bigfrakkinghero

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by bigfrakkinghero 13y ago
I think the problem here is how important physical retailers are as partners in actually selling the console. You don't want to piss off Walmart/Best Buy/Game Stop too much or they might not stock your device.
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
If (for whatever reason) you have to write code with support for exception handling compiled out, goto statements are incredibly useful. While not quite as syntactically nice as a try/catch/finally paradigm, the combined use of error checki
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
If you're not into CoffeeScript take a look at TameJS ( http://tamejs.org/ ).
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
I purchased a FitBit based on it's reputation without realizing that I would have to pay to access the data that I'm collecting... deal breaker! As others have said, I understand charging for an ongoing service like analyzing the data and u
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
This is awesome! One of my biggest gripes with using OSX was how terrible the GIMP experience was.
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
This seems to me like it would be an interesting hypothesis for a an experiment, but a bad idea to suggest/encourage in any "real" (IRS) capacity. Academically the idea is interesting, but the thought of this being actually implemented is a
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
My work blocks the .xxx domain as well -- wish I'd looked at the domain before I clicked the link. What do you actually gain from the .xxx? Seems like it's just getting in the way of the discussion here.
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
Eventual payout from Google aside, I wonder if the team ever regretted the fact that taking funding "changed the yardstick" for success. I'd guess that going back to work for a big company (even with a big payout) wasn't really the origina
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
I don't really like the tone of this article. I think the sparrow team did what was best for them, and congratulations to them for a successful exit. Goodness knows I'd do the same if I were in there position. I think what's most dishearten
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by bigfrakkinghero 14y ago
This looks fine if you're a single developer working on a (relatively) small project, but what happens when you grow to two developers? Or you hand off the project? At that point shouldn't the API registration be tied to the application and