jpdevereaux

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by jpdevereaux 13y ago
Raspberry Pi blimp?
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by jpdevereaux 13y ago
http://www.trulia.com/local/#crimes/san-francisco-ca
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by jpdevereaux 13y ago
You can find some cool stuff via tag filtering - e.g. https://pinboard.in/t:nodejs/t:distributed/
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by jpdevereaux 13y ago
I'm not sure why they get upvoted either, but I get why they're written. The real point of this article is the second-to-last paragraph, where he says (paraphrased) "check out my startup website that I didn't even use Bootstrap to make."
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Ehh when integrating with the Dropbox API you're given a choice of "full Dropbox" or "app folder", the latter option creates a folder in your Dropbox which is all your app can access. For an app like this "full Dropbox" is probably more use
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
While I'd like to agree, I'd also like to see something beyond anecdotal evidence on this. It'd give me a great excuse next time someone wants a Facebook login and a Twitter login and a Pinterest login [sic] on the same site.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Not sure this is a proper use of "Show HN"...
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
I like this idea a lot, I think I'll try it myself. You already have some well dug marketing channels though, as made evident by your book sales - any advice for the rest of us? Better yet, any interest in making this a community challenge?
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
The nootropics community would find this very interesting. I wonder what the process of NGF isolation entails (or if she published anything about the process).
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
His point about the commissioned artist vs. the self-motivated artist is very interesting to me as a freelance developer. I often feel bored/discouraged doing projects for hire, yet when building something for myself I'll dedicate 18-hour d
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
As a customer you could choose to opt out, but from a business standpoint it's not so easy.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Very good point, it seems like a perverse reverse incentive. However I don't think that the earnings of a given field speak to its "value" - as I'm sure any teacher would agree.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Seems like the strategy is 1) do some standard business that makes a standard amount of money, 2) convince people you can make money, being "transparent" by offering a bunch of upward-trending income graphs, 3) write a book about how you di
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
This "income ceiling" you mention brings up a potentially interesting idea - why not scale the cost of college according to the expected value of your major? I know that in a broader sense this happens already, as "better" schools tend to b
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Shrimp is the first thing that comes to mind. Never seen shit-free shrimp labels.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
That's a lovely capitalist way to think about it, but it won't do much. Foods labeled non-GMO or non-hormonally-enhanced or whatever are only labeled so to target their market: the sorts of people who already care.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
This is the most elegantly concise summary I've seen of the topic. It also reminds me of a humorous video from the MySpace era about what was called the "MySpace angle" — people use the best possible view of themselves for their profile pic
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Absolutely. The people who'd get up in arms about the whole thing likely weren't users in the first place. I told a non-HN-reading, Instagram-using friend (i.e. an average American college student) about the ToS fiasco the other day; said f
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
But also consider that many if not most of those users were already on Facebook.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
I really like the idea of a portable web server - with a WiFi dongle (better yet, a 3/4G dongle) and dynamic DNS it should be possible to carry the a piece of the internet in one's pocket!
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
1) How to play the piano 2) How to make VSTs 3) How to sell software (potentially as a service)
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
We're all out of news today in the UK so let's talk about the weather... in America.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
You too! Sorry if my above absurdism comes off as offensive.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Fair enough. I for one enjoy expressing anti-television sentiments, with and without company.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
How is anyone supposed to enjoy the holidays with their families if they aren't consuming media?
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
How about charging users to forcibly become friends with someone who has rejected them? It could even be a recurring monthly fee to renew the friendship.
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Sounds great. Maybe a general "suggested resources" section for a given level or challenge. Or perhaps you don't need to point to specific resources, but mention the concepts involved, such as minimax for Tic Tac Toe. Here's another idea th
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Your post formatting is a little iffy. But I'll bite. I've played on HackerRank a bit and one thing that held me back from solving some of the challenges was not knowing what I needed to know. If you're going through various courses to come
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
Fight elitism by getting rid of the elitists. A successful startup is not fueled by egos, but by hard work, dedication, and cooperation. It's perfectly normal to feel good about yourself if you've done (and continue to do) those things, but
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by jpdevereaux 14y ago
I try to keep myself true to two simple rules: no single file over 500 lines, and no single folder with more than 50 files. Obviously this ends up varying by project, but overall it discourages the monolith design pattern that I've seen so

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