wlievens

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by wlievens 16y ago
"a few thousand a month" is quite ambitious for a single, "super simple" app. You should consider building a dozen super simple apps that bring in "a few hundred"... seems more doable.
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by wlievens 16y ago
To the moon! We'll mine some there :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
General Manager
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by wlievens 16y ago
> with my wife as co-founder, living in the country-side of france in a cheap place, with our son That alone sounds like a dream. Where in France are you living?
845.
by wlievens 16y ago
The huge distracting icon makes it look like a scammy shareware site.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I think he means that his competitors run AdSense, showing for keywords that he bids on, so in effect they're just channelling part of their traffic to him. Since it's a competitor, there's a great efficiency in the traffic since the people
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by wlievens 16y ago
But how do you get over charging for something that competitors offer for free? Even if your product is better in different ways, that's a hard sell.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Absolutely. I use ternary if when appropriate. But nesting ternary ifs is horrible, and nesting ternary ifs while discarding parentheses is malevolent.
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by wlievens 16y ago
The 2.85K is after Closure :-/
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by wlievens 16y ago
Update: I'm down to 2.85K. I might just get there.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I bet you can't make Duke Nukem Forever in JS that way.
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's the most multi-layered comment I've ever read. I'm not sure how to respond :-) I've brought it down to 3.24k in the meanwhile. Maybe I'll get there eventually!
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by wlievens 16y ago
The only sane thing is to use if statements, imho. No ninja cowboy engineer nonsense.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I made a neat roguelike in JS last week but couldn't fit it in under 4K :(
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by wlievens 16y ago
Absolutely. I once had to deal with code that did something like this: return a ? b : c ? d : e ? f : g; I'm not kidding.
856.
by wlievens 16y ago
My fingertips are too big to type accurately. It's a pity because I really like my iPod touch.
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by wlievens 16y ago
True, but Chrome is the exception, with it's awesome JS JIT.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Except the stimulus didn't kill tens of thousands and drove many thousands others into extremism. That makes it a far lesser evil imho.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> since it's just HTML and CSS I've tried gadgets like this many times (though nothing as cool as that buckyball) and it's been my experience every time. It's slow because it's just HTML and CSS.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Literally true. Consider what awesome things could have been built with the trillion spent on Iraq. A space elevator, a mars mission, a moon base. Not or ... and !
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by wlievens 16y ago
This might just be the very first time I saw you downvoted. I sincerely disagree. The only valid question is whether the time is right - that's something you can argue about.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Space is really, really, really big.
863.
by wlievens 16y ago
How do you know there aren't any?
864.
by wlievens 16y ago
Thank you for wording it this way. This articulates very well how I've felt about the whole anthropic principle thing ever since I read about it.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Classic. I did already see it here on HN a few months ago.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Pretty bad pop-sci information degradation in this slideshow. Could somebody explain to me what they think they're stating in number 9?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Actually I find that super smart people care very little about money, and more about what they're doing, so that's one reason a lot of them go into academia. Luckily I'm not super smart so I don't have to spend my days writing papers, inste
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by wlievens 16y ago
My country doesn't have Street View yet :(
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by wlievens 16y ago
Very much true. During my education I was massively disappointed in Prolog, because the programming process was something like this: 1) write it declaratively 2) figure out that your program will take days to complete 3) add ugly procedural
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by wlievens 16y ago
I want a Home button because I lost my words!

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