daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Example of a multi-player HTML5 racing game using Socket.io
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daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers
The website http://programmingpraxis.com has a ton of interesting puzzles.
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Man Tries to Live an Open Source Life for a Year
> I don't really understand what it means for physical items like shoes to be open source in the sense that some software is.
Tangentially related, but despite the article's definition of open source: "It's definitely not just software", it's a peeve of mine nonetheless to hear the term "open source" applied in non-software/programming contexts. Especially with some of the examples you've pointed out:
> He also claims he wants to be open source in "how I get around." What would it mean for walking to be open source or closed source? Is it "open source" to ride a bus?
Not sure if I'm alone on this.
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: App.net to support activitystrea.ms, pubsubhubbub, Webfinger, feeds
From their site:
> App.net will only be funded if at least $500,000 is pledged by MONDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11:59PM PDT.
Why is this? They aren't going through Kickstarter, it's their own fundraising system and a deadline chosen by the App.net folks themselves. It's just an arbitrarily chosen deadline? A self imposed constraint that they can seemingly modify at will?
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
I use both gmail and hotmail (or outlook.com now) and the titlebar in this case is the same as in gmail: it has the user-name of the person logged in, the "options" (gear icon), the send/reply/delete/new-email buttons. And actually with gmail the interface has the google logo and search input above the title-bar taking up an extra ~100 pixels.
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs
Do the auto generated clients only return JSON for each client library? Do you still need to write your own parser to parse the JSON?
* Nevermind. Yes they return JSON, I just read the documentation.
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope)
I've heard that grad students go through something very similar when they go to grad school: feelings of inferiority and fears of being "exposed" as fake when surrounded by so many other intelligent people.
I've never worked for a start-up but imagine the start-up scene works the same given the common stereotypes: success stories of 20-year-olds, hyper intelligent ivy-league drop-outs, etc. I don't know whether they're the rule or the exception to it.
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my startup, camonduty.com
I liked the demo, but why do I need to purchase the specific webcam? Is there any plan to create a service that works with regular built-in (Macbook) webcams?
daveasaurus | 13 years ago | on: Stunning Progress in Technology Brings The Death of Unskilled Labor
Are you saying it's a bad thing?
I don't think it's worth halting technologic advancements and improvements in the name of saving (unskilled) jobs.
daveasaurus | 14 years ago | on: Opinionated dotfiles for vim, zsh, git and OS X
For vim I really like the github color theme: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2855. I do use solarized for my term though.
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I went to the site and everything was washed out in red.