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by shazow 14y ago
First few days are spent educating yourself on how everything works. The tutorial is very well done and is surprisingly immersive, but it's more learning than you'd expect from a game. By the first week, you're just about ready to start enj
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by shazow 14y ago
I believe it falls back to Flash if you don't have the appropriate browser audio API. It should still work but supposedly not as responsively/accurately. (I haven't tested this myself.)
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by shazow 14y ago
My favourite thing about posts like these is the little comparison snippets between a framework I already know (Node) and a language I want to learn (Go). This is very educational, and the benchmarks are the cherry on top. Thank you.
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by shazow 14y ago
Could you clarify #4? I don't mean to contest it. I feel like I've lost touch on much of the public communication since I started working there.
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by shazow 14y ago
I built something similar when I was working on SocialGrapple (processing hundreds of social graph aggregation and processing jobs every hour), called turnip: https://github.com/shazow/turnip It uses SQLAlchemy to generate a relational sc
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by shazow 14y ago
You're right, it's a trivial wrapper with a subjective/opinionated usability improvement. I think the biggest service here is 1. Education about Python's pretty decent standard smtpd lib. 2. Food for thought about making thin custom interfa
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by shazow 14y ago
Or, treat me like I'm an investor (which I am) and you're a startup (which you are).
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by shazow 14y ago
Correction to market-first step 04: Determine if the needs/desires are significant enough and the solution is worth committing to, then scrap or build idea. Another is the customer-first approach, perhaps a layer higher than market-first ap
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by shazow 14y ago
Additionally, there may be an argument for locality here. If every time you're serving an image, you need to look up a bunch of metadata for it, you can benefit from storing it in the same place. Then it's a matter of whether you rather enc
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by shazow 14y ago
I don't see why two daemons are necessary, simply having a separate database (in the CREATE DATABASE sense) should be sufficient to not make a big mess. There are lots of fun optimizations you can do like move its storage location to a sepa
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by shazow 14y ago
Are there not perhaps thousands of people who would be using your product under the umbrella of the Department of Defense?
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by shazow 14y ago
I'm not sure this is a great idea. Predictability is a staple of a good user experience. Getting different results for the same query between users or sessions is bound to lead to broken expectations and frustration.
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by shazow 14y ago
Big +1 to Girl Talk. When I listen to Feed The Animals or All Day, I feel like there's nothing I can't achieve. Still hasn't failed me. Milkman and Super Mash Bros is good too but I just don't get the same feel.
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by shazow 15y ago
I ran it through geocitiesizer; I think it looks a little better. http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&#3...
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by shazow 15y ago
I like this idea. One request: I wish there were more convenient links to unminified source for each of the examples.
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by shazow 15y ago
Google hasn't been asking riddles in interview questions for years now. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're outright disallowed. Similar articles have been written many times over, here's a thread with all that is relevant: http://news.ycombi
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by shazow 15y ago
One of the professors in my school, Steve Mann[1], is notorious for working on wearable computing devices for three decades now. There's a small group of niche hackers[2] who are into this kind of thing, but it's definitely not a new phenom
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by shazow 15y ago
Keeping in mind that with zerorpc, you control both the client and the server, none of this should be a problem. You can have positional http query arguments (?foo=1&bar=2) as long as you can guarantee that both the client and server tr
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by shazow 15y ago
This idea actually came up in our discussions. Requests will have a set of request-level adapters which will let you define the protocol you're speaking, whereas urllib3 aspires to have connection-level adapters which let you define the tra
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by shazow 15y ago
Wow, the most impressive thing is that he actually managed to land it while controlling remotely. That must have taken a lot of experience and skill. I'd feel more comfortable writing some autopilot landing code for the thing than to trust
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by shazow 15y ago
Fair enough, here's another piece of advice: Surround yourself with people who are better than you, especially the types of people you'd like to become more like. Conversely, avoid people who are averse to the change you're experiencing and
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by shazow 15y ago
You call it pattern recognition, I call it excuses. Setting high expectations for yourself is crucial to achieving them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
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by shazow 15y ago
Everyone defines success differently. Most generally, success is the absence of failure. Bonus points if you're making progress. I'd take these posts more as inspiration to persist. Take toll in your achievements and realize that your busin
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by shazow 15y ago
Are you justifying this completely poisonous and destructive behavior on the basis that you found his Twitter feed too arrogant for your liking and that he got more attention than you would have? > submitting their own articles to HN ho
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by shazow 15y ago
Counter-example: When email notifications contain private information, such as an alert of an engagement or communication between two users, there's no benefit from a reply-able email in this case. In fact, reply-for-feedback is bad since i
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by shazow 15y ago
Can we put away the pitchforks already? I keep hearing how "Hacker News has gone down hill" but it was never as visible to me until the Svbtle threads. Dustin has been working on this design and others for what is effectively many years. He
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by shazow 15y ago
Very true, that's another example of the same phenomenon. In Toronto, "entrepreneur" is often a dirty word among who actually get stuff done. It usually refers to your typical MBA with no industry experience looking for a code monkey to ful
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by shazow 15y ago
This is a matter of regional vocabulary, and the local cultural expectations that go with it. You ask any aspiring developer in Silicon Valley what they're working on and it's always "oh yea, I have a startup I'm trying to get off the groun
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by shazow 15y ago
Just queued up 3 blogs for exporting, working as expected, feels good. :) My only complaint was that I had to give my username/password, but @jazzychad tells me that's the only form of auth for the Posterous API, sadly. If you want to chang
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by shazow 15y ago
Pseudonymous, as they call it. Pseudonyms are very public (wallet addresses), but association to real identities is not provided.

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