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by maxklein 15y ago
Well San Francisco, which is the tech mecca, looks pretty dilapidated.
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by maxklein 15y ago
I will say something: Just from perception, the U.S does not feel attractive anymore as a place to work in. Americans are whining constantly online about how terrible their country is, on my recent visit I was shocked at how dilapidated the
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by maxklein 15y ago
This article is proof that there is something wrong in the system. The article mirrors those "an era of never ending growth" posted by Jon Katz et al during the first boom. The first boom was a game of financial geeks. The boom was a way fo
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by maxklein 15y ago
I have an app called SongCleaner (to delete double MP3s) that I sell at $5. It floats around in the top 20 of the Music Category. Peaks at around #14 then goes to #30 and so on. I make about $35 a day on that app. Peak was $70 and bottom wa
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by maxklein 16y ago
I'd want to know: 1. How nice are the people I will be working with? 2. What is the opportunity for advancement, and if I work extra hard, can I speed this up? 3. How stable is the company going to be in the long term? 4. What options are t
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by maxklein 16y ago
He should do Amazon Kindle self-publishing and write about the sales numbers later.
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by maxklein 16y ago
You need a simple hook that you repeat over and over again.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Chrome auto-updates, you never realise it.
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by maxklein 16y ago
People don't seem to really understand the difference: a web app sits on a server. A native app is on the device. A web app will ALWAYS have a round trip time - the web is not instantaneous. So it will ALWAYS be slower than a locally run ap
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by maxklein 16y ago
If I were not working on my own startup, or an important stakeholder in the startup I'm working for, I'd much rather work for a big company. The stable hours and free time would give me more time to work on my own startup on the side.
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by maxklein 16y ago
"But it’s worth a read to understand the perspective of a vocal minority in the tech industry." That statement is a bit off-putting. First of all, this 'minority' is the majority. Most software businesses are indeed small, and are not aimin
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by maxklein 16y ago
I think you'll find that most people really don't care what you're doing. You're just a mild curiosity to others, and your greatest motivators and your greatest stoppers are going to be you yourself. So don't frame things in terms of how mu
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The end of the poll internet(maxklein.me)
17 points by maxklein 16y ago|13 comments
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by maxklein 16y ago
Not with DirectShow and the VMR filter.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Read the article - just ending processes is not allowed because those other processes need to continue to run. If you were allowed to end processes, then there would be no issue at all.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I'm not sure you get it. This is hardware overlay. It's not running in user-space, it's being moved from memory to graphic card directly. A DirectX drawn window is not affected by focus or anything else. You can stop it by killing the proce
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by maxklein 16y ago
No, look at the real life constraints of the problem. The screensaver can be prevented from starting by using SetThreadExecutionState or moving the mouse. Another app can't stop you from making the system unidle. And in the second part you'
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by maxklein 16y ago
The screensaver mode can be disabled. The enumerating thing will most likely lead apps to crash, so I am quite sure no other app is doing this, so it's safe to ignore.
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by maxklein 16y ago
The FIRST app that gains control of the screen does not allow other apps do the same. Try it. Open Windows Media Player, play a video, then open VLC and play a video. You'll see that VLC output is pixelated - that's because it's rendering u
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by maxklein 16y ago
A solution would be to use DirectX and request exclusive access to the screen. It's rather unlikely any of the other apps are doing this. Using DirectShow it would not even be complex - could be done in just a few lines of code.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I'd personally think that it's because the japanese have a greater sense of 'us' than in countries where looting occurs. Nobody thinks to loot from their family, only from other people.
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by maxklein 16y ago
But if I move my iPhone around in the room, it seems to change pretty quickly.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Why would it take 20 seconds for this to work? Radio is not slow.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I do business in Africa, I work with chinese companies doing business in Africa, I do business in Germany, in China also. I've spent many years in those countries. You don't, you just have this prejudice without any justification. It's not
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by maxklein 16y ago
You misunderstand. South African companies are doing business in WEST AFRICA. Celtel from a Sudanese guy is very successful everywhere. What you have suggested in this other post is even MORE offensive. You've doubled down and said that you
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by maxklein 16y ago
You know what - actually the story does not make me feel like I can do it. It makes me feel like he's probably hundreds of time cleverer than me. He was handrolling assembler as a teen - back then I was doing VB6. All these programmer stori
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by maxklein 16y ago
I think your comment is just horrible. You seem to be implying that African culture is simply more corrupt and somehow inferior, which is really not nice of you to say. "Starting up a business with locals would be a nightmare." I hate to be
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by maxklein 16y ago
It's not just politically incorrect, it's also incorrect. Hong Kong was not setup as a place for the british to run, the british came in and controlled it. There's a difference - because the british were absolute law and order. There were n
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by maxklein 16y ago
Nobody is idly "celebrating" any actor. What people celebrate are people who entertain them. Scientists are not entertaining. Fundamentally, it's a selfish activity.
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by maxklein 16y ago
It seems to me good photography is less about technical skill and more about curation skill.

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