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by uuilly 17y ago
An impressive list and all true if you don't care about speed. I've built three rendering engines w/ C++ / boost. Could not have made them fast in lisp.
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by uuilly 17y ago
Agree, I use boost::shared_ptr, boost::weak_ptr, boost::array and boost::bind the most. I found boost::function to be really good as long as it's not a high performance section of code - they are really slow. boost::lambda is too baroqu
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by uuilly 17y ago
Very nicely put jerf. When an electrical engineer designs a circuit he accounts, as best he can, for the behavior of electrons. He would never design something that assumed electrons would behave in an unrealistic way. To me, individual gr
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by uuilly 17y ago
Ted is like Ali G / Borat / Bruno. It's a lot more fun to sit back and enjoy the show than it is to scold him for being an ass. Esp when he's so obviously going out of his way to be an ass. And like Ali G's antics, the AOL script was re
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by uuilly 17y ago
I admire him for saving it. Whether he saved it from a rouge element of fringe western civilization (most of Germany not being part of the Roman Empire,) or the Muffin Man doesn't take away from his accomplishment.
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by uuilly 17y ago
Winston Churchill. Saved western civilization.
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by uuilly 17y ago
Startups are intense evironments where tempers flare and principled differences of opinion lay, ready to be kicked up, like sleeping dragons on the floor. This being the case, I really feel for his co-founder. I can't imagine that there ar
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by uuilly 17y ago
I'm forced to use this beast: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A To run a 30 in secondary display off my 17 MBP. It's flakey and I have to make my machine never sleep when it's plugged in. The other day I got a KVM switch to do
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by uuilly 17y ago
You should build one if your customers ask for it. And if you do well they will ask. Most iPhone apps are just web-apps w/a "phone-top" interface. Running your app through Safari on the iPhone feels too slow and looks crappy next to a nat
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by uuilly 17y ago
I have an unsubstantiated theory: gmail's rich features, chat, cal etc -- that didn't originally work on IE -- got a lot more people to switch to FireFox than security concerns.
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by uuilly 17y ago
I caught this a few weeks ago when I tried to install ffx on my girlfriend's dad's laptop. Something smelled funny and I backed out without thinking much of it. Never saw the $2.50 charge though. I've reported malicious ads to google in
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by uuilly 17y ago
Clearly you have never worked for a big company :)
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by uuilly 17y ago
jerf, using the analogy of the furniture builder: -Your shop would be your OS. -Your wood would be your programming language. -Your lathe would be your IDE / text editor -Your broom would be your source control system. A furniture builder w
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by uuilly 17y ago
I just moved from a 4 man svn project to a 4 man git project. It took me a month before I didn't feel like an ass in git. I'm still not sure what I have gained. I know git is so powerful and does so many things, but I'm a simple user. To me
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by uuilly 17y ago
Indeed. I lived there for 20 years and I'm blown away. Walking into their DMV is like going to a 3rd world country. I figured it would be years before they caught up on the digital front.
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Nokia Keynote - Next Generation Maps [Vid](webcast.nokia.com)
2 points by uuilly 17y ago|1 comments
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by uuilly 17y ago
Indeed, not unlike the heisenberg uncertainty principle.
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by uuilly 17y ago
It was confusing b/c the pictures didn't show that the bit's axel had to orbit independently of the bit. This animation cleared that up for me even if it wasn't the exact case.
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by uuilly 17y ago
The Economist is a great example for print media to follow. Here is what they do well: 1) Have an opinion, state it clearly and incorporate it into every piece. Articles can be a lot shorter and more informative if you don't have to "sho
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by uuilly 17y ago
Here is an animation showing how it works: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Rouleaux_trian...
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by uuilly 17y ago
To google.
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by uuilly 17y ago
I used ffmpeg for a project and their mailing list is the worst I've ever come across. Fantastic product once you get it dialed though.
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PySide - LGPL Python bindings for Qt(arstechnica.com)
2 points by uuilly 17y ago|0 comments
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by uuilly 17y ago
In my first year in the valley I wasted a lot of time in vague meetings with "strategic partners" and "investors." We called it "who's pitching who?" I'd say these types of meetings account for 70% of valley lunches.
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by uuilly 17y ago
Typing in a password every time I pick up a phone is a non-starter for most users including me. Remote wipe is outstanding but I think you need a business account. I was thinking that at least I could change my passwords so mail.app could
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by uuilly 17y ago
My sense was that he wanted a generalized version of NewEgg. In other words a way to take all the products in the world and be able to create many lenses that view them. The products seen by the lenses could be determined by whatever crit
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by uuilly 17y ago
http://twitter.com/newsycombinator only posts pages that appear on the front page. An RSS feed might get a little noisy.
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by uuilly 17y ago
Here is a good / bad list I made of attributes of desktop sw: Good: -Drag and drop eg: Easier to attach a photo to an email -OS integration eg: iPhoto => set as desktop, Excel => uses outlook contacts -Access to hardware eg: GPU, us
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by uuilly 17y ago
I find that when I have a crap iPhone connection and I want to surf, I go to HN just b/c I know it will load.
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by uuilly 17y ago
This app sounds cool. But lately I'm concerned about having tons of data on my phone and losing it. I dig that w apple mail I only have to worry about 50 messages, not my whole life.

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