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by tjarratt 16y ago
While I didn't actually launch anything, I did make a lot of progress on two separate apps: One to facilitate collaborative tabletop games (think Settlers of Cataan or Dungeons & Dragons) between remote parties. Built with node.js, redi
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by tjarratt 16y ago
That actually is fairly similar to a webapp I built in 30 minutes a few months ago. I had the idea to build a webform that lets you type in some text, and the computer reads it back. If you are using OS X, you should be able to use the `say
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I've always liked "Boots and Pants", personally.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I've wanted something exactly like this for a while now. Looking forward to trying this in a few projects over this next week.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I believe it's more that they are a visible target, being in the media and spreading their message as much as they do. Were they a small company that hosted internal webapps (for example) they probably wouldn't have been targeted as much. I
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, (aside from the fact that this doesn't look very similar at all), but this looks suspiciously like some of mrdoob's javascript canvas examples. http://mrdoob.com/125/Multiuser_Sketchpad_HTML5
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Very cool! Great presentation, I really like the design on the web (haven't had a chance to test it out on the ipad yet). I've been working on the exact same idea as a minor feature for a larger webapp, although with node.js and redis. Out
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I suspect this is an artifact from their stance on mutable state, and some inspiration from more functional languages. There certainly isn't much harm in being clear where you are initializing variables. I would say that using actual englis
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I've spent many a morning in SF dodging taxis, oblivious pedestrians and potholes and can't even imagine how Miami/Fort Lauderdale could be any worse.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This should probably be updated to point to the w3 proposal document, but I'm interested. For a while now I've wanted to have this functionality, but short of using flash (or sticking yet another backend server between processes) this has
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Absolutely correct. They have a blog post about it where they discuss the tech behind this briefly (with source code). http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S... (I seem to remember this being submitted to HN a few mo
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I'm not an expert, but I believe this to be correct - the contents of the canvas elements are created/managed by javascript, so they would likely appear empty to most spiders. Additionally, I don't believe there is any good way to crawl the
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Just goes to show, even in a broken, corrupt system, it's possible to grow/create world class software.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Great advice. I've long suspected that great programmers like Knuth and Wozniak moved into a teaching role to help themselves continue to learn, and question the world around them, as well as to give back to the community and help new gener
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by tjarratt 16y ago
If you don't mind my asking, what was the app?
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I figure this is more like a secret handshake. Presumably anyone reading news at news.ycombinator.com will have an inherent interest in companies that YC invests in. Not that (YC W10) is a very subtle signal, but it's signaling something
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by tjarratt 16y ago
It may be an unpopular opinion, but sometimes it's nice to have multiple companies competing in the longterm, and for the market leader to struggle to keep their lead. If ask.com and bing.com move out of the search space or turn off the lig
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by tjarratt 16y ago
You should probably ask yourself why you're avoiding applying for these jobs you mentioned. If it's because of rejection, well there are a lot of people on here that will tell you better than I can that you shouldn't be afraid of being reje
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I have no qualms with sharing my ideas with anyone that will listen. I find that I solve problems I'm struggling with, and develop new ideas when I force myself to explain concepts and ideas to people, technical or otherwise. Ideas are to b
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This is really good advice. I'm also prone to having a beer when I get home, which turns into two, and then I'm on the couch all night relaxing when I intended to work. Tea, milk (which you'll probably want to drink if you're doing any heav
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Presumably they have filed to have Apple pay their legal fees, should they win.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Upvoting this idea. I've spent quite a few weeks up in cabins producing code that I had a hard time concentrating on elsewhere. Easy access to lots of people with interesting stories (who are generally willing to listen to what you have to
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This seems like a good way to spread some viruses around via usb autoplay. Seriously, I can't see this becoming a huge hit, if you need to walk to a physical location to get a file (what if someone has already deleted it, or there's a queue
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This is pretty neat, but you should make it so that if you click, you create a small dot. Right now it looks like you only render when the mouse moves, but not on the initial mouse down event. (tested with latest safari and chrome). I've be
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This is a really neat idea, and I'm definitely going to look into this more when I have time, but I have a small nit to pick. print(...) is a common debugging, or output call in python, and I can see how in many use cases that would transla
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by tjarratt 16y ago
+100 for "find yourself a better boss". The recurring theme of this thread seems to be "no one understands (or is willing to admit) what value you bring to this organization", and I couldn't agree more. It's possible to have a great time wo
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by tjarratt 16y ago
As someone who has changed jobs several times during my (admittedly brief) career, I can attest that this is good advice. Keeping a portfolio of work, and a way for other people to judge your skills, is key. This can be as simple as a githu
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I'm using tuxychandru's grasshopper which does templating (an a lot more - it's a full fledged web server) in a relatively nice way. http://github.com/tuxychandru/grasshopper Another good approach, if you're looking for something that spe
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Since no one else is going to say it... Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a bad idea to remove Java from OS X. I for one can go without any applets and even minecraft on my macbook pro.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
launchy is great, but since I switched to OS X a few years ago the best replacement I've found is quicksilver. It's free and much more responsive, customizable than spotlight.

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