dan_sim

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by dan_sim 18y ago
I surely like the way they're bicycling in Amsterdam. I don't wear a helmet. What I'd like to see is proofs about its efficiency. I never found them (though I didn't search that hard, I admit). Anyone got them?
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by dan_sim 18y ago
The problem is that I only write things that are high quality and relevant ;)
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Between 10am and noon. I can do it again around 3pm to 8pm (or later if I'm in the mood).
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Ask HN: What do you think of self-promotion on HN?
29 points by dan_sim 18y ago|32 comments
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by dan_sim 18y ago
I'm really on both sides of the fence here. I said that because I'm currently writing an app that has a completly non-standard design because every app that does what I want uses "search/results" design but it just doesn't work (at least fo
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by dan_sim 18y ago
I'm no web designer expert but won't screen patterns be used as default design for web site when they shouldn't. I mean, will they be as overused as programming design patterns? Don't forget that the singleton ruined a part of my life.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
I personally expected Wikipedia to have an uglier schema because of hacks they would have to do for performance issues. I expected a lot more denormalization and duplications.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
That was the case here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441797 When I started the thread, I didn't want to say that criticism is bad or should be avoided. I just wanted to have fun at what people are saying about startups.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
I'm amazed how simple it is. I worked on corporate apps that have much more complex database schema. I think there's something to learn about the one from wikipedia : well designed ideas create well designed databases.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Did you type to him one more time?
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by dan_sim 18y ago
That one hurts! It's ok to attack ideas, functionalities, bad design, ugly UI but the guts of the founders... that is really really mean.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
The worst part of that story is that his friends probably didn't mean it. Probably the meanest thing is people that don't believe in what you're doing but don't want to say it. They think it will discourage you. So, you go on thinking "well
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by dan_sim 18y ago
That's a classic though still very popular among mean people.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Personally, the meanest thing that has been said about TimmyOnTime - http://www.timmyontime.com - (a project monitoring app that works with IM) is that it has an old smell of an IRC bots written back in 1998.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
When people are mean to your startup, it usually mean that you are working on something good. But you're right that someone may not want to link his product. I'll change it.
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Ask HN : What's the meanest thing that has been said about your startup?
41 points by dan_sim 18y ago|91 comments
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by dan_sim 18y ago
I really like it. It's basic but it'll do the job for a quick composing gig. This app comes right on time for me because I have to write a song for a film and my current soundcard doesn't support MIDI. I wanted nothing fancy, just a way to
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by dan_sim 18y ago
I know this post is a little about my startup but I think it covers a problem that every developer have. I thought it would be great to discuss it here.
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X is the same as Y - overgeneralization of concepts(behindtheclock.timmyontime.com)
1 points by dan_sim 18y ago|1 comments
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Don't be afraid to ask for money. Money often means respect and with respect comes self-confidence. If you are free, it means that you consider yourself so bad at programming that people will not even consider you. You'll learn nothing. You
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by dan_sim 18y ago
What I learn for my startup : say something shocking about an unsolved mystery and gain attention for free.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Now I remember... all the sounds were ON by default. The "oh-oh" everytime someone sent you a message... so agressing...
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by dan_sim 18y ago
If everyone that still remember their number would do a "forget password" and add their account to Pidjin (or whatever), maybe they could find long forgotten friends. The problem is that they will see the last cool name they gave to themsel
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by dan_sim 18y ago
So many people remember their ICQ number, it's frightening. Do they remember their phone number at that time?
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by dan_sim 18y ago
What I learn : it's not because you're the first player in a field AND used widespead that your product will live forever.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Yeah! When I wrote the Ask HN, I totally forgot about it. But now that I remember, it hurts!
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by dan_sim 18y ago
Great! I thought that MSN being shipped with Windows was really the big problem for ICQ. By the way, I know 1 or 2 people that still remember their ICQ number... that's odd but it proves how deep ICQ was in their heart.
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by dan_sim 18y ago
All I remember is that one day, it was all ICQ and the next day, it was all MSN.
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Ask HN : What killed ICQ?
18 points by dan_sim 18y ago|54 comments
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Are IM command-line interfaces for everyone? (behindtheclock.timmyontime.com)
2 points by dan_sim 18y ago|0 comments

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