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by tophat02 17y ago
But one of Joel's points is that, by the time you get around to rewriting something, you usually aren't dealing with the same programmers. If this isn't the case, and you have the same core team available, then I agree, it is sometimes be
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by tophat02 17y ago
Yes, the article is quite conservative, but on the upside, you can clearly tell he's talking not only to the people listening to his speech today, but also directly to readers who may be revisiting this speech in 2032. As you know, we seem
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by tophat02 17y ago
What's going on with Hackety Hack anyway? The website still says March 7th, which has, obviously, come and gone. He's obviously free to release it whenever he feels like it (or never), I'm just curious.
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by tophat02 17y ago
Of course they're proud. They realize they're on the right side: the first amendment's side. You do NOT have the right to squelch speech simply because it's unpopular, controversial, or distasteful. If Facebook pulls these groups, it shou
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by tophat02 17y ago
You have $3000 speaker cables suspended from the floor on little plastic feet, don't you? :)
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by tophat02 17y ago
Isn't conformity sometimes appropriate? It seems to me that the trick is knowing when to follow the rules (including your own) and when to bend or break them. Constantly railing against conformity sounds like a teenager attempting to be "e
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by tophat02 17y ago
I made an app called "Recall". It's a simple Simon-style game. I made it not to make millions, but as sort of a full-stack "hello world", from design to implementation to submitting to the app store to the first update. I'll probably do s
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by tophat02 17y ago
Shouldn't they just buy Twitter?
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by tophat02 17y ago
It's like APL all over again.
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by tophat02 17y ago
It's actually not that bad. I updated my little game "Recall" cough shameless plug cough and it only took a few days from submitting the new binary to getting it pushed through.
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by tophat02 17y ago
True, but you could also look at it this way: perhaps these 37signals articles are helping to illuminate WHY some of these things survive. After all, success criteria in iPhone apps (or apps in general) may not be objectively quantifiable,
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by tophat02 17y ago
Short version: There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.
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by tophat02 17y ago
That line doesn't appear to go there.
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by tophat02 17y ago
At some point (I'd say in less than five years) we won't have to worry much about this situation as I envision having 2-4GB of RAM on these devices along with perhaps 100s of GBs of FLASH. But for now, iPhone applications should implement t
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by tophat02 17y ago
Didn't I just see something a month or so ago about how scientists now think Alcubierre drive IS impossible... Ahh yes: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23292/
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by tophat02 17y ago
Can I just say: I LOVE posterous. Excellent startup, YC!
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by tophat02 17y ago
Oops! I told you I didn't know the area!
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by tophat02 17y ago
As someone not familiar with the Boston area, I found I really missed having a "you are here" indicator when it came time to select my destination. I became disoriented and worried about traveling too far, even though I "knew" I was just p
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by tophat02 17y ago
Ahhh... an unfortunate - but all too common - collection of personality traits. I propose that those people should be given lots of power but not be promoted to package maintainers. Of course, it's open source, so it's not like we can dec
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by tophat02 17y ago
Anything that moves power away from Ulrich Drepper and back to the community is a good thing. He is a poison to the open source community, and causes so much bad PR I'm amazed that he's still around. Why is he still around, anyway?
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by tophat02 17y ago
Man I can't wait until we can put a bunch of stem cells on scaffolding and reactivate certain embryogenic pathways to grow organs. Maybe even faces, though what you'd get is a baby face.
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by tophat02 17y ago
I really love hearing advice from people who just "took the risk" and quit their job. It's one thing to take a risk, but what I want to know is how they could actually DO it and still, you know, pay the mortgage and pay for food and such.
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by tophat02 17y ago
I think the question posed by the author is misfocused. The right question, in my mind, is: Will there ever be "one paradigm to rule them all"? My guess is no. This type of simple, trivial problem screams for a structural, imperative appr
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by tophat02 17y ago
In what I would call "economical security", you're right, it's absolutely relevant. However, we seem to be entering an age of "ethical security". As computers and software become more powerful and complex, people expect every system that i
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by tophat02 17y ago
One way to read it is about a guy who does whatever the hell he wants to do. Reading about such people, I imagine, has a motivating effect on highly ambitious, self-driven people. I doubt Cuban is a serious objectivist or anything, but I d
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by tophat02 17y ago
Well I do think 7 is a step in the right direction, but you're right, this dialog is horrible . You know what I'd like to see? An "Engineering Windows 7" blog entry that explained exactly why Microsoft found it necessary to include this a
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by tophat02 17y ago
The biggest change will not be the HDD -> SSD transition, but rather the SSD -> MRAM transition or, equivalently, the point at which there is suddenly no speed difference between RAM and secondary storage. At that point, there WILL
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by tophat02 17y ago
This is one of the crappiest articles I've ever read. This tripe doesn't belong on HN! The author assumes that most people will want to use XPM to run 3d-intensive applications and games, and require access to all their peripherals. Ludic
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by tophat02 17y ago
I'm writing my own compiler and designing my own programming language, just like everybody else! Practical, no. Fun, YES.
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by tophat02 17y ago
True, but just try using them at a Taco Bell. Man, you should hear what happened...

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