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EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Programming prodigy passes away at 16

Totally shocked that a community full of Aspies is having a hard time mustering sympathy for this girl and instead have to pedantically inform the Internet that that's not really programming and what's the big deal anyway I did this when I was 12 in between stimming sessions and telling my parents every species of dinosaur.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Free implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II engine with source code

There've been unhexeditable game consoles since the 70s. Doesn't seem to have impacted people's desire to hack thus far.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: How can Skyrim be so unoptimized? Modders do better job than Bethesda

throw new BathwaterException(new Baby()) ?

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My Zappos/Twilio hackathon entry

Answer your "What is your shoe size?" security question...

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Windows Azure Website Redesign - More emphasis on Node.js, PHP and Java support

Drag them? How do I do that on my iPad? #mobilefail

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub

Did you read the article?

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: New Color.com

Heh. Want to place any bets they built the whole thing audio included and just before launch brought in the lawyers who quickly said WTF? To which the product team said ORLY?

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Cloud email service price comparison

Would you prefer SaaS, or web service? Will that soothe you?

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Amazon App Store's Free App of the Day is Perceived As Probable Spyware

Here's another scenario: idiotic developers ask for a boatload of permissions "just in case" and don't realize how sketchy it looks.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: A human review of the Kindle Fire

Point 1 just isn't right. I have 2FA on my gmail and am reading it with the default mail client just fine. "yr doing it wrong."

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

He addresses scale but only scaling up. What he neglects to realize is that AdWords et al are elastic, if I want to get 10x impressions over the weekend I can do that. With cold calling, not so much...

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: The Real Pirates Of Silicon Valley?

Charles Symoni (sp, I know) used to float the Intentional Programming team around on his yacht for weeks at a time. I think it was mainly to increase productivity though.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: The 10X Product Launch

One of the more useful things I've seen on HN. However it seems to only really apply to B2B. There is a bit of a hand wave about B2C at the end. Would love to see more thoughts about its applicability there.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Kevin Rose’s Oink Hits The App Store

"well do data mining" is the new "well have ads" for unmonetizable businesses. Then again the data mining is probably just for ads anyway, so maybe it's just more of the same...

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Where does Google actually say that they won’t read Gmail or Google Docs?

No Google doesn't read your email. In fact their spam detection just works by flipping the worlds luckiest coin at every incoming email.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups

Woman, boy.

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Tired of Being Tired

"Feeling tired? Drink this Koolaid." - Jim Jones

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Logging the cloud with SimpleDB

How do you get around the 10GB/domain limit?

What do you do when your fleet gets big enough that you start getting throttled?

What's the query latency?

How do you delete old log data?

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo is growing

Paid search results? Would it really be incongruent with what DDG is doing?

EponymousCoward | 14 years ago | on: Zynga's Profits Down by 95%

Which do you suppose is bigger, 30% of Zynga's FB credits, or 100% of their FB ad spend?