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by relix 16y ago
It's also interesting just from a project management point of view, or anyone doing a startup, imo. Good blog!
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by relix 16y ago
It is not. The eyes need to focus on the cinema screen, this has nothing to do with the camera. The problem is that the eyes need to keep the focus at the same distance, while the converging changes distance.
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by relix 16y ago
Here's one way to solve it: include in the glasses dynamic focusing. We're already wearing glasses. I'm not sure how it would work, but the idea is to change the dioptry to the inverse of the distance of what's supposedly on the screen, so
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by relix 16y ago
Thanks, this cleared things up, especially the checksum-hack is neat. The original author's description wasn't really clear for me.
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by relix 16y ago
It'd be interesting to know the price drop over time of the cars. I'm sure that cars nowadays are more cheaper than back when they could get a million miles, so the comparison doesn't work.
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by relix 16y ago
I dropped the idea of using Postmark after I read this blog-post: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/1431120311/oddities-in-gmai... In there they admit that mails sent through Postmark still end up in Spam-folders or black holes. That was b
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by relix 16y ago
Maybe there's room in the market for a third big player* now? Digg's reputation has gone down the toilet and is declining. Reddit has taken over 1st place but they have a few problems: First, Conde Nast doesn't supply them with enough resou
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by relix 16y ago
I'm guessing it's part of the puzzle. There's nothing "puzzly" about the contents of the doc-file, and the fact that it's a doc-file should arouse suspicion, just like you picked up. I've been going through the file with a hex editor but ha
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by relix 16y ago
This is just because now the "witches" need to pay taxes.
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by relix 16y ago
Off-topic: I played flute for 7 years, stopped when I was 17, and I had no idea they were this cheap! We always had to rent or borrow one because we couldn't afford to buy one at home, but with these prices, I might just buy one and pick it
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by relix 16y ago
If user satisfaction is mapped on the X-axis of real numbers, doing beyond-the-call-of-duty service for a customer with negative user satisfaction is equivalent to multiplying by -1.
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by relix 16y ago
That's very, very impressive. Traveling would be so much easier with just this app, amazing! Let's hope they'll support Asian languages in the future, for round-the-world coverage.
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by relix 16y ago
Sounds like this probably works in software too. I can imagine if someone pays for a software product online, that if the file is only 2MB big, he'd think he was ripped off. Meanwhile, if the file is 100MB big, and takes a while to download
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by relix 16y ago
I don't think he means books in general, but ebooks, as compared to paperbacks/hardbacks. I recently bought a Kindle, and every ebook in the Amazon store, without exception, is more expensive than the cheapest paperback version available at
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by relix 16y ago
530, really really close :o
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by relix 16y ago
It's exactly the same in Belgium, and in my 6 years of going to university it happened exactly once. It was very helpful to decide that we should no longer wait and could assume the lesson was cancelled, instead of waiting around for an hou
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by relix 16y ago
Actually, this is completely doable, even backwards compatible, with javascript: JPEG has support for arbitrary metadata, mostly used today to put EXIF data in the files. IIRC, there's no reason we couldn't store a base64'd or even binary r
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by relix 16y ago
Uses a very non-optimized way to generate the JPEG. This is the way it was done in 2007, but now there's a built-in JPEG compression function in the API available. He's using Adobe's example AS3 JPEG code.
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by relix 16y ago
I applied to create a fun game that's basically an etch-a-sketch. Was denied.
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by relix 16y ago
Instapaper is pure liquid gold for the Kindle. Marco has definitely made the right choice to create a start-up based on it. Right now I've got probably about a hundred articles on Instapaper, collected over the month or so I'm using it, but
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by relix 16y ago
Ten times exactly the same? Occam says it wasn't a typo ;)
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by relix 16y ago
That's amazing, I didn't know that was even possible. 1.6cm is huge!
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by relix 16y ago
The skull and bones really sets the atmosphere.
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by relix 16y ago
Sounds good, but couldn't the applicant just copy code from the internet which he heard was good code? It doesn't prove he can write code. This does make sense if you'd ask him to explain it at the interview, but then the applicant can also
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by relix 16y ago
Interesting points, thanks. You'd be surprised at what high-profile company I've encountered this.
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by relix 16y ago
It's an implementation of the Bron-Kerbosch algorithm [1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bron%E2%80%93Kerbosch_algorithm
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by relix 16y ago
I've had several run-ins with literal "paste here some code you're proud of" textareas. As you said, when they're asking to describe something you're proud of, like how Y-Combinator does it, it's a lot easier and relaxed. The several ways o
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by relix 16y ago
I've implemented a solution to the maximal clique problem in a very elegant way, and have used that piece of code in the past, because it's optimal and quite small (about 100 lines). I guess that fits your description, so I've been on the r
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by relix 16y ago
Sure, but this won't be clear without context or backstory. I could explain why it did that, but I guess the employer wouldn't know if I'd be telling the truth. Wouldn't this diminish the effectiveness of it?
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Ask HN: "a piece of code you're proud of" - what does it mean?
23 points by relix 16y ago|42 comments

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