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by hopeless 16y ago
I think in the context of "which is harder, building the product or building the market?" most programmers will admit that the coding is (almost) trivially easy compared to actually getting users. Perhaps trivial is too harsh a word but I u
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by hopeless 16y ago
Why not a posterous blog? I've setup one for private tracking of my progress and you get the best of both worlds.
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by hopeless 16y ago
That looks very interesting (particularly as it's a desk which is widely available across countries) but 98cm max-height seems a little short for a 6' 2" guy like me? I'm assuming that you elbows should still be at right angles (i.e., that
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by hopeless 16y ago
I was looking for an app in this category and had seen Dayta before but didn't buy it because it looks like it only tracks daily events? For some things that just doesn't make any sense - like, for example, going to the gym. I want to go 2-
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by hopeless 16y ago
From a physical design perspective... - micro-USB doesn't provide anything to hold the connector in whilst the dock connector uses small clips. - Also, anyone who has used the WD Passport drive with dock knows that the micro-USB port isn't
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by hopeless 16y ago
yep, there are! http://www.hackernewsers.com/meetups/2 There's a few of us that meet once a month to talk Ruby, Rails and other bits of HN/startup/tech stuff. It's all very informal and you're welcome to come along (even if you're not a R
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm incredibly impressed with the streetview coverage including the classic Irish one-track, grass-down-the-middle roads like this one near my house: http://bit.ly/8XLSfU
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by hopeless 16y ago
One of the things that was drilled into me in the cadets was that you can delegate responsibility for a task, but not accountability. Ultimately, when things go wrong it's your fault not theirs. Perhaps they didn't have the skills, resource
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by hopeless 16y ago
That's a very encouraging article... far more realistic to most of us than the get-big-quick, vc-investment, big-buyout, $$$-in-the-bath stories that sometimes appear on HN. That long-term struggle is a familiar story that's not often told.
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by hopeless 16y ago
Really? IBM refers to layoffs/redundancies as "Resource Actions", which is surely one of the most mealy-mouthed corporate expressions
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by hopeless 16y ago
I think most people will regret not saving more money when they're 80. It's possibly worse for those in supposedly "stable" jobs with "good" pensions who retire only to find the pension fund is woefully underfunded. I think those people mig
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by hopeless 16y ago
Oracle sounds as bad a company internally as externally. I'm hugely grateful that I've found other languages, frameworks and databases to base my career on and minimise Oracle's involvement in my life. Although I never worked for them, I lo
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by hopeless 16y ago
Thanks for asking this. I've been struggling with exactly the same sort of problem. For a while I was working late nights and making good progress but since having our 2nd kid it has been very difficult to get back into it. Being depressed
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm only starting to develop iPhone apps but as a user I find the review/rating process completely broken. Rating an app seems to take far too long and interrupts my work, so I never do it. The only time a user will be sufficiently motivate
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by hopeless 16y ago
The kill-switch-on-error idea is very interesting and I can see why it might be necessary for something like Tarsnap. One question though: could this feature be used in a denial-of-service attack? i.e., induce errors in the Tarsnap server o
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by hopeless 16y ago
The Magic mouse was the one big disappointment when I moved to the iMac. Far, far too small to grip comfortably... but I do love the trackpad scrolling. I wish I could get a "magic" logitech (thumb) trackball. I saw yesterday that Logitech
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by hopeless 16y ago
I think you have some good ideas there but I don't think Windows integration is the main issue. Sure, iTunes is trying to do too much but a bigger problem is Apple's willingness to throw in different, non-standard components and generally m
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by hopeless 16y ago
"has your G-mail or Google Reader gotten any easier to use, or less stressful on your eyes? ... No. Just look at the music listings in new, redesigned iTunes." Actually, yes I do find gmail and reader easier to use - actually quote
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by hopeless 16y ago
I think I'm going to make it my job to ask the following question every time someone announces their "startup" or "business" on HN: Where's the money? Seriously, if it's a startup business then their must be an expected revenue stream.
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by hopeless 16y ago
Just in time for me to start coding my first iPhone app! I'd wanted to use Appcelerator's Titanium to avoid learning Objective-C and to keep my options open with respect to Android phones. I've sat on the development on this idea for a few
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by hopeless 16y ago
It looks quite nice and I've been looking for something similar - though ideally as a native iPhone app. One thing I'm forever pernickety about: donations != business It's a nice looking webapp but it takes more than that to make it a bu
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by hopeless 16y ago
Wow! That looks pretty awesome. It's interesting to see what buy/do to express themselves when they have the money. Personally, I couldn't care less about fast cars but I'd be straight onto one of those Red Bull Air Race planes and a privat
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by hopeless 16y ago
So Ping won't be available outside of the U.S.? Well, thank f*+k for that!
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by hopeless 16y ago
This is only the same thing that bit.ly and the other URL shorteners can do. And it is only on the twitter web interface which I'd imagine only a small number of user actually visit. I'm an active user but it's so long between my visits to
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by hopeless 16y ago
I won't tell you what I call it! Ok, I will: Intellectual masturbation - It feels good at the time but is ultimately unproductive.
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by hopeless 16y ago
My personal experience* is that some of that failure rate can attributed to students not understanding what a PhD is for. It is a qualification to conduct research... it is not about creating something cool/interesting and/or useful (partic
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by hopeless 16y ago
After a potentially fatal car accident, a councillor suggested Victor Frankl's book "Man's search for meaning". I'd highly recommend it. On the other hand, I'm not convinced that anyone who hasn't faced death can really understand life. You
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by hopeless 16y ago
Sorry, just remembered this. I got the app working now, not sure what the problem was... Possibly reception issues. The app is very useful, particularly being able to run rake tasks and interact with the console.
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by hopeless 16y ago
Judging by the upvotes, everyone (myself included) want to know how to find early customers but no one has any other suggestions? I had some success by emailing photographers (my market) who were interviewed in magazines or by interacting w
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by hopeless 16y ago
I'm not sure if trackpads have the same ergonomic properties as a trackball. It's possible but I might wait and see if any research or anecdotal evidence emerges

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