iamgilesbowkett

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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I'd call this interpretation indisputable unless I saw jashkenas himself disputing it. In many ways, CoffeeScript is just JavaScript, minus a whole ton of redundant key-tapping.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
As a busy person who finds your ideas interesting but has no time for riddles, I would really appreciate it if you could at least drop some hints here.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Y Combinator is right to be mad, but wrong about the target. Smith also attempted to expand the DMCA in 2006, again pushing for new wiretapping privileges for police. It's a question whether this guy is trying harder to destroy the Internet
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I'll add my voice to the "take a break" chorus. On the marketing problem -- people seeing you as a code monkey -- you could look for product development or project management jobs, and say "oh yes btw also I can code," but you're better off
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
it's legal because PayPal is technically not a bank.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
The value of deliberate practice applies everywhere. I wouldn't want to do this particular exercise because I did a little bit of this in 2005, and the shipping part of it was kind of tiresome and exhausting, but you can do the same thing w
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
I disagree, but I'm not going to dis anybody for being too generous, too trusting, or too fair, and I appreciate your attempt to smooth the waters.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Additionally, my most persuasive evidence is not my header graphic, it's just an extremely specific example. My most persuasive evidence is that every single aspect of his app is a direct copy of mine.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
The app is not at all dead, and I use it on the iPad far more often than on my computers. If you're curious enough to search my site for Hacker Newspaper, you must have also noticed the numerous minor tweaks and updates to Hacker Newspaper
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
If this is the case, why did you not use a gothic, New York Times-y font for your header graphic, such as is much, much more typical for newspapers than the font you did use? Why does your header graphic appear to be nearly identical to min
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
Newspaper grid layout, downloads the text of the stories, he even used a very similar font in his header graphic to the font in my header graphic -- and the font in my header graphic was a whimsical indulgence because it doesn't really look
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
It's got the same name, dude, and the same feature set.
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
A) is http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com in there? B) I used to curate a pretty large list of Hacker News mashups that you might get some mileage out of: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/11/hacker-news-mashups...
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by iamgilesbowkett 15y ago
This is a blatant copy of my web app Hacker Newspaper. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2011/11/imitation-is-sincer...