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by bennyg 13y ago
I wonder how classical music compares to pop songs of today in terms of educational and musical value. Is there even a way to measure this?
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by bennyg 13y ago
I've never thought a screenshot of a mobile device's screen felt even remotely like holding the thing in my hand. Exactly why it's foolish to only test mobile development on the Simulator/Emulators. I never use t
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by bennyg 13y ago
Then use one of your friends that has the developer account, or wait till it's on every phone in the Apple Store. Either way, the point is to reserve judgment until you use it. Just like everything else.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Logical processes are pretty much ripe for exploiting via AI, but you're right. Lateral thinking processes - pretty much one of the hallmarks of humankind (that and absurdly good communication skills) - are going to be extremely hard to emu
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by bennyg 13y ago
Skeuomorphism is becoming old school and Flat UI is here to stay. Download these templates and give your app the edge it deserves Eeesh... If you want to see a nicely curated set of good design for iOS, go here: http://pttrns.com/
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by bennyg 13y ago
That sounds awesome. I've dreamed of a context-aware, natural language programming language: Change value of potatoes to 10. (potatoes = 10). Make potatoes equal 10. (potatoes = 10). Give every person at the dinner table a potato. (for x =
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by bennyg 13y ago
Exactly my point. Option 3 is free for everyone with optional purchases for those that want it. The parent of my comment would rather see ads than purchase Pro. But those aren't mutually exclusive. He/She can still not see ads and not purch
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by bennyg 13y ago
Sure some parts of software will become manufactured and mass produced - I mean that's the case today. How many libraries do you use? However, software is still an intellectual, out of thin air, endeavor. It requires thought to create new a
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by bennyg 13y ago
Those two aren't all the options though. 1.) Pay for SnapPro 2.) Sit through advertisements 3.) Let people who want to pay for SnapPro pay, while you don't because you don't want to pay for it. Therefore no ads, and Snapchat is making money
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by bennyg 13y ago
Here's how I got people contacting me for jobs in the Valley and NYC. And not recruiters either, potential bosses. 1.) have a Github account, and release open-source software that helps coders be better at what they do. Basically release to
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by bennyg 13y ago
True. People shouldn't shy away from personal promotion, just do it at appropriate times and in appropriate places. I hated advertising in school, but thought it was the only way I could make money with a graphic design degree. Turns out co
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by bennyg 13y ago
That's the day I stop using it. If I get a few second ad every 4 or 5 snaps then I won't continue my usage of the app. I understand that good things that require monetary value to continue operating at scale need to have a way to make money
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by bennyg 13y ago
Not necessarily true. I think if you aren't in those tech places (beyond SV and NYC, there are other hotbeds too), you have to get known amongst a tech community and this is where social shines. I've been open sourcing software fairly frequ
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by bennyg 13y ago
Then surely those cameras should be available to the public as well. If anywhere a policeman can stand also counts as anywhere anyone can stand, and if it's a public space as you say, then the people have just as much right to see what's go
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by bennyg 13y ago
Why does Texas not want any sales-tax on Tesla sales and property tax on Tesla locations?
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by bennyg 13y ago
I actually hate that quote. What's to stop a poor developer who's not in SV from making an awesome, scalable tech startup? Startup founders are, quite simply, people who found startups. They register a business (maybe) and create someth
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by bennyg 13y ago
I agree. If somehow Facebook plummeted and bankrupted it would absolutely raise doubts about the tech sector. 1/7 of the world can't use a service it trusts any more is a big deal.
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by bennyg 13y ago
If I think I know what you're talking about, the person in question is Alan.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I didn't even know it was down haha. I've been pushing to a private GitHub repo all morning with no problems.
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by bennyg 13y ago
It's all about mass. A neutron star's mass ratio would be like jamming 50 million elephants into something the size of a thimble. The article you mentioned says almost 15% of large asteroids are a binary system. That's pretty awesome to me.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Objective-C is so beautiful in those regards. So many things are abstracted and optimized for you already, especially compared to Android and their libraries. Rapid prototyping is insanely fast if you can handle yourself in Xcode and around
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Intel's Haswell architecture has launched. Here's a review.(anandtech.com)
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by bennyg 13y ago
This sounds like an awesome project! The artist in me loves stuff like this.
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by bennyg 13y ago
This is a cool project idea. You should run some sort of automated "clarity" detection to get numbers/statistics on air quality in Beijing.
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by bennyg 13y ago
I'll try getting the tutorial up soon - I was going to make it into a github.io page, so I have some more stuff to figure out.
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by bennyg 13y ago
Looks cool, I'll have to check that out in more detail. I pretty much just curated all of the bits and pieces of mine (php script to get metadata info on mp3s and then add to db, etc). Haha, so mine ends up as a mishmash of different things
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by bennyg 13y ago
I've got a TON of music on my external harddrive, and I haven't felt like putting all of that music on my new computer or phone. It just takes up too much space. So I decided I'd set up a cloud radio player for it with an iPhone app to list
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by bennyg 13y ago
That's not true. I love the warm weather - and absolutely dread overcast/rainy. I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder, but to say that the sun doesn't brighten my day would be wrong. It's all relative.
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by bennyg 13y ago
The watch market seems like a "status" market, ie you get a Rolex not for its timekeeping abilities but for the name. A whole heaping generation of youngsters and technology enthusiasts are getting to be the age of status symbols (car, hous
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by bennyg 13y ago
Where are you getting $5000 and 20% from? It would take a skilled designer no more than an hour or two to polish that up. I mean, you switch from all-caps title text to regular case - why? YOU could polish that up and make it look immensely

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