BrandonM

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by BrandonM 15y ago
We already live in a golden age. Many people spend their time wishing they had lived in some romanticized past; you seem to take the opposite approach. Each new technology brings with it both novelty/convenience and a nostalgia for the past
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Paying a student loan of $60K over 25 years at 3.5% interest is $300 per month. Paying the medical bills of $10K over 2 years at 0% interest is $415 per month. Paying the credit card bills of $15K over 5 years at 14% interest is $350 per mo
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by BrandonM 15y ago
A 1 liter bottle of coke is about $1.50-2. Some people do have several large screen TVs. Mostly, though, college education is really expensive, minimum wage is comparatively low, medical coverage isn't nationalized, and debt is (or at least
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by BrandonM 15y ago
My scenario was this: I was using my work BlackBerry as my personal phone, but I quit recently. Before quitting, I used barrybackup on Ubuntu to make a backup. I recently got a new Android and did not want to re-enter all my personal contac
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by BrandonM 15y ago
"Shit" seems fine to me
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My first github project: BlackBerry Address Book to CSV(github.com)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
It was your idea. I just rewrote it from my point of view :)
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by BrandonM 15y ago
It's an interesting conundrum that the artist is forced to settle a lawsuit involving a derivative of a photograph from which he made (presumably) little or no money. Meanwhile, he can use both the photograph and the derivative in a medium
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Have any of these customer-generation people actually run a brick-and-mortar business themselves? How does anyone expect a business model to be sustainable in the long term when it relies on companies selling their goods at a quarter of t
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Streamline your hiring process so it's not so expensive. We talk about agile software and fast iteration all the time, but we don't apply it to employees. It shouldn't be so expensive to decrease the level of filtering on incoming resumes,
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I thought jerrya's original comment was reasonable until I got to, "citation-needed.jpg." I was actually "lucky" that he included that bit, making me question the relevance of his entire post. It is not unintelligent or spammy comments that
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Whoosh Someone is stuck in Reddit water. This reply may seem clever and proper from the point of view of someone living in a Reddit culture, but it is rude and pointless in a Hacker News culture. We do not place high stock in pointless pe
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Really, a takedown order? Under what authority?
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I enjoy tipping. There is a vast difference between decent service and excellent service. Given the choice between paying more for my food and having no control over the tip vs. having the ability to tip proportional to my opinion of the se
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I very rarely see Reddit submissions; they generally are for very insightful or interesting comments, often from primary sources.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I agree. My main intention was to inform would-be copy-cats that they shouldn't play fast and loose with copies of their live database. I'm sure (or at least, I hope) that Apple is smarter about sensitive data than that.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
The "production environment" is obviously not a "live production environment"; it's some kind of development environment. And mostly, I made my comment in the hopes that people here wouldn't go, "Oh, Apple tests against a copy of the live d
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> These tests were run against a copy of the live database in a production environment. This is pretty terrible from a security standpoint. A development environment is typically much less secure than the live environment, and for goo
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> Can someone explain what the value a really experienced technologist adds is? (Additionally, can that value be provided by a first employee rather than a cofounder?) I'll take a shot at this. There is a large gap between "good enoug
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by BrandonM 15y ago
That might be true of some people. For someone coming from a small town where everyone told him that he would go on to do amazing, wonderful things, it can be very depressing for him to learn that he is nothing special.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Python doesn't even use quicksort. It uses timsort ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort ), which is a hybrid merge/insertion sort. It's also used to sort arrays in two different versions of Java. In other words, it's one of the fastest-kn
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by BrandonM 15y ago
As gaius said, it's not about being unwilling to interact as a member of the team. It's about respecting people's "flow" and recognizing the cost of interruptions. If I'm in the middle of something tricky, it's most efficient if it has my f
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by BrandonM 15y ago
If you're working on source code, can't you just upload patches (diffs) and apply them on the other end via remote desktop or SSH? Likewise with compiling executables; instead of doing them on your end and uploading the result, could you do
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> Email, text chat, even video chat just ain't the same as having a guy next to you that you can interrupt at a whim to discuss things with. I suspect that the guy who is being interrupted "at a whim" would prefer to be working at hom
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I think the superintendent's letter qualifies as something of a clever hack.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
You seem to be judging people's decisions based on your own value system and dreams as opposed to theirs.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I've heard several horror stories of EA working their developers very hard. Is this studio any different?
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by BrandonM 15y ago
He did show the mean. It looks like you're interested in the median. From a potential startup founder's perspective, the median is pretty important. From YC's perspective, mean is all that really matters (except to the extent that median af
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I don't know if anyone else remembers, but I think it was either Windows 95 or Windows 98 which, after selecting shut down, the eventual result would be a message that said, "It is now safe to turn off your computer." I remember thinking it
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by BrandonM 15y ago
How about the bit where he shows the person deleting his profile?

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