natemartin

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by natemartin 17y ago
Why non-HN link? I'll try this, but link to this page to explain.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Obviously the 1% argument is completely invalid. However, knowing the size of your market is always important, and looking at the percentage of that market you need for success, can be a good checkpoint. For example, imagine that you need t
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by natemartin 17y ago
I really dislike this trend of adding sounds to electric cars. One of the things I liked the most about the electric car I used to drive was the quiet, and I would have hated if it made some fake sound as I drove around. Once any car is mov
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by natemartin 17y ago
I think they're finding out that coming out with a consumer electronics device is a lot more involved than simply coming up with a list of features and telling someone else to go build it.
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by natemartin 17y ago
I completely agree. FU money means that you have the freedom to work on what you want to work on. You can start any venture you want, launch whatever idea you want, and are free to take risks. FU money simply means you have a guaranteed sal
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by natemartin 17y ago
Anything you want me to try out? I'll post the result here.
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by natemartin 17y ago
I wonder why that would get stripped out. After some experimentation with my test account, it looks like it's actually (re *) that gets stripped out. I wonder if it has to do with replying, or retweeting
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by natemartin 17y ago
I wonder if the work environment has more to do with. The programmers I know all work at companies where what they do is the main product.
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by natemartin 17y ago
Great work! I'm really looking forward to using cappuccino for my next project, I think it will be a perfect fit. In the blog post, you mentioned several backend solutions to work with cappucino. Which would you say is most mature, and whic
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by natemartin 17y ago
I read a lot of articles that talk about programming being "low social status" or unappreciated. I can't say that I see that in my daily life at all. Usually, when I'm around non-technical people, if I mention what I do at my job, or what s
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by natemartin 17y ago
That's definitely what I'm considering for a (future) web app. Rich front end in cappuccino, talking basically to a bare web api on the back end.
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by natemartin 17y ago
I haven't touched my alumni email in so long, I wouldn't know where to look for it. Any reason to not just allow any email?
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by natemartin 17y ago
Do you know of a good comparison of / introduction to the various object databases? A quick google search shows a wiki page that has a table listing various features, but I'd be interested in a discussion of the pros/cons of the various opt
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by natemartin 17y ago
Is there a name for the law that says "anytime you complain about grammar, you will make a grammar mistake yourself?"
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by natemartin 17y ago
The author, of this piece, likes using, lots and lots, of commas. I wish more people who put content on the web would spend a little more time understanding english grammar, or at least would find someone to read over a posting before submi
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by natemartin 17y ago
That's how real engineers do it.
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by natemartin 17y ago
I love seeing the sequence from design -> prototype. I agree with some of the other posters though, any time you have a lot of current going through a connection that rotates / moves, you have the potential of reliability problems. Howe
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by natemartin 17y ago
I agree, this sort of accountability is one of the reasons that I enjoy following Gruber's writing, and think that the "fanboy" label given to him by some detractors is not deserved.
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Daring Fireball's take on Apple's FCC response(daringfireball.net)
53 points by natemartin 17y ago|38 comments
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by natemartin 17y ago
Anyone looking for hardware engineers?
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by natemartin 17y ago
One of the developers just replied on his blog. They're working on the documentation, and it will be up soon. As far as power delivery goes, off of a USB connection it can support a 3 x 3 grid, and they're working on a power supply board th
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by natemartin 17y ago
Oh, I know these are very low power. But even if each board only takes 1 watt, if you've got 40 of them you're talking the same power consumption as a laptop CPU, but with a much longer distance for power delivery. But I'm still curious exa
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by natemartin 17y ago
This is really interesting. I definitely want to read more, because I've got some questions about it. I wonder if there's a limit to how many can be plugged in before you start seeing power problems on the downstream processors, and how it
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by natemartin 17y ago
My understanding of their plan is they're taking a tiered launch strategy. They start with the low-volume, high priced roadster. Then they bring out the sedan at higher volume, and about half the price. Finally, the release a mass-market ca
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by natemartin 17y ago
Really? I'm surprised at that. Did they take into consideration the lower price of electricity at off-peak times?
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by natemartin 17y ago
You make some very good points there, and I love the idea of being able to go to a new site, let it know who I am, and have it already configured for me. The question I see though is how Facebook can turn around and regain the trust it lost