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by bbq 14y ago
And also 3 new tablets. Kindle Fire upgrade, and two Kindle Fire "HD" editions.
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by bbq 14y ago
Similarly, The Making of Prince of Persia is a great read: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/ Also available as an ebook: http://jordanmechner.com/ebook/
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by bbq 14y ago
Thanks for linking to the electronica. I've been looking for some new stuff.
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by bbq 14y ago
Thanks, this makes sense. I've also heard host affinity referred to as stickiness before.
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by bbq 14y ago
>how to make writes immediately consistent to the originating user and then fan them out to other users over the course of the next few minutes How is this done?
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by bbq 14y ago
"I can't run my business/research/whatever" vs "This site is so popular it barely works"
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by bbq 15y ago
That sounds painful. Stripe's API does look good. I was actually perusing it just now after reading their webhooks post. Now it's time to give the GitHub docs a good read. Thanks!
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by bbq 15y ago
In iWoz, Steve talks about developing the Apple I and Apple II while he was still employed at HP. He, too, wanted to be entirely honest and had no intentions of quitting. Basically, he just told them straight up what he was doing. I beli
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Ask HN: What are some examples of good APIs?
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by bbq 15y ago
> the internet is a medium of interstate commerce Only in part. Only downloaded goods use the internet as a medium for commerce. The rest of the time, it's for communication (speech).
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by bbq 15y ago
Have you checked out http://domainsite.com
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by bbq 15y ago
Hopefully in 30 years, 'programming' will be speaking to your computer as if it were your contractor - and so 'programming literacy' is just 'literacy'.
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by bbq 15y ago
"Charging $5 per profile view ($50 per 10) is simply outrageous." Is it? How much do (large|small|startup|<in market x>) companies pay for recruiting? In my experience, referral bonuses paid to employees are thousands of dollars f
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by bbq 15y ago
UML? I said 'viscerally experience' not 'be forced to gouge your eyes out'. I joke of course. But wouldn't you find it weird if two hundred years from now we were still writing and reading code like we are today? If that were the case, I
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by bbq 15y ago
This is only true because our tools for reading and exploring source code suck. I mean, we still work at the "unit level" of code (i.e. files and functions, classes, what have you). If our development environments let us viscerally experi
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by bbq 15y ago
Wow, this is a great resource. Thanks for sharing.
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by bbq 15y ago
"What is it about this completely voluntary relationship that is so inherently evil?" I'm not going to argue it's inherently evil but, You are right that the service is completely voluntary. However, the opportunity cost associated with no
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by bbq 15y ago
For emacs there is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings
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by bbq 15y ago
To be confused with: #include <stdio.h> void foo(int (*x)[5]) { printf("%p\n", *x); printf("%p\n", *x+1); printf("%p\n", x); printf("%p\n", x+1); } int main(void) { int
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by bbq 15y ago
Direct link to the USPTO dashboard: http://www.uspto.gov/dashboards/patents/main.dashxml Tufte doesn't appear to be exaggerating.
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by bbq 15y ago
Do eyeglass prescriptions make a normal distribution? If you measured that you could produce a whole bunch of lenses following the distribution. Then I wonder if you could loosen tolerances in your production process so that the lenses pro
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by bbq 15y ago
"* Getting rid of the nagging feeling there is something I'm missing about differential equations (this despite acing the respective uni math courses on solving them)." Bret talks about this here (scroll down to 'A Possibly Embarassing Pers
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by bbq 15y ago
Tangle is just a stepping stone as far as I can see: http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ Right now he's simply playing around with some basic ideas.
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by bbq 15y ago
Are we not allowed to post brain dumps on the web?
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by bbq 15y ago
"Its pretty much exactly what he wants, only just proprietary and not on the web." Which is exactly what he doesn't want. The authoring tools should be accessible to everyone. Secondly, after exploring his site I'm guessing Bret would reje
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by bbq 15y ago
Perhaps, but sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty, right?
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by bbq 15y ago
What about the civil rights movement? Break the rules; they're bullshit anyhow.
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by bbq 15y ago
Well for one you don't have to be in college.
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by bbq 15y ago
How is a college writing center free?
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by bbq 15y ago
Indeed. It's all too easy (for me) to fall off the horse and all too hard to get back on.

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