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by irrationalfab 14y ago
It looks like a regression (it is the first time that I say it with a redesign). From the technical point the might be great, but they are more bold and result in a pages that look less clean. However I don't care about the icons so much, w
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Another great alternative is to join an open source project. Your learning will be skyrocketed comparing to what you'll learn by your self in a give amount of time.
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Also: [Hacker News'd!] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njdndkhkelkeepcnmo... [Hacker News Sidebar] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma... But are not perfect and it would be nice to have a single packa
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
The only missing feature that prevents it to become the ultimate HN extension is to show an icon in the address bar that links the a web page to the HN thread (if available). Keep up the great work!
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
The Objective-C syntax doesn't look strange to me, yet its verbosity make the whole picture more difficult to grasp than in Ruby in my opinion. It's somehow like difference between a document and a bullet point reppresentation of it. Howeve
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
It appears to be personal, but for many the answer is yes... that's why RubyMotion is a big deal.
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Estimation is difficult because we compare apple with oranges. One thing is to perform a task another one is to freeze the intelligence that allows us to perform the task. It involves foreseeing edge cases which might not be present in a pa
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
What about the voice recognition? How can the glasses understand if you are giving a command or talking to somebody else?
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
> If I were them I'd rather release information they want to the public instead of a random blogger getting a photo and kicking up a firestorm of interest. No, you would announce the product 6 months before launching it and you would
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
It would be interesting to have a similar poll for iOS, maybe asking the downloads/man-hours ratio.
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
I love the recursion!
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
Out of curiosity, does anybody have an estimation about how much money the link (which I assume to be affiliated) may generate?
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
You have the option to save a Core Graphics generated UIImage to NSCache or even to the temp folder.
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
Great implementation of an idead that I guess often crossed the mind of many. One feature request, please make it regional. It would be very nice if every document would have a geographical area and language attribute.
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
This was the strategy that they with Schmidt. Page changed it and shut down a lot of products to focus on the company core. The shotgun approach seldom works in business. It is better to develop and nurture cash cows. Personally, I think t
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
Does anyone knows what is the stance of Y combinator with HN scrapping?
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
" It's not so much that you need to understand every in and out of the field. What you need to understand is effort level required develop something[1], and when you're clearly getting BSed. " Those are not trivial things to do. Is not so r
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
I (try to) use this process to learn efficiently. When I want to understand a complex topic (e.g. back end development), I simply read every now and then articles and posts beyond my comprehension. And I do it quickly. When I commit to lear
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
There is an important side effect of this mentality: you are stuck with a weak foundation. Not only technically but also in front of the eyes of the consumers. When you ship a product users build expectations about it. They use in different
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
"But I would say the most important (and impressive) part of his genius was holistic thinking. He wasn't a programmer, a hardware engineer, an industrial designer, an advertising copywriter, or an architect, etc. But he deeply understood th
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
Have you checked uncrustify? It doesn't do all the work necessary for the tabular alignment illustrated in the article but it does great part of it. I personally use it with a keyboard shortcut to fix the selection of the code I just wrote
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
This is a great proof of the strategic advantages of totally controlling your operations. In the start you are at disadvantage, but if you manage to gain steam you end up with a competitive advantage that is almost unfair. In Apples case th
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
As an iOS developer I feel that native apps will have a technical edge for a while. WebApps are built with tools that weren't designed for creating GUIs, you can do it but it is much less efficient and effective. This is especially true for
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
I feel the same. I would love to understand a bit more of what is going on under the hood. I did a quick research but I could not find something quick enough to work as a primer. The best resources I found are: https://developer.apple.com
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
It is true, but the learning curve of Vim is (a bit?) step. This tutorial is quick and reduces some of the frustration that you can experience when it takes 1 minute to insert a word.
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
Official API or mobile interface
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by irrationalfab 15y ago
On the other hand shadow work is exactly what empowers people: 1. Automation allows to DIY tasks that previously were too expensive to acquire in the market in exchange of a bit of your time. 2. People can spend their financial resources mo