pikachu_is_cool

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   by pikachu_is_cool 10y ago

   JavaScript and the DOM certainly aren't.
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   by pikachu_is_cool 10y ago

   I'd agree with you if this was a company that actually sheds legacy tech gracefully, but Xcode can't handle our scale.
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   by pikachu_is_cool 10y ago

   In practice we have no idea if this will work. It has never been done before. With that Apple example: For all we know, the industry could be in a much better position if it were not for the iPod/iPhone. The stuff Apple brought with th
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   by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

   Hackintosh.
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   by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

   I think the emscripten/WebAssembly approach will win out. One of the the main reasons why Lua is so good is because it's written in strict ANSI C. Porting it to another language doesn't make sense.
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   by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

   Bitcoin is also GPU mineable.
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   by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

   > After every 10 failed attempts, the chips need to be removed the phone, reflashed, and reinserted back into the phone. Then the phone needs to be rebooted. And.... this is where I stopped reading. With enough electrical engineering cho
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   by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

   He's still head. He hasn't found a suitable replacement yet.
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   by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

   $40,000/car * 100,000 cars = $4B. that's only a 20% discount over the course of 5 years.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Not everyone in SV is elitist, it's probably something like 5-10% of people. Maybe you haven't run into anyone like that yet. But they're there. And it is a lot, when compared to the 0% in most other places.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    You're fairly limited in terms of antenna size/placement when you use a tiny dongle. If it's built into the Pi, they could have the antennae wrap around the edge (similar to how the iPhone does it) to allow for a much higher
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Especially since it expires on May 29, 1XXX
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Of course an article like this would be dead on HN.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    > I think someone only earning BI probably wouldn't have the resources or motivation to do Bell Labs-style research. It's sure as hell better than earning $0, being forced to work some shit job 60 hrs a week at a SV startup pro
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    > highly-paid and you're saying BI wouldn't help with that? > highly educated engineers how do you think they got there? by being forced to be a wage slave, working long hours to come home completely burned out every night?
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    I like how the parent repo hasn't been taken down. https://github.com/WebMBro/WebMConverter
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    You didn't have to give that confusing analogy. I'm sure most people will understand your point without it.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    > I’ve gotten hundreds of private messages on IRC and emails about sex, rape, and death threats. Is this actually true, or are you over-exaggerating? I know of other girls in tech that are pretty decently well-known and don't get
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    I'm generally not a fan of these Lua C API wrappers because they tend to add a lot of useless syntactic sugar that makes things more complicated... but yours is pretty good, I like the usertypes feature.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    "Mobile is a dud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855 Read the first comment. Boy have times changed.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    I typed "kill me right now" and it didn't work.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    I typed "kill me" and it didn't work.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    How exactly do you start contracting? For instance I've made a couple of decently popular jailbreak iOS apps, which is nice passive income, and a good niche, but I don't really know where to find clients... through friends, on a w
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    > This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Japanese release of the Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo Entertainment System on September 13th, 1985. Wait... what? They're like 4 months early.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Apple HQ is on the edge of Cupertino. And yeah I agree, San Jose is a lot more chill... but IMO that's because there's less of the Silicon Valley there, if that makes sense.
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Hm, I guess we grew up in different parts or got exposed to different types of people. Oh... and for the record, I just agree with the narcissistic part... I have no idea what OP is talking about with regards to being obnoxious, pathologica
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Did you also grow up in the SV?
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9581546
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    > You said you grew up in the bay area...what part? Sunnyvale. I went to Homestead High School. It was 3 blocks away from Apple HQ. Steve Wozniac went to one of our football games after Steve Jobs died... presumably to reminisce about hi
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    by pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

    Sunnyvale. 3 blocks from Apple HQ.