EvanMiller

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   by EvanMiller 9y ago

   I cut my teeth on Perl 5 in the early 2000s, and I've been curious about Perl 6 for a long time. Last year I sat down with Perl 6 for long enough to form opinions on the language's merits, which are many. I'm told many of my
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   by EvanMiller 9y ago

   I recommend the approach described in this article: http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.ht... In this formulation, s_k equals utility. Like the Wilson score formula (and unlike the linked article), the
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   by EvanMiller 9y ago

   This Economist article's a bit chatty and superficial (surprise), but in an age of mass anxiety and digital distraction, I think the goal of the Epicureans is as important as ever: How does one go about producing a calm mind ? It&#x27
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   by EvanMiller 10y ago

   Nice interactive examples but I'm afraid the basic setup here doesn't make sense to me. The "atom" is defined as the average encoding of inputs with the feature ("faces with a smile"), but I'd think the pr
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   by EvanMiller 10y ago

   I'm a fan of this library -- I used it to build Hecate ( https://github.com/evanmiller/hecate ), a terminal hex editor. If you get creative with Unicode box and box-drawing characters, you can build some interesting
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   by EvanMiller 11y ago

   The method described here is simple because it's only looking at the mean of the belief about each item; it uses the prior belief as a way either to sandbag new items or to give them a bump. I tend to advocate methods that take into ac
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   by EvanMiller 12y ago

   This is a compelling little essay. I think the author left out a couple of important points, though. 1. Design systems may be "algorithmic," but they're primarily mathematical, and equations remain stubbornly hard to use. Met
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   by EvanMiller 12y ago

   I really like the analysis of finding versus maximizing product cycles. There are a few aspects of "Moral authority" that I think have been left out. 1. The rank and file know (or at least think) that a professional CEO is less li
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   by EvanMiller 12y ago

   That's a great story! What's the app if I may ask?
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    I received an interesting reply over email which I wanted to share here. With the author's permission I've reproduced it below but blanked out some details: > I (or we as a company) faced pretty similar situation just a few wee
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    There's no desktop section on Flippa.
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Yeah, and it's not just APIs. Some of the changes are much more subtle, e.g. how often a particular event fires. If you're not careful these can destroy performance in baffling ways. If you make an effort to stay on top of all the
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Thanks for advice. The main issue is that I have better traction/reviews/revenue on another app, and the work required to get #2 and #3 on your list would seriously detract from the attention I could give to that other app. There
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Bugs (including, but not limited to Yosemite) and some significant UX issues. One marketing problem I have is that although it's better designed than the competition, in practice it's not quite as intuitive as it looks. I charac
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    This is a good point. However, in this particular case, the software has reached a size where it's more stressful than relaxing for me to think about. My sense is that this psychological function would be better served by a smaller pro
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    I like the idea, but it seems a bit risky and would require a lot of trust. I'd be open to this with someone I trusted, but I don't want someone to take the software as passive income and ride it down without fixing bugs etc.
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Thanks for the advice. I've basically ignored it for the last couple of years, but with the Yosemite changes the bugs are reaching a breaking point. One of my concerns is that the bad reviews are starting to have a "negative halo&
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Thanks. To sell to a larger company I think I'd need to build a small company first with at least a handful of employees. I'm trying to step away from this code if I can to focus on another app, and generally large companies only
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Looks interesting, I will take a look. Thanks for sharing.
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Very cool. Let's talk over email. Home page is in my HN profile, email is on my home page.
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. The code is somewhat complex, though I've tried to isolate the really hairy parts in separate libraries (e.g. OpenCL code). I'm really not sure what the ramp-up time would be, and whether it'd be to
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    You're right, it's a fair amount of money, and I'm lucky to have this problem. Right now I'm doing everything I can to focus on another app. I'm trying to give that app 100% of my time and attention, even if I could
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Thanks. The only Mac-only competition I know of is Cartographica, which is $500 vs $40 for Magic Maps. It's mostly Objective-C. The core map-projection library is C and OpenCL, which I had a lot of fun with! I open-sourced that library
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    Ask HN: Sell, open-source, or abandon a $10k/year Mac app?

    48 points by EvanMiller 12y ago|59 comments
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    For some context, ArrayFire is a product of AccelerEyes, which began life selling a GPU booster for Matlab (a product called Jacket). This and today's .NET announcement shows how hard it is to sell proprietary developer tools. I had co
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    Why You Don't Want To Use The Panini Presses in the Downstairs Cafeteria (bothsidesofthesandwich.com) We all know the downstairs cafeteria is changing fast. Others have discussed the new panini presses and greater variety of pizza rece
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    For anyone in the Chicago area, Leah Hanson is giving a free Julia workshop next weekend (11/15): http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/events/216950712/ Should be a great way to get introduced to the langu
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    The vision here is noble, and I applaud what Chris has done with Light Table, but based on the discussion here, I think the Eve team is setting themselves up for disappointment. 1. By bringing investors on board, and promising Hacker News t
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    by EvanMiller 12y ago

    This looks like a nice product. Software companies have been struggling to make a mass-market database program ever since Lotus 1-2-3 (the "3" was a database), but the spreadsheet remains king, despite the fact that for storing st
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    Return of the Obra Dinn: Audio writeup(forums.tigsource.com)

    1 points by EvanMiller 12y ago|0 comments