azylman

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by azylman 14y ago
The biggest argument for not validating email addresses shouldn't be that "it's hard". It should be that email providers don't always follow RFC guidelines . At my old job, we had this really weird bug that, after a lot of work, we tracked
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by azylman 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4460296
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by azylman 14y ago
This post really spoke to me - all my life, I'd lived in the Midwest - first in Minnesota (coincidentally enough) then in Illinois for college. In October last year (the beginning of my senior year in college) I received a nice, safe offer
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by azylman 14y ago
The videos still don't fill the whole screen when not maximized like Netflix. :( Also, HuluWithMe doesn't work in it. Other than that, I like it a lot.
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by azylman 14y ago
It looks like it's not actually a design community, contrary to what the title here says. They say on their site: "Search by tag(s) through many tutorials, tools, and assets for developers and designers" Then they have postings on things su
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by azylman 14y ago
Actually, prior documents released from Motorola and Apple show that Motorola wanted 2.25% of Apple's revenue for its patents[1] - on a $500 device, that's $1.50. Apple rejected those terms. Compare that to Apple's demand of $40/device from
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by azylman 14y ago
In a sense, you're right. Apple offered to license it's tech to Samsung in 2010 for a whopping $40/device - personally, I don't think that a fee that exorbitant counts, but that's personal opinion. I thing Apple knew they were offering an u
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by azylman 14y ago
While I would obviously prefer to see no patent lawsuits, Motorola's lawsuit here is very different from Apple's against Samsung. Apple refuses to license their patents - Samsung et. al. went to Apple and said "won't you please allow us to
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by azylman 14y ago
Apple has sued Google-owned Motorola and Android handset manufacturers, so yes. Now Google-owned Motorola is suing back.
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by azylman 14y ago
You used to need to do different things for AJAX depending on browser version. My guess is that's what they're referring to. For example, older versions of Internet Explorer used "ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")" instead of "XMLHttpReque
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by azylman 14y ago
Just because I "can" do something doesn't mean I "want" to do something or that it's the best way to use my time. That's like saying that we don't need expressive function names in code because we can just refer to the documentation.
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by azylman 14y ago
I really hoped that this was going to be a joke about how, if you use black, Apple will sue you for patent infringement...
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by azylman 14y ago
If you read the report and not just the article headline, you'll see that Samsung's report wasn't "hey guys, we should make our phone exactly like the iPhone" but, rather, "hey guys, here's things the iPhone does better than us - we should
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by azylman 14y ago
I don't think I'd view book publishing as content production - a better analogy would be if they had writers on staff, writing the books, which they don't, as far as I'm aware.
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by azylman 14y ago
I think this is the behavior most people are going to prefer. It seems like it's pretty general to use "watch" for what is now a "Star" (i.e. something you find interesting but don't want updates from) so this will probably please the most
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by azylman 14y ago
I know they paid the highest, but how many of them were there? That's the key metric he's talking about. Was Linux 10% of Humble Bundle sales? 20%? What was it?
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by azylman 14y ago
Here's my cheating version that uses a third-party library: add1_cheating = (arr, val, n) -> n = arr.length if n is 0 start = if n < 0 then arr.length else 0 end = if n < 0 then 0 else arr.length st
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by azylman 14y ago
There was only two ways I could think of to do this without the double reverse. One would introduce more complex branches (looping backwards in CoffeeScript ain't easy) and the other would be using Underscore.js's range function to do the s
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by azylman 14y ago
Solution in CoffeeScript: add1 = (arr, val, n) -> n = arr.length if n is 0 arr = arr.reverse() if n < 0 count = 0 for num, i in arr break if count > (Math.abs n) arr[i]++ if num is v
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by azylman 14y ago
Keynote's just the state of the art in Powerpoint presentations You know Microsoft succeeded when Powerpoint has become so generic that Keynote is described as being for "Powerpoint presentations".
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by azylman 14y ago
To be honest, I didn't get the "principled" impression out of anything written here - I think the author was just trying to soften the blow a little bit...
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by azylman 14y ago
The article does not point out that sampling quora users might not be (I would say is probably not) an unbiased estimator of the the students of these places as a whole. From the article: Also, a word of warning: my dataset was fairly sm
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by azylman 14y ago
Amerteurish would be to blindly carry on launching a product and then releaseing version 2.0 that fixed all the issues and making the 1.0 unsuported. Sounds like Google TV...
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by azylman 14y ago
Yep, because "Samsung" and "Apple" is dangerously close to "Levy's" and "Levi's".
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by azylman 14y ago
I have to admit, I'd always sort of dismissed "bizdev" and the like, but this summer I'm working for a small, three-person startup that's one developer and two sales/bizdev and it's completely changed my mind - they're absolutely fantastic.
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by azylman 14y ago
add(foo, bar) isn't any clearer than foo + bar, but usually an overloaded operator doesn't correspond to "add". For example, in Javascript: "Hello" + " " + "World!". What the operator there is doing is concatenating the strings, so if you h
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Native-looking native apps on any platform using mobile GWT and phonegap(googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com)
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while 60% of men in start-ups believe diverse teams are better at innovation and problem-solving, only 41% would be in favor of a companywide hiring practice to increase diversity. Really? If 60% believed, for example, that knowing how to
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by azylman 14y ago
A lot of the small, new businesses/restaurants in Evanston, IL use Square with an iPad for POS.
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by azylman 14y ago
All you need to do is look at how the tech press/community is ALREADY talking about this. See the quote from Andreessen[1] that I already talked about or, alternatively, another TechCrunch article that just got published: What a time for M

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