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Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a superproductive programmer(softwarequalityconnection.com)
80 points by d_r 15y ago|8 comments
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by d_r 15y ago
If the story is in fact real, I would say the student's "fault" here is in not going a bit farther than "oh my god, I just can't get it to work." He/she could have written: (1) What have they tried (2) What errors were they getting (Compile
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by d_r 15y ago
Forgive the noob question, but I would be curious what people use to deploy WSGI applications in the wild. Is apache+daemonized mod_wsgi (possibly running behind nginx) a typical solution? The article mentions gunicorn, which I am likely go
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by d_r 15y ago
I think this is a reference to AOL buying ICQ.
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by d_r 15y ago
I'm incredibly happy for the team, and hope they made out well. Cocos2D makes iOS game development a pleasure. I remember reading that one of the developers, riq, supports his family mainly on income from people occasionally buying the samp
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by d_r 15y ago
San Francisco is a beautiful city that for some reason is not incredibly well-kept. I'm not sure if I feel that way because of the not-too-friendly homeless, or the overall look of being worn out in some parts like Market Street. I'm from N
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by d_r 15y ago
I also found JavaScript Garden (posted on HN a few weeks ago) incredibly useful in un-confusing my understanding of JS. http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
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by d_r 15y ago
Direct link: http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/04/20/open-places-data/
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by d_r 15y ago
There is an excellent discussion of status games in the book "Impro." Highly recommend it if you're interested in hacking the non-tech side of things. http://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-John...
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by d_r 15y ago
Authorize.net also offers a hosted option so that the merchant doesn't have to deal with the burden of PCI compliance. In other words, the merchant (you) never sees the credit card number. http://developer.authorize.net/api/sim/
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by d_r 15y ago
I'm almost done with a small web app I've been working on for the last couple of weeks. Nothing sucks more than using nice shiny markup that works great in Chrome and Firefox (rounded corners, drop shadows, or even a properly working displa
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by d_r 15y ago
I'm surprised that people are scraping their content via bots, given that it's licensed under CC and freely available to download. ( http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/ )
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by d_r 16y ago
Great article. Wanted to comment on this "The first project I did on my own was jeansbargains ... I built it and then realized that I did not want to spend the time looking for deals to put on it" This seems to run as a common theme in many
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by d_r 16y ago
The site looks absolutely beautiful, but it's asking me for 10 bucks upfront without showing what it does.
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by d_r 16y ago
I know you're talking about features more so than specific models, but I was tired of my iPhone 3G after using it for a couple of years. It was sufficient to me feature-wise, but the sluggish response time on every screen was just frustrati
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by d_r 16y ago
What an excellent post. If nothing else, and you're a coder who wants to spend the bare minimum amount of time improving your designs, I highly recommend grabbing "The non-designer's designer book" mentioned in the text.
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by d_r 16y ago
I guess this shows that you don't need fancy HTML5/CSS/rounded borders/custom fonts/etc. etc. to actually build a business. As much as I love eye candy and love spending hours tweaking my projects to get them to look "just right," this is s
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by d_r 16y ago
Fortunately, BeautifulSoup saves the day for HTML parsing tasks. ( http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ )
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by d_r 16y ago
I'm sure devs would love a snazzy UI framework that "just works" on popular screen sizes. I, for one, would use it. If it was open-source and distributed under a permissive enough license, even better.
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by d_r 16y ago
Agreed, just it adds another "I need to test this" configuration for devs. Have you found that many apps don't support this resolution? Google actually tracks screen sizes of devices that access Android Market: http://developer.android.com
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by d_r 16y ago
Articles like this is exactly why I come to HN. I was planning to move my server from Apache to Nginx soon. I suppose it's as a good time as ever to learn any gotchas.
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by d_r 16y ago
iOS comes with a handy set of UI controls that look decent even without customization. You can use the default UITableView, for instance (looking at the Meebo screenshot) and get the nice look-and-feel out of the box. This especially helps
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Social gold: the design of Farmville and other social games(slideshare.net)
3 points by d_r 16y ago|1 comments
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by d_r 16y ago
Incidentally, one big company actually claims to have a patent on "secret admiring". I wonder how this will play out. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/11/jdate-slaps-zoosk-okcupid-a...
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Online incorporation: it's time to call out inadequate providers(danashultz.com)
3 points by d_r 16y ago|1 comments
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by d_r 16y ago
Why not do something today, especially now that you know this idea is viable? (Not being facetious, serious question.)
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by d_r 16y ago
This won't help me learn a new technology, build my startup quicker, or even introduce me to others who are trying. But it is pseudo-science babble that I might find in an e-mail forward. Not Hacker News. (Hit my 365 days yesterday so I am
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by d_r 16y ago
This is interesting. Are you using Firefox by any chance? I was incredibly frustrated with Gmail speed on Firefox for a couple of years, but after switching to Chrome haven't seen a problem on any of my boxes.
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by d_r 16y ago
Another excellent resource (a Git tutorial) by the same author: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/
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Java garbage collection: Understanding weak references(weblogs.java.net)
3 points by d_r 16y ago|0 comments

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