heat_miser

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by heat_miser 10y ago
Haha, seriously I don't know why they don't just offer free email,cloud storage,and messaging... it would have to be orders of magnitude cheaper than what they are doing now.
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by heat_miser 15y ago
I'm always surprised to find out that even great writers were skeptical of their masterpieces. I wonder if it is false humility, or genuine lack of self efficacy
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by heat_miser 15y ago
Fantastically generous post. I wish more engineers were as publicly honest about their own, and their team's failures so that other engineers and engineering teams can learn from the experience.
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Ask HN: try my app Nc3 Bb4 Chess(chrome.google.com)
1 points by heat_miser 15y ago|0 comments
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by heat_miser 15y ago
All this will do is to hurt the smaller web retailers who will inevitably have to track and pay sales tax. Some of whom are already on the brink and will have to trim their payrolls, or fall to amazon. So much for a "level playing field"
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by heat_miser 15y ago
Gardens have elements that are impossible to control so gardeners have to deal with randomness. With code, there is no randomness, the outcome of a piece of software will be exactly what people have written, down to the microcode, it is co
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Game Theory and Kickstarter?(therussiansusedapencil.com)
3 points by heat_miser 16y ago|1 comments
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Resolution Independent Curve and Font Rendering(jausoft.com)
1 points by heat_miser 16y ago|0 comments
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by heat_miser 16y ago
The most important thing for founders to remember, even if they are under the gun is that keeping employees working longer hours for a sustained duration will result in a less reliable product. I have tried to work 80-100 hours on several o
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by heat_miser 16y ago
My shell doesn't support color ;-)
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by heat_miser 16y ago
never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence...
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by heat_miser 16y ago
The ad model is truly dying, and I agree that facebook's current revenue model is a placeholder, but facebook has so much cash that they can buy a real business when one comes along. Perhaps that is the idea...
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by heat_miser 16y ago
(a) 2 (CycleMetrics, Mides IDE) (b) 2 paid (c) Not much, web application, twitter account, getsatisfaction support, a bit of adwords (d) (CycleMetrics) ~ $10 / month, (Mides IDE) pre iPad ~ $200 / month, post iPad ~ $800 / month
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by heat_miser 16y ago
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mides-ide/id284965983?mt=8
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Review My App: Mides IDE
1 points by heat_miser 16y ago|1 comments
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by heat_miser 17y ago
I do wish more IDEs would integrate JSLint. I even put it into my iPhone PHP IDE Mides.
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by heat_miser 17y ago
I wish I could say that I didn't fall victim to this sort of thinking all through school, but I'd be lying if I say that I hadn't. There is indeed a culture of not pushing to your top potential academically, or at least there was when I wa
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by heat_miser 17y ago
Totally biased toward the iPhone. Nothing about Android and Java, being that there are nearly as many Java developers as JavaScript developers. This may as well have been an Apple press release.
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by heat_miser 17y ago
Google was really broken for me about 30 mins ago, in San Mateo, but it seems to be back now
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by heat_miser 17y ago
Google deals with this situation pretty well on Android. You have 16 MB of heap to work with, and you have to deal with their garbage collection. I agree with the person writing the article. I'd rather have 16 MB of guaranteed RAM availab