CookWithMe

9 ms·

91.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
My first thought was "why don't they use Akka"? > Akka has no true lightweight threads (the actors are actually callbacks) Would you care to elaborate? I'm not too familiar with the internals of Akka, but they definit
92.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
> The founder of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, shared with Paananen that he has a 300 year vision for reshaping entertainment, and a plan of how to implement it. With $1.5B in the bank, he can spend $5M a year for 300 years without going bank
93.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
2 years ago, in my last semester at the university, I volunteered at doing an intro-course for first-semester computer science students. Basically, we made sure they transitioned to the university learning style and they've got some st
94.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
What you are looking for is an "object recognition" algorithm. These algorithms take one or multiple images of an object (e.g. your little statue) and then try to locate it in another image. Generally, they are computationally exp
95.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
Nice! For us, one use-case for contact forms is to request a webinar at a specific date. I'm guessing here, but I think more people will request a webinar if they can simply select a date and send it off vs. if they have to write a fre
96.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
We did a couple of online-demos / webinars of our product for potential customers lately. Here's what we learned: - Our customers strongly prefer to call in via landline than to use their computer for audio. Make sure to send them
97.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
I see. I'm not using rails but the Play! framework / Scala, don't have the pain of switching. However, I get your point about javascript/conditional comments... I had a sort of similar problem in that I had a couple of l
98.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
What is the advantage over using $your_favourite_webframework and wget -r? I've been doing this for a while (deploying to S3) and the most annoying part is really to upload to S3...
99.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
I am equally confused by this. Reminded me very much of: > we had a business that DHH would be proud of. Bootstrapped, lean and already providing (in a small way at least) for the needs of my family and that of my co-founder. Over the ne
100.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
Java, as a language, is pretty easy to learn. If you already know the standard library from Scala/Clojure, even more so. That said, some parts of the ecosystem that are built around (Enterprise) Java are real behemoths and the companie
101.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
You can take part in the green card lottery... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa#Winnin... If you happen to be in Australia or New Zealand and take part for a couple of years, your chances are actually pretty good. Eve
102.
by CookWithMe 13y ago
Very interesting, but some words on pricing are IMO a must-have. E.g. it's not really a problem for me to find a legal advisor, but paying for his service is. I also believe many non-technical founders can easily find an agency that can adv
103.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
It depends, but I'd say in the beginning you want to get qualitative and not quantitative data. Adds are good for quantitative data, but if you write mails and people respond, they will usually tell you stuff. Most only a bit, but some a lo
104.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Have been using it during the last two months both for web and on android - it's great, can highly recommend it! Much better than WhatsApp or so. And the team is continually improving it, too. IFTTT integration is a nice bonus as well. Only
105.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Exercise has been suggested numerous times, and I agree. I'd also add to choose a sport where you have to focus your mind (i.e. not go to the gym or jogging). I have been doing downhill/freeride mountainbiking and enjoy bouldering right now
106.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I live in Berlin. A good friend of mine lived in London for a while and I visited him a couple of times. Rent in London is a lot more expensive than in Berlin, and food etc is more expensive as well. Salaries are higher in London, though. F
107.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
That's definitely true. Also, preventing diseases is much harder to monetize than treating them. An unhealthy diet plays a large role in obesity and diabetes (the other one being a sedentary lifestyle). Research has unsurprisingly shown tha
108.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
It's really a good question and I have been wondering about this for some time too. I can't really offer anything valuable except that Google is a great success story: "Mr. Brin and Mr. Page, the co-founders, spent nearly a year searching f
109.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Maybe you are frustrated because it feels as if using the mouse and keyboard instead of a pen feels like a magnitude slower? My designer recently got a graphic tablet and she has got really good at using it. Instead of sketching on a paper,
110.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I have been wondering about option 1 (creator-type founder hires manager/CEO for managerial tasks, keeps focusing on creating) for quite some time. Google is a great example where Larry Page and Sergey Brin interviewed Eric Schmidt and hire
111.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I recently used Slick a bit in combination with Play. On one hand I was really impressed by its capabilities, on the other hand the documentation is unfortunately lacking... I think Slick has great potential and hope that typesafe brings th
112.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Like the idea! In addition to what others have said: I find the overall design good, but I don't like the stripes/greyness over the food image ( http://www.farmly.net/images/home-banner.jpg ) at all. Getting the color of food images right i
113.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Shouldn't we be able to make these systems useless by filling them with loads of fake data/spam? I.e. if I have to fill out a form somewhere, I would not only submit it once, but several times (ideally automated), ideally with realistic dat
114.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
> The word machine implies predictability [...]. Computers are not predictable [...] First of all, computers can be mechanical - the first computers have been [0]. Furthermore, computers are predictable. If a CPU would not be predictabl
115.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
No, but it's complicated. You can fork the android source which is under the Apache 2 license: http://source.android.com/source/licenses.html If you want to use the Android SDK (this includes additionally Google APIs), you have to agree t
116.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I don't really get it either. I'm not even sure how I, as a developer, can do anything to create fragmentation. If I use the official Android API, than my app (or SDK) should be forward-compatible. If my app or SDK uses undocumented APIs, t
117.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
From my experience, there are two types of "bad" programmers: Those that want to improve and work with you, and those that don't, or at least not take advice from you. For the first category, as others have said, you should try to mentor th
118.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I guess no one at BMW, Mercedes or Audi has read the Innovator's dilemma. That said, the German government tried to create many incentives for creating "greener" cars. However, the manufacturers IMO seemed to pour money into lobbying agains
119.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
Sorry, re-reading my post it was misleading because I didn't post my intention: I did not want to show that Europe is coming up with successful start-ups at any rate comparable to the US, SV obviously wins by a huge margin. I was more inter
120.
by CookWithMe 14y ago
I was interested to see what it's like for the US, so I did go through the forbes list [1]: 1. Bill Gates 2. Larry Ellison 3. Jeff Bezos 4. Sergey Brin 5. Larry Page 6. Steve Ballmer 7. Paul Allen 8. Michael Dell 9. Laurenne Powell Jobs (wi

More ›