bobbydavid

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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I think what you are trying to say is: "because UTF-8 has invalid character sequences, we could potentially use one of them to represent end-of-string, which would allow us the flexibility of a null-terminated string (not keeping track of t
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
> Q: What do you think about BOMs? > A: Another reason not to use UTF-16. UTF-8 has a BOM too, even though byte order is not an issue in this encoding. This is to manifest that this is a UTF-8 stream. If UTF-8 remains the only popul
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Disclaimer: I don't work for Yelp but I have created other user-ratings-based sites before. It's not entirely fair to criticize Yelp for under-emphasizing negative reviews. One of the big hurdles to overcome on a user ratings site is that
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
This article touched a nerve for me. I haven't always been in computer science. I actually minored in English in college, and now I'm finishing up a MS program in CS (though I've always tinkered and programmed computers). I have a tendency,
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
+1 I really hope this trend of adding uber whitespace is short lived. On a site like this, I feel like the designer's goal should be to get as many links on the screen as she can without me feeling the site is overly cluttered. Solving that
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Personally, I use keyboard shortcuts whenever possible, making the mouse less necessary. I will now hit 'reply' using a keyboard shortcut
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I recently read an article on HN about how the value of an idea comes from execution, not from just having it. That ideas bounce around a lot before they finally find a good home. It was such a romantic image that I now feel compelled to in
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I get some strong easter egg vibes from the links on the 4 dots, but they don't seem to actually accomplish anything.... Update: Eureka! That's pure awesome.
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Awesome! The mechanics of the paddle are a bitch, but I like the concept. Is that your doing?
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
+1 I'm curious too
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Glad to help :-) Personally, I would drop "Powerful Shortcuts" and "Convenient Both Ways" as neither one adds much for me. The first seems obvious -- not like a cool feature. The second just makes me nervous -- are you likely to forget impl
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Congrats, looks like a cool app. My first thought is "why do I need this?" Your site doesn't answer that for me. The intro video certainly sells me that it's cool, so that I am trying hard to think of a reason that I need this "note-taker".
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An Introduction To Android Shared Memory(notjustburritos.tumblr.com)
5 points by bobbydavid 14y ago|0 comments
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
How can it be fair to have up to a $150,000 penalty at stake when going to trial, yet allow a $750 penalty to suffice if not going to trial? I'd pay $750 even if I was fully innocent, just because the massive risk of losing and lawyers fees
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
From the article: "Nature reported that the first round of field tests had a 70 percent accuracy rate. From the available material it is difficult to determine exactly what this number means. There are a couple of ways to interpret this, si
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I wonder how conflated the ideas are a "dictionary" versus a "hash table" are in a lot of developer minds (a dictionary is an abstract data type that makes no guarantees about how it's implemented, while a hash table is a specific way to im
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Hash Tables Aren't a Magic Bullet(notjustburritos.tumblr.com)
4 points by bobbydavid 14y ago|3 comments
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by bobbydavid 15y ago
There are a couple forces at work here. First, the tech/hacker world tends to be male-dominated, which creates a male-oriented culture, which reciprocally draws more men, and the cycle continues. We want to break that cycle, and a good way
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by bobbydavid 15y ago
Re #2: I'm also curious about how you go about deciding what UI elements should be on the page. When I sit down to design a UI, I have the hardest time deciding on what blocks to plop down. Should 'this' be a button or a link, or should 'th
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by bobbydavid 15y ago
In the US some taxes are paid by the employee and some by the employer. The salary that's quoted is before employee taxes but after employer taxes.