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by frankus 16y ago
I vaguely remember that there was an Objective-C environment in one of the 90's game consoles. I want to say PlayStation, but it could have been one of the Sega consoles. Anyone know more?
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Slap Bracelet iPod nano Case(griffintechnology.com)
1 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
It depends a lot on how complicated your life is. I use parts of GTD, along with a to-do list and a synced calendar, but then I have a day job, two or three quasi-entrepreneurial side projects, a house, pets, and a significant other. What h
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by frankus 16y ago
The author mentions thinking about doing an iPhone app, but being put off by the $9500 price. I know the revenue share pitch is a big old red flag for any developer worth their salt (most people who want to do a revenue share have some sort
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by frankus 16y ago
Write a quine ( http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm )
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by frankus 16y ago
The explanation I've heard (from a talk by Ted Neward) is that going increasingly multicore is where most future performance boosts will come from. Since pure functional languages are easier to parallelize, Microsoft is interested in langua
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by frankus 16y ago
There are certainly markets where it basically isn't possible to make a living pricing things at marginal cost, which is why we have copyright law. There are also markets with large sunk research costs (i.e. the Kinect) where there needs to
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by frankus 16y ago
I for one would be delighted if someone were to start a business making the razors-and-razorblades business model untenable. It's anticompetitive, distortionary, harms interoperability, and tempts businesses into spending endless amounts of
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by frankus 16y ago
Since so much software development is now web development, and since so much of that lives or dies by keeping customer data safe, something like "Have you practiced restoring from backup lately?" should go on the list.
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by frankus 16y ago
I think even Joel might update number one to "Do you use distributed version control?", not so much for the "distributed" part but for the "branching and merging that just works" part.
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by frankus 16y ago
That reminds me of a quip I heard from one drug policy researcher (paraphrased because I can't find the original) "Evidence-based policymaking would be ideal, but I would be happy with just a lack of policy-based evidence making."
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by frankus 16y ago
Another example is reducing fuel use: Any economist will tell you that if you want to reduce fuel use you can simply tax fuel (or tax it more heavily). Instead we get things like CAFE standards, which are both less effective (more efficient
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by frankus 16y ago
Falling in love is best done when things are going well for you. Particularly since the median love interest won't work out. And "with a girl" seems oddly specific. Assuming he's straight, he's probably not going to fall in love with a guy,
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by frankus 16y ago
http://3wdm.blogspot.com/
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by frankus 16y ago
It's probably just wishful thinking, but here's hoping they're working on bringing some kind of newer managed environment to OS X.
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by frankus 16y ago
I think the primary thing that Apple has denigrated about netbooks (if not in words, then in actions) has been the cut-rate price. The previous MacBook air was pretty netbook-y as well, in every way but price. The new one is cheaper, but it
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by frankus 16y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing it wouldn't hurt to get an estimate from a water-jet cutting place. It's a really good process for cutting complex 2D shapes in flat materials for low-volume production runs. (Of course you need to
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by frankus 16y ago
I was wondering whether the sugar number included things like high-fructose corn syrup and the like and indeed it does. From the source "All forms of sugar and sweeteners, expressed in kilograms per capita per year."
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by frankus 16y ago
How long before you guys start getting pulled aside for "enhanced screening"?
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by frankus 16y ago
Exactly. The $75 is an insurance fee, not a club membership. If I shoot myself in the leg and go to the hospital uninsured, they fix me up and then bill me for the cost. They don't let me bleed to death to "teach others a lesson." We can't
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by frankus 16y ago
There are two large categories of apps that don't have the same degree of raison d'etre on the iPad. You've hit on one, which is that having a larger browser and a faster processor makes having a "native interface for a web app"-type app le
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by frankus 16y ago
Like pretty much everyone has said, the health care situation is Not That Bad if your employer covers it, and if you don't get seriously ill or have an expensive chronic condition. But health insurance is one of the few ways in which the US
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by frankus 16y ago
Go down to Seattle and it's probably $2.50. We Bellinghamsters have been getting screwed for years (at least relative to the Seattle metro area). There's an odd effect where a high-price area spills over into the neighbo(u)ring areas. I hav
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by frankus 16y ago
Calendar time or billable time? That's probably pretty spot on for converting from the latter to the former (assuming you're honest and don't bill for things like time spent reading HN).
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The Strange Popular Morality of Copyrights(modeledbehavior.com)
2 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
The Quantum Mesh Chair from Office Depot is pretty nice, and about $300 new. Double-check the seat height, though. I'm 5'11" and at the highest setting it's almost too low. I'm not entirely sure if they come in different sizes or if its one
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by frankus 16y ago
Mine's a WiFi-only 16GB model that I've had since day one. It's a pleasure to use but it hasn't really become indispensable to me. The things it does really well are: - Cooking using recipes from the Web - Instapaper - Tumblr (reading, th
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by frankus 16y ago
I've heard it as "Perfect is the enemy of done."
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by frankus 16y ago
Silicone Valley = San Fernando Valley Silicon Valley = Santa Clara Valley
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by frankus 16y ago
I should have qualified that by saying it's true to roughly the same degree as the claim that a tree's mass comes from the air. I.e. if you wave your hands and ignore a lot of potentially-important second-order effects, it more or less hold

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