warwick

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by warwick 15y ago
As a writer, were there any benefits to you to grant that permission? Or was it more along the lines of there being no downside and it's nice to be asked?
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by warwick 15y ago
You tell your boss something along the lines of "I've never worked with Perl before, and I don't think I'm going to be able to complete the project with the time we've budgeted, since it can take some time getting up to speed with a new lan
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by warwick 15y ago
Five years ago I was at HOPE Number Six and Michael Hart was the Saturday keynote speaker, giving a talk on his work at Project Gutenberg. I didn't know very much about it, but I recognized the name. There were Project Gutenberg discs flo
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by warwick 15y ago
I really don't like the bias in the headline. It seems to imply that coding isn't something you'd do after you got growth. Why not "How Coding Helps Y Combinator Manage Growth" or "Paul Graham Keeps Coding to Help Y Combinator Keep Growi
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by warwick 15y ago
I took an awful lot of graduate level courses as an undergrad. Most of the time there was some sort of additional vetting where the prof had to sign off on your involvement in advance. You don't have to get very far in the undergrad before
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Ask HN: Out of runway and ready to sell my Mac apps. Interested?
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by warwick 15y ago
That's superb then. My big concern for any project like this is that maintenance and upkeep costs end up outstripping the initial layout by a considerable amount.
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by warwick 15y ago
Are you planning on maintaining these? In my city the route timings change depending on school schedules and time of year, so the transit schedule's that are posted at stops have to be swapped out three or four times a year.
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by warwick 15y ago
A minor bug: One of your tabs is labelled IFrame, and seems to link to the contents of your iFrame.
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by warwick 15y ago
3.2 for my app that needs interface builder plug-ins, and 4.whatever-the-latest-is for my other stuff. My general rule with all things Apple is to keep at the forefront of what's available, unless you have a very good reason not to. Apple
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by warwick 15y ago
You're thinking of trademarks, not copyright. If it has potential to cause customer confusion, it might be a trademark violation. A company is required to defend their trademarked terms, otherwise they may become generic terms. (Standard
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by warwick 15y ago
If you think the background and the font together are going to make a change, then by all means, conduct a test and see if whichever metric you're working with goes up. I'm in favour of isolating changes as much as possible, but if you bel
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by warwick 15y ago
Asking if design makes a difference is kind of a silly question. We know it makes a difference. Using A/B testing, or even just by changing one element at a time, we can measure improvements in things like conversion ratios or download ra
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by warwick 15y ago
He mentions they're using Eclipse. The store is written with Java/WebObjects.
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by warwick 15y ago
Dick isn't the source of most of the ideas discussed in the article. Minority Report is a pretty short read, and well worth the hour or two it takes. Social Advertising: There isn't any advertising. The only media that's referenced is the
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by warwick 15y ago
I wrote an OS X app to do this sort of thing a few years ago. At the time, I just used MAC addresses of routers to determine location. I wish I could write it for the iPhone, but it's above and beyond what's allowed by the rules. The holy
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by warwick 15y ago
Some features of HN are karma limited. You need to have several hundred points to down vote.
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by warwick 15y ago
Getting into college doesn't limit you. Apply to some places you'd like to work anyway. There's no cost associated with seeing if startups you'd like to work for show any interest in you. That college admission will still be there if the
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by warwick 15y ago
Have you contacted any startups about jobs? If nobody shows any interests in your level of experience, then you don't have a dilemma, just go to school [Edit] This isn't to say that if you don't have an offer firmly in hand, go to school,
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by warwick 15y ago
Could you elaborate on what's wrong with the CEGEP system? If you're planning on going to University, it doesn't add any additional time to the end of your degree (since you don't do grade 12 and you only do a 3 year degree if you've done
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by warwick 15y ago
I wonder if they considered how to isolate the test variables. They seem to be testing if a Ouija board works, and if life is better than death.
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by warwick 15y ago
The idea of kids using their cellphones in class brought an article that Frasier Speirs wrote back in October to mind: http://speirs.org/blog/2010/10/9/run-what-ya-brung.html He argues that there are a number of assumptions that come into
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by warwick 15y ago
Upvoted back to one point. Whether it's right or wrong, someone downvoted it because they disagreed with the premise. HN used to be full of stubborn individualists arguing amongst themselves with excellent writing, interesting experience,
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by warwick 16y ago
They likely take lunch.
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by warwick 16y ago
My concern with overlay scrollbars is that they don't seem to offer a clear affordance until the user has already taken steps to interact with them. The nub that fades in has the same feel to it as those flash websites that require you to
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by warwick 16y ago
An awful lot of systems are still setup to use carbon copies as the method for generating the 'official' copy of a document. If you want to print onto a form that uses carbon paper, you have to use an impact printer. A market need still ex
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by warwick 16y ago
Can we just get back to reading and discussing articles. I don't know if HN has jumped the shark or not, but I firmly believe that these days where we do too much navel gazing helps drag down the quality. Also, I noticed that the account t
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by warwick 16y ago
It's likely those folks weren't into cannibalism either before it was required to survive.
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by warwick 16y ago
He's getting credit. Some masters programs (like Engineering) require certain undergrad prerequisite classes before he can do the actual masters. OCW won't work because he needs these classes on his transcript.
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by warwick 16y ago
I have one free app. It's a loss leader for another app. I know that the popular wisdom is that if you want to get your name out you should blog a lot, but my specialty is creating software, and it gets my name out to my potential custome

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