luke_s

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by luke_s 14y ago
Well, we should aim to do better than 'good enough'. There are some bits of android that absolutely rock: * I really like that the OS can handle so much of the scaling and resizing for you as you move from a 3 inch phone all the way up to
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by luke_s 14y ago
I think many of your points are valid. In any large SDK there will be rough edges, and you have pointed out several of them. However I would like to post a contrary opinion, just because I know that many people who have never done Android
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by luke_s 14y ago
When you say 'work' is this freelancing work, or work as an employee at a company? If its freelancing work, how do you find enough to keep you busy during the 1st year?
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by luke_s 14y ago
As the poster has already pointed out, these are pics that people have already shared via facebook. Computers sometimes allow us to do things was were already doing, except at a massive scale. Pre-napster, people were already able to share
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by luke_s 14y ago
Another 30yo with 2 kids reporting in - Unfortunately I don't think that there are any easy answers. Sure you can tweak your schedule (work on the train!) and there are always a few things you can cut (Turn off the TV!). However increasing
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by luke_s 14y ago
From a technical point of view I know that there are two teams searching for exoplanets around Alpha Centauri [1]. Hopefully this means that the other team will be able to provide evidence that correlates this find. From a human point of v
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by luke_s 14y ago
I'm just curious what you think coworking spaces get wrong? Having looked at a few (but I must note, never worked in one!) it sounds like they come the closest to what you describe.
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by luke_s 14y ago
It says to 'ask PG a question', so I tried a bunch of things I thought would find plenty of results: * "How to grow a userbase" * "Find a mentor" * "Disrupt a market" Only the last one returned any hits. I definitely think it needs some ki
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Ask HN: How do I bootstrap a freelancing business
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by luke_s 14y ago
A very good explanation, but I believe you are missing some steps at the end. After he had the rover and bright object showing up white and the sand showing up as black, he removed any large connected white objects (In any image the largest
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by luke_s 14y ago
When they say "Jettisoned", it makes it sound like one of the flight computers decided to drop the panels. Wouldn't it more be the case that the panels are deliberately designed to be blown off? I have a hard time believing that any contr
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by luke_s 14y ago
For those who don't know who Paul Lutus is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lutus Some key parts: "Lutus designed electronics for the NASA Space Shuttle and created a mathematical model of the solar system that was used by the Jet Propu
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by luke_s 14y ago
Subtitles - Not all the world is sleeping, now we are currently sitting here in an office. Many of us have the webcast up on their screens, but we either don't have headphones or don't have the sound on. A timeline of what is supposed to ha
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by luke_s 14y ago
By popular request my resume is now available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14eu1Z_6FrXG-xIKEiyC7_rKq... And my rates at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/122gri-dlkgA_zDKMEOiEVUnM...
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by luke_s 14y ago
This is the 3rd frontpage article about TypeScript in 3 days. It certainly seems to be getting a lot of 'air time' amongst developers. I can't help but see this as a good thing for the languages adoption. Languages live and die based on t
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by luke_s 14y ago
No unfortunately not.
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by luke_s 14y ago
Julian Boot recently did a presentation in melbourne on this topic: Design eye for the dev guy: http://julianboot.com/2012/08/design-eye-for-the-dev-guy-sli... Sadly the slides are not much use without Julian standing there presenting th
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by luke_s 14y ago
Or perhaps he is just doing what everybody _really_ does, which is to use the same username and password for every random site on the net and hope like hell they are not storing passwords in plantext. A hope, which has been dashed time and
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by luke_s 14y ago
It seems the analyser to infer the types of your vars is fairly easily fooled. The following code compiles, but prints out "Hello undefined": interface person{ firstname; lastname; } interface apple{ colour; } function he
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by luke_s 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Australia (Remote) If you looking for an experienced coder, who can deliver mobile Android or HTML5 mobile applications, then I am your man! 10+ years doing java development means I have the maturity and experience to deliver
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by luke_s 14y ago
The price I am prepared to pay can be significantly altered by the avaliability of models to print. At the moment I would pay about $250. I've checked through http://www.thingiverse.com/ and have seen a few trinklets that would be fun t
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by luke_s 14y ago
The tent.io protocol looks very interesting. Architecturally the way e-mail works, mixed with the functionality of social networks all done over JSON/REST. I wonder if it would be possible to implement a tent.io -> facebook/G+/Twitter
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by luke_s 14y ago
I'm interested in doing something similar myself. If the HN hivemind could help out, I have a few questions: 1 - How important is it to have some sort of public profile (eg, High ranking StackOverflow account, Github account, well traffick
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by luke_s 14y ago
Do you have any other sources of clients apart from HN? What percentage of work comes via HN vs Other sources? Also, I took a quick look through your comment history. Perhaps you are being to subtle for me, or perhaps you just post to man
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by luke_s 14y ago
Well, I don't think the article said that the current problems were once again caused by the "suits" overruling the "pirates". I think it just mentioned the suits and pirates to give a bit of background on what happened last time and why.
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by luke_s 14y ago
Actually, they feel like flies or insects crawling all over the page. Its just something about the way they move. Not a good look! Also from a design perspective they are really bad. You want people to be reading the text, not focusing o
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by luke_s 14y ago
Well, according to wikipedia [1] we could have run over 8 Apollo programs for that cost. [1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Program_cost
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by luke_s 14y ago
I live in Melbourne Australia and I have got to say, this is the first reaction I had as well. The imagery used on their website was frankly shocking. My first response was "WTF! Is this really how Americans see their police? Is their j
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by luke_s 14y ago
I just got my wife (Taiwanese) to read it, and she translated the red block of text. She wasn't very clear, but it says something along the lines of: "Beware of imitation products. The genuine goophone has a 'small bee' logo. If you see
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by luke_s 14y ago
I honestly don't know the answer to this, so perhaps somebody can provide some info: Does it cost more to produce the mirror or to produce the various CCD imagers and science instruments? It would seem to me that the CCD's should be cheape

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