heycarsten | 14 years ago | on: Button Basics
Sorry about that :-(
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heycarsten | 15 years ago | on: How to retire at 30 on $1 million
http://www.greaterfool.ca/2010/08/24/market-update-6 (Granted, Garth Turner is extreme, but he does not make things up.)
heycarsten | 15 years ago | on: Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors
With the robustness of modern ECUs I'm surprised that these signals are not checked before being evaluated. Even my Arduino is capable of doing that.
heycarsten | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What annoys you?
Deception online. Tricking people into providing their personal information and reselling that information to third parties.
heycarsten | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What annoys you?
Cyclists that disobey the rules of the road, but complain when motorists don't follow the rules of the road really bother me. (I am a cyclist.)
heycarsten | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What annoys you?
Same goes for "alot" instead of "a lot".
heycarsten | 15 years ago | on: Where does a tree get its mass?
Turns out he has a rant about this very issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Memo to CEOs & Founders: Stop Being Such Cheap Bastards
From my own experience this is _exactly_ what happens. Only they intelligently manipulated my shareholder agreement in a way that I had to actually buy the options, no paper transfer, I needed cold, hard cash. Having very little money at the time (being between jobs) I was unable to do so, which meant that I forfeited my options. Probably for the best anyway, because buying them didn't guarantee a buyout, only the option of one. I would have been out $5000, just waiting for the day to be bought out, which would probably never come.
Lesson learned: read things very carefully, confusing language is intended to be confusing. I basically gave away two years of my career to kool-aid equity. Just be really careful, and if you don't fully understand something ask someone who does understand. If you can't get a direct answer, leave. Don't waist your time; you're being gamed.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: CopperLicht - fast WebGL JavaScript 3D Engine
Can't seem to get the demo to work on the latest WebKit nightly build:
TypeError: Result of expression 'a.Pi' [undefined] is not a function.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Rails 3.0 Beta Release
The improved email and routing are huge! Not to mention bundler for gems, I can't help but be a bit excited :-)
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: When Rails Fails
Poor attention to detail is going to bite you in the ass as a programmer no matter what technology you're using.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Starbucks testing mobile payment market, starts with iPhone app
There is no real gain in convenience compared to a Starbucks Card or cash, and you still have a paper receipt involved in the transaction. I'm having a hard time seeing how this is a step forward.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Mistakes we made when naming our computers
We used the names of planets, once we ran out of those we started doing moons and stars. It's pretty badass.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Google Chrome 3.0
I realize there is probably no place for it in marketing banter, but it bothers me that they don't give the WebKit project any visible credit.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: DjangoCon 2009 Presentations
I wish I could have attended. Hopefully next year.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: FTC forces Sears, Kmart out of the spyware business
Even with all that data, they still suck at marketing.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us
Absolutely awesome! Hubris bites back!
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: 10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling"
It's about time.
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
Strip employees of all decision making and reasoning because that stuff is expensive. Create a protocol that they must follow, how could it possibly fail?
heycarsten | 16 years ago | on: Fast vector graphics word art with HTML canvas
I guess it doesn't work in the latest nightly of WebKit?
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