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by kcorbitt 10y ago
If nothing ever comes of it, it doesn't matter either way. If it becomes successful enough to launch into its own company, there is a huge disadvantage to not having the IP situation clarified up front. For one thing, investors get ver
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I work for Google, and I've asked for -- and been granted -- IP for a side project I've been working on. Actually under California state law I probably had rights to the IP anyway (I haven't worked on it at work or with work
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
This rather reminds me of https://xkcd.com/810/
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> NASA estimates this belt to hold $700 quintillion of bounty. That’s about $100 billion for each person on Earth. Something this article doesn't say is whether that's the economic value that would be unlocked by bringing all t
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
ln Spain, everyone refers to Facebook as el face , (with the English pronunciation of the word "face") which sounded pretty funny until I got used to it.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
A counterexample can't prove that that never happens, but I interviewed with Google this year and every interaction on the phone or in the in-person interviews began within 3 minutes of the agreed-upon time. So I have a hard time bel
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Node's module system doesn't import dependencies into a global namespace. So the `x` required by `a` and the `x` required by `b` will have separate namespaces and won't conflict, or even know of each others' existence. T
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Podcasts are also great because they let you save something now and listen to it later (in the car, doing chores, etc.). I'm really interested in listening to this, but by tomorrow when I'm doing something that is amenable to list
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I've been following Bucklescript's development from the sidelines for the last couple of months along with Facebook's Reason ( https://facebook.github.io/reason/javaScriptCompared.html ). I'm very opt
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I had a technical interview just last week wherein I was asked to write a program to determine whether a given lights out board could be solved or not! Hadn't ever seen the game before then.
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Yes, I do this in my app. It's well-supported by the platform and quite easy -- there are built-in primitives to call a native function from javascript that returns a promise, which can then be fulfilled/returned asynchronously on
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New attack that cripples HTTPS crypto works on Macs, Windows, and Linux(arstechnica.com)
250 points by kcorbitt 10y ago|68 comments
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Sane defaults and pieces made to go together are critical to lowering the adoption barrier and building a community, so huge props for that. But no ability to configure anything at all? I think that for most people, at some point there will
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
It seems very unlikely that you would be able to sense those frequencies, except indirectly through something like audible speaker interference. However, this would be pretty easy to test! Just have a friend call you at random times through
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
I don't use TypeScript, but with Flow (which has always disallowed nulls in built-in and user-defined types by default), "null" is a subtype of "any", so that would still work. Is this not the case in TypeScript wit
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Just as a counterpoint: I (think I) absolutely do think in a specific language. I don't know if I do so all of the time -- there could be times when I don't and don't realize it -- but most of my conscious thought does defini
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Evernote limits free tier to two devices, raises prices 40%(arstechnica.com)
13 points by kcorbitt 10y ago|1 comments
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
They're both very functional, but it's an interesting matchup given that Elm is very strongly typed and (according to my understanding) Elixir is totally dynamic. For those who are developing with both, I'd be interested in h
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Typically if you do a closeup of a computer screen in a movie/TV there's a specific action the user is performing or message they've received that is important to the plot. You want that message to be big and obvious enough t
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Yeah I wanted to address this in my comment above but didn't want to get down in the weeds. There's a couple decent solutions to this problem. The liberal/socialist approach would be to make a contract garnishing future basic
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> For instance, if you're on foodstamps right now, and gas is not cheap, or it's very time-expensive to make it to the grocery store too often, then you're making single large trips. A continuous stream doesn't gel as
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> For example, rates for a 4,400 teu gearless panamax ship of $5,400 per day, are a staggering 63% below the market rates of a year ago, and in many cases are below the daily operating cost. TIL you can rent a Panamax cargo ship for $5,4
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
My personal idea of a solution is to make basic income a "stream" of income instead of a lump sum once or twice a month. We have the technology to make a transfer happen hourly, or even minute by minute. By apportioning the income
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> My only concern is that I don't see how an IDE not developed in partnership with Facebook is going to succeed as I'd expect it to always be playing catchup with new features. New features for React Native are extensively disc
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
Really nice and easy to use -- the test starts way quicker than speedtest.net. However, am I missing something, or does this only test downloading? I guess that makes sense for Netflix's use case, but I'm usually at least as inter
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
> Horizon is distributed as a standalone server for browser-based JavaScript apps. When you're ready to write custom backend code, you can load the Horizon modules directly in Node.js This is key. Firebase seems great for quick prot
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by kcorbitt 10y ago
The problem with sorting physical objects is that it's basically like inserting everything into a database for later retrieval, except you're only allowed to have one index (whatever you choose to base your categories on). It&#x27
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Report: Apple is approving apps more quickly to increase Services revenue(arstechnica.com)
1 points by kcorbitt 10y ago|0 comments
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I've spent a lot of time writing Javascript on the front-end in the last year using both React and React Native. I've found the React ecosystem to be a sane, productive and enjoyable development environment. Interested in sharing
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I agree that ShapeShift's account has holes in it and the CEO seemed a little too willing to take Rovion at his word, but this rebuttal swings too far in the other direction. Some comments: > Red Flag #1. Bob is somehow able to conn

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