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huu | 11 years ago | on: Lab Notebook: Single Pixel Camera

Incredibly inventive and well executed. Seeing your writeup go from this wacky hand-waving theory to a built camera to actual results is awfully rewarding.

huu | 11 years ago | on: My Last Day at PivotDesk

Context helps ground the lessons in reality. People would be less likely to take "don't be a jerk to your teammates" to heart if that's all the post was saying.

huu | 11 years ago | on: Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player

While I think, in general, a move like this can be seen as manipulative, I think this particular case is an exception.

Specifically, the line "Support independent developers, such as:", endears me to the publisher's genuine intentions. "Support" is the operative word here, and I think the comparison between this and the Comcast ordeal is different because I can't imagine Comcast using those words to describe their competitors.

I don't think what the publisher is doing diffuses criticism. I think it anticipates it and wraps it under a notion of "I know I can't give you everything you could want in a podcast app, so try these ones instead if you want". To me that's very different from, "This is the best podcast app, these other competitors can't possibly give you what I give you."

huu | 11 years ago | on: MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform

The idea is that no single company or entity will be able to predict in the future what users need. Email is old, but it's far from perfect. I think a platform that lets developers today leverage their expertise on modern protocol technologies and practices is an excellent idea.

huu | 12 years ago | on: It's Different for Girls

Then perhaps it would be helpful to point out why you don't find the resources useful or relevant. Downvoting should be reserved for low-substance comments, not for hiding (it literally has the effect of hiding things from other people) information which you think is useless to you.

huu | 12 years ago | on: Url dispatchers in web frameworks are redundant

Url dispatchers are important insofar as they allow an application developer to worry about just writing an application and defining its resources. If they had to configure url routes in the web server, that adds an additional layer of error and requires expertise at yet another level of the stack that they shouldn't need to have.

Likewise, a deployment engineer should not have to worry about the particular resources being served by an application. In other words, the interface between application and server should be as simple as possible, and url routing just makes more sense in the web framework because the application developer wants control over the resources and how to reach them.

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