nickporter

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42 (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer
1 points by nickporter 12y ago
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42 (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer
1 points by nickporter 12y ago
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42 (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer
1 points by nickporter 12y ago
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by nickporter 12y ago
I haven't really needed a feature since they fixed the performance issues on hidpi displays. While I hope it's not dead, I am happy with the current state of the editor. Oh maybe there's one thing: If you have a massive text
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by nickporter 12y ago
I know of a couple single founders who made it into YC. Some of them are very successful. Try to bring your business to a point where it doesn't matter whether you get into YC or not, and you should be ok.
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by nickporter 12y ago
That's exactly the kind of stuff we calculate at 42. Hard to see this from mountains of data in excel, especially if you're scared of the math.
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by nickporter 12y ago
I have been coding since early high school. I wasn't thinking about making money or anything.. it was just something to do for fun. First it was dreamweaver, then photoshop slices, then text editor and php. A couple of years later, my
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by nickporter 12y ago
I knew someone would say that, hah! I am 100% for making sync functions asynchronous if it's implementation might have to be async in the future. In fact, I have done so many times for the exact example you have mentioned.
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by nickporter 12y ago
The author says that as a rule of thumb, he uses callbacks for every function, synchronous or not. wat. When you design an asynchronous function, you're telling your caller that he can go and do other stuff (e.g. process other requests
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by nickporter 12y ago
From the filename, I thought this was some kind of X window config file for key remapping.
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by nickporter 12y ago
Man, I'd spend days coding up RPGs with RPGMaker when I was a kid. I hope this project is successful.
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by nickporter 12y ago
I wonder if other professions have similar arguments.
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by nickporter 12y ago
Well I'm glad he's getting rewarded for his original content. I no longer have time to play video games anymore, so this guy, along with Robbaz, Day9 and GameGrumps are pretty much the only way I get my gaming fix. I'm also r
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by nickporter 12y ago
I've been using linode for +3 years now, and it's been great. Top notch support, and they have Gentoo images!
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by nickporter 12y ago
Hello, I'm nick from 42 (YC W14) ( http://42debut.com )! We're building the best point-of-sale analytics software for physical and online retailers. Our customers are not scientists or engineers; They run multimillion do
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by nickporter 12y ago
Heh, some of the queries we do at work are pretty much exactly like the ones in the examples. Postgres is cool.
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by nickporter 12y ago
be around smart people Can't stress that enough. It made a huge difference for me during university.
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42 (YC W14) is hiring hacker #0
1 points by nickporter 12y ago
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42 (YC W14) is hiring hacker #0
1 points by nickporter 12y ago|0 comments
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by nickporter 13y ago
Yeah, but there's this: array.forEach(function(value, index) { ... });
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by nickporter 13y ago
Interesting! I honestly only used erf because that shape felt good to me. It looks like that logistic function is much simpler, and should give me pretty much the same result. But modelling it as a real scene sounds awesome, I'll expe
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by nickporter 13y ago
We implemented parallax for our signup form: http://42debut.com/#/demo/signup The key is to feed the mouse position or device orientation into this easing function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by nickporter 13y ago
What's cool about this architecture is that it lets you define your game objects in terms of data, not code. You're able to change your game objects at runtime. I made a small C++/QT implementation here: https://gi
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by nickporter 13y ago
These b2b posts are really helpful, thanks!
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by nickporter 13y ago
If you want to build one of these, check out this library: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy
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by nickporter 13y ago
> It would be really easy to tie a name to MAC address (from point of purchase with a credit card). How would you do it?
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by nickporter 13y ago
Awesome, congrats man!
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by nickporter 13y ago
Nice catch, thanks! Fixed: https://github.com/42technologies/landing/commit/a0a0b96f3c9...
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by nickporter 13y ago
We're currently focusing our efforts on medium-sized retailers. Think 5+ stores, 15k orders per month. As far as actionable insight goes, we tell retailers things like: - Which product categories are driving their sales - Which custome
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42 (YC W14) Brings Big Data to Brick-and-Mortar Retailers(techcrunch.com)
61 points by nickporter 13y ago|10 comments

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