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by apitaru 14y ago
Many of us here have experienced our work getting cloned by others. While I totally get that 'everything is a remix', I still can't help but feel that kick in the gut every time this happens. I am always bothered by how much I care. It took
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by apitaru 14y ago
In the past 10 years I was able to support my side-projects (see profile) and family life (we have 2 years old) by not having a day job, but instead carefully choosing freelance projects. Here's how it works: Freelancing allows me the flexi
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by apitaru 14y ago
Great post. I used to often speak publicly. Last week I gave my first talk in years, to a large crowd. I was nervous because of how long has passed since I've last done it, but then I remembered my old habit. Before my talks I used to spen
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by apitaru 14y ago
That's great to hear. Overal I love the concept but worry about your marketing. The Bloomberg stunt was clever and fun, but placing the words 'code' and 'easy' side-by-side can lead to frustration on the back-end of your proposition. Coding
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by apitaru 14y ago
Congrats to Codecademy. I hope they spend it wisely on fulfilling their promise that "Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code." I'm a bit worried about what might happen to all these young potential coders if the marketing doesn'
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by apitaru 14y ago
This project has tremendous potential for children with special needs. I've basically had to build a similar device from scratch in 2006 as part of my ITP (NYU) thesis project [1]. This could have saved me so much time! Backing it, and hope
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by apitaru 14y ago
On a somewhat related note, my dad (a dentist and scientist) recently discovered that there are stem cells that are almost as easy to manipulate as embryonic ones .. in our mouthes [1][2]. He always wondered why our gums heal so quickly, ev
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by apitaru 15y ago
I found a simple method that works really well: ask the student to invent their own language syntax on paper. We start with a simple language that can draw on screen, and proceed from there. I'm noticing that Students naturally discover man
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by apitaru 15y ago
Oh I'm sorry! It was intended for this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3204525
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by apitaru 15y ago
I found a simple method that works really well: ask the student to invent their own language syntax on paper. We start with a simple language that can draw on screen, and proceed from there. I'm noticing that Students naturally discover man
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by apitaru 15y ago
If I could drive one thing into the collective minds of FaceBook users, it would be this: "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold" *Andrew Lewis
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by apitaru 15y ago
Having been through the Director, Flash and now HTML5 fads, I dream of a day when this title would suffice on HN: "Plink, a multiplayer music game" This is just to say - I enjoyed Plink very much and would have just the same regardless of t
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by apitaru 15y ago
Great job, it's a simple no BS calculator that does exactly what it sais it does. And good call not asking for registration, and going the way of a sharable url instead. I'll be using this. Thanks! update: I can imagine wanting an account t
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by apitaru 15y ago
Reading this tutorial reminded me of the first time I realized how handy a bit of math can be for animation. I think it was this little ease-out snippet that opened my eyes (served me well for years to come): posX += (destX - posX)/ slowdow
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by apitaru 15y ago
..And many years later, his son Tristan has made a few drawing machines of his own: http://www.tristanperich.com/Art/Machine_Drawings/
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by apitaru 15y ago
Kyle just posted a new demo video - he's playing around with the idea of the "Scrambler Suite" from A Scanner Darkly - http://vimeo.com/29391633
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by apitaru 15y ago
For those not familiar with Jacob Nielsen, take a look at his article - "Flash: 99% Bad" http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html It was written in 2000 - at the hight of Flash craze. He was right then, and he is right today .. UI/UX d
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by apitaru 16y ago
I think you're off to a great start. Looking forward to seeing you grow the service. I recommend heading over to the http://www.advrider.com/ forums - it's a great community of riders (mostly dual-sport) and I'm sure you'll get great feed
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by apitaru 16y ago
Is there a place we can learn more about the Nitro engine for Safari? For example, will it support webGL?
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by apitaru 16y ago
Just one - http://sws.cc/ , and a couple more on the way. I'm using http://openframeworks.cc instead Objective C, and so far very happy with it.
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by apitaru 16y ago
Thanks for the library! It's always great to see new game-dev solutions for JavaScript coders. It would be interesting to embed the game inside a native iOS app and distribute it through the app store... http://ejohn.org/blog/iphone-javasc
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by apitaru 16y ago
While this particular project seems like a novelty item, I recommend taking a closer look at Daito, one of the artist-hackers mentioned in the article. I enjoyed digging a bit deeper into the works on his site. http://www.daito.ws/
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by apitaru 16y ago
I would encourage Maxwell to check out Chuck Hoberman for inspiration.. even get in touch with him. Hoberman studied Sculpture at Cooper Union, and Engineering in Columbia. He is the inventor of the Hoberman Sphere (an expanding geometrical
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by apitaru 16y ago
I think google is actually easier (or as easy) to type compared to bing. Look at the position of your fingers as you type it.. the repetition of G/O and the close proximity of L/E respectively makes it a easy to type without looking at the
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A BASIC interpreter app for your iOS(itunes.apple.com)
1 points by apitaru 16y ago|0 comments
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by apitaru 16y ago
Perhaps worth mentioning that the Arduino project is somewhat related to the http://processing.org/ programming language (basically sugar coating Java). I've had the pleasure of introducing many artists to the world of programming via Pro
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Cherokee nation successfully gets Apple to include Cherokee language on iOS(yhoo.it)
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by apitaru 16y ago
Plantly (Brooklyn) is hiring an engineer. We've nailed remote-working down to a science, and also have a great studio to hang/stay at when if you're around. Help us with our deployment stack, balance agility and security. We love Ruby &
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by apitaru 16y ago
Check out Tristan Perishe's beautiful 1-bit symphony. He also builds minimal circuits by hand, and I'm always surprised at how rich and complex the music is. http://www.1bitsymphony.com/
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by apitaru 16y ago
I also love this term. It reminded me of a wonderful post by Marc Andreessen from 2007, where he discusses "Luck and the entrepreneur.. The four kinds of luck" http://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur In the post, he skillfully diss

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