awolf

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by awolf 17y ago
I had an idea for in iPhone app just like this. In my head, I called it "WriteHere". I didn't make it because it seemed like a classic chicken-and-egg problem: the app won't be compelling until it has a lot of quality user generated content
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by awolf 17y ago
This is a great project. Anyone who is looking for an alternate to SQL should check MongoDB out. Now that they have reached a stable milestone it seems like a no brainer for write-often read-rarely types of applications (logging, metrics).
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by awolf 17y ago
Also of note: they released a winx64 distributable in the past couple weeks. Previously only linux and mac had 64 bit distributables.
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by awolf 17y ago
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/ Was sold in less than an hour of reading.
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by awolf 17y ago
Have you ever used a different framework? I started my web development career on asp.net but now that I have experience with django I wish to never see another line of asp.net code again.
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by awolf 17y ago
When you eat near bedtime you get much less restfull sleep during the first part of the night (i.e. the most important part of the night for sleep) because your metabolism is still active digesting the food. Simple as that.
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by awolf 17y ago
This is [REDACTED].
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by awolf 17y ago
I hate to jump on any sensationalist bandwagons, but shame on Apple. Of course this a techcrunch article- so I have to ask: is there any other side to this they are leaving out?
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by awolf 17y ago
What really works for me is just time. Give yourself extra time in the morning to sit and think. The morning is the most peaceful of day and I find that enjoying quiet solitude every day before heading to work really helps me to find inner
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by awolf 17y ago
"After 10 hours of being awake, the early birds showed reduced activity in brain areas linked to attention span, compared with the night owls." Yah fine... but this study says nothing about the quality or intensity of the early birds vs. ni
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by awolf 17y ago
To take it a step further digg should try to generate publicity around this and get other web apps on board. I'd love to see a "ditch IE6 day" where thereafter I can just pretend all web browsers know how to render transparent pngs.
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by awolf 17y ago
I agree about the commonly understood standards of discourse. With that in mind, it would be left up to the blog author to "opt in" by deciding to routinely grab their hacker news comments and integrate them into their own. The comments are
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Feature Suggestion: YC Comment Forwarding
3 points by awolf 17y ago|2 comments
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by awolf 17y ago
An app I wrote, Call Nearest, simply dials the nearest match based on Google API search results. As a developer of an app that once automatically dialed phone numbers for you, I can say this confirmation is not a big deal. In fact, I think
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by awolf 17y ago
Apple is master of the user Interface hands down. Where else besides a device you use contantly, in quick bursts, while on-the-go does user interface matter more? Sure some folks on HN will prefer an open OS- but for the general public it w
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by awolf 17y ago
HbA1c is 7.1. Not polish- 1/4 Austrian.
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by awolf 17y ago
It's only a matter of time before one of these Mobile Me adventure stories ends in a stabbing.
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by awolf 17y ago
I'm a type 1 diabetic. My when my glueclose levels are low from taking too much insulin and/or not eating enough I can certainly feel the effects in not being able to concentrate, being iritable, and often confused. But when my blood gluclo
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Former king of America's mortgage market charged with fraud(economist.com)
1 points by awolf 17y ago|0 comments