maxklein

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1. 211.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   There is no nickb on the current leader board any longer.
2. 212.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   You could also see it this way: imagine a guy who climbs mountains. Now compare him to a guy who does not climb mountains. The guy who climbs is wet, he's hungry, he's cold, and he's tired climbing that mountain. The guy not climbing the mo
3. 213.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   The question I'd really like answered: Let's say there are 1000 startups - there must be at least 5000 people who work at those startups. Of those 5000, how many of them actually reaped the benefits of working at the startup? How many made
4. 214.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   I don't find this very accurate. When I started programming, I didn't read many books, didn't know patterns and all that. I just did whatever was necessary to get the result I wanted. Between then and now, I've learnt a lot of theory, and I
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   by maxklein 16y ago

   Start off by not writing my own cloud database. Putting stuff in SimpleDB or MySQL would be easy, a little bit more difficult would be merging. But merging two TEXT BASED, TIME STAMPED and SHORT items is a solved problem for which there are
6. 216.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   If it takes 2 years to implement syncing, then the developers are incompetent.
7. 217.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   I'm really very fond of notifo and the service that it offers is invaluable, but what I think is wrong with it is the packaging. I can understand what notifo does, but I don't think anyone else in my family would ever understand it. If I we
8. 218.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   No, they are afraid of this because the films are rubbish that promote witchcraft and are designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Go and watch them - anyone with half a brain will find them terrible There is no conspiracy - it'
9. 219.▲
   by maxklein 16y ago

   What a ridiculous article! It reads like a list of 1980s cliches about Africa. Pirates smuggle guns and fill the empty bags with nollywood films? Christianity is on the 'rise' in Nigeria? People from all over Africa are flocking to Lagos to
10. 220.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    So you're using plain command line ffmpeg or are you feeding the frames yourself? How do you throttle the speed of ffmpeg?
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    by maxklein 16y ago

    How many ffmpeg instances are you holding in memory? You have a single ffmpeg process for each upload that is happening, do you? Additionally, if I am uploading files with B-frames and GOPs of 300 (which I assume will lead to a lot of frame
12. 222.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Languages are based on widely understood conventions. If it looks like I'm writing to or from a variable, then let that be what happens, because that's how 98% of programmers will understand it to be. Don't just change it, because the chang
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    by maxklein 16y ago

    Go for the tablet using ONLY native Objective C. Don't use PhoneGap. It will be a good learning experience, you will be able to instantly test the code, and there are no two ways about it. Few hacks or tricky stuff. It's a pretty straightfo
14. 224.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    You don't learn new things quite as fast, but you hone your skill. The best statues are not done by fresh, inexperienced people.
15. 225.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Money
16. 226.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Fame
17. 227.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Power
18. 228.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    That's no good. I usually just want to be tagged in the photos I look good in, and out of a series of 50 wedding shots, those could be 2 or 3. So now I'll have to go untag myself in 47 auto-tagged photos.
19. 229.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Come on, why don't you just look it up? By 1950, there were 150,005 chinese in the U.S, which is 0.1% of the population. In 1980, there were 812,178, which is 0.36%. By 2004, there were 3,353,486, which is 1.17%. Source here: http://en.wik
20. 230.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    I just tried it. It works well as a replacement for Google Wave - but it's nicer. Also, the emails means that there is instant notifications, which was a flaw that gwave had.
21. 231.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Those particular chinese are an insignificantly tiny percentage of modern U.S.A.
22. 232.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    I'm not sure how relevant that is. The asian-american percentage is quite small, and is relatively modern. There are a lot few traditional places for asians to go to, as there are for blacks, for example. It's like saying - what's the segre
23. 233.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    The site sucks big-time. I've been using it for a while and trying to find someone to do something with, and it's just impossible. The list is exceedingly long, you have NO idea at all what the real skills of the other person is, it's diffi
24. 234.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    So apparently there is such a lack of flash analytics platform that the biggest providers tried to force a game analytics provider to fit their use-case?
25. 235.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    It's also a single point to defend.
26. 236.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Are 50% of all IPv4 addresses not class A? Can you explain a bit more in-depth why it would not make a significant difference?
27. 237.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    You know, everyone talks about testing, but I betya almost nobody does it.
28. 238.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    So what about all the organisations that were assigned class A address blocks? Should they not do something and give up these classes, come 2011? We certainly don't have 2^32 devices out there.
29. 239.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    Is the solution to all this not Facebook Connect and Google Login?
30. 240.▲
    by maxklein 16y ago

    It sounds to me like the company needed a real engineer to get real stuff done, not a business guy. You demo a bunch of projects showing that your friend is a great technical guy. So they go get the friend. If he's asking you to "figure out