eelco

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by eelco 16y ago
It not just you. Skype was founded by the people that also founded KaZaA and they (obviously) took the technology/knowledge they already had, modified it and applied to a different purpose.
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by eelco 16y ago
It looks like a 'search' key actually. Look closely at the fourth screenshot. Not sure if I'm right, though.
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by eelco 16y ago
The point is that he won because he's a great programmer, not because he used Lisp.
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by eelco 16y ago
http://processing.org/ (or maybe http://processingjs.org/ )
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by eelco 16y ago
It depends a lot on the use case of your application. The size of the task, the amount of return use, etc. For one-off, low usage apps a web app can be the better choice. Also, it depends on how good you want the app to look and behave. Wit
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by eelco 16y ago
That's not the point. These are the kind of projects programmers do for fun. Your comments is like saying "if this guy didn't go the zoo, but rather spent his day at work, he at least might have been productive". Now, I can imagine you woul
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by eelco 16y ago
With the first child on the way (very soon now), I have been 'practicing' taking evenings and weekends off for a couple of months now. At first you might think you won't have enough time but it already taught me the difference between bein
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by eelco 16y ago
They're a company so their goal is (among other things) to make money which they do (among other things) by charging for premium membership. Assuming there's a business case for this (very cool) tool, the question is: will they make more m
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by eelco 16y ago
It's annoying anyway because the button says 'Draw Now' I expect to 'Dive In' (as the subtext says). Instead, I have to fill in a obnoxiously long form, verify my email address, and go to the URL again. That's a strange definition of 'Now
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by eelco 16y ago
Love the idea. Too bad that I'm not in the UK. If you'd made a (very similar) Android app as well, you could have tested if the use of a certain mobile OS makes a significant difference in happiness ;)
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by eelco 16y ago
There's STIKK ( http://www.stikk.nl ), and a bunch of Ruby/Python/Haskell/JavaScript meetups. What's maybe lacking are a couple of big companies that buy/invest in smaller ones (e.g., like Nokia in Berlin).
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by eelco 16y ago
http://vimeo.com/13682463
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by eelco 16y ago
I like Objective-C's solution, where one can just send messages to nil. The practical result when writing code is pretty close to using the Maybe monad applicatively (i.e., write your code like the value is never nil, only check for nil whe
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by eelco 16y ago
What do you mean with "tried"? What did you actually do with it?
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by eelco 16y ago
Same here. I like having multiple projects active at the same time, mostly because of the 'switch when stuck' possibility, but also just to give my brain some time _not_ to think about the project. I think I'll go crazy if I had just a si
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by eelco 16y ago
That problem will not go away, instead you'll have a new one: "Okay, is this abandoned and did the owner forget to mark it as such?"
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by eelco 16y ago
MRI is very useful to look inside things you _can't_ cut open, like, say, the head of a living human being. If you think this is spectacular, you should try spending more time in the kitchen. You'll see color too!
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by eelco 16y ago
In my experience (as an iOS app developer) people overestimate the returns they'll get from being listed in the app store. It might make sense for big brands because people might search for them, but smaller brands will not be more visible
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by eelco 16y ago
How the brief was written scared me a little, but 37Signals charges a pretty decent amount to post a listing so I figured it was all going to be kosher. So, the question here is: why didn't you trust your gut feeling? Why did you value yo
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by eelco 16y ago
My phone simply forgot the mobile internet configuration after the upgrade. Annoying, but (probably) pretty easy to look up on your carrier's website.
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by eelco 16y ago
Still works fine here.
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by eelco 16y ago
A bit of hyphenation does wonders. I put together some code to add it to NSString: http://blog.tupil.com/adding-hyphenation-to-nsstring/
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by eelco 16y ago
UI is about how things work first, about styling second. Themes are not going to help you with the former.
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by eelco 16y ago
I'm sure this sounds disappointing, but basically there's nothing you can do other than start. There are several ways to trick yourself into starting, though. Some random ones: * Break big tasks into small pieces, make a list. * Visualize
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by eelco 16y ago
Not all 3G technology supports a data connection when there is also a voice connection.
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by eelco 16y ago
In that light, the TED presentation from a couple of years ago is also interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/anand_agarawala_demos_his_bumptop_d... At least it seemed very entertaining to the TED crowd, they're mostly laughing.
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by eelco 16y ago
Works pretty well on my iPhone though. It totally breaks the back button, but I love that I can swipe left and right to navigate.
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by eelco 16y ago
In theory though, it should be much easier to fix a couple of crashes than to increase the performance of JS + canvas, say, an order of magnitude.
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by eelco 16y ago
I stand corrected. There are some edge cases though. Here's a case (from the same site) what can happen (again, in Dutch): http://blog.iusmentis.com/2008/03/08/in-eigen-tijd-gemaakte-...
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by eelco 16y ago
Hmm, all the work you would do in your 'own time' would be owned (copyright-wise) by your employer then anyway, unless you'd explicitly excluded that in your contract. This is tricky part of the (Dutch) law, where the all work you do owned

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