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by dgreensp 16y ago
Responsibility is very decentralized, and products start as small teams of engineers, though they quickly grow quite large. Also, they don't manufacture or support anything! They just do software, a little marketing, and some partnerships.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
If you're having trouble making sense of it, as I did at first, here's what I've learned: * You enter a list of "tiles" in the box, on either a square grid (four characters per tile) or hex grid (six characters). * Upper case letters (like
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by dgreensp 16y ago
It sounds like he tried to figure out how to process binary data with Node.js using "Buffers" but didn't get it working before switching to Erlang.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Skin and blood... are you Dexter?
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Thumbs down. He taught an entire course on XML, which he calls a "great meta-example on how to deal with semi-structured data"? And his only defense of XML over JSON is... it's worked ok for some file formats? The only point in this whole
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by dgreensp 16y ago
The new Google Docs editor (rolled out earlier this year) doesn't use contentEditable. The layout and text entry is all custom.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Plus, if I remember correctly, the editor thought Monica should rather compensate her for editing it. She'd been in the business for decades, she said, and Monica should feel privileged . Holy crap.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Purists consider it controversial, but using tables for forms is fine in my opinion if it gets you the layout behavior you want. CSS and tables just don't offer the same options when it comes to layout. There are only two big uses for tabl
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by dgreensp 16y ago
We might not see a lot of economic growth next year? Stop the presses!
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by dgreensp 16y ago
This may just be a thin client for the multiplayer version of Minecraft, meaning it would talk to a Minecraft server but not actually simulate the world itself. Can anyone clear this up?
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Agreed. If red=255 looks brighter on your monitor than blue=255, well, that's how the monitor was designed!
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Breaks on apostrophes.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
"Great execution" means business execution, not programming execution. You don't need TechCrunch's permission to launch a successful company, which is basically just as difficult if you get it.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
I wonder how this simple interface -- which looks awesome! -- integrates with the complexity of Mac OS X, both the good (unixy bottom layers) and bad (long start-up time, error-prone interactions between drivers, network services, etc.). I
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by dgreensp 16y ago
This story repeats every month with a different company. I haven't been following Chargify, but my first thought on seeing this headline was "don't tell me they didn't grandfather their existing customers". Sure enough, wading through a h
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by dgreensp 16y ago
This feels like a big insight, that when my current project has a "cliff" after which it will end and cease to be important (to me, or so it feels), motivation is very difficult. I will be thinking about this at work today, and of ways to c
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by dgreensp 16y ago
It's not a "review" so much as it is Lessig explaining why he is different, why he is important, and why he matters to you. The pretentious tone (ridiculous parentheticals, using and linking "grok" for no reason) doesn't help, but all he do
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Another generic, thin-on-facts hype article about the "whitespace". I'm disappointed in Slate. With all the vacuous pieces around, it's difficult to even find out which frequencies are being made available. Here's an article from 2007 wit
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by dgreensp 16y ago
No, I would believe Google recompressed a whole ton of JPEGs as a test. Not the most scientific test of a codec, but as a Web company they are interested in improving image serving more than image authoring. As for the recompression, you c
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by dgreensp 16y ago
To the latter point, I have a female physicist friend who hates the "diversity of viewpoints" argument for women in the sciences, the idea that she has some kind of "feminine" take on the equations that confers special treatment.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Arrington disagrees that the criticism has any merit; at worst he's letting himself be trolled. I guess he feels something needs to be said, and I respect that.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
So "bad luck" would be a reason within their immediate control? It sounds like you and the blogger are both saying that most people asking for money on the street need a lot more than money to change their situation. I often think about
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by dgreensp 16y ago
It's not that being gamma-aware is "right" and most software does it "wrong" for speed. In many contexts, RGB values don't have gamma associated with them, just as they don't have ColorSync profiles or whatnot, or if they have one, it was j
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by dgreensp 16y ago
“I don’t think I fully understood the severity of the situation I had graduated into,” he said, speaking in effect for an age group — the so-called millennials, 18 to 29 — whose unemployment rate of nearly 14 percent approaches the levels
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by dgreensp 16y ago
I agree with some of your points, but I think "avoid competition / competitors' markets" is a fallacy and bad advice. Successful companies succeed in the face of competition, and capitalize on some opportunity, which could be a technology,
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Thanks, there's some good technical knowledge here, and also some FUD. I dug into the subject of polyphasic sleep and read a couple very personal accounts of people who made it work for them for extended periods (several months or more). I
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by dgreensp 16y ago
I have been using Earth Class Mail for several months and it works fantastically. You get a real, non-PO-Box address (your user id is in the "apartment number"). Since I've been moving around a lot, including abroad, I use it for my bank a
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Incredible.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Apple should buy Dropbox, but Dropbox shouldn't sell. I'm on Dropbox's side. :)
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by dgreensp 16y ago
This is a terrible blog post, because it makes specific claims about why developers are complaining about Apple's actions and whether they are justified in doing so, which are torn to shreds quite lucidly in the comments, at which point the

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