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by vitovito 11y ago
Currently at http://aaaaarg.fail , Twitter at @aaaarg, gofundme for the lawsuit against them at https://www.gofundme.com/aaaaarg Related sites might include http://ubu.com and http://monosk
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Depends, what part of it do you want to join? Networking, analytics, multiplayer servers, etc. as a service is increasingly big business in games. Amazon released their Lumberjack 3D engine alongside their GameLift server architecture and s
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This is a pretty good answer! For another example, in information architecture, one way to do that is according to LATCH, which I've previously written about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554237 Another e
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In my experiments with this three years ago, the loopback device didn't work if you didn't have a sound card in the source machine. This didn't work on an EC2 machine or other shared server. Anyone know if this has changed?
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by vitovito 11y ago
Use two buckets, one for availability through S3 and one for Glacier? You don't even have to upload twice, you can do an S3-side PUT: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectCOP...
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Ugh, yes, just ran into this and went through the same debugging process. This is a good walkthrough of the issue and confirms that it's otherwise undocumented.
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There's an active "Austin Startups" group on Facebook you might post at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/austinstartups/ You might also see about visiting Capital Factory or WeWork.
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From a practical perspective, I'd look at the books Sketching the User Experience, and Designing for Interaction, as far as a design process goes. As far as a research process to back those design processes up, I'm not sure what a
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by vitovito 11y ago
Hi, I'm a designer and a researcher, and I consult with startups on a regular basis. If your "team is all done to kick off," then I assume there's a stack of documentation that defines who your customer is, the market si
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Apple's policies around deceased users' hardware and accounts has recently (early 2015) changed, so it's possible this particular problem wouldn't happen again. Dead users do appear to happen infrequently enough that no
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Depends on what you mean by a "good job" and what you're doing with the results. 80-90% recognition isn't good enough if it means when you search for a term it doesn't show up because the OCR saw "rn" and
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If by "automated" you mean "cheap/free," no. If by "automated" you mean "I don't have to do any work" irrespective of cost, yes. When you "scan" a book, you're taking photos o
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> Is there any way to buy a kit for a nondestructive scanner? Yes, I linked to http://www.diybookscanner.org/archivist/ in my original post. It has a "get a kit" link on the left. The forum post it links
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They're your books, so you can scan them if you want. But you can't sell, donate or give away the physical book once you've scanned it; the scan is a copy/backup of the original for personal use, and if you get rid of t
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by vitovito 11y ago
Most of the ones I've seen just scrape other job sites or feeds, like Monster or Indeed. Standalone ones are going to provide higher quality listings, like: Authentic Jobs, although you have to provide search terms: https:/&#x2F
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by vitovito 12y ago
I also have a Windows Phone. There's an official Microsoft 2FA app that I use instead of Google Authenticator or Duo, including now for multiple Slack accounts. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app&#x
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Sorry, where does it say it's built on Ace? The copy says Atom is the code editing component.
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There's a YC/HN meetup: https://www.facebook.com/events/746658665448279/ Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154477
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by vitovito 12y ago
"If you’re curious, the other slot has 'Assembled in China – Designed by Apple in California' engraved inside." http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/05/would-you-buy-a-smart-band-... It's in
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by vitovito 12y ago
The Humane Interface, by Jef Raskin, goes into the basics, with examples and tests, including synthetic usability measures that can go a long way. There aren't a lot of good tools or frameworks, unfortunately; you have to do the math y
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by vitovito 12y ago
Stephen Few's books are the right answer for designing practical, actionable visualizations that a user will learn and use literally all the time. Edward Tufte is the right answer for designing deep, data-filled visualizations in prin
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by vitovito 12y ago
S3 is $0.03/GB/month. Your own pod is $0.048/GB/once.
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Looks like a rebadged Aegis, which has been out for three years: http://www.apricorn.com/products/hardware-encrypted-drives/a...
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by vitovito 12y ago
Someone else asked this four months ago and a couple people disagreed with my reply, so let me try it again. (I'm defining "user interface designer" as a visual designer plus interaction designer specializing in a particular
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em-dosbox uses emscripten's packager by default, but it doesn't have to. Anything that can dump files into an emscripten virtual filesystem will work. The Internet Archive's loader uses .zip file bundles via BrowserFS: htt
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by vitovito 12y ago
A few months ago, I did some evaluation and eventually settled on KeePass. I don't use any form filling; I open it up and copy-and-paste a password when I need it. I haven't found this to be terribly inconvenient, except on my p
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by vitovito 12y ago
Host it yourself with dedicated servers in a colocation center. S3 is expensive for use cases like an image sharing service. Running your own servers with dedicated, unmetered bandwidth (or at least metered bandwidth in the 20TB+ range) is
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I don't know how performance compares, but from an ongoing maintenance perspective, em-dosbox is simpler: it's regular dosbox passed through the emscripten toolchain. It's more likely to see performance improvements and supp
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Your second-to-last paragraph is a good framing, and your final question is a good question. It's also a good example of why quick design help is hard, because there is no way for anyone but you to know what would be incrementally be
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You didn't insinuate it, but you also aren't being specific about the kind of help you're asking for. You're making enormously broad statements about at least two different professions that solve different problems in d

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