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by austinl 13y ago
I've been wanting to write something similar for a long time. I left high school feeling very "bad at math", and now I'm a CS major with a math minor. I think the biggest problem in my approach to learning was my refusal
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by austinl 13y ago
This seems to be a more and more prevalent model for funding non-AAA games. A good proportion of the games on the front page of Steam right now are "Early Access", which work in a similar manner - funding upfront, continual develo
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by austinl 13y ago
From Humble Bundle's FAQ: Q: How will the Humble Store be different from Steam and other game stores? A: We think that every store is great for gaming. When we built the first Humble Bundle, we saw not only an opportunity to support ga
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by austinl 13y ago
The chicken and egg problem can be pretty frustrating with an app like this. There needs to be a critical mass of users in a certain area for it to be reliable, which is easier in some places than others. Best of luck though.
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by austinl 13y ago
"Our hire rate out of trial week is around 66%, which feels like the right level." 66% seems quite low for that kind of arrangement, enough to be discouraged from applying in the first place unless you're currently jobless. I
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by austinl 13y ago
I definitely agree with a model that places emphasis on past work/projects. "To find out if they can get stuff done, I just ask what they’ve done. If someone can actually get stuff done they should have done so by now. It’s hard t
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by austinl 13y ago
Current college student, probably have written 5,000+ lines of C directly related to class assignments
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by austinl 13y ago
Always glad to see people doing stuff at a young age. Keep learning and keep up the good work!
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by austinl 13y ago
Totally agree - a while a go I posted a tutorial on HN about how to create Apple's "Your First iOS App" without using storyboards or IB. It started a pretty good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by austinl 13y ago
http://thepiratebay.sx/ ? I admit their search function is terrible, but it has nearly everything. They've had great uptime for a while now too.
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by austinl 13y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through some of the old applications. Here's Drew Houston's app for Dropbox back in 2007 - everything is plain and concise. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.ht
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by austinl 13y ago
Same exact experience - I was at least hoping for some cool natural language processing. Their "generate reports" feature just scrapes text from Wikipedia...
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by austinl 13y ago
I can see why it was brought down, but it would definitely be useful if the owner of the account and Digital Ocean could work together to resolve the issue. At least some sort of notification should be in place.
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by austinl 13y ago
I was curious when I saw that Cygnus was/will be destroyed on re-entry , while Dragon is reusable. I don't know anything about spacecraft, but that seems like a fundamental difference in engineering in favor of SpaceX
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by austinl 13y ago
Here's another easter egg - it's a sarcastic warning if you try to perform date operations on a nil date: " -[__NSCFCalendar components:fromDate:]: date cannot be nil I mean really, what do you think that operation is suppose
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Phonebloks - a phone with completely interchangeable parts (thunderclap.it)
7 points by austinl 13y ago|0 comments
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Telecom Giant BT Turns off Dial-Up(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by austinl 13y ago|0 comments
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by austinl 13y ago
As a younger developer, I struggle to imagine our senior developers - who have been doing complicated things for 5-10+ years - ever stoop to a number to quantify their experience. I suppose that senior developers are probably not the target
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by austinl 13y ago
Could you imagine if they also won the right to "Insta-" as well?
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Show HN: BARK - submit GitHub issues by shaking your phone(stagebloc.com)
11 points by austinl 13y ago|1 comments
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by austinl 13y ago
Advisors should provide connections to get your business to the next stage. Whether that means helping you land a Series A or getting you intros to business partners, it's typically worth a lot more than dev skills - which is why they
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by austinl 13y ago
Living in Logan Square, I can attest to this http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/chicago/hipster
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by austinl 13y ago
It's still on: https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/around-the-world
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by austinl 13y ago
To compete with Lightning, it looks like you have to submit content 1-4 times per day. Most submissions only get a few points. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Lightning
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by austinl 13y ago
Chicago resident here - I think the map of Chicago is fairly accurate. It's also interesting to see a number of red dots along the blue line (part of Chicago's public transit system that runs from O'Hare to downtown)
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by austinl 13y ago
I think this got through too http://conditionsapp.com/
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by austinl 14y ago
I'm 90% certain that it can, but I haven't worked with it in a while. I remember a setting in the display options that simply combined all the dots of one color into one large group.
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by austinl 14y ago
I've been doing Facebook network visualization for a while now with Gephi. Here are some of the graphs I came up with: http://visualizingpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/facebook...
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Your First iOS App – 100% Programmatically(blog.austinlouden.com)
225 points by austinl 14y ago|107 comments
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by austinl 14y ago
Props to Scribd, this is the first time I've seen a company include a tool that lets you check if your account might have compromised. http://www.scribd.com/password/check

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