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by CookWithMe 14y ago
At a hackathon we developed an NFC app that can scan food packaging and give you the instructions and a kitchen timer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ92FMl1qcE (I know, its blurry...) After hacking with it, I have to say it is much more
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I chuckled at this too. But a lot of iOS devs have been complaining that Android development is comparably hard because of the different screen sizes... well, there you go.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Why does the consumer gain anything? Windows Phone 8 will be released, no matter what the court says, and Nokia will release phones with it.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
>> Following the Samsung verdict, Bill Cox, marketing director for Microsoft's Windows Phone Division tweeted: "Windows Phone is looking gooooood right now." Is he saying that Windows Phone isn't looking good compared to Android if
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Make it free and monetize it like all the free-to-play games do: If you want to cross of a non-top task, you have to pay increasing amounts of (real) money, e.g. 2nd task 0.50 $, 3rd task 1$, 4th task 2$ etc.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I don't know how good the service is in SF, but generally I can recommend it strongly for this use case. My parents did that around 2000 for 3 or 4 years (in Germany, in a bigger city). We rented a car once a week for grocery shopping and s
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I agree, there is a middle ground and it is worth looking at that. Worked a lot with Java, but also dynamic languages (lots of Python, but also Smalltalk and Ruby). My experience was similar: I was missing something on either side. Currentl
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
If you don't want PG to drive - then why are you applying for YC? You don't trust him to ask the right questions for HIS understanding. Judging from your blog post, you don't seem to trust his judgement in rejecting you - the only reason yo
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Does anyone know why they have these small balconies below the windows? Never seen this before.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Finally... and they even infer the type! Positively surprised. I will stick to Scala, though.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
If a company is both a key partner and a competitor at the same time, your business model is faulty. That said, the LinkedIn API could open certain features only if you act on behalf of a paying LinkedIn user. That way, both LinkedIn and th
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Plus, they hang in the most ridiculous places: On billboards high in the air, on a highway, across subway tracks... I have no idea how to scan these. Well, maybe if I use a DSLR but not with the average smartphone.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I'm all in when it comes to call bullshit on something. But because we (hackers) are used to boolean decisions, we are looking for counter-examples. But these are just non-arguments when the finding is "In 9 out of 10 cases, ...". The anecd
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I showed the article to my girlfriend and she suggested adding the cleaning cost to the equation... well played!
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I "forced" my mother to try out a few online type trainers, but she never sticked to them... and back then I didn't find a decent app for the mac that seemed worth spending money on. Once you have the german version ready, I'd suggest it to
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I don't think it is meant to be taken seriously... "Venturius Capitalias Richium", "Creatorious Hipsternium", "Talkius Nonstopical"?
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
> But you really only need to figure out how to do it one time; after that, it should be part of the build process for your .cspkg and something you don't need to think about again. It didn't take long to figure out (Microsoft is one of
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I tried running Java (well, actually Scala) on it. Java is officially supported... the support is: Pack your JVM into a .zip, a .cmd script will call a .vbs script to unpack your JVM and then start it. I kept thinking that this must be a qu
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Also, these numbers don't mean much on their own. E.g. L2 Cache is faster than main memory, but that doesn't help you if you don't know how big your L2 Cache is. Same for main memory vs. disc. E.g. I optimized a computer vision algorithm fo
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Sorry, these were rhetorical questions :) I was trying to make the point that these numbers are somewhat arbitrary (i.e. why do I need to know the access speed to disc, when I keep everything in memory on a NUMA system?) and don't apply to
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
What about L3 Cache? What about Memory Access on another NUMA Node? What about SSD? Does a mobile phone programmer need to know the access time for disks? Does an embedded system programmer need to know anything of these numbers? Every prog
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I agree that Google can target alot better IF you have a product that solves a problem people search for. IF. > What researchers discovered was that people bought milkshakes as a breakfast replacement because it was entertaining during
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Flattr is not used to pay for a day spa, or to pay for anything. It is used for small donations, e.g. for podcasts, videos, blog posts etc. The user knowingly sets the money aside for things he could access for free.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
> Starting your posts off with a brief introduction of who you are is often a good idea. IF most of your readers don't know what you are doing. I think this was written for their community (not HN), so most of them know what Flattr is a
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Just out of curiosity: How much Scala are you using at DaWanda? And for what use cases?
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I don't know what exactly you are referring to with high concurrency, but if you mean "high number of tasks to work on in parallel" then a ThreadPool will eliminate the problems you are describing.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I think a lot has been written on why threads, locks etc. are hard to program (= i.e. hard to maintain) and are considered the "assembly of parallel programming". As for efficiency: Threads and Processes are what the OS offers. Any parallel
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
> It seems far better to have the incredible teachers leveraged as far as possible And your assumption is that the potential leverage is quite big. I doubt it: I've seen many students profit a lot from 1 on 1 private lessons - from stud
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I think that an over-polished website for a small business can seem suspicious. E.g. when looking for small restaurants or family owned hotels, an average website with average photos is fine and they are obviously not trying to hide somethi
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
"To build a great A, one has to step back and think about what’s most important, try to come up with the most simple and shortest path to get there, build, analyze what works and why(not), measure, test, rinse, and repeat. Sounds a lot like

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