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by scep12 13y ago
Alternatively, if you had an 'always listening phone' like the Moto X, your flow might go something like this: Option A 1. Ask your phone to buy {name of item} 2. Screen turns on, tap to confirm your purchase Option B 1. Find the
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by scep12 13y ago
Using icons over text gets you some nice wins when it comes to i18n as well. I.e. you're fitting an icon, not variable width text.
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by scep12 13y ago
They should have hired that SDE who went 7 for 8 in their interviewing...
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by scep12 13y ago
I find that i'm not visualizing what I'm reading nearly as effectively. I think contextual clues of seeing words "in place" may be underrated.
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by scep12 13y ago
I made an app. I give it away for free. People mostly seem to like it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recollect If it had 10x-100x the number of users, it might be worth trying to turn a profit.
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by scep12 13y ago
I meant to write 1/100th - still a mental math fail! Stated in a different way - Facebook could have paid 1,000 teams of 10 (founders + engineers) at 160k/yr per person, for 10 years... for what they just paid for whatsapp. The co
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by scep12 13y ago
> Better to let the market sift out the successful founders than to payroll a hundred of them, hoping for a big win. Sorry, I can't help myself, but at a salary of $160k a year, payrolling "a hundred of them" per year woul
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by scep12 13y ago
> The general skills you learn as a frontend engineer will not be [obsolete] To play devil's advocate: What if the next mainstream computing interface has next-to-no need for any visuals? In other words, do you think point-and-click
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by scep12 13y ago
The CS degree isn't worth what you'd have to pay for it, but you'll need the knowledge later in your career. Your intuition that "I'm also worried that not pursuing a degree will exclude me from certain well-paying
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by scep12 13y ago
> a working knowledge of this will develop into the next important thing 5-10-20 years from now Do you know something the rest of us do not about "the next important thing"? Surely you can imagine a scenario in which your &quot
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by scep12 13y ago
At this point it's some nice PR. Until they start spending real money on legal, it's all smoke and mirrors.
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by scep12 13y ago
> an objective like "reroute path to include Krispy Kreme, but only if it isn't too far out of the way" is going to have too many edge cases to do 100% reliably Too many edge cases? I'm sure you would have said the s
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by scep12 13y ago
I had the same thought. I imagine that, in said future scenario, the author is assuming that the ubiquity of self-driving cars has progressed to the point in which drivers are far less attentive to their routes (given the autonomy of the ca
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by scep12 13y ago
He seems smart enough to get a good job regardless. The small win of publicity probably isn't worth the loss of a diploma, especially for a senior with (presumably) only one semester left. Given the time and money he's invested in
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by scep12 13y ago
How do basic coding skills or simplistic hardware projects lend themselves to an improved understanding of the global effects of technology? For a writer concerned with the big picture, I imagine understanding the effect is more important t
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by scep12 13y ago
>I live by the rule what goes up must come down. In the long term, the stock market trends upwards. In other words, what goes down, almost definitely will go back up again. The ups-and-downs of the short and medium term are can be mostly
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by scep12 13y ago
I think i'm missing the news-worthy part of this. Looks to me like a half-assed product that's stuck in limbo. What of it?
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by scep12 13y ago
> I don't have the will or time to wast in such ... naivety. Too busy making the world go round? Joking aside, many programmers are part of an industry that really is changing the world. Mobile and web applications have had an amazi
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by scep12 13y ago
My favorite so far: Hey Google, thanks for making money on the web?
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by scep12 13y ago
The site's banner still says "Coming soon to Google Play"
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by scep12 13y ago
... and I could help by suggesting that you shouldn't use GPS for trying to figure out home/work/car, but rather a combination of WiFi and accelerometer data. Using GPS often will drain a battery faster than your users will u
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by scep12 13y ago
(except for the Nexus 7 ads that run all the time)
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by scep12 13y ago
What's your screen-on time in minutes or hours?
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by scep12 13y ago
This is so awesome. I couldn't possibly think of a better IDE and/or learning tool.
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by scep12 13y ago
It's very sloppy. Especially for Apple.
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by scep12 13y ago
Okay, never mind. I read more: > The more interesting is your quest, the people will upvote it, and the more points you will get. Okay, yoda. Maybe get some (serious) proofreading or ask a friend to write your copy. I don't care how
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by scep12 13y ago
> Basically, Questhub is your free public task tracker. This copy really bothers me. Drop the "basically" - it's totally superfluous and a bit amateur.
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by scep12 13y ago
You can provide the illusion of invalidating any argument if you distill it down far enough. That said, there's no argument in this piece. He suggests that the affordability of X is not well-known, and given its low cost and terrific u
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by scep12 13y ago
'hype' is the name of the game... really - hype-rloop
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by scep12 13y ago
I really love this idea. I had always wanted to go back to my middle school / high school and try to get the school to allow me to run a programming course on the weekends.

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