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by dmpayton 18y ago
Wired wrote a story in March about how the public SDK terms would prevent Firefox and Opera specifically from being allowed on the iPhone... You are correct on the SDK terms, I had completely forgotten about that. IIRC, Opera would be con
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by dmpayton 18y ago
One expects Opera did this largely as a publicity stunt. I think they were testing the waters to see how Apple would react to a larger and much better-known company putting a competing product into the app store. Unsurprisingly, Apple did
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Agreed, it's not like this is the first time Apple has denied a "competing" application. I can't wait for Android to be released on a decent handset. Then I can give my iPhone to my wife.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
There is a big difference between working AT a startup (an employee) and working ON a startup (a founder), IMO. Any chance we can get an update to reflect that? Anyways, I chose 'Working at a startup', though I'd like to someday work ON a s
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by dmpayton 18y ago
I'm interested to see how the distro's manage this. Ubuntu seems to always have the latest and greatest, but I can't see them upgrading to Py3k any time soon. There's just still too much that relies on 2.x. GvR said that new stuff should be
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by dmpayton 18y ago
I normally work 40-50 hours at my day job (early-stage startup) and 0-20 on personal stuff.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
I met my designer in 7th grade P.E. class. We were both into Pokemon at the time, and hit it off. Almost 10 years later, he's my go-to guy for anything and everything design related. http://www.artificestudios.com/
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by dmpayton 18y ago
A friend of mine is a freelance designer, and he does good work. http://www.artificestudios.com/
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Fantastic operating system, horrible release name conventions.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
+1 on this. I recently took a job at a startup in Campbell, and the San Jose area is really nice. It's not as expensive at SF, but it's still "bay area".
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by dmpayton 18y ago
I use Mac at work and Linux at home, so I'm SOL for the time being. Chrome looks nice, though, and I'll probably end up switching when they port to the platforms I use.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
I was born with congenital cataracts and have had several operations on my eyes. My vision is around 20/30 with contacts, but I'm legally blind without them (20/400). I know my condition isn't quite the same as yours, but here's some advice
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Hypothetically speaking, both. Those that could afford it would buy it and grumble, those that can't would use Gimp. But this is reality, and the reality is that pirating is easy to do even with all the DRM/anti-piracy stuff that is in plac
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by dmpayton 18y ago
See also: http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~annis/creations/PyLisp/ Which also points to: http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/pyscheme/ and: http://www.xs4all.nl/~yduppen/site/psyche.html
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by dmpayton 18y ago
pics or it didn't happen. </reddit>
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by dmpayton 18y ago
This is true, but there are many people who will always pirate no matter what. I know people who pirate everything from Photoshop and Windows to music and movies, not because they /can't/ pay, but because they simply don't want to.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
"Nothing like good ol' free software to stick it to the man!" Err, that's not really the point of free software. The free software movement is more about freedom than not paying money (libre vs gratis). You really want to stick it to the ma
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by dmpayton 18y ago
My "to-learn" list has three items on it, and I'm torn about which to pursue first... * Lisp (Interesting, recently bought pg's ACL) * C (Would be useful at work, recently bought K&R) * Obj-C (Have both an iPhone and a MBPro tha
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by dmpayton 18y ago
I would so be there, except... ya know... got work. Any chance we can plan the next one for a weekend?
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Software Engineer at an early-stage startup in the Bay area. I was hired to do Python, but they want me to eventually learn C (which I am really looking forward to).
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Indeed. I recently bought an HP D2400 printer at Big Lots for $30. The color/black cartridges come out to around $40. Go figure.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Wow. Color me inspired.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
See, I'm the opposite. I can be quite timid in IRC (though this generally applies to anyone I don't really know), and I always wait until I'm completely stuck to ask a question. Then I feel like a complete tool when someone points me to a l
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Wow, thanks for the advice everyone. Little Schemer is on my to-read list for sure, but I saw ANSI CL and bought it on a whim. PCL seems recommended by a few people, so maybe I shouldn't have dismissed it so quickly. I opened it up to sever
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Ask YC: Learning Lisp
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I would, but I'm not sure I'd be telling the truth.
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My vote goes to "Anything intellectually stimulating that relates to CS/hacker stuff and startups". But since there's no "Both" option, I'm going with ambivalent.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
If it's a *nix system, why not setup a cron job to do it for you? I have a Python script in /etc/cron.daily that performs a mysql-dump, tars it, and uploads it to S3. For total completeness and peace-of-mind, you could have the script add a
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by dmpayton 18y ago
In experiments, researchers found that an 86-microsecond exposure of the beam would bore a hole 40 meters into a block of copper. Simply. Amazing.
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by dmpayton 18y ago
Why is this making the rounds again? And on HN? It hasn't even been a month since the first time... http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1165-space-shuttle-launch... http://www.reddit.com/comments/6tnti/space_shuttle_launch_vi...

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