jakobegger

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by jakobegger 12y ago
I actually think the term anti-hacker is great! For years hackers complained about their negative image, and failed to explain the "real" meaning of the word. Now there's a pragmatic solution: just call yourself an anti-hacke
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Ask HN: How to handle emails from customers?
9 points by jakobegger 12y ago|5 comments
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by jakobegger 12y ago
The hardest part about this is accepting that you might be wrong. That your entire world view might be wrong, or one-sided. We humans have this uncanny ability to justify anything we just did, or said. It takes a lot of conscious effort to
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by jakobegger 12y ago
I'm sure there are a lot of tech workers who live in the countryside, it's just that we don't hear about them very often. We read mainly about the people in the tech centers, because that's where all the networking happe
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by jakobegger 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that pages marked a secure shouldn't contain unencrypted content. If people who are on the same wifi network can see what Youtube videos I'm watching, that's hardly a secure connection, is it?
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by jakobegger 12y ago
I actually enjoyed reading this thread. Yes, there are some snarky comments about missing newlines, but there are also a lot of constructive comments here!
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by jakobegger 12y ago
For those of us who actually ship code, I'd like to suggest khash[1], which is a pretty nice implementation of a hash table in C. It uses lot's of macros, so if you're looking for a brain teaser you will be satisfied as well
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by jakobegger 12y ago
Here's a link to the discussion of one of the related articles on pubpeer https://pubpeer.com/publications/8EB4592F23B61CC3EE7CF29A752... This is pretty factual discussion, and the fraud allegations are very convi
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by jakobegger 12y ago
My research involved a lot of programming, and I enjoyed making pretty GUIs for the code I wrote. So I already knew how to make Mac Apps. I made database apps because I saw an opportunity. I had been thinking about doing something more rela
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by jakobegger 12y ago
We did move in with my parents for a year after I quit grad school, which lowered our cost of living significantly. But we no longer rely on family now. I'll share numbers too: My revenue this year is around 50000€. (mostly sofware sal
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by jakobegger 12y ago
This attitude is exactly what made me leave. I've spent more than seven years at university, three of them paid to do research, and then I get told 'you're not really part of the club yet, you're just a student'.
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by jakobegger 12y ago
I'm now an independent software developer. I already had a side project that was doing pretty well (Mac App), and I started to work on a second Mac app that I released last summer. I wrote a bit about it on https://eggerapps
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by jakobegger 12y ago
The unfortunate reason for that is a data editor can be whacked out in a couple of weeks (well, at least an MVP). Making object editors takes a lot more effort, especially considering all the different objects PostgreSQL has: schemas, table
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by jakobegger 12y ago
If you get too many queries you can hit Cmd-L to clear the display in Terminal. I recently also added a cancel command to stop queries when you forgot a limit clause. I know the Terminal in PG Commander isn't for everybody; maybe I&#x2
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by jakobegger 12y ago
Supporting Redshift is actually pretty simple. The only problem is that you need to pay for a cluster for testing. However, since it's pay-by-the-hour you can keep charges minimal (don't forget to delete the cluster when you are d
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by jakobegger 12y ago
I'm sceptical. There've been a couple of Wifi-based local ISPs who went bankrupt where I live (in Austria).
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by jakobegger 12y ago
Yes! There are so many comments in this thread and the last one makes the most sensible suggestion: get involved with an open source project! There is absolutely no point in starting your own projects from scratch when you've never see
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by jakobegger 12y ago
If the bubbles are captured higher up, say 500m above the tank, so that the increase in deplaced water can lift the tank, you couldn't lift the tank all the way up to the surface; it would be stuck at 500m below surface. It's the
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by jakobegger 12y ago
If those physicists hurried up with cold fusion that helium shortage wouldn't be such a problem.
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by jakobegger 12y ago
The deeper you go, the higher the pressure. The higher the pressure, the smaller the (trapped) air bubbles. The smaller the air bubbles, the lower the upward force. As a result, the deeper you go, the more air you will need to pump into you
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by jakobegger 12y ago
A major problem with the GPL from the point of view of a closed source software vendor is that you can't integrate it into a closed source project. Apple wanted to integrate the compiler more deeply into their IDE, Xcode. GCC didn&#x27
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by jakobegger 12y ago
In my specific case, I'm displaying a table view with hundreds of rows and potentially dozens of columns. The bottleneck was the slow text rendering in App Kit. Text rendering is pretty fast when you render long strings, but there is a
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by jakobegger 12y ago
Having just spent two days optimising the scrolling performance of my Mac app I understand the reasoning behind this. Fluid scrolling is hard. And while scrolling might be handled in part by the GPU, its still the CPU that renders the text
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by jakobegger 12y ago
This is on my roadmap for next year. Drop me a line at jakob@eggerapps.at and I'll send you a note once it's ready.
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by jakobegger 12y ago
Yes! All v1 licenses bought on my website after September 1st will be valid for v2. See https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander/faq.html
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by jakobegger 12y ago
I'm a former Sequel Pro developer and I wrote a Postgres client for OS X: https://eggerapps.at/pgcommander/ I'm currently working on version 2.0 which includes a table structure editor: https://egg