain about when they switch to Vim is editor's inabili
87.
by antileet 16y ago
We're using ASP.Net MVC2 with Mongo DB as well. So far the experience has been fabulous. Even more so considering that the entire development process from coding to deployment has been done completely on Linux - giving us more flexibility w
88.
by antileet 16y ago
Look at the related questions, the names of the users and other page elements. Someone's just modified the DOM content.
89.
Github Badges (Built during Open hack day, India)(github-badges.heroku.com)
1 points by antileet 16y ago|0 comments
90.
by antileet 16y ago
I switched from a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard to a relatively basic Mechanical Keyboard with Blue Cherry keycaps. My typing experience has never been better, and I really recommend investing in a good mechanical keyboard for everyo

More ›