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Re:Retina Revolution - smaller images with better quality
on Sunday October 07, 2012 @09:47AM (#4623305)
FWIW, in case you don't have a retina display, zooming in your browser works just as well to make the difference in quality visible.
Why political concepts are not suitable for software engineering
Online Haskell real-time typechecker
Online Haskell typechecker
Re:Yep, Programming Is Borked
on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @05:01PM (#3511949)
> I would really like to write an entire program sometime as a big tree, that would be convertable back and forth to something simple like JSON.
That would be Lisp.
> convert my simple statements like "when this sprite touches this sprite, give them opposite speeds) into the underlying code so I don't have to waste my time with it.
That's function application (if at runtime) or macro expansion (if at compile time).
Re:Ask HN: I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?
on Sunday September 11, 2011 @12:33PM (#2984086)
Also try Crackbook [1] for Chrome which delays pages instead of banning them. Works much better for me that Stayfocusd, which I just disable after a while. (Disclaimer: I am the author.)
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nbgjmohekjolcgemlo...
Re:Ask HN: Let's see your weekend projects
on Thursday September 08, 2011 @07:25PM (#2976107)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nbgjmohekjolcgemlo...
Crackbook, a Chrome extension to keep you from slacking off on the web too much.
A Chrome extension to fight procrastination
Re:Cellular Automaton Music Generator
on Sunday April 17, 2011 @03:37AM (#2455756)
It seems to be using the pentatonic scale, which is generally easy to deal with. It is also quite limited though, with only 5 pitches available out of the standard 12 in an octave.
Re:Wozniak: Innovative projects, not tests, should determine a student...
on Sunday April 10, 2011 @11:24AM (#2429616)
I read a course on Python for a semester, and I tried to use a similar approach: relatively few tests, a minor project for warmup and a major project (with emphasis on attendance & communication). I think it went fine, but it's not as easy as it looks. In particular, students would "show up", but it's not easy to motivate them to do more serious work.
JQuery Waypoints
Re:Ask HN: how to spend two weeks in SF effectively?
on Friday February 11, 2011 @06:37PM (#2208669)
That's the kind of info I was looking for. Thanks!
Ask HN: how to spend two weeks in SF effectively?
A startup is flying me in from Europe to Palo Alto for an on-site job interview, and I've asked to postpone my return flight in order to use the opportunity to look around (I've never been to the West Coast before). So, now I have two weeks (25 Feb to 8 Mar) to spend in California. What would you suggest I should do to make the best use of my time?I plan to do some local tourism of course,...
Re:Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @03:33AM (#2091362)
What's the point of a "hierarchy" then, if the "upper" levels do not depend on the "lower" ones? Basically what you're saying here is a tautology: one is able to operate at a "level" that, well, one is able to operate at.
Re:How not to test your startup idea; how to test your startup idea.
on Friday December 24, 2010 @11:08AM (#2037428)
You don't have to get people to buy hot air. What the author has in mind is probably either a) "Assume that this product is fully functional. Will you pay for it $X?" or b) "I am planning to build this product. Would you promise to pay me $X when I deliver this product?"
Re:Conceding Defeat - The Internet is Stronger Than I Am
on Monday December 20, 2010 @05:26AM (#2023927)
Is the extension available to the public? I'd love to be able to see my own stats.
Re:Are getters and setters object oriented?
on Sunday December 19, 2010 @03:26PM (#2022417)
There's a more interesting point to be made about getters and setters than the article offers. In my opinion, getters and setters are a little stinky because by nature they expose internal attributes of the class, even if they wrap them up in method calls. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565095/java-are-getters-a... .
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a website to help other startups with sales?
on Saturday December 18, 2010 @05:30PM (#2020475)
Hmm, what would those markets be in your opinion? Perhaps it's worth targeting a niche narrower than startups.
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a website to help other startups with sales?
on Saturday December 18, 2010 @05:28PM (#2020468)
Sure, throw a link my way (see http://blog.miliauskas.lt for contact info).
Re:Ask HN: Would you use a website to help other startups with sales?
on Saturday December 18, 2010 @05:27PM (#2020463)
Yeah, BNI seems similar in idea, but I had my eyes on small, new companies in particular, as they have the most to gain from small-scale, inidvidual referrals. The larger ones tend to do marketing, or they already have a reputation, so it's easier for them to find new clients.
Re:Isle of Tune: A music sequencer using roads
on Saturday December 18, 2010 @10:46AM (#2019628)
Too much freedom, and the beat becomes too irregular and therefore less appealing. Simplicity is beauty, as usual.
Ask HN: Would you use a website to help other startups with sales?
I am thinking about putting up a website for startups that would help sales by getting referrals from other startups.The basis for the idea is threefold:1. There is a lot of goodwill in the startup world (recent Offer HN posts are evidence). Many startup people I know would go out of their way to help their peers as long as they are not direct competitors.2. Startup founders have a lot of human...
Re:How to (In)validate Your Startup Idea
on Saturday December 18, 2010 @07:19AM (#2019381)
> Morality is ultimately about results.
Or it's not. See deontological vs. consequentialist conceptions of morality.
Re:What if we tested laws before passing them?
on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:41AM (#2000991)
If the experiment is opt-in, there will surely be a bias in the sample population. In this case, the strategy will select risk-seeking individuals, because risk-averse ones will not want to participate.
Re:Pics of Googles Russian competitior Yandex's Data Center
on Friday December 10, 2010 @08:16PM (#1993836)
The pictures at the end with the lights out are quite nice.
Re:Unladen Swallow is dead
on Friday December 10, 2010 @03:07PM (#1992963)
> I tend to prefer underannouncing and overdelivering...
Yes, assuming that you hear about the project at all. Overannouncement is lying, but it does get you more publicity.
Re:What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous Quora user explains.
on Friday December 10, 2010 @11:19AM (#1992086)
Strictly speaking, thinking about "what trees those are" or "about all the people who [sic] been here" is yet another instance of verbal thinking and it's emphatically not "mindfulness". Clearly you're not here and now if you're thinking about people who have been here.
Re:Cables Discuss Vast Hacking by a China That Fears the Web
on Saturday December 04, 2010 @02:24PM (#1969916)
I don't think it's possible to control the internet when any sort of stronger encryption is available that prevents inspection of passing information by the routing nodes. Even then, you could use steganography to hide data. It would be very, very difficult to enforce this sort of legal restriction even if it were passed as a law.
Re:Why I will not analyze the new WikiLeaks data
on Monday November 29, 2010 @02:40AM (#1949704)
I'm not sure it's just personality traits though, the technical professions may be influential as well. In technical matters, things do tend to be much more black-or-white, and if something is "subtle and nuanced", chances are it's a bug. Arts majors have been going on for ages about Aristotelian/Boolean logic being coarse and artificially compartmentalizing, there might be a grain of truth there.