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Show HN: Augmented Reality Beer(play.google.com)
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by philbarr 11y ago
> text 'heyyyyyy' to 551-333-7865 That's far too difficult to do drunk...
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by philbarr 11y ago
I think you would need to be able to tailor the bundle to your specific baby's requirements? For example, our baby can't have antiseptic creams, so sudocrem (which is very common), would be useless for us.
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by philbarr 11y ago
I never understood that about America. I've been lost in the suburbs in Michigan once, driving along for ages with just house after house after house, and thinking, "where's the local shop?" Surely it's got to be wo
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by philbarr 12y ago
Feathers defines legacy code as code without accompanying tests in "Working Effectively with Legacy Code". Even to the point where someone he knows said of a particular shop, "they're writing legacy code, man!"
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by philbarr 12y ago
I actually don't think he should remove the second argument until the entire thing has been verified in tests. What if it was actually: masterList[a].list2.length() ..but he misread it as masterList[z].list2.length() and
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by philbarr 12y ago
No, you don't need the the second argument since the for loop just won't execute at all if the list length is zero.
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by philbarr 12y ago
At least I can make database connections as an employee in software.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Exactly - I know someone who tried to go the smart-arse route, and the police ended up spending 45 minutes looking into every possible detail of the car, right down to "the lights have the wrong pattern on them". Ended up costing
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by philbarr 12y ago
Easy Expenses: There are lots of expenses saas apps out there, but the pain with expenses is scanning in all the receipts. I should be able to do this by just taking a picture of the receipt at the time I get it. Perhaps include some comput
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by philbarr 12y ago
Idea Validator: Type in the long-tail search phrases and it goes off and does as much market research automatically for you as possible, and comes back with a yes/no on whether you should bother pursuing it. Perhaps including a list of
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by philbarr 12y ago
Want to do this sort of thing myself one day. So many congratualations on getting it out there! Which is why I'm so sorry when I say: I read a bunch of the text on there and I don't know what it does. I'm no marketer either,
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by philbarr 12y ago
The problem is: there's too many manuals. We don't have time to read them all. In fact, I think one of the skills you learn as you gain experience in software development is choosing your moments. When you can just google it, and
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by philbarr 12y ago
Plenty of other jokes abound: - What goes "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!" - Parity error Look up "recursion" in the dictionary and it says: See Recursion.
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by philbarr 12y ago
> Your argument is like "people who go into a store and steal a DVD shouldn't get in trouble because they probably wouldn't have bought that DVD anyway." It's not quite the same as saying that. It's more lik
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by philbarr 12y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive feedback!
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by philbarr 12y ago
That video is very elegant. Can you say what software/techniques you used to create it?
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by philbarr 12y ago
OpenID, OAuth, and the like have just made things more confusing for both devs and users alike, IMHO. Wasn't it supposed to "unify" things and make it easier and safer for everyone? For example: - a site might offer to login
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by philbarr 12y ago
Had a win in the first round because I played Connect 4 aggressively against my brother for years when I was a kid!
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by philbarr 12y ago
Except that you can vary the amount of backlight on a paperwhite. Surely that makes a difference?
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by philbarr 12y ago
Also, since you're not allowed to talk about it, if you work out you have blue eyes you could just keep your mouth shut. They do seem to be going to an awful lot of effort to top themselves.
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by philbarr 12y ago
I think you might be suffering from the current "downvote mania that we're not allowed to talk about or else you'll get downvoted" on HN. EDIT: I disagreed with you, with a following comment, and didn't downvote you
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by philbarr 12y ago
How depressing! I'm 37 and still feel I've got loads to learn and try out. Although I note that many of my peers are planning their escape routes to retirement. If I try to create a startup I'll be doing it on my own.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Fair enough - that never occurred to me. I assume that there are a lot of people in that situation then? For it to be on by default?
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by philbarr 12y ago
I think that's more the fault of windows than anything else. I mean, why do I need a shortcut key for changing language? I'm going to do that so often I need a shortcut do I? Nope. Always turned off for me.
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes if in the UK always wear a suit. Even if you didn't have to no-one is going to think ill of you for it. It's just standard here. Looks like if you're in the US, though, you're going to have to be careful to find out
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by philbarr 12y ago
Absolutely do this. Having interviewed 50+ candidates for various positions myself, it's amazing how much you can stand out just by upping your online profile a little bit. Some examples: - one guy I interviewed for a junior position h
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes, British Telecom is forced to lease out the lines so that other companies can act as ADSL based ISPs. However, if you want cable into your house you only have one option: Virgin Media. Since they paid for and created all the cable in th
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by philbarr 12y ago
I know this is ever so slightly off topic, but is Groovy in popular use these days? I seem to see it mentioned quite a lot recently. If so, what for? General scripting tasks?
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by philbarr 12y ago
Well I laughed if that helps - so I tried to upvote you back :)

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