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by hernan7 19y ago
Some interesting comments on that one if you want to waste a minute or ten.
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by hernan7 19y ago
> what do you think computing will be like in 30 years? Well I hope by then time_t will be 64-bit.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Generate Java boilerplate using shell scripts -- not sure if that was included in the list of new sins the Vatican put out last week.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Frankel's latest project: the Reaper multitrack recording software. www.cockos.com
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by hernan7 19y ago
+1 on 2) and 3). In my case, unless the logic of the program is very simple, I always try make a sketch of what I am going to program before I start -- either on paper or text editor. Of course, YMMV. Others will be more productive just plu
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by hernan7 19y ago
Great idea about that semicolon.
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by hernan7 19y ago
The first version of Yahoo may qualify I think.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Aren't there already ads that are supposedly game-like? "Click on the bouncing ball and win $$$", things like that. Personally I avoid clicking on anything ad-like, to avoid pop-ups and generally having the flow of my web browsing interrupt
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by hernan7 19y ago
Yes... no
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by hernan7 19y ago
I wouldn't describe the site so harshly, but a little bit of the human touch would make a big improvement. Right now you have 40 or so links on the home page, each one leading to a sub-site with 50 sections or so, totaling ~300 links that l
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by hernan7 19y ago
Yes, in English: America = US. In Spanish: America = The Americas.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Maybe in the case of AOL they offer those free email accounts to Americans only so they can guarantee a more homogeneous audience to their advertisers.
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by hernan7 19y ago
I still think SVN and Norman are in violent agreement. Look at the Southwest Airlines example. I agree with mixmax, this is mostly for marketing purposes. Not that there is anything wrong with that...
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by hernan7 19y ago
I have a hard time believing that a platform that doesn't allow for beige boxes and software (ahem) sharing can become dominant. I can see the iPhone making a mint, defining the future mobile platform even -- kind of like the Apple II and t
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by hernan7 19y ago
The MS-centric press does seem a little insular sometimes -- more Mount Athos than United States in some occasions. All the recent Silverlight hype ("the Internet has just been rebooted by Microsoft!"). Or the articles trying to convince pe
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by hernan7 19y ago
Yes, I suspect the author and 37signals are in violent agreement.
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by hernan7 19y ago
I stand corrected.
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by hernan7 19y ago
For what it's worth, I have 15 years of Unix work experience and I don't think I saw any tar file until graduating (my university was a mostly-DOS shop). I learned mostly on the job... man vi was painful... but now I can't use an editor for
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by hernan7 19y ago
Reminds me of that old Philip Greenspun article on squeezing the last drop of productivity from "your programmers" http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar...
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by hernan7 19y ago
Moral of the story: don't take management advice from /Built to Last/ or from God.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Learn some Unix -- Bourne shell and all the usual suspects like awk, sed, grep. OS X has Unix under the hood, you might as well make use of it.
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by hernan7 19y ago
Good post. On my personal project I am always tempted to add pointless scaling/generalizing stuff. Shades of "worse is better"...
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by hernan7 19y ago
Great site; I always thought that user-generated animation has the possibility to become huge. And being able to create animations from withing the browser... wow! Like with HTML, it would be great if there was some way of doing "View Sourc
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by hernan7 19y ago
Then there is the danger of people creating pseudo-polls using the old "vote up if..." trick. Not sure how YC deals with those -- maybe the editors nip them in the bud?
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by hernan7 19y ago
Practical Common Lisp? gigamonkeys.com The Touretzky book is also available as a free PDF. I didn't like it, though.
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by hernan7 19y ago
But how long have these desktop-like websites been around for now? I remember Hotmail catching on like mad in their first months of being available. Not so much with the WebOS sites as far as I know. Mind you, I'm not saying that web-based
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by hernan7 19y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't see the appeal of those desktop-in-a-browser websites? Most of the 500M people that access the web via a cybercafe only are going to be in 3rd world countries, using something like Win98 + IE4 over a dial-up
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by hernan7 19y ago
Joost?
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by hernan7 19y ago
Good point
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by hernan7 19y ago
+1 to write a couple of CGI scripts to get a feel for how pages are actually put together by the framework. My personal experience is with Perl and Java, both of which are going the way of the dodo, or so it seems. So, I can't recommend any

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