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Can you say more about why you're avoiding the blockchain?
I wish there was a special keyboard widget on the iPhone for coding. I want the keys in the keyboard to be bigger than what the iPhone currently displays.
Could there be other possibilities?

Europe may want to achieve some things in common but not at the expense of not achieving other things not in common.

Per the article: step outside the European worldview to see how cultural viewpoints elsewhere understand and express the value of multilingualism

Weirdness of a language is completely subjective

This isn't true.

What do the terms inflected and irregular mean?
GRE doesn't matter, many CS programs don't even require it

The GRE isn't irrelevant.

Re:Handcuffed to Uber on Sunday May 01, 2016 @05:25PM (#11607915)
Uber’s position is that if it learns [of a sale or loan] that goes around its share-transfer restrictions, there will be consequences

What consequences?

Is this true? Wouldn't encrypted Internet calls be protected on the mobile network?

So any choices that a congressman could’ve made, choosing a phone, choosing a pin number, installing or not installing certain apps, have no influence over what we are showing because this is targeting the mobile network

I wonder how CEOs feel about their bottom line when they're off by such a big percentage in the workforce they need.

Couldn't they have predicted this sooner?

Re:Google Trends for Tumblr, Google+, Reddit, Twitter on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:18AM (#11519290)
It's interesting Dropbox doesn't enter these trend discussions. It flies under the radar.
It was day 2 for you, with the specific engine you used.

You don't need to heapsort the entire dataset before you offset to a page, and there are engines capable of doing this.

Re:Ask HN: How to grow a distributed computing project on Sunday April 17, 2016 @09:28PM (#11517183)
To improve the site, instead of adding a lot on it have very little on it: only what's needed to get someone to install the software. I suggest you erase EVERYTHING from it, and start from a clean, single white page trying to get people to download it.

Make it legible first. What you have isn't legible no matter what the page says. When my eyes land on the site they move away from the site within 1 second:

- I didn't see the website footer.

- I didn't see the "open source" part.

- All I saw was the pictures and the orange button.

Assume a visitor will give the site no more than a 2 second glance. Design for that.

I would change "save the world from your sofa" to "end world poverty" and increase the font size from 30px to 60px.

I wish there were instructions for me to compile the software from source. In Linux I can often run ./configure && make && make install; and know that I'm installing something clean from source. Can I do the same with this software?

Now, onto why you're working on this. Do you have a specific "enormous potential" problem -- AN ACTUAL PROBLEM -- that you, personally, needed to fix yesterday?

Do you personally need to end global poverty? Why? How will distributed computing end it anyway? How many years have you spent being in poverty to understand that the one and only solution for poverty, out of the possibly thousands, is distributed computing?

Are you doing this because you believe distributed computing will mine Bitcoins, change that into money, and donate the money? If that's the plan, it never crossed my mind after visiting the page.

I'd be great if global poverty ended. I'm not saying distributed computing can't end poverty but I'm not fully convinced either.

All this said, don't get discouraged. You may find that what you're working on could easily change into something else. But whatever you release try to do a great job at it.

For example, what if I'm willing to just donate something to end poverty and not hog my CPU? That would be a completely different website. If you can make me trust you that the money won't be mishandled, maybe I'm willing to just donate $5 a month to end poverty, and not have to compile anything from source. If I can afford $2k for computing equipment, maybe I can afford $60/yr to end poverty and not hog my CPU.

Re:Shrink Go binaries 7x with this one weird trick on Sunday April 17, 2016 @08:41PM (#11517062)
If a file is 100kb and is compressed to 50kb, that's 2x smaller. 50kb is still over zero.
Re:The Art of Controversy on Sunday April 17, 2016 @04:46PM (#11516235)
tldr: what happens on HN daily without realizing it.
Re:Ask HN: How to grow a distributed computing project on Sunday April 17, 2016 @04:44PM (#11516225)
- Improving a site's design usually helps.

- I clicked to install it and, like you mention, I too thought it's untrustworthy. How do I know you won't steal the data on my computer? Is it open-source? Where can I download it? Can I compile it from source? How?

Why are you working on this? Are there other ways to solve the problem you're trying to solve?

Re:Ask HN: Am I too old to start a programming career? on Sunday April 17, 2016 @09:12AM (#11514393)
Significant barriers due to age also include learning. When it comes to new technologies, do you think you'd learn the most in places where the manager is older than you?

Did you perhaps mean go to places where the manager is a good learner?

Re:Hacker News is rude? on Sunday April 17, 2016 @09:04AM (#11514372)
I wish the HN software gave me a feature of choosing how to filter out noise.
This is really cool guys.

Some feedback:

- I love the toolbox on the right

- moving the F around doesn't work

Try siege for stress testing.
Re:Apply HN: InventEd on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:29PM (#11493708)
Hey, are you friends with bickn? I'm a big fan of his speaking in education.

(No response means yes.)

Re:Working on HTML5.1 on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:00PM (#11476450)
From the document: HTML is a very large specification.

My translation: HTML is an evolutionary dead end, and because it's so large it won't die in our lifetime.

Are you willing to pay?

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