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by stevenwei 13y ago
The red lines indicate areas where cognitive load is occurring. Your brain traces the shapes on the first row an average of twice as much. Your eye scans the outside shape and then scans the inner line to determine if there is value in the
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Thanks for this. A few months ago I looked into getting gevent-socketio up and running to do real-time messaging between a Flask app and an iOS app. gevent-socketio provides event handling and a messaging protocol on top of websockets that
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Have you put this into production? Are you using Gunicorn on the server?
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I notice that at no point in this process is actually paying for anything mentioned...
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I'm sorry, but this is is the biggest list of strawman arguments I've ever seen. People dislike CrossFit because elite CrossFitters are perfect physical human specimens and they're jealous? Huh? Here are the real concerns w
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I spent a few years doing Flash/Flex development back then as well. I don't know if this was ever a problem for you, but I always found Flex to be, well, kind of slow. All that data binding and event bubbling was convenient for th
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by stevenwei 13y ago
* The worst thing about all this icon frenzy to me is that they often even take up more space than text that could descripe their function. * That highly depends on the language that you're using... Having localized our app into 16 dif
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Wait, they're not a franchise model? What is required for someone to open up a gym using the Crossfit name?
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I would love to see a chart with a scale using absolute figures (# of devices sold) instead of percentage market share. I am more curious just how much bigger the market became post-iPhone.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I think the 'digital nomad' lifestyle is an interesting one and definitely worth experimenting with (especially for folks in our industry who truly can work from anywhere in the world), but it is hard to sustain over time. If you&
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I spent 2 years programming on a 13" Macbook Air while traveling...it was doable, but I'm definitely a lot more productive now with a pair of 27" monitors! (Still plugged into the MBA though.)
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Despite it's flaws, I have found Core Data to be quite necessary when working with iOS database driven apps, as it provides some rather crucial functionality that would otherwise be lost (or need to be manually recreated) when working
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Unfortunately, as people who are tied to their computer screens for most of the day, we have very few options. Treadmill desks have been growing in popularity lately for this reason.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I also purchased an adjustable desk base from The Human Solution back in March. I paired it with a 73" x 26" kitchen countertop from Ikea. I also put my monitors on an Ergotron dual monitor arm ( http://www.ergotron.com&
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by stevenwei 13y ago
The same can be said for basically any country and it's native cuisine. E.g. sushi in Japan. That said, in my experience the US does other countries' cuisines better than most. By that I mean Italian food in the US is much better
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Many startup employees will work for Yahoo for $150K/year if all their favorite coworkers are working for Yahoo and they get to work on a product they're familiar with. That seems at odds with the fact that most of these compani
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by stevenwei 13y ago
But if you choose to wake up and do nothing, how long is that income stream going to last? I think with the tech industry in general, things move along too quickly for these types of 'passive income' to be stable for more than a f
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I've been running Nginx + uWSGI for a long time but recently switched over to Nginx + Gunicorn for Gevent support, and so far it seems to be working well. Gevent's monkey patching approach allowed me to convert a traditional block
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by stevenwei 13y ago
It's probably relevant to note that both Android and iOS ship with SQLite as the de-facto database storage engine, so there's very much a use case for having reliable in-place migrations in SQLite on modern software. I could certa
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by stevenwei 13y ago
It's really casual gaming that's suffering from this: folks are switching from playing those types of games on Facebook to playing them on their phones.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Yes. To add to that: Sometimes you'll want to plan ahead because the nature of the problem means you'll have a harder time cleaning things up later. Other times, you want to move quickly because creating castle-in-the-sky architectures is n
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by stevenwei 13y ago
The Paperwhite really is a fantastic reading device: the e-ink works perfectly under sunlight and the backlight works perfectly in the dark. The only thing I don't like about it is the touchscreen interface can be rather clunky/slow to use.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
It seems really odd to me that AirBnb is being included in this list. 57. Defendant Airbnb, Inc. allows its customers to rent the homes of other customers for varying durations, in lieu of a hotel. To process each transaction
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I think the standard method of dealing with this is to have your users upload the items to the local web server and then have some sort of async task or cron job responsible for moving the files to S3 later on. Of course this means you'll h
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by stevenwei 13y ago
> Let's say I run a casino and accidentally set up a modified game of blackjack where the odds favor the customers instead of the house. There's a rather interesting story about this: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04
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by stevenwei 13y ago
It's fairly self-evident that some places are cheaper to travel (SE Asia, South America) than others (Western Europe, Japan). Most 20-something backpackers choose to travel to places like SE Asia precisely because it is cheaper. It's nice t
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by stevenwei 13y ago
> It all depends on where you live. I doubt where he lives (Longmont CO) is that expensive. There are plenty of places in the USA where 25k will go a long way. Yeah, but that's one of the constraints I'm talking about. There are many wo
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by stevenwei 13y ago
While I do think there is value in aggressively saving and reducing unnecessary expenses (avoiding excessive 'lifestyle inflation'), I can't help but feel that MMM has taken it too far to the extreme. There are tons of interesting and worth
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by stevenwei 13y ago
QE1 ran from Nov 25, 2008 to Mar 31, 2010. QE2 ran from Nov 30, 2010 to June 30, 2011. QE3 started Sep 13, 2012 and hasn't ended yet. (Honest question here) I'm curious when we should expect to see the huge inflation created by the QE progr
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by stevenwei 14y ago
iCloud can resolve this problem by letting your users edit data offline and resolving any merge conflicts automatically (and in the case of iCloud Document syncing, giving you some options to get feedback from the user to help res

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