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cncool··on I built a tool to hack Letterpress
Game Center should allow developers to write server side code, not unlike Cloud Code by Parse.
cncool··on Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress
I have created an iOS app already whereby the user can import a screenshot of the game (in any orientation or theme), and it will give you the best results. It should be in review soon.
cncool··on Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City
He didn't say he couldn't find "food, culture, and intelligent, diverse population" there.
cncool··on A day in the life of a CEO
No source. What he said is just broscience. You will feel tired and groggy if you wake up from an alarm in the middle of a sleep cycle regardless of number of hours slept.
cncool··on Show HN: A different kind of coloring book for kids (Android). Simple and clean.
Why no iOS?
cncool··on Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
But downloading is not stealing.
cncool··on Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
It's clearly not stealing.
cncool··on Show HN: Gistlicious, hot or not for code
ValueError ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

The debugger caught an exception in your WSGI application. You can now look at the traceback which led to the error. To switch between the interactive traceback and the plaintext one, you can click on the "Traceback" headline. From the text traceback you can also create a paste of it. For code execution mouse-over the frame you want to debug and click on the console icon on the right side.

You can execute arbitrary Python code in the stack frames and there are some extra helpers available for introspection:

dump() shows all variables in the frame dump(obj) dumps all that's known about the object

cncool··on This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like
I don't know I you're being intellectually dishonest or are bad at reading comprehension, but the author said "many developers," not "all developers."
cncool··on Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes
They did not do the right thing. They only paid because they got caught, and paying was probably in their best interests financially going forward.
cncool··on I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
"Of course, 2/3 of 10k is still > 0."

Depends on the language.

cncool··on Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...
They are shutting it down for no money on July 1st. There is no immediate capital in that situation.
cncool··on Show HN: Weekend Project - SlideWriter for iPad
I made an similar implementation of this here: https://github.com/cncool/SlideSelection

It uses two fingers to select text because I couldn't figure out how to detect when the shift key was pressed.

cncool··on Facebook's numbers
1. <0.5% rounds down
cncool··on Hiring the Smartest People in the World
"create an array length n of booleans"

This could have a space complexity of O(n), not O(1).

cncool··on Hiring the Smartest People in the World
1. How is this not linear time?
cncool··on Hiring the Smartest People in the World
For question 3, it clearly states two things:

"the total amount of gas available at the stations and in the car is exactly enough for the car to drive around the road once"

and

"the car completes a full circle without running out of gas"

Given the first condition, in your solution, at the exact moment the car completes the drive around the track, it runs out of gas. Therefore, it is impossible to complete it without running out of gas.

cncool··on I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming language
In 60 years, the best compiler writers will be computers. The singularity is near.
cncool··on The Crisis in American Walking
"Simply taking walks I can peruse* downtown"

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

cncool··on One-Third of O2 Staff say They are More Productive Working From Home
Sprinters reach maximum speed at about 60 meters of the 100 meter dash -- nowhere close to the start.
cncool··on Poll: How long have you been programming?
30+ year programmers need to apply thrice.
cncool··on The Largest Number Ever - Riemann Hypothesis
Graham's Number is larger (way larger).
cncool··on [dead]
10.5
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