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by witten 15y ago
All the more reason not to be a sharecropper and build your application on an open platform. If you know you're working in an environment in which everyone is looking out solely for their own interests, you might as well start out on even f
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Can ex-Microsoft employees make great entrepreneurs?(geekwire.com)
2 points by witten 15y ago|0 comments
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by witten 15y ago
That's a valid point, but you can do things to mitigate this, like splitting up your program into processes that have different dependencies. For instance, if you have a UI process and a core logic process, you won't need to import your gia
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Clean Tech Startup EnergySavvy Offering $10k Referral Bonus(energysavvy.com)
6 points by witten 16y ago|2 comments
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by witten 16y ago
Not if you use the HTML history API: http://html5demos.com/history Admittedly, you need a modern browser for that. But you can always present full-page-load HTML to users with older browsers and then provide AJAXy history-ified goodness t
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by witten 16y ago
Seattle, WA EnergySavvy - We make energy efficiency easy for homeowners. We're passionate about doing it with well-designed, accurate and easy to use software. We're hiring back-end and front-end web developers. We use Python and Django. h
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by witten 17y ago
StatusNet: http://gitorious.org/statusnet http://status.net/
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by witten 17y ago
It's true that OpenGL doesn't have built-in support for things like concave shapes, but you can always do tessellation and feed GL triangles. (Some tessellation options were mentioned in the article.) I've found that for my particular uses,
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by witten 17y ago
Minor correction: OpenGL actually works great for 2D as well. There are versions of all the API functions that accept vertices with 2 dimensions instead of 3. And you can quite easily make vertex buffer objects with only 2 dimensions.
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by witten 17y ago
You've just described Google Wave. However, I think there's plenty of room in this space to come up with alternate implementations and interfaces.
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by witten 17y ago
Who would've thought that VA Linux Systems would get out of the server business to become an ad company?
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by witten 17y ago
There was at least one CYOA "competitor" series of books in which there was only a single ending in a book. And if you got to that ending, you won. Punishment for making a wrong choice involved simply being sent back to a page you had alrea
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by witten 17y ago
Part of the article discusses how soft, highly processed, or cooked foods are easier to digest and thus yield more usable calories than hard, unprocessed, or uncooked foods. The implicit conclusion is that the hard foods should be preferred
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by witten 17y ago
One tip: If you're thinking of starting out and don't want to shell out for the Vibrams, try running in water socks first. They are usually less than a tenth of the cost.
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by witten 17y ago
If you're looking for something like this for Python, check out the greenlet library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet
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by witten 17y ago
Smoothie for breakfast (or any other meal). It's easy to digest and can be full of good nutritious stuff, so you get a nice boost of energy. And you can even drink it while coding. I currently use: banana, frozen fruit, whey protein powder,
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by witten 17y ago
Nethack definitely has more going for it in the comedy department. I like good game humor as well, but balance and interesting gameplay are even more important to me. I would encourage you to give Crawl another try, if only so that you can
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by witten 17y ago
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is arguably a better game than Nethack in almost every way, and it's actively developed. Crawl is better balanced, meaning that when you die it's often due to your own misstep, rather than arbitrary luck. The UI tak
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by witten 18y ago
This may be a bit.. off-topic for HN: But this article sounds like it's describing a very primitive version of the memory manipulation technology featured prominently in the TV show Dollhouse. I always find it fascinating when science ficti
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by witten 18y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. There's a culture in the U.S. of over-working, both within successful companies and in non-successful companies.
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by witten 18y ago
It's dangerous to suggest that working long hours is necessary to win. Knowledge workers become less productive and make costly mistakes after they work longer than a particular (surprisingly low) threshold per week. It's one thing if you'r
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by witten 18y ago
To be fair, the article wasn't advocating the taxing of capital. It was advocating the taxing of income. Also, money never just "disappears" from the economy unless you destroy it. Who do you think buys the goods and/or services that your r
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by witten 18y ago
Even with Amazon's DRM?
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by witten 18y ago
I'm sympathetic to the plight of the starving (or even well-fed) writer wanting to get paid for their work. But the opinion espoused in this piece is the classic argument that just because an industry has grown accustomed to a particular re
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by witten 18y ago
No problem. You're welcome to email me.
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by witten 18y ago
1. I've actually considered not charging for the Linux version and only charging for the Windows and Mac versions. From a cultural perspective, Linux users simply don't buy software. No value judgment there, but simply a statement of fact.
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by witten 18y ago
I could very well strip all comments and distribute just pyc files. Those can be reversed to commentless source, but it's not exactly as useful as the original source code. And honestly, anyone could clone the product just fine even without
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by witten 18y ago
Just to look at one of your points.. > Definitely losing sales to customers with IT departments that know how to compile source code. Quite possible, but I can say that I've gotten some of my best and most valuable feedback from these s
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by witten 18y ago
That's very true, although AGPL does fix that now.
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by witten 18y ago
I don't know.. Having worked with the Digium source code before, I almost would rather that they had kept it to themselves. :) Simply put, I think open source can make sense in products where the benefits (contributions/fixes, goodwill, mar

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