slackerIII

1,692 karma · joined February 28, 2008

slackerIII··on Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure

Will this allow them to increase clock speeds? They mention a 37% perf increase, but I don't know what exactly they mean by that.

slackerIII··on Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project

> Great, and that's all you should've done in this case

I doubt that is what the lawyers said.

slackerIII··on SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

Any idea how many employees Wufoo has? And how many are engineers/designers?

slackerIII··on Fukushima: Radiation Detection Using Artifacts in CCCD Image?

For 1, at least as I hear it used in the tech industry, I think there is some connotation of doing it later. More like defer than give up entirely.

slackerIII··on How do you get over the fear of quitting your job to start a startup?

Just think of the fear as practice for all the times at the startup you'll be terrified that you've wasted N years of your life on something that suddenly looks bleak. Then try to erode it with rationality, or just think about how much fun being successful will be instead.

slackerIII··on Sony v. Hotz Ends with a Whimper, I Mean a Gag Order

I guess the next company he investigates knows what to do now.

slackerIII··on How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings

I think the point is that creating a collision when data + fileSize is hashed is much harder than just creating a collision when hashing data alone. Raymond explains it well: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/19/13493...

slackerIII··on Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million

Do you know how many were engineers/designers?

slackerIII··on Toronto's Pushlife acquired by Google for $25 Million

Do you know how big the team is? I'm curious how much talent $25M buys.

slackerIII··on Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way

The fundamental problem at Microsoft is that building your career is a better (more lucrative) use of your time than building your product. You can be successful there without ever making a successful product. Microsoft acquired my startup and I spent 2 years there wondering what the hell was going on until I came to that realization.

slackerIII··on π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate

I really enjoyed it when my EE professors would simply erase components of a circuit diagram if they didn't matter and they made things complicated. I think that had an impact on my approach to solving problems.

slackerIII··on [dead]

This is the kind of bullshit that makes this day painful -- I wasted my time reading the first part of it.

slackerIII··on $140 adjustable height standing/sitting table

If you are going to try a standing desk, make sure to buy an anti-fatigue mat. It makes a big difference in how much foot pain you'll experience, even if you are standing on carpet + padding.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Yeah, send me an email (see profile) and I'll try to let you know.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Thanks! That was my first lesson in how inspiring constraints can be -- we didn't have the resources to make a good client UI, so we put it on the website instead.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

IMHO, our setup is easier for normal people and our UI is simpler. And, it is totally free -- no "suggested donation" to get your license key.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Yeah, everything was browser based, except for the small app that ran on the desktop. We handled all the queues and the download scheduling on the server though -- no need for the client to open anything.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

No -- we want to focus on making the best music experience possible right now.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Everything looks fine on my end. Shoot me an email (see my profile) and we'll figure it out. YC doesn't hit quite as hard as LifeHacker did last year. :)

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

Not yet -- I am bummed we haven't been able to make it happen yet but it is definitely on the list.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

It did. We are some of the same folks, but a totally different service now.

slackerIII··on Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

If you want a free service to stream your music from your home computer to your work computer/android/iOS device, check out my service: http://www.audiogalaxy.com

Since we don't store the music in the cloud, we don't have any size limits (the current winner has about 530,000 files). Obviously this only works if you leave your home computer on, but we've found that isn't a problem for most folks.

slackerIII··on We're all remote: how we deal with a 100% remote dev team

What do you guys do with tmux? (as opposed to screen)

slackerIII··on Rdio: No REST for the wicked

If you are interested in music related APIs, my company (http://www.audiogalaxy.com) has a draft API that lets you browse and play your music collection remotely. We support mp3, aac, flac, wma, vorbis, and get your playlists out of iTunes.

We haven't publicized the API quite yet, but we would love get feedback from anybody who might be interested in it. Send me an email if you are: twk@audiogalaxy.com

slackerIII··on Tldr summary: deliberate practice for expert performance

So here is a question for my fellow programmers -- how do you practice writing better code deliberately?

slackerIII··on Why does Adobe Reader need so many updates?

I think Chrome is still the winner here. I don't even notice when it upgrades itself.

slackerIII··on Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)

Well, it's not like you are just going to grab the whole thing and bring it back. But I agree, a new source of rare metals would change the pricing. But, platinum is an interesting metal -- engineers could do a lot fun things with it if it wasn't so expensive.

slackerIII··on Space Stasis (Neal Stephenson)

"For example, there are millions of asteroids of different sizes and composition flying throughout space. One category, known as S-type, is composed of iron, magnesium silicates and a variety of other metals, including cobalt and platinum. An average half-kilometer S-type asteroid is worth more than $20 trillion."

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/featured-article/spac...

slackerIII··on Girl Talk and why your company should give away something for free

"How did he do it? By giving away his work for FREE"

That has less to do with it than the fact he is really, really good at what he does.

slackerIII··on Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It

I'll be happy as long as one of them solves the "route this question to the best person to answer it and then motivate them to answer it" problem.

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