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by dunstad 15y ago
How did you learn programming on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic?
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by dunstad 15y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the reply button takes longer to appear the more deeply nested a comment is, to discourage long, drawn-out arguments which detract from the value of a thread.
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by dunstad 15y ago
You'll probably have the best luck dissecting a program you're interested in.
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by dunstad 16y ago
>>>"...understanding that sin represents the y value of a point on a unit circle..." Wow, I'm enrolled in a college trig class right now and your comment just made me realize that. Thanks for the heightened understanding :)
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by dunstad 16y ago
"Every once in a while we need to reinvent the wheel. Not because we need more wheels, but because we need more inventors."
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by dunstad 16y ago
4chan easily defeated HN. It's a dark world we live in...
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by dunstad 16y ago
The things that lead to the most innovation are the things that don't seem sensible to do at first. For example, if you mean raytracing in the sense of computer graphics, improving its performance would lead to a possible greater presence o
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by dunstad 16y ago
Usually I read HN comments before the actual article, and as a result I was unaware of the blog's title before reading his comment. It provided value to me, at least.
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by dunstad 16y ago
I still don't get it :/ Where did the 'paul' part come from? (Yes, I'm aware of the play-on-words with the name.)
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by dunstad 16y ago
Can we get some supporting evidence, please? This strikes me as a little unreasonable.
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by dunstad 16y ago
>> " But... You know, there are lots of people out there who >> are good at business, the details of AdWords/marketing, can >> write well, can recruit people, etc" Just because Patrick isn't the only one to do this d
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by dunstad 16y ago
The 'clarify and 'X' buttons show their corners in Chrome, looks a bit messy.
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by dunstad 16y ago
Sounds like somebody's startup idea. Any idea what the software he needs is?
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by dunstad 16y ago
I'm afraid I've missed something here. Anyone care to provide an explanation?
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by dunstad 16y ago
It appears to me that you publish your essays in bursts. Coincidence, or the result of something else, such as working on multiple essays in parallel?
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by dunstad 16y ago
The problem is actually accomplishing the above, instead of just noticing it.
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by dunstad 16y ago
I halfway agree with you - they probably wouldn't try to write something like Halo, because they wouldn't know where to start. Simple, fun games still exist though. Just look at all the Flash ones.
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by dunstad 16y ago
I made this because I found myself getting around noprocrast by opening lots of tabs and not refreshing them. This ought to solve that problem, though it could just be another step in an arms race against myself. Hope someone else finds it
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Noprocrast Enhanced: Chrome Extension(chrome.google.com)
2 points by dunstad 16y ago|2 comments
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by dunstad 16y ago
I've presented before using html/css files. Normally I'd have used Google Docs, but formatting the code separately was too difficult.
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by dunstad 16y ago
"...someone of such low caliber..."? Was that really necessary?
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by dunstad 16y ago
I like the new stories box at the top. If many new stories don't get voted up because people just don't see them, then the box seems like it could alleviate that problem.
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by dunstad 16y ago
I won't pretend to know much about responsibility, but creativity like that needs to be nourished.
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by dunstad 16y ago
I'm not sure why this was downvoted; there are tons of things I think will be easy before I start doing them.
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Fear and Permission [video](chrisguillebeau.com)
3 points by dunstad 16y ago|0 comments
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by dunstad 16y ago
For learning Javascript, I used http://eloquentjavascript.net/ It's really thorough, and if you get stuck somewhere you can email the author for help.
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by dunstad 16y ago
Have you seen this guy? http://www.chrisguillebeau.com/ He shares your interest in travel; you might find it interesting.
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by dunstad 16y ago
Speaking of developing games for it, how does that work? I see the word 'flash' mentioned a few times, is the author talking about the same technology people make games on the Internet with?
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by dunstad 16y ago
_why
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by dunstad 16y ago
I found PG by looking up the Wikipedia article on "Nerd" and going down to the external links, where his "Why Nerds Are Unpopular" article is.

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