DodgyEggplant

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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Much ado about tax collecting. Less ado about how, and on what, big governments spend the tax money.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Congrats. Any recommended resources for experienced django dev on beginning with mobile/REST on django/iOS ?
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
This is a great lesson in writing focused & succinct specs, when one clearly sees what his/her program is going to do.
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Mint.com – a startup story: From eliminate debt to drowning you into more(lendingclub.com)
2 points by DodgyEggplant 12y ago|0 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
It's a great system. However, one should not forget the lost art of doing one thing at a time, for a time.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Everyone willingly liberates the non core parts of it's business. Google should apply these principles to search, support and ad-sense rev share data
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayM68-4EioY#t=925
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
In the "Uber for X" era, we have to be careful to not let the digital services industry evolve into a new kind of lower class servants
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
> the probability for funds like a16z to invest $10M without a bit of research sounds rather low to me Well, it's a probability, and it's greater than zero. It could happen.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
VB was about getting stuff done. Ugly, awkward, convoluted, nowhere near a real programming language. But, the things you could build. Fast. In no time, you had something that worked, installed anywhere, no approvals, no app-stores, no comp
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Is it possible for you, with the HN forum limits, to describe some such interesting major issues with LED (for a physics illiterate)?
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
An amazing choice of something that is used daily, which unlike many Nobel price level physics, everybody can relate to. Generations of physics students will be raised by this particular choice.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
As Benjamin Franklin famously noted, even animals eat animals. The problem is quantity. Never in human history, even modern times, meat was served daily, in mass. For most people, it was an expensive food, affordable once or twice a week. A
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
The most important point in the lecture: Startups are the one area where the traditional gaming of the system will not work. May bring you seed or even series A, but not users. Learning in a college is, after all, gaming a traditional syste
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Everybody should adjust to facts and experience. PG points to an important issue that this is an important period in life where you are old enough to to do things kids can't, yet young enough without the daily responsibilities which w
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Dave Winer (in 2007): “Sometimes developers choose a niche that’s either directly in the path of the vendor, or even worse, on the roadmap of the vendor. In those cases, they don’t really deserve our sympathy.” As usual, it's all writt
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
The question is even bigger: should we trust startups that claim "no evil" when they are small, and quickly forget it when they grow? Here is another example: http://blog.garrytan.com/infanticide-how-anti-competiti
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Also consider international, same thing. Even streaming is not available in many countries. Even if you want to pay - you can't, while the pirated files are one click away.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
That's my point. We are one of those 5 people. Daily. What we consume, eat, how we influence others, the agenda we vote for, is a choice. The bacteria has no such choice, we do. So we can, and should, take a moral stand. Always.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
I would suggest a different context. If someone states that 2+2 = 5, and at the same time he/she states that somebody is bleeding to death nearby, now - than the 2+2=5 is the less important statement, if at all. But the real issue is t
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Correct. When we speak of moral we assume that there are choices, and then you pick one. If there is no choice, there is no moral. The description of what happened to animals and wildlife (especially from the 20th century) as a deterministi
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Sorry for the way I put it. The meaning was "argument without a moral stand". If moral is considered logic, they are false. If moral is not considered automatically as logic, then most of us faced, or will face, a situation where
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
> Either it is by releasing nefarious gazes in the atmosphere, or creating a Primate intelligent enough to rule and consume most of biosphere. This sentence says that consuming the biosphere is natural as gas release. This colours a cho
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
These kind of arguments were used not only for the animals issue, but also among humans, to justify killing by the most monstrous regimes in history. Taking out any moral stand, and classifying these issues as a given "scientific"
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
The effect is not only population, but resources dilution. The same population can consume different amounts of forests, nature areas, or elephants for their ivory [1] [1] http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
We should consider a single plastic toy, bought from Amazon, used for a few months and thrown away: The material and minerals are taken from the ground, factories to produce it, ship to the harbour, overseas, to stores, to the consumer, and
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Kiss metrics, once the “lean” champion, now charges minimum $179/mo(kissmetrics.com)
3 points by DodgyEggplant 12y ago|1 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Awesome, ambitious and inspiring list of the challenges humans need to solve to move forward. One huge issue forgotten though: animals and wild life. They also inhibit our planet and part of our lives, but many quickly disappearing.
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
This analogy completely misses the huge chasm between a physical outlet where you can actually look at people, talk to them and watch their actual behaviour, vs. a web property (usability tests help to close the gap)
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by DodgyEggplant 12y ago
Legally speaking, most terms of service include a term which allows the provider to change everything in the future, without any limitation. Maybe developers are advised to develop for a platform only if the terms of service include some co

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