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by saikat 17y ago
This looks awesome! I've always wanted to get into some amateur robotics or circuitry but honestly know nothing and haven't really invested any money in it. Any suggestions about what the most fun thing to buy for under $100 on Sparkfun w
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by saikat 17y ago
This approach only really works with signups that ask for an E-mail instead of a separate username.
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by saikat 17y ago
I implemented exactly that for my web app (one dialog box - after the user enters an E-mail, automatically validate it and if it is unrecognized, just add a confirm password field and change the button to "Register"), and the response has b
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by saikat 17y ago
I managed to reproduce the bug last night and pushed a fix. Hope that helps, and thanks for the catch!
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by saikat 17y ago
Yeah we just found out about that bug. I just pushed a fix for it about 30 minutes ago.
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by saikat 17y ago
I believe there are plans to create desktop versions of Cappuccino apps using Atlas. Once that comes out, we will probably release a desktop version of the app.
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by saikat 17y ago
Might have to hit back more than a few times if you have more than two widgets on the screen. But I'll be sure to make this work better.
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by saikat 17y ago
?? == sheena
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by saikat 17y ago
We are planning to charge once we iron out all the bugs and we add a few more features, though there will probably be a free version. We'll have more details on that later. Export is definitely a feature we plan to implement, but for now,
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by saikat 17y ago
Point taken. We changed it.
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by saikat 17y ago
Yeah that's a good point, I can see how this is fairly confusing. This happens because the box is added on top of the button - you can, however, hit the "Back" button on the toolbar (after selecting the box) to move the box back.
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by saikat 17y ago
Hah! Nice catch, that is not in fact accurate.
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by saikat 17y ago
Interesting, I haven't been able to replicate that problem. What browser/OS are you using?
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by saikat 17y ago
Yeah, we just launched this today and are in very early stages of beta. We realize speed is an issue right now (we've mostly been testing on Windows and OS X, on which it runs better), and it's definitely something we're working to improve
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by saikat 17y ago
One of the big problems I have with PG's essays is that, though I like the content, I have a very hard time believing everything he says without evidence. When you are in an emotional low, it's very difficult to think, "I should just persi
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by saikat 17y ago
Your parents aren't the only ones responsible for encouraging you. I'm sure your interest in technology originally came from some inner drive. But a hacker can only get so far without a community of peers, whether it be your colleagues in
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by saikat 17y ago
Most sites that have Gears support don't force the user to install Gears to use the site. There is no pop-up telling the users that they should get Gears to run the site - Google docs just has a nice little link at the top that says "Offli
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by saikat 17y ago
Though I agree with you and think it's unnecessary to forego opportunities like this for the sake of your startup, I just wanted to mention that that in a Q&A session with Steve Jobs that I attended, one kid asked him what advice he had
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by saikat 17y ago
The whole point of karma is to have meaning and to discourage users from posting a certain type of comment or question. Googling just "PoC" or "software PoC" pretty immediately answers his question - my guess is this is why the downvotes h
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by saikat 17y ago
Your logic does not take into account the entire ecosystem in which these companies exist. If you take it as law that companies exist only to make profit and they cannot help it, then you should also take it as law that when companies do t
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Sean Ross stops maintaining Mudballs(groups.google.com)
3 points by saikat 17y ago|0 comments
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by saikat 17y ago
The author doesn't give numbers, but on the point of people just testing out their new phones, the author does qualify her correlation: "No doubt some of that 400 percent is due to users merely testing out the features on their new iPhones"
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by saikat 17y ago
404 on attempt to create account =(.
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by saikat 17y ago
Sleep. If you are at work and your boss doesn't realize sleeping will make you more productive, go sleep in the toilet until you can quit your job and get one where you can sleep how and when you want.
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by saikat 17y ago
Or just read Hacker News.
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by saikat 17y ago
Reading http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10255403-235.html , it does seem like the people who got a chance to play around a bit with it are at least impressed. I have some hope.
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A closer look at Microsoft's Project Natal(news.cnet.com)
2 points by saikat 17y ago|0 comments
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by saikat 17y ago
I read technical/science articles in the NYTimes mostly out of curiosity about what the larger public thinks about these things and how all the complex research and work in technical and scientific fields gets distilled down and summarized
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by saikat 17y ago
Mercurial with bitbucket is great. Bitbucket offers one private repository (I think this is a new thing, but I'm not sure) for free, so it seems fine for use with closed-source code, if you need that. We also used mercurial for a while in
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by saikat 17y ago
A related thread from a while back - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=57538 . I've actually been doing PG's rice and beans recipe (with some changes and some other variation), and it's not so bad.

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