basicxman | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft: Hey, Apple Maps haters, Use Bing for iPhone instead
I have Bing Get MeThere in the Canadian app store as well, but it doesn't appear to search any Canadian addresses.
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basicxman | 13 years ago | on: RIM tries to attract BlackBerry 10 developers with awful music video
Went to BlackBerry Jam in Waterloo with a co-worker who did a co-op at RIM previously. They played a similar music video and the key joke from my co-worker was "The cost of that music video could've paid the salary of the guy who used to be beside me."
basicxman | 13 years ago | on: Don’t use JavaScript for Retinafying
Not to mention, using high resolution graphics when only displaying at a lower resolution increases battery usage and lowers performance of the webpage.
basicxman | 13 years ago | on: Mars Curiosity Operating System: VxWorks
VxWorks as well, http://www.spacex.com/downloads/dragonlab-datasheet.pdf
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: An Intro to Haskell for Ruby Developers
The typography also drives me insane. Add some margin between headings and text, reduce kerning, get rid of p::first-letter { font-size: 200%; }
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011
Complimentary to Introduction to Algorithms you might enjoy The Algorithm Design Manual (http://www.algorist.com/).
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: Steve Yegge: Follow Up to His Accidentally Public Rant
Taking a look at Amazon's past user interface and experience choices, I'd say they skipped every third idea to make the site simple and user friendly.
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs' Last Big Project Was The Redesigned iPhone 5
Like most articles, can't trust this one at all.
Gruber has some excellent thoughts (with actual reasoning) on this which contradict much of what this guy and his "source" is saying.
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1
Yes but I could write this as
1 * 10^(-inf)
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: Books Every Geek Should Read
Agreed with GED.
basicxman | 14 years ago | on: Books Every Geek Should Read
As much as I love Ender's Game I've turned my head away at it since I found out that Orson Scott Card was an extreme right-wing mormon. While I don't like to attribute a book's content to it's author I feel like this sort of ruins a bit of the book's magic.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution was an excellent read and then of course you can't go wrong with Douglas Adams. Excellent stuff.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Following the 1st link on Wikipedia leads to 'Philosophy' for 93.4% of pages
I wrote a script to use Wikipedia:Random to check as many trails as possible (still data logging with it now!).
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Poll: When a HNer says their project took 1 day to build, I generally think...
I don't think this analogy really carries over to software development. I think being able to develop quality code in X time even using libraries is a great demonstration of experience.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: I'm 16, and need advice
I'm currently 16 and have a job making five figures as a software engineer at a company making millions. There is no reason to not start right now.
On the matter of education, I'm taking independent learning at home - this allows me to get my OSSD under my province's Learn to 18 act but not have to physically attend an educational institute. Check if you have something like http://ilc.org where you live.
I would personally not start my own startup at the moment (however getting involved in something is a great idea) as I am still building up contacts and experience. I believe as the founder of a startup you should be the go-to guy, with only two years of experience in what sounds like L/WAMP stack programming environments, you need to spend more time.
Of course, learning from a failed startup is good too.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software do you use for your startup?
Locally.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What software do you use for your startup?
Well,
- Vim
- Google Analytics
- Dropbox
- Git
- Linux
- Google Docs
- Skype
Not a cent paid, not a single complaint.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What did you get for Christmas?
My whole family felt entirely spoiled this year so next year we're ditching gifts and donating to the Pinball Clement Foundation (http://www.mpcf.ca/).
Anywho, Neoprene iPad Case, microSD card for phone, desperately needed wallet, RobotShop gift card.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Girl draws on pictures for macbook, already halfway
It's a shame so many young people these days don't have her spirit. You don't save a years worth of allowance, you go find what you're good at and share it with others.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: I stood there, an American citizen, sexually assaulted by a government official
I commented on the blog about how she was overreacting and told her to think about how the TSA agent must have felt (having to do that several times per day). My comment got deleted.
basicxman | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: 19, developer, burnt out, advice please
This is so scarily complimenting my life I'm paranoid of this throwaway account.
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