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by jmatt 16y ago
Excellent. This is yet another reason that I love the news.yc community. I have had many similar experiences over the years, but haven't ran into anyone else that also understands and appreciates it in the same way. I think the usually MO i
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by jmatt 16y ago
beautiful, thanks!
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by jmatt 16y ago
This reminds me of a ted talk on games. There is an anti-game sentiment amongst most founders, but in the end it's the future. Game designers have figured out how to leverage and motivate more than all the academics or bosses combined. Jane
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by jmatt 16y ago
Yeah it's a subset of what he is talking about. scvngr.com is just the sort of platform that could enable a real life achievement app. I don't think that real life achievements necessarily imply location. For instance, an achievement where
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by jmatt 16y ago
I worked on a project where this was the aim last summer. The other founder left to return to med school. He was previously a burned out game programmer and gamer. It ends up med school is lower stress and easier than founding a startup or
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by jmatt 16y ago
This is definitely needed. If it comes down to it, I may have to write it myself. I know what I want and I'd be the first person to use it. I've ran some numbers of this and the biggest problem is gamers won't pay for anything, they hate ad
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by jmatt 16y ago
I remember all these same arguments circa 1989-1994 about internet access. You could pay hourly or per data. Needless to say... we all know how that ended up. And we all know how it's going to end up in the near future with telecoms. The sa
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by jmatt 16y ago
http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/ The categories and best of on the right side are great.
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by jmatt 16y ago
The source: http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html I was at the OOPSLA (+- a few years of 2002) where Gabriel denounced being a programmer and claimed to be a "code poet"... Looking at dreamsongs it looks like he's mostly followed t
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by jmatt 16y ago
I agree. I had only heard of Rob. And easily the top .NET employee is Anders by far.
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by jmatt 16y ago
Yeah congratulations to Mono and MonoObjC teams. This is great news for all those other business apps that are currently Windows / .NET only.
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by jmatt 16y ago
python has done a great job at cross-platform development. If anything I'd say there is more work spent on "native-feel" in windows than mac. Since windows is the one that doesn't play well with others. I'd also recommend wxWidgets or QT us
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by jmatt 16y ago
It's supposed to be 180000 light years. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=30_Doradus&red...
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by jmatt 16y ago
Chewing on these types of questions was totally unproductive and made me feel shitty. I’ve come to realize that doing startups is mostly an irrational choice. Just effing do it. Right on. I went through this same unproductive time and f
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by jmatt 16y ago
Their single biggest problem is OpenID. Normal people have zero tolerance for such shenanigans. It's confusing to create an account and login. On top of that asking for such information seems like a scam to non-techies. I know, I know there
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by jmatt 16y ago
I'm starting to suspect that Apple really requires proprietary APIs and decrepit languages for the same reasons Spolsky[1] once said Microsoft used proprietary and huge and ever-changing APIs. Microsoft finally addressed this and stabiliz
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by jmatt 16y ago
Every programmer I've talked to about this thought it was some combination of stupid and evil (there ought to be a word for that; stevil?) to insist that apps be written only in C, C++, and Objective-C. Ya it's insane. I have no idea how
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by jmatt 17y ago
I'm no actual PE historian (somehow I doubt such a thing exists) Apparently there is such a thing as PE history: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap... (Ya, I'm surprised too)
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by jmatt 17y ago
Y! seemed to make some good buys a looong time ago in the mid 90s. Then they bought broadcast.com and geocities. Those are a few log10 larger purchases and were total failures. So even if there were successful small acquisitions they are hi
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by jmatt 17y ago
Yeah that can only be viewed as a bad thing for Apple and the App Store. I have no idea how the leaders and decision makers (presumably the same people) at Apple don't see what nearly every other developer I know sees clear as day - it's no
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by jmatt 17y ago
Apollo 1 should count. Gus Grissom had been to space twice. Ed White once. They were the top candidates in the program at the time. The accident was clearly related to space exploration and the Apollo program. When we lost those astronauts
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by jmatt 17y ago
I agree. I'll trade beer (or similar) for an invite too. Email is in the profile. I've been a member of a few invite only communities over the years and I think there is value to be had with the model (eg ancient facebook). Inevitably thoug
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by jmatt 17y ago
I want to add value to the world in the most efficient way possible. For me, that's owning my own company and making customers and/or users happy. I've worked overpaying jobs for large and mid sized companies and it was stifling. Before tha
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by jmatt 17y ago
I began with a bank account that I kept for depositing checks locally. And a credit card I rarely use. From there I slowly built up trust and added more accounts. All of that being said, it's safe to say I'm adventurous and a risk taker.
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by jmatt 17y ago
Ok so after I decided that it was interesting and cool, my first thought was, "What's the emacs-mode for Ulysses?". I couldn't find one so it looks like I may have to actually download and install it. Anyone know of similar emacs or vim mod
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by jmatt 17y ago
So by proxy it's built by an HNer.
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by jmatt 17y ago
Beyond being an interesting quip on business ideas, I love the interesting site design and the $2400 dream keyboard [1]. As for ice cubes for the $10 bottle of water - the ice cubes need to be packaged and delivered with the water. Sounds l
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by jmatt 17y ago
One thing that really bugs me is when you tell somebody about some entertaining or worthwhile pursuit of yours, and they reply saying 'It sounds interesting, but I don't have time for it unfortunately.' Thereby implying that you are lazy,
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by jmatt 17y ago
For those you who weren't around in 1984... Or didn't pay attention in high school english or decades old super bowl ads. Apple's commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 And the obligatory wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.or
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by jmatt 17y ago
There has to be a way to fix this through changing their process when dropping your authenticator. One solution off the top of my head is to add an additional special question to admin tasks. Users very rarely if ever go to the blizzard adm

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