duncanwilcox

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Show HN: Sparkle (Mac app), my visual website builder(sparkle.cx)
2 points by duncanwilcox 12y ago|0 comments
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Realistically 1) most people don't use a PIN code, 2) those that do use their birthday MMDD or DDMM. If you think someone where you work/live might have to tools to lift your fingerprint from a beer bottle or spacebar, you probabl
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Do you believe chess Grand Masters exist? They're blind to invalid moves, they don't even see strategically penalizing moves. "10x engineer" sounds like a requirement a recruiter would put in a boring corporate job summa
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
A single good programmer does the job of 5, and you can pay her 2x. That's not magic, it's just a very refined skill set, focus and no communication barrier of multiple people. So depending on the project, small team can be replac
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Counterpoint (old but relevant): http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/04/success-and-farming-vs-mi... The article paints non-startup guys as parasites. That's so needlessly polarizing. The more common definition o
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Clearly stackexchange is showing pro-db bias. I'm a huge fan of unstructured data in filesystems as well, that's how the service behind my prototypesapp.com is built. I also happen to think MySQL-backed websites are the bane of the internet
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Dude. You won't hear that story from VCs, they want a 100x exit, and a kid with his "brilliant" ideas is their best bet at catching media attention.
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Whether something like this ever becomes widespread depends on WebGL becoming popular, which in turn depends on WebGL becoming sufficiently secure. In an interview on the Debug podcast, Don Melton describes hardening WebGL, which involves h
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by duncanwilcox 13y ago
Very Long HN Thread Expected to discuss VSRE to death.
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
This is definitely not the best way to base a marketing campaign on privacy issues. That said consumer products are traditionally ad supported, and regular consumer appear to tolerate it, mostly. Internet advertising is quite unlike TV or p
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
Amen.
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
You have to think of the constraints that informed the original design. There's very little horizontal space on iPhone and iPod touch, 320 points to fit a descriptive label and the control. So labels on the sides don't work because of space
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
The code is, appropriately, in the WTF directory.
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
To which the counterpoint is "awesome UX". You'll never get that with web tech. Sandofsky works at Twitter BTW. You are probably right about most of the problems, though how much of a problem they really are is related to where you place yo
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
http://sandofsky.com/blog/apps-vs-the-web.html http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html Cough.
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by duncanwilcox 14y ago
I think you need to know enough of both to be excellent at one or the other. Design freedom and constraints in software come from what code allows. Code structure is all about the interaction design (and somewhat about visual design as well
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by duncanwilcox 15y ago
The Sandbox makes me sad. Remove exploits of a single poorly written app spreading to the rest of my Mac and taking over make me sadder.
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by duncanwilcox 15y ago
The "regular people" I know who own an Android phone bought it because it was cheaper, and in fact have a sub $150 thing (unlocked, retail). They also are regularly out of pre-paid credit. As a developer I couldn't care less about that kind
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I built the iPhone app prototype sharing tool I needed in a UX gig(prototypesapp.com)
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by duncanwilcox 16y ago
The problem with attracting "developers" with a limited skillset is you're asking for low quality applications. I'm not against the idea, and if this kind of tool attracted people who care deeply about human factors, interaction and graphic
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by duncanwilcox 16y ago
NoSQL might be hype. Let's get specific. Cassandra eliminates the SQL database single point of failure and hard to replace masters via a lose sync, "eventually consistent" protocol. Is there some startup offering a web service that doesn't