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by luke_s 13y ago
Do you have a link to that post on the forum? I don't feel like digging through 4 pages of replies to find it.
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by luke_s 13y ago
Well, this system is somewhat optimised for practicality. A truly 'fair' system would allow people to submit blind bids, for how wide a slice they would like, with the smallest bid taking the slice. Eg: * Everybody writes down how mu
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by luke_s 13y ago
"then you can't trust the cutter to not simply devour the entire pizza right there in front of everybody" The guy does have a knife after all ... what are the others going to do to stop him!
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by luke_s 13y ago
You can divide the pizza fairly with N players as follows: * The cutter proposes to cut a small slice (say 5 degrees) and asks who wants it * If nobody does, he proposes to cut a slightly larger slice and asks who wants
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'Pure Android' - Adapting an iPad design to Android tablets(lukesleeman.com.au)
2 points by luke_s 13y ago|0 comments
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by luke_s 13y ago
So, its this really caused by them borrowing $170m to play the stock market? What were they thinking?! Also: What happened with the failed fundraising drive? I would have thought such an exclusive school would have had many well off grad
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by luke_s 13y ago
Probably stores water for their deluge system for rocket engine testing. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_engine_test_facility "The rocket exhaust is directed into a flame bucket or trench. The flame trench is designed to redirec
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by luke_s 13y ago
Would you guys consider remote work? I would love to work for SpaceX but I can't really justify uprooting my family and moving to the other side of the world for it :-\
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by luke_s 13y ago
Oh wow - is there any way to find his old posts. It would be really interesting to see some of his comments and thoughts given everything that has happened since.
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by luke_s 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed rundown! If you don't mind me asking - where did you find all this out? I've been looking for a good source of SpaceX news. The official website/g+/facebook/etc just posts short updates whenever a mission occurs.
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by luke_s 14y ago
For those that are interested, you can play a javascript version of original PDP-1 spacewar! here: http://spacewar.oversigma.com/html5/ According to the excellent wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar ! ) there is onl
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by luke_s 14y ago
I just want to bump this question - they talk about lifestyle, allowing people to travel, etc. Does this mean you have to be based in the US, but you can then go on a trip and keep working? Or are they happy to work as agents for anybody
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by luke_s 14y ago
No, your not the only one to feel that way. In fact, until you explicitly pointed it out I wouldn't have thought at all that what this guy was doing was the moral equivalent of using a keygen to unlock features he has not paid for. I think
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by luke_s 14y ago
Really? When my nexus 7 had a broken screen I tried to phone them up but the only number was in the United States. That may be wonderful if you live in the United States, but it seems the rest of the world will just have to do without ...
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by luke_s 14y ago
irateradio .com .net and .org
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by luke_s 14y ago
Heh, actually I bought the Android humble bundle as well. I loved the fact that they could do something like that on Android. Its true that there are loads of services that people find outside the app/play store such as twitter or drop bo
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by luke_s 14y ago
With the native bitmap stuff, they are not writing any native code. They are referring to using this flag: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Bitm... When creating bitmaps. It seems to act as a hint to the BitmapFac
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by luke_s 14y ago
Actually if you want to sell apps through the Google play store you still need to give google a 30% cut [1]. With android you always do have the option to try through other app stores, or just allowing users to download the .apk from your
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by luke_s 14y ago
Is there anywhere I can see this in an emulator?
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by luke_s 14y ago
Apple has a B2B program where you can make an app available only to phones registered to a particular organisation. It has not been rolled out worldwide, like the google program appears to be: http://www.apple.com/business/vpp/ On the d
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by luke_s 14y ago
But it was still awesome! I know sooner or later somebody will turn up to say that this 'shouldn't be on hacker news', but I think having an (sometimes offbeat) sense of humor is an important part of being a hacker. I particularly enjoyed
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UI anti-patterns in porting iOS apps to Android(lukesleeman.com.au)
4 points by luke_s 14y ago|0 comments
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by luke_s 14y ago
Ouch! Two questions: 1 - Knowing what you know now, is there anything you would have done differently? 2 - After you turn off the lights and walk out, what happens next? Have you managed to bounce back? I would imagine that the skills th
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by luke_s 14y ago
Hmmmm ... I've actually been going around meeting a lot of digital marketing agencies (I've been doing a bit of Android freelancing in my spare time). They all seem really interested in the bids I have been putting together at my day job,
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by luke_s 14y ago
Which is why our tender responses do include the resumes - just in an appendix at the back. The bit at the front, with screenshots and quotes from happy users just talks about what the company has done. You absolutely have to meet the cust
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by luke_s 14y ago
"Another problem is that the clients are really interested in our specific experience: that means they want to work with me or my partner, not with the company. This bit is hard to crack." You certainly have a lot more business experience t
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by luke_s 14y ago
As the pipe gets thicker the client can get thinner. So services like this allow us to move more and more to the server side. If you follow this line of thinking you see a few interesting things become feasible: * Your computer can become
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by luke_s 14y ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. I've worked with JQuery Mobile, and found it to be a bit 'heavyweight'. It likes to take your html elements and replace them with a soup of divs and spans, so that it can support devices such as bl
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by luke_s 14y ago
Yeah, funnily enough I listed the boat on gumtree as well, but got nothing but scammers! There was about 5 people that contacted me trying to run this scam: http://www.mactalk.com.au/8/80486-paypal-scam-carsguide.html With the listing o
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by luke_s 14y ago
I wanted to provide somewhat of a counterpoint – I have been using e-bay (Australia) for about 7 years. I sell all kinds of stuff ranging from a broken bookcase for $1, which I didn’t want to haul to the tip, all the way up to a boat for $

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