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by swanson 12y ago
It partially depends on how you choose to deploy. If you are compiling your site locally and then pushing the static HTML to a server, you might experience some delay in generating the site. If you use GitHub pages, you just git push and th
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by swanson 12y ago
I quite like this post about Path's Android architecture and building REST clients that don't fall over if you have less-than-ideal network conditions: http://birbit.com/a-recipe-for-writing-responsive-rest-clien..
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The Dream Kickoff (Exoskeleton demonstration at 2014 World Cup)(grantland.com)
2 points by swanson 12y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 12y ago
Interesting from a gadget standpoint - I wonder if any "regular" tennis players will be interested. I am reminded of this very clever lean startup experiment about a similar concept (though it was in the racquet, not a wearable).
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by swanson 12y ago
Will take that into consideration - to be fair, the existing screenshots are from Chrome (just running on OS X).
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by swanson 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I'm curious if you have any suggestions for how I can assure you that it will work on GNU/Linux? The second sentence of the installation instructions links to "setup instructions for a Linux-based VP
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by swanson 12y ago
Really like your point on OSS. Even if you don't make a whole "marketing site" - you can get a lot of mileage by considering your README as a sales page (and not just a technical document). Here's an actual example, comp
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by swanson 12y ago
https://github.com/JakeWharton/u2020 https://github.com/SimonVT/cathode https://github.com/fastestforward/gauges-android https://github.com/pyricau/shipf
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by swanson 12y ago
In addition to blog posts, I write short reviews [1] for technical books that I've read and use Amazon Affiliate links (a single link to the book). It works out to between $20-$50 a year for my blog [2]. Nothing major but it covers a c
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by swanson 12y ago
I understand a mailing list for alumni, but this is for applicants. I have never applied to YC - but is there a checkbox that says "It's cool to share my email with the 500+ YC alum companies"?
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by swanson 12y ago
Isn't this kind of a privacy breach if it's true? Why does Coinbase get access to emails of people that have applied to YC? I'm not generally a data privacy zealot or anything, but that seems sketchy that YC would provide a b
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by swanson 12y ago
I think the idea is interesting - I played around with a prototype myself about a year ago (using RSS + TTS). You might check out this startup: http://umanoapp.com/ which does almost exactly what you want. I don't know
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Evaluating Technical Arguments(mdswanson.com)
2 points by swanson 12y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 12y ago
From poking around with IFTTT a bit today, Tasker is way more advanced in terms of what you can do with your device (settings, launching other apps, phone specific stuff) but the UI is very complicated and confusing. IFTTT's UI is real
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Ask HN: Is (2013) necessary?
6 points by swanson 12y ago|4 comments
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by swanson 13y ago
Kind of surprised that you haven't been contacted regarding GTD as well: http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/GTD/Copyright_Issues
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by swanson 13y ago
In case you're playing the Acquisition Post Drinking Game: "It’s been a long road and we feel that we have come a long way in solving this problem. We are elated to announce the next step in this journey" "It’s been an i
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by swanson 13y ago
You can do this in FIFA already (since FIFA 11 I believe) - it's 11 vs 11 multiplayer. You start in a lobby and then pick your position.
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by swanson 13y ago
In some sense it is almost better if the founder is not too attached to the idea. I don't see how one user (the founder) being super excited translates to a viable MVP - but I could see how it could lead them to ignore the results of t
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by swanson 13y ago
I'll share an anecdote from the opposite: an almost entirely polyglot culture. There are business advantages to being a company of generalists (in the service field) - you can get lots of different work. We do web, mobile, desktop, emb
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by swanson 13y ago
True - I am not saying with certainty that this is the reason, just wanted to start a discussion :)
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by swanson 13y ago
I wonder if part of it is the mentality. If a developer works on something for no money, it's open source. If a designer works on something for no money, it's free spec work. Developer culture praises open source. Designer culture
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by swanson 13y ago
Maybe it's just the HBO polish but Silicon Valley seemed to be better overall than Betas. At least in the pilot, I had empathy for Richard (the lead in SV) - Tre (the lead in Betas) always seemed like kind of a dick to me. The self-awa
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by swanson 13y ago
The side-by-side comparison with Roku/AppleTV actually looks pretty bad for Amazon Fire TV... Same price, the only differences are that the Fire TV has voice search (don't care), a bunch of technical specs that the layperson doesn
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by swanson 13y ago
Nope. You should do volume = 5; Or setVolumeLevel(5);
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by swanson 13y ago
Do you always do project management/backlog grooming inside your source code? ;-)
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by swanson 13y ago
Don't code for machine consumption, code for programmer consumption. Code is read 5x more than written, etc. Use function/method/class names that are readable like an outline. Code comments are a poor teaching tool. Use a cod
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by swanson 13y ago
Both lines were committed at the same time in a changeset with 15 other files. What now?
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by swanson 13y ago
// don't use hardware acceleration canvas.enableHardwareAcceleration(true); Which is true? The comment is lie. Is this a bug? Was this changed for some reason? Should I remove the comment? Should I toggle the bo
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by swanson 13y ago
If anyone is curious how to do this kind of hyper-niche techie reality show the right way, please do check out Penny Arcade's Strip Search: http://www.penny-arcade.com/strip-search The premise is to get a bunch of comi

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