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221 karma · joined August 12, 2011

iOS + Mac software at http://astro-hq.com
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gdonelli··on Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free
Is there actually a website to see the digitized art works?
gdonelli··on The Truth We Won't Admit: Drinking Is Healthy
Everything in moderation is good my grandma used to say...
gdonelli··on If you want to start a startup, go work for someone else
According to the author: - 18% success rate for time founders - 20% success rate after that

Implying previous experience almost doesn't matter that much... so just trying 5 times should assure 1 success.

In that view, starting your company as soon as you can would still be the best way to get to your first success faster.

gdonelli··on What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China
nice
gdonelli··on Suicidal Software Developer
Please please find a therapist. Give it a try. If one doesn't feel good move on to the next. It took me 6 attempts when I was depress to find someone I felt good with.

PS The problems you have are not unique to you, life is tough at times. You will come out as a better person in the end

gdonelli··on Computer Science: the 8th Highest Paid College Major
What are the other 7? I can't figure out how to navigate the site from my iPad...
gdonelli··on Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
Respect!
gdonelli··on New DuckDuckGo design
Nice. first thing I tried was to scroll down.. (I was on my Mac). I think because of the cut iPad(?)/Screen... Was it just me?
gdonelli··on Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming
Great work. I just skimmed thru it and only found references to regular GL... Does it talk about GL ES too? thanks for making this available
gdonelli··on Mail Pilot App
Does it use lib MailCore?
gdonelli··on Working from home
Couldn't agree more
gdonelli··on Working from home
My routine is similar, but includes taking a 35min nap everyday. I found that napping has improved my wellbeing and productivity by a factor of 2.
gdonelli··on Golygons and golyhedra
Spoiler alert: Unrelated comment... don't they sound like STDs? :-)
gdonelli··on Lytro Announces New Light Field Camera
the UI I mean, not the bandwidth...
gdonelli··on Lytro Announces New Light Field Camera
is it just me or the website is slow? I have the latest MacBook Pro...
gdonelli··on Results of the GitHub Investigation
Agreed. everything is right rationally, in fact I said it "feels". It feels cold. It lacks human touch, in my opinion of course.
gdonelli··on Results of the GitHub Investigation
It feels unconvincing, and unapologetic.
gdonelli··on Programming for EFI
EFI is fun, you pretty much have to reinvent everything like in 1980. I wrote an entire UI, the Mac OS X login screen, for when your disk is encrypted (so no real OS X can run), just getting the bitmap fonts to display on the screen was weeks of work.
gdonelli··on Memories of Steve
Don has always been such a positive person to be around. Great memories. Thanks for sharing.
gdonelli··on Introducing StandDesk [video]
I hope you guys are successful, I would love a standing desk for $400
gdonelli··on Facebook just broke the mobile authentication dialogs
move fast and break things has its consequences
gdonelli··on Dark spot under cockpit of A-10s
old school technology borrowed from nature!
gdonelli··on Show HN: bloom, a wool blanket inspired by origami
Neat product!
gdonelli··on Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]
No mention on OSX and iOS, is Apple the new Microsoft these days?
gdonelli··on Lifestyle programming
AMEN: “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ― Bob Dylan
gdonelli··on C--
"As of May 2004, only the Pentium back end is as expressive as a C compiler. The Alpha and Mips back ends can run hello, world. We are working on back ends for PowerPC (Mac OS X), ARM, and IA-64. Let us know what other platforms you are interested in."
gdonelli··on Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free
...and the Developer Tools have always been free! I would say OS X is the best dev environment ever!
gdonelli··on f.lux has been updated to a new version
Where is the download link?
gdonelli··on Mac apps are harder than iOS apps
AVFoundation for the records is available for both iOS and Mac OS X
gdonelli··on Mac apps are harder than iOS apps
This guy has been writing Obj-C for 10+ years! woot!
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