brianpan

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by brianpan 14y ago
There are ways of dealing with hard problems- managing scope, managing expectations. I'm not too surprised he was fired for not executing. Remember Papermaster and the antenna? http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/papermaster_damn_antenna
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by brianpan 14y ago
The results absolutely do matter. If you're running a site, you should be auditing the areas where the security risk is the greatest and taking extra precautions, and those areas are hopefully few. If you're not first taking care of the pl
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by brianpan 14y ago
Similar earlier stories: Fetus donates stem cells to heal mother's heart: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21185-fetus-donates-st... Baby/mother cell exchange: http://kottke.org/12/01/babymother-cell-exchange
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by brianpan 14y ago
And you wouldn't want to reinforce the behavior of providing a time-saving service for money?
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by brianpan 14y ago
Also, you can see all 22 players. :)
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by brianpan 14y ago
It's been 2 years....I don't think it's going to happen.
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by brianpan 14y ago
iPod Touch updates come in the fall (Sept/Oct) with the rest of the iPod lineup. You make an interesting point, but I think the devices are different enough that the Touch will stay for now. They fill different needs. The Touch is pocketa
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by brianpan 14y ago
Random walks? O_o So, sociologist then? http://xkcd.com/435/
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by brianpan 14y ago
Whoa, TIL http://www.sustland.umn.edu/implement/planting.html
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by brianpan 14y ago
You think the question is wrong because you aren't in the new model. Again- everything is continuously saved. There are no "in-flight" changes. What you want to do is keep your the changes you made today and save a copy of an old version f
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by brianpan 14y ago
Hiding is absolutely good design at every level. Not seeing UI controls, preferences, or anything that is not relevant to the task at hand can make that task simpler, easier to understand, and more productive. If you need to see dotfiles
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by brianpan 14y ago
I bought TextMate because it was a capable editor in the midst of many to choose from. I don't use Sparrow but it seems much more like it's filling a niche that's not quite filled yet and people are buying it because it's worth it, but als
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by brianpan 14y ago
1. By definition 2. Because the math works out better If it turns out that things that depend on prime numbers work in all cases except for 1, you might as well define 1 not to be a prime number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#P
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by brianpan 14y ago
On the other hand, if I forget my phone somewhere or it's stolen, I'll probably know within hours, if not minutes. If someone steals my password, who knows how or when I'll find out.
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by brianpan 14y ago
Some debuggers let you "drop frames". This brings you back up the call stack and you can step back down into the beginning of the method call. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367816/when-using-the-ja...
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by brianpan 14y ago
If motorcycling is suicidal, then driving a car is murderous. "...auto collisions are the leading cause of injury-related deaths, an estimated total of 1.2 million in 2004, or 25% of the total from all causes. Of those killed by autos, near
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by brianpan 14y ago
Shows are much more constrained. It's the very specific "skilled labor" involved (only one person can produce a show in only one city, maybe two a night). Imagine if you needed a hard drive factory in each city and only one factory co
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by brianpan 14y ago
I'm definitely not an econ expert (far from it). Scalpers may not be confusing demand. But aren't they're artificially constraining supply? There are a limited number of shows and seats available. If I'm a scalper and I buy the last 100 s
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by brianpan 14y ago
Elaine is one of the founders of Meebo, so yes, JavaScript engineer.
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by brianpan 14y ago
I'm having a hard time without sarcasm tags. The Web 2.0 was so vague a phrase that it had too many meanings and the end was meaningless. I doubt any new threads were woven due to the invention of that phrase.
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by brianpan 14y ago
Did you not get the consultant's report on inventory shrinkage and oversight? I'll send you another copy along with the Powerpoint presentation. Please review it, we'll be moving forward with standardization on action points 2 through 7.
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by brianpan 14y ago
Really? iPhones alone brought in $22 billion in revenue last quarter. http://www.macworld.com/article/1166533/apple_nearly_doubles... The entirety of worldwide PC shipments for a quarter is less than 100 million units. So, no, cutting p
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by brianpan 14y ago
There's profit and there's profit . The margins are there but the units sold are not.
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by brianpan 14y ago
Or both...yesterday google maps on my iPhone took me to Taylor Ave in Sunnyvale. Those are stop signs and gutters deep enough for cars to scrape the ground! Either street north or south would have been better. https://maps.google.com/?ll=
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by brianpan 14y ago
And if I recall, Feynman at this point was burnt out on the important problems. Thinking about unimportant problems, where he was essentially playing, is what finally led to the breakthrough. It's like me going for a walk to clear my head
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by brianpan 14y ago
It might not be needed, but it's about the approach. You don't need all the tools all the time, but knowing what patterns are available and having a good understanding of why you would or wouldn't use it means you approach a problem starti
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by brianpan 14y ago
Another anecdote- I don't care how good your app is, if it doesn't look good, it looks like you don't care. I'll eventually get annoyed and stop using it.
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by brianpan 14y ago
This is about extending the existing graphical UI design. Direct manipulation of graphical elements is preferred on a Mac. Think about touch on iOS devices to get a sense of how important direct manipulation is to Apple. (And how the iPh
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by brianpan 15y ago
I didn't read source as the "default mode of operation", but rather a necessary fallback that you 1) shouldn't shy away from and 2) you should demand lest you be unable to access the ultimate truth of what you're building on top of. I defin
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by brianpan 15y ago
Along with that, they decreased transmit power which also helped reduce interference. And later they increased interference, in order to add a 4th channel. It's all about tradeoffs...that's why they pay engineers the (market-competitive)

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