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by chao- 14y ago
>You as a company can't cold call developers at your competitor and convince them to work for you, you can however pay a recruiter who does it at an arms length. Aside from just getting a bad reputation, is there some legal reason why
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by chao- 14y ago
At minimum we'll get at least one distro attempting to utilize Wayland eventually: Ubuntu. See the bottom of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland where it reads: Canonical is investing in making Compiz Wayland-enabled and running Unity on top
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by chao- 14y ago
With something so preference-based, one is hard-pressed to argue better or worse without agreeing on the standards of evaluation. Put another way: I don't think discussing it in binary terms of "better" or not will do much good. If you like
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by chao- 14y ago
I think Canonical had a chance to make a real impact here but they essentially blew it. Curious to hear you elaborate on what they blew, and how. I don't use Ubuntu myself (prefer straight Debian), but I've always respected what they're t
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by chao- 14y ago
As excited as I am about this finally happening, I was so pissed about having to deal with this issue over and over (e.g. JS files describing WebGL models), that I was on the verge of starting a service to provide the layer of redirection w
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by chao- 14y ago
Speaking from a team bootstrapping our company out of Houston, we wouldn't have stood a chance anywhere else, especially anywhere near the Valley. We were running off savings for the longest time, and so a month's worth of expenditures in m
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by chao- 14y ago
Say what you will about Windows (and I will even join you), but Microsoft can put out some alarmingly competent docs. I say "can" and not "always do", because where they are lacking, I agree it can be frustrating. That said, in one such sce
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by chao- 14y ago
Huge props to My Robot Nation. Especially on their 3D tech. In some ways they have it easier doing robots instead of human shapes (e.g. performs better on hardware that can't render as many polys), but in many other ways, they really knocke
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by chao- 14y ago
Neat. Very similar to something we're working on for a client ( http://www.actionfigurelabs.com ). There's probably no chance I live near you (Houston here), but if I did I'd REALLY love to grab a beer and chit chat about some of the battle
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by chao- 14y ago
I don't have enough knowledge of native graphics libraries, nor of WebGL, to speak to the core issue in this article. But, as a young'n, the last line really strikes a chord with me. I will never experience the joy people had fiddling aroun
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by chao- 14y ago
>The concentration needed takes all your focus until you know the series of movement of the back of your hand. For me this took about a year. After this I would occasionally slip into a kind of mindlessness. That strikes a chord with
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by chao- 14y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. It sums up some of what I had heard/suspected, and the theory about regaining spare cycles is appealing. >there aren't any big secrets here you are simply training yourself to stop thinking without goi
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by chao- 14y ago
Would it be more accurate to say that the former is built on top of the latter? As opposed to an equal share, that is.
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by chao- 14y ago
Since you brought up meditation, a question I never quite find the right moment to ask: What is it? I mean, that question sounds so simplistic as to be inane, but bear with me: I have had absolutely no interaction with anyone who meditates,
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by chao- 14y ago
Spent a solid year fighting that reality and now I completely agree. My company has recently decided to ditch support for IE6-8 when we roll out a new front-end design (and a handful of features). Any time our CEO and designer would dream u
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by chao- 14y ago
Genuinely curious what keeps you in Y! Mail over GMail. Is it the history of your messages, the familiarity of the system, or something else entirely? The last time I looked at Yahoo's mail, you had to pay to enable IMAP access. Even strang
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by chao- 14y ago
I wrote up some similar points and posted the trimmed down version a moment afterward. I'll reply instead, and try to avoid bashing the design since you've got that covered. Instead I want to discuss focus. Being neck-deep in Startuplandia,
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by chao- 14y ago
We ran into this mindset in early meetings with some VCs once-upon-a-before-we-decided-to-bootstrap. We had some market validation, and didn't forsee needing much money to go from our humble launch to national presence (at the time we would
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by chao- 14y ago
I have a lot of fun with my local Fry's and their "security checks". In reality all I do is briskly walk past, and wish them good morning/day/evening. Most of the time this throws them enough for the moment. They seem to do the math that th
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by chao- 14y ago
Well, he said "computers" not "computation", but I can see how stating the former necessarily begets the latter. I want to back him up in some ways, but to also narrow the scope of his statement to not include all computers: The presence of
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by chao- 14y ago
Speaking as someone who is still, arguably, a "junior dev", and who started reading Hacker News as a far-more-junior dev, getting these topics on your radar has to happen somehow. I've learned about many topics' existence by simply bumping
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by chao- 14y ago
The government used to not be spying on me... In the last 5 years, it became likely. I'm going to pick on the 5 years & 10 years estimate, if you don't mind. If no one was spying on you then, it was because you were a child or teenage
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by chao- 14y ago
Speaking as a youngin' who grew up with the internet (US citizen and just now 24), I've never expected any privacy for as long as I can remember. Of any sort. Only an odd sense of my insignificance providing a minor smokescreen. I accept th
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by chao- 14y ago
This is what came to my mind as well. I can't decide whether or not the comment is supposed to be serious. On one hand, I can't think of many above-board reasons that a restaurant employee would tackle you for having a tiny camera, or rip u
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by chao- 14y ago
Crossing my fingers that Chromium will stop finally yelling at me about my outdated* Flash. *While providing a helpful link to solutions that don't work.
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by chao- 14y ago
I agree to an extent, in that people from the Bay Area are funny about distances (as are people in the Northeast). But at the same time, I have to add a data point against: I live in the Montrose neighborhood in Houston. If you live here, a
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by chao- 14y ago
Various unicode control characters do not show up. The list of unicode characters that can be used in an obnoxious manner on internet forums is so long that it is almost impossible to do right. My go-to is the Cyrillic Millions sign, which
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by chao- 14y ago
I got to play with a Surface some time in 2008 and, surprisingly, found myself a little more enchanted than I was upon using the iPhone, which had come out the year before. At the same time I remember doing the weighing of utility: "Well, t
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by chao- 14y ago
Clears it up perfectly :)
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by chao- 14y ago
As an upfront disclaimer, I want to state that I think this is incredibly neat, and that I'm just trying to resolve a nagging question in my head. Every time I see very well-done CSS animations, and especially when I see it extended into

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