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lemieux

616 karma · joined October 3, 2011

Software engineer building crazy stuff @ Smooch https://smooch.io

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lemieux··on Divshot opens its public beta
I wonder what will be the real price of this tool. I don't see myself paying 120$ a year for this tool and this is only the beta pricing.
lemieux··on Stripe Button (beta)
I don't think that is what Stripe is meant to do. That button doesn't even charge your customer. It provides only a token that you can use server-side to charge the customer.
lemieux··on Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this
Didn't work on Android with native browser for me.
lemieux··on Seven Days With a Nexus 7
It works in Montreal, Canada.
lemieux··on Google's nifty calculator
graph sin(x)+cos(y) .... 3D plot... awesome!
lemieux··on Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing
It was slow but it appeared at last after 5 tries.
lemieux··on Heroku Toolbelt is also for Linux
I don't know what is new here. I used Heroku toolbelt on Linux a long time ago.
lemieux··on Heroku is down
What is it suppose to do?
lemieux··on Ubuntu Unity 5.8 seriously impresses
I was really not sure about Unity when it came out, but now I'm more than comfortable with it. It feels wrong to use Windows now..
lemieux··on The iPad Is Unbeatable
Same here! Combined with the keyboard dock, the Prime is really awesome. I totally replaced my laptop with that.
lemieux··on JavaScript Library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps
How do you get the right x-y coordinate on a page when its height or width can change (i.e. responsive)?
lemieux··on Please Steal These webOS Features
Why am I under the impression that Android has every single thing that is mentionned in this article? ... Wait... because it does...
lemieux··on On Hiring: How Not to Annoy Developers
I did some pseudo-code to show them how I would do it. They kept telling me to code it. As for the filtering, I did my own implementation with a loop but I guess the ultimate goal of that question was to see if I knew the one-liner..
lemieux··on On Hiring: How Not to Annoy Developers
Last fall, I had an interview where they asked me to reverse a linked-list in python and to filter out every unique items of a list. I failed because I did not remember the API by heart and they tried to impress me with a python one-liner that would do the job for me. Not so sure if the interview was for me or for them... Complete waste of time.
lemieux··on Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
Tell me you can stare at this site more than one minute. Red on black is not the good choice.
lemieux··on Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
His site makes my eyes bleed.
lemieux··on Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
So basicaly, when someone is successful with a product, others should not do the same thing because they were not first? Way to go to stimulate competition and innovation.
lemieux··on Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
You realized that most of the time iPhone are cheaper than Android phones?
lemieux··on Four months with Android (An iOS user's exploration)
I totally agree with you. You can't say this is a rip off... an OS is an OS. Google, or anybody else, would not have much choices when comes to build a new one. Window, apps, app store, etc. are fundamental to a mobile OS. Maybe Apple made the first one to be massively adopted and recognized, but they are not really inovators, they always took something that alreay existed (excepted first computer) and made it a more appealing product for the mass market. Take iPod, iPhone and the iPad for instance. Mp3 player existed before the iPod. They took the concept, built an appealing product from it and sold it to the mass market. Same thing for the iPhone, took the concept of a mobile phone, put it in their iPod OS. Again, same thing for the iPad. Tablets were there. They were unpopular due to a lot of reasons. Apple took the concept, improved it and sold a better product.

Give them credit for make awesome product out of existing ones, but quit saying they invented everything and everything else is a rip off.

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