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by chime 14y ago
I've never used turn-by-turn - not available on iPhone Google Maps. Like I said, I'm sure you can easily argue that I should be more prepared instead of blaming a piece of technology. In that case, people shouldn't blame their car manufactu
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by chime 14y ago
I mount my phone in my car and it is connected to car charger constantly. With hands-free bluetooth taking calls and playing music, it is a fantastic setup. It used to be that P(Gmaps being wrong) < P(phone breaking). Now P(Apple maps b
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by chime 14y ago
> I find that organizing things with goroutines and channels makes my code very easy to reason about. That, to me, is the biggest win of Go's concurrency model; that it's very easy to reason about. Absolutely agree. I just wish the net.
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by chime 14y ago
I wanted to query 100 remote ports each second. Since it takes less than 0.01s to make a successful call and get the 2-3 bytes of data from each server, I thought doing 100 calls in parallel wouldn't be an issue via goroutines. But if 100 x
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by chime 14y ago
> But when Maps leads you to the wrong destination, do you feel emotionally hurt by Apple? In my experience, no, you realize the computer messed up and you look at the map and correct it. If I miss something important because the direct
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by chime 14y ago
I used time.After recently to timeout a net.Dial call if it doesn't connect within 0.1s (it's an intranet app, connection time should be < 0.01s). While that solves my problem of not waiting too long for net.Dial, I wish there was a way
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by chime 14y ago
I don't think it would work in exactly the same way you are describing but there may be alternatives. Manufacturing equipment is very expensive and the only way to justify the cost is to keep it running daily, sometimes 24/7/365. The change
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by chime 14y ago
Yours is a lot more fun to play with. Good job!
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by chime 14y ago
I wish someone like the creator of Curiosity Descent footage ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esj5juUzhpU ) could get their hands on the three separate RGB channels and combine them manually. The frames did not seem to be overlaid properl
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by chime 14y ago
Very clever but replacing O(1) with O(log n) for updates is probably worse than the benefit gained by O(log n) range-sum instead of O(n) when the updates are happening constantly, in real-time - think Twitter Firehose. In practice, it would
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by chime 14y ago
The web is still the place but I think desktop web browsers could help out a bit here to fill in the gap between full-page websites and native clients. I loved Mozilla Prism before it was discontinued. My best alternative is using Chrome in
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by chime 14y ago
> Not to nitpick but managing supply-chain risk is a lot more complicated than insurance. I agree. I manage an ERP system at a pharma-manufacturer. I added a YMMV precisely because of the different situation - different impact reasons.
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by chime 14y ago
I have seen two predominant forms of risks factored in by the larger incumbents waiting to be disrupted. One is, like the author puts it, the risk due to breakage. Be very mindful of this risk and insure against it if possible or change som
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by chime 14y ago
How is this different from fast food ads with plastic burgers and salads? Or car ads with custom rigs. Or cleaning product ads that compare brand X vs Y? It is pretty much a given that making ads requires a certain amount of theatrics. The
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by chime 14y ago
If the cost of copter + payload is low enough, there is little incentive to steal. It should be similar to shopping cart theft or most probably less. The system can be built to go up, travel horizontally above the reach of most people, and
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by chime 14y ago
Very good execution and a good choice for the domain name. The design (green/white/red/hearts) reminds me of http://hypem.com/ - you should check it out if you haven't. It's got a similar theme (crawl indie blogs for music) and has a pret
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by chime 14y ago
I posted my own similarly mysterious story a while ago on here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293849
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by chime 14y ago
Have you thought about making this a web-app (or Facebook app) too? Sure, you won't be able to get Geo-tagged photos but not all the tasks require mobile devices.
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by chime 14y ago
I'm pretty sure media companies do that already. They just won't publish it because of competition and PR reasons.
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by chime 14y ago
I did. I called three different times and not one of the sales people for Bright House Networks here in Florida knew about it. I said it is the lowest package with just the bare minimum channels like ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS and they said "No, th
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by chime 14y ago
I hope Aereo continues to win. Another company doing the same thing is: http://www.skittertv.com/ - unfortunately neither of them support my local area. Due to my house's construction/location, I can't pick up DTV signals easily and would
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by chime 14y ago
I think it might be a bug in AppFlows JS transition code.
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by chime 14y ago
You have a pretty high karma here so I don't know if you are joking, being sarcastic, or trolling. If TrustEgg discloses all fees prior to sign up and provides the same benefits a typical Trust Fund does, then what is the problem?
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by chime 14y ago
This is exactly the kind of startup that we should encourage the most - it is taking a messy, complicated real-world problem that can only be solved by spending lots of money or doing tons of paperwork and turning it into an app that grandm
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by chime 14y ago
I've written probably half a dozen unrelated apps that call REST APIs and I think they all implemented REST differently. Some treat PUT as insert while POST as update. Some treat POST as insert, PUT as insert/update. Some return 201 when in
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by chime 14y ago
Click To Play breaks whenever a 1px Flash embed is used - you can't click what you can't see. I generally whitelist sites I trust (YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps, ETrade etc.) and never have to click on Flash from those sites. Other sites show
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by chime 14y ago
Kinda defeats the purpose of DropBox. If you're going to use volume encryption, might as well use Tarsnap or something else to just backup the one large file.
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by chime 14y ago
I'm trying to get our QC Lab to start using Trello. They get anywhere from 10 to 50 chemicals per day that they need to sample, test, and release. And 3 different departments send them these samples, some on schedule, some as need be. I've
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by chime 14y ago
I think there is an underlying assumption when VCs "invest in nothing" - the founder knows how to make a startup succeed, the actual product notwithstanding. The biggest risk in startups today is not the product, but the founders ability to
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by chime 14y ago
My iPad app needs very few keystrokes to spell most words - only the first letter has to be correct. You can see how few keystrokes need to be pressed to type full sentences in this demo: http://ktype.net/demo (app is now free: http://it

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