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by warwick 17y ago
On the other end of the spectrum, there's an awful lot of people who believe that they're simply 'bad at sports'.
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by warwick 17y ago
I think it's a reference to how Apple routinely claims things as new or revolutionary during their keynotes, even when they've been available from other manufacturers for some time.
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by warwick 17y ago
Link to original post: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/12/drive.html
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by warwick 17y ago
I've also switched my browsers search bar over to Bing. Overall, I prefer it to Google. Random notes: - Searching for Cocoa class names doesn't give me the API reference as the first result. This is the one thing that's been annoying me.
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by warwick 17y ago
What do you love doing?
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by warwick 17y ago
This strategy might work with ego driven programmers, but I don't really want any of those guys on my team in the first place. I want perfectionists who know how to ship.
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by warwick 17y ago
Unfortunately if you only think of usability as 'the labels are lined up perfectly', you won't create good interfaces.
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Twitter Data - A simple, open proposal for embedding data in Twitter messages(twitterdata.org)
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by warwick 17y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+profit+%2F+apple+... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=best+buy+profit+%2F+bes... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=walmart+profit+%2F+walm...
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by warwick 17y ago
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=608345
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by warwick 17y ago
It's almost cliche to say that we need more females in tech. Most of the time, these kinds of arguments center around the disproportionate male/female ratios and talk about how we might correct them. They never really say /why/ we need mo
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by warwick 17y ago
Please don't risk your life stupidly. In any case, cruise control involves things like accelerating when you're going up hills to maintain an stable speed, not just keeping the gas pedal in the same place.
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by warwick 17y ago
I used to think that a metadata based file system was a really bad idea until two things happened. I read Jef Raskin's "The Humane Interface" and I watched people use web apps and 'database' apps like iTunes. In THI, Raskin covers the idea
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by warwick 18y ago
I have this basic test that I apply before I add a feed to my RSS reader. I arrive at some site by way of a link. If the story is good enough that I think I want to read more by the author, that's exactly what I do. I click the 'previous'
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by warwick 18y ago
I've never seen a game as beautiful before.
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by warwick 18y ago
I'm also a Mac developer. I've been building a couple of applications while I'm in University and it looks like I'll have a good steady income to grow the business on once I'm out of school.
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by warwick 18y ago
Sure, ask this while I'm sitting here with a Linguistics text studying for a final. This post is going to be a bit long. Empathy is a hard word to bring up an image of because it's meaning is largely connotative rather than denotative. On
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by warwick 18y ago
I recently rewatched a WWDC session video about designing user interfaces where it was mentioned that right-aligning labels allows users to scan through and fill out forms quite a bit faster. Aligning the colons seems like the same kind of
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by warwick 18y ago
It's also worth checking out happynews.com, which is a bit more frequently updated.
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by warwick 18y ago
To answer your second question, you might want to look at concurrent garbage collection. Here's the obligatory wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_ (computer_science)#Stop-the-world_vs._incremental_vs._concurrent
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by warwick 18y ago
Can anybody point to a good guide for agile terminology? I'd like to try this out, but I'm not exactly certain what's meant by "stories", "icebox", "velocity", etc.
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by warwick 18y ago
I'm working on porting a desktop app over to Cappuccino. It's important to remember that Cappuccino doesn't include all of the components found in the Cocoa frameworks yet. This makes it a little hard to port an app over directly. For exa
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by warwick 18y ago
For every person your product is right for, there's going to be a ton of people your product /isn't/ right for. The people who it isn't right for can have two reactions. They can be indifferent, or they can be critical. If they're indiffe
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by warwick 18y ago
I'm currently reading "Halting State" by Charles Stross, it contains some good scenes showing the characters interacting with an ARG. Not necessarily research material, but it goes to show how playing an ARG could fit within life.
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by warwick 18y ago
This goes to show the value of actually watching users when they sit down in front of your system. Even though 'Click Start to Shutdown' seems unintuitive to all of us programmers, the usability study showed that it's what people expected.
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by warwick 18y ago
I'm looking forward to spending my weekend with Cappuccino. My main desktop product is developed in Cocoa, but I'd like to expand it onto the web and the iPhone. Cappuccino looks like it might handle the web side of that quite well. I tri
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by warwick 18y ago
As a consumer, nothing. As a business, hosting/mail/sourcecontrol accounts, and the big one is the ADC membership. Sure, you can get the devtools for free but the WWDC videos make it worthwhile around a new OS release.
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by warwick 18y ago
Off the top of my head, I'd say that C is used for systems programming due to direct addressing of memory via pointers and it being as low level as you can get without getting into machine specific assembly. Speed is more of a byproduct of
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by warwick 18y ago
5% of your sales for what it offers? Remember, they're not hosting your payment stuff, or processing credit cards, or anything like that. Golden%Braeburn strikes me as something that would be great, but I'd really only want to pay for it o
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by warwick 18y ago
Stay in school. Yes, you and your cofounder could get a GED, but I think you're missing a lot of the advantages of high school. It's hard to see them when you're there, but when you're in high school you have: 1) Large amounts of free tim

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