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by espinchi 14y ago
No, you won't be a fool if you try. You have an application with more than a million downloads in the Android market. And your Juicy Fun game looks very nice. I'd say you have a fairly solid portfolio. Do you write all these applications al
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by espinchi 14y ago
Callbacks are the new goto s
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Sell an App, new crowdfunding platform for mobile apps(sellanapp.com)
1 points by espinchi 14y ago|0 comments
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by espinchi 14y ago
Also, in the package com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus, there lies the infamous class InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState ( http://codenav.org/code.html?project=/jdk/1.6.0_22&path=..
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by espinchi 14y ago
Here's the recent top ten submissions into Hacker News (all above 440 points). I'm happy to see the top ten has a pretty good variety of topics. * Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers (jwz.org)
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by espinchi 14y ago
Very shallow guide, IMO. There is much more to do in order to do a successful launch, such as: - Pick a good name - Choose the right keywords and structure for the description - Analyze your competitors and pick your keywords accord
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by espinchi 14y ago
I'll go get the mop to clean up the pieces of my brain that are now all over the floor. After spending some time before reading up on the Game of Life, I'm amazed by this meta implementation. By the way, why not go on and on recursively?
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by espinchi 14y ago
Very neat. Do you guys have plans to add support for Forex trading too? And, even if one of the strong points is "no coding required". Do you foresee at some point to let advanced users write trading strategies in some type of programming l
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by espinchi 14y ago
Just curious, do you have any plans to monetize this site? I thought I'd find referal codes for the links to the linked products, but it's not the case (not for the few I tried, at least).
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WhatsApp is broken, really broken(fileperms.org)
241 points by espinchi 14y ago|130 comments
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by espinchi 14y ago
However, you can't do asynchronous interviews to a bunch of candidates with seemikecode. (A different business is whether that is a good practice or not.)
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by espinchi 14y ago
In the end, they don't matter. But, as a candidate, once you try it once, and see what the interviewer will see, you become very self-aware of those minor details. It perhaps adds a bit of unnecessary pressure for some.
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by espinchi 14y ago
It's definitely far from comfortable if you compare to your favorite editor/IDE. In my case, I'm fine with it because I just want to assess the overall coding and design skills of the candidate. For instance, I'm well aware that when you ta
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by espinchi 14y ago
Just to be clear: I'm not the founder, neither am I affiliated with this platform in any way. After researching other coding interview tools, I stumbled upon this one (that I'll probably use next week), and wanted to share it with HN. If th
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Interview Zen, tool for asynchronous coding interviews(interviewzen.com)
39 points by espinchi 14y ago|34 comments
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by espinchi 14y ago
I'd suggest adding this piece of (important) info in the FAQ in https://idonethis.com/accounts/register/ , as an additional sentence to the answer for Do I have to sign a long term contact? Congrats on your product. Looks great!
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by espinchi 14y ago
For those that don't know about the Programming, Motherfucker Manifesto, here it is: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
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by espinchi 14y ago
Programming, Motherfucker
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by espinchi 14y ago
It's never been a loved language, but there it is, pretty much all over the place so many years later. I wouldn't have guessed that either! I'd be more interested in reading on well-rehearsed, current predictions about Java. Many enterpri
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by espinchi 14y ago
In some programming languages/platforms (e.g. Java), the product that you distribute can indeed be reverse engineered in a way that most original names are kept. But there are tools to obfuscate the code before turning it into something exe
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by espinchi 14y ago
I'd extend the title of the post with ... but definitely don't benchmark yourself against the folks on HN either .
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by espinchi 14y ago
I agree. It matches the submissions guidelines too: If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to
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by espinchi 14y ago
This field of research is far more advanced than I thought, actually. For instance, in the minute 25:12, they show a graph that compares how often the time to collision among a human driver (a professional one, actually) and the self-drivin
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by espinchi 14y ago
I've been trying hard to apply the "don't check e-mail/FB/Twitter/HN/etc until 11am" rule. In my expericence, the later you open that gigantic can of worms, the better off you are. By far.
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by espinchi 14y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Any issues with the Visas? I guess you can't stay more than certain amount of time in most countries, right? Also, what about health insurance?
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by espinchi 14y ago
Just some complementary information, extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots (very interesting for those that didn't know much about the role of bots in the wikipedia). Over 60 million edit operations have been performe
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by espinchi 14y ago
I do the same: unstructured e-mails, poor grammar and, in general, bad writing style make me reject applicants instantaneously. However, I wonder if I'm letting good candidates go just because of my grammar nazism. How do you (folks in HN w
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by espinchi 14y ago
The median of the revenue of an indie game is definitely very close to 0. What they've done here is pretty impressive, congrats to the organizers and students involved.
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by espinchi 14y ago
That is quite neat. Asking for a review after a few usages is definitely a good idea. Does anyone know some similar tool for reviews in the Android (ehem, Play) market?
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by espinchi 14y ago
There are some great tips in this article. However, I would only go through this amount of preparation for a really really important talk. I think 50% of this effort would lead to a talk that's 80% as good. Under most situations, I'd take

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