danielhooper

8 ms·

31.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Playing checkers seems like a well-defined task to accomplish. A computer that has "the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility." is not defined at all. Mobility? Perceiving what?
32.
by danielhooper 10y ago
AFAIK offline mode only works if you have successfully completed a non-offline transaction within the last 24 hours.
33.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Get a library card. A bookshelf full of books that you aren't going to ever re-read or share is just decoration.
34.
by danielhooper 10y ago
As an iOS developer, I would still get whiteboard questions ranging from "reverse this string" to "find all the anagrams in this array and print them in this specific fashion", usually with iOS specific trivia about view
35.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how long did you have to study Russian before you could enjoy Chekhov's stories?
36.
by danielhooper 10y ago
I can imagine it now. An alternate reality where all programmers are "certified software engineers" except for a handful of hobbyists. I log onto hacker news, click on the top article, and read about how "certified" prog
37.
by danielhooper 10y ago
6 months is not conservative. We aren't all programmers with a list of recruiters to talk to when we lose our jobs.
38.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Please travel more.
39.
by danielhooper 10y ago
You can pay for a stylist to buy your clothes or cut your hair, but it won't change whether or not you are a fashionable person. That's you and your personality and you can't pay for a service to change that. The same is bein
40.
by danielhooper 10y ago
It's well understood by many startups and established companies that developing for iOS often takes priority because there's a larger group of users willing to pay more money than their android counterparts
41.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Going to join the "I strongly disagree" camp with Swift as my example. The expressive syntax in combination with the strict type system quite often challenges me to design succinct app architecture. I personally prefer to omit typ
42.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Everything under the Porsche Design moniker is ugly as shit. A quick google image search of `porsche design` reaffirms this. Even their most plain and simple external drive designs are (at least to myself) tacky looking. I don't mean t
43.
by danielhooper 10y ago
> how many would pay $1/month to be able to communicate their points more clearly? My guess is less than 10,000.
44.
by danielhooper 10y ago
I used to feel pretty similar, but then I realized that the people working on these problems are even more skeptical than I am. That's why they work on this stuff. If there is a name for this specific kind of bias, let me know!
45.
by danielhooper 10y ago
It might seem reactionary, but shouldn't streaming services (Twitch) have rules or guidelines against these kind of endurance streams?
46.
by danielhooper 10y ago
I called them out on this in one of the Who's Hiring posts they always comment on. This seems like a reallllyyyy obvious problem for them...
47.
by danielhooper 10y ago
The defence is definitely to not use public wifi. This technology works because they can identify small target windows (e.g. you just accessed a URL to login to your bank account) in which to make and process these measurements. Any kind of
48.
by danielhooper 10y ago
I clearly did not read into this enough as it is more impressive than I had remembered. It's quite the eye-opener on how much unique data there is out in the wild...
49.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Some weeks back I read a post here about detecting people in rooms by measuring how the physical body interferes with the wifi signals. I wouldn't have imagined someone could extract useful information at this small of a scale. wow!
50.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Who is this advice for? UC Berkeley grads? If you don't have personal projects or previous professional experience to talk about the only thing you have to bring to an interview is a university degree. Are you proposing the OP just doe
51.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Can you do your personal programming at work? Just stay an extra hour or two. That might not align with management/company culture, but maybe you can make an effort to change that. It's expensive, but electronic music production c
52.
by danielhooper 10y ago
This is being down voted but is an interesting point. Is a privacy service in which public record is available for its purchases ever truly private? Maybe its extremely difficult for others to see your communications, but if someone (or som
53.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Knowing Google's reputation with abandoning developer tools and services, can anyone offer suggestions as to possible alternatives? Or counterpoints as to why I shouldn't fear this service degrading over the next year or two? We&#
54.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Hey! Email me at danielhhooper @ gmail dot com I would be glad to help you.
55.
by danielhooper 10y ago
I landed a great job as an iOS developer at a great startup in Toronto. I accomplished this by building a unique iOS game that uses animated gifs for jigsaw puzzles. I wrote the app several times, and after giving it enough time, I was able
56.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Tipping is great because it provides the customer with some leverage to pay a price they feel is fair. Not to mention it allows many many many many people to live somewhat comfortably despite working in what would be considered a lowly occu
57.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Sorry for being off topic, but I'm not finding any substance in these Apple/Mac articles or subsequent conversations we've had lately. I wanted to make a separate ask HN post for this but does anyone else feel like this websi
58.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Restoration Hardware is similar.
59.
by danielhooper 10y ago
What synths do you have? Sounds like you have some modular.
60.
by danielhooper 10y ago
Ideally, you will connect with your local community because everyone in your community has the financial freedom to pursue physical or creative activities and is not burdened with an 8 hour commitment to do nothing with themselves all day.

More ›