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by diN0bot 17y ago
thx for the recs! blueberry garden looks interesting. i also liked Braid for the platform genre. haha. i read penny arcade (not for the gamer jokes, tho ?!) and didn't realize they had a game.
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Ask HN: what indie computer game to buy as gifts?
3 points by diN0bot 17y ago|3 comments
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by diN0bot 17y ago
in favor or less context switching wrt code reuse: i will say that allowing my firefox extension (client) and django website (server) to share the same templates is pretty awesome. (thx static)
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Brainstorm hn: time tracking charts, graphs, analysis(proudly.procrasdonate.com)
1 points by diN0bot 17y ago|0 comments
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by diN0bot 17y ago
what i've always wondered is how to handle apostrophes, parentheses and punctuation. it's not what is Right, it's what will look right to the audience. i love "hello world." ?? i love programs (especially hello world). ??
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by diN0bot 17y ago
you can clink on the above comment's "link" and then flag it
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by diN0bot 17y ago
the more tools for git the better. it makes for a healthier and broader ecosystem. i notice that you can choose either 1. free 30 day trial 2. pay for license 3. free non-commerical license. what does it mean to not use smartgit comme
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i love this guy's scifi, too. http://qntm.org/?fiction i first found the ed stories through scifi.reddit.com
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by diN0bot 17y ago
er....startup wasn't really listed. i chose independent, but then i got a bunch of consultant questions i didn't know how to answer. meh.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
neat advice. word up yo.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
trying new things is great. it's also extremely different, or rather limited, than what is needed for a start up. that is, you need A LOT more than the desire and experience of toying with new things. toying is part of the inventor spirit a
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by diN0bot 17y ago
quality is still hard to measure. speaking from experience, i've always had passion and personal projects, etc, but i used to be a sucky programmer. now i feel like i've mastered certain things, but i'm still developing and getting better.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
lots of people want to, but it can seem overwhelming. i'm quite technical as a programmer, but even i avoid IT muck whenever possible. that's probably why companies such as dropbox are doing so well. making backups/restores easy is sweet.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
do you mean include a plain text and html message...and only one will shop up depending on the email viewer? where can i find out more about this and other best practices wrt sending email newletters and progress reports to users?
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by diN0bot 17y ago
a little while back, possibly through hn, i found an artist who took 2 or 3 still photos simultaneously from different perspectives. kind of like a...dang, i'm failing at google and wikipedia today....you know the camera with two lenses tha
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by diN0bot 17y ago
damn it. everytime i hear about the hockey stick i first think of an actual hockey stick. i guess i'm not as familiar with the greenhouse debate as i thought i was. or maybe it's just that time of year. i make my own underwater hockey stick
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by diN0bot 17y ago
> "I created the account because it's not exactly popular to..." by becoming anonymous you show that this isn't important. if something is important to you then all the more reason to stand behind it as yourself. your real-life karma is
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by diN0bot 17y ago
it's also worth checking out http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ i've found it very useful in the past. offers more features, which was crucial (grouping, notes). the theming is also nice.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
Schmidt's advice is good in general. if you want to be a nice person, or rather don't want others to think you are an angry yeller, avoid saying mean things or getting upset, even when you're not in public. if you want to be nice, think nic
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by diN0bot 17y ago
/.'s comment system is awesome. it is gold. one interesting thing is the inverse relationship between time and the usability and quality of the comment systems . we start with /., which has--after lengthy iteration--a reasonable system of
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by diN0bot 17y ago
plz post back when you have the answer :-)
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by diN0bot 17y ago
i don't think cutting costs by reducing office space has anything to do with employee productivity....it has more to do with cutting costs. it is still a good point to optimize where it matters.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
his position as looking down on coding horror has somewhat moved to being part of the team. not necessarily a bad thing.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
an hn poll tipped me off to pivotal tracker http://pivotaltracker.com http://proudlyprocrasdonating.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/project-management-and-motivation/ the number of hours i put in each week has increased (charts are jus
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by diN0bot 17y ago
this is excellent. i was immediately able to integrate dygraph with my firefox extension. thx for the docs!! (i'm also using g.raphaeljs.com for pie and dot charts....could definitely use some docs there) a couple features that would be coo
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by diN0bot 17y ago
developers shouldn't fix broken browsers.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
seems horrible to take something that is so spontaneous and real and turn in it into a distant computer experience. if the user were listening on their phone while walking around the streets or riding the bus, then it would have a certain a
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by diN0bot 17y ago
half an hour a post really shows.... does hn count as a destination site? cus i come here an awful lot.... also to webcomics websites.... i don't use a rss reader, i just rely on firefox's url bar autocompleting when i type a letter.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
it's quite limited, though.
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by diN0bot 17y ago
maybe slide duplication is the easiest to discover and verify. sound advice regardless! thanks for the uplifting post. fear mongering is crummy. i'm glad to have found a source that is both entertaining, useful and upbeat (telling it like i

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