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by steve8918 14y ago
For a first venture into programming, this was nicely done! One thing, I thought the definition of a "word" is something like 6 characters, so a really long word could be considered 2+ "words". It seems like your definition of a word is a
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by steve8918 14y ago
How did you get this data? Did you screenscrape IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes? If so, is there a legal issue with reusing this data? I actually don't know what the answer is, I'm curious if there is or not.
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by steve8918 14y ago
It seems that someone can create a new sockpuppet account, and everyone in the ring can vote up the sockpuppet. This would probably be a lot harder to detect. Maybe if there was a 24hr waiting period before a new account can submit article
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by steve8918 14y ago
I submitted that post, so I have some vested interest in this. I came across this bug because I was converting one of my web apps to use the new iOS 6 feature of being able to upload photos from your Camera Roll to a web site. However, whe
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is a good idea, kudos to them for making this move to help alleviate a lot confusion on behalf of funders. I think what they need to do is have milestones for their project that can get vetted by Kickstarter. For each milestone they h
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IOS 6 Safari Caching $.ajax Results(stackoverflow.com)
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by steve8918 14y ago
I would pay a lot of money for a native Google Maps app. It's the single most used feature for me on my phone. The only feature I want is the ability to download maps to the phone. Going to another country and not having maps is debilitat
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by steve8918 14y ago
What's to stop patent trolls from forming a corporation with no assets, suing people, and then declaring bankruptcy if they lose their case? They could forfeit their patents, but it would be worthless anyway if they lost the case.
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China hints at "bond attack" against Japan, in row over islands(telegraph.co.uk)
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First photos of working iPad Mini(gizmodo.com)
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by steve8918 14y ago
I've been programming for around 20 years now, and I've very, very rarely seen goto statements used, except in the case of error handling (which, in my opinion, was a great use of goto). So, I think as an industry, we've done a good job in
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by steve8918 14y ago
My PIN number is 8+ numbers long, and to my chagrin, I discovered in 2006 that most ATMs in Europe didn't accept anything more than 6, and most accepted only 4. I'm not sure if things have changed since then, but in the 5 countries I was i
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by steve8918 14y ago
I think the reason why your photos are doubling is because I believe you are importing them into iPhoto and then back into the iPhone. You will get two copies of all your photos on your iPhone because they get imported into iPhoto and then
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When Things Go Bad(stratfor.com)
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by steve8918 14y ago
Oh boy. So now, we are supposed to be evaluated on our "thought process"? Based on what we type in the middle of programming? Talk about a completely ridiculous notion. First off, what is the point? What matters is the finished product.
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by steve8918 14y ago
As a side question, what exactly is the benefit of a time-series database vs a regular relational database? Is it just a special case or a relational database, where rows are stored based on time, so that time-based queries are more effici
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by steve8918 14y ago
We got lucky. 1.5 years ago, we rented a house in SF for $2700, and the rent was frozen at $2700 for up to 3 years. A friend of ours moved into our neighborhood and is paying $3300/month for a comparable place. I'm not sure what we're goi
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by steve8918 14y ago
What is the value of all companies that weren't picked by YC? Are there any notable black swans that are known YC-rejects? It would be interesting to do an analysis of those companies that were rejected by YC, and see how many "black swans
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by steve8918 14y ago
My college tuition was $1800/year, and it was completely covered by the scholarships that I received. I just checked, and the funny thing is that those same scholarships are still at around $2000/yr, but tuition is around $15k/yr. If I eve
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by steve8918 14y ago
Very cool! The mashup is really catchy and the author did a great job mixing LMFAO and Psy. The first mashup I remember listening to was the Eminem/Britney Spears mashup ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j98zaF5592c ). It was particularly
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by steve8918 14y ago
I have to say that I do prefer RTS, my first one being Ancient Art of War waaaaay back :) However, I did get in my share of turn-based games. I remember when I first played Civilization, it was over Christmas break during college, and I di
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by steve8918 14y ago
Client-serving is very different, and I'm sure a good CEO would insist that you take the call rather than be in a meeting. I was thinking more about from the developer angle, so I guess I should have been clearer. Like I said below, interr
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by steve8918 14y ago
Obviously emergencies are an exception, but for the meetings I've been in, the phone calls that I've seen my peers take have never been an emergency. They are people taking calls from their friends, their significant others, their mortga
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by steve8918 14y ago
Wow, thanks for that link, it looks amazing! This might be the first Kickstarter campaign I might contribute too...
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by steve8918 14y ago
I acknowledge Starcraft's dominance, but my personal favorite game of all time was Total Annihilation. At the time (98/99), it was probably the most advanced game out there. I played my cousin across the country over 33kps modem, and we e
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by steve8918 14y ago
Sure, there are some people that are important enough to warrant interrupting a meeting, but the vast majority of the people that I've seen that get up to leave a meeting to answer the phone don't fit in that category.
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4 Things You Can Learn From Segway's Notorious Product Fail(openforum.com)
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I guess I'm old school, but I've always been a bit taken back these days at how some people think it's okay to take phone calls during a meeting. If you're being paid by your employer to attend meetings, what phone call could possibly be so
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is the one Kickstarter project that I was really interested in as to how it turned out. Going from 1000 watches to 100,000 watches is a huge undertaking, and requires a lot of special skillsets. 1000 watches you could probably do by y
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by steve8918 14y ago
I think the system at HN works as is, and I disagree with everyone who says that the quality of comments have been "sliding" downwards. I'm a long-time slashdotter, and a recent reddit convert, and I still think that HN comments have the hi

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