MCRed

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811.
by MCRed 12y ago
I think it's funny, but not surprising, that you assume it will be easier to grow the team with Go. It's not a more popular or established language, yet. But also, I've recently built a team using Elixir before Elixir was ev
812.
by MCRed 12y ago
Let it fail, let it fail, let it fail! (to the tune of "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!) Supervisor Trees! Exceptions are not much better, but checking the return every time is no fun. And if you crash the whole thing crashes.
813.
by MCRed 12y ago
While go has some nice features-- standalone executables and fast execution are two. I don't really see a compelling reason to switch to it from Elixir/Erlang. Biggest downside seems there's no real easy way to handle errors
814.
by MCRed 12y ago
Many times the silos get flooded. The equipment is pulled out when they are abandoned leaving a lot of half broken stuff (eg: they don't care about stairs but might care about the thing holding them up). I know of one that was used as
815.
by MCRed 12y ago
I just wanted an underground home, and to have the tunnels renovated to be usable. Several miles of tunnel would make great hiking trail and all that. Would probably have just put up a barrier at the silos and set up lights so you could l
816.
by MCRed 12y ago
In the last decade I spent a fair bit of time working on the idea of buying and refurbing Missile site. I researched Atlas, Titan and Nike sites and even joined a list of ex-air force missileers. One thing about those guys who spent years
817.
by MCRed 12y ago
Her comments questions and tone in the first phone call were totally that of a recruiter and not at all those of someone in M&A trying to start talks for an acquisition.
818.
by MCRed 12y ago
There was no $2M. They never made a $2M offer. This wasn't even the people in Google that do acquisitions. This was a hiring manager and a HR recruiter tag teaming the guy and pretending like it was about acquisition in order to get h
819.
by MCRed 12y ago
For a period I was heavily recruited by google. Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job. It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that
820.
by MCRed 12y ago
Since government started subsidizing higher eduction by underwriting student loans, college tuition has risen much faster than inflation, both for private and public schools. At the same time, more and more people have gone to college and t
821.
by MCRed 12y ago
No, the EFF Should not be writing articles full of lies attacking the company that has consistently defended consumer rights and supporting the company that has consistently violated them.
822.
by MCRed 12y ago
The case would be thrown out because the provision says nothing of the kind, and in fact, this statement here by the EFF is defamation and when Apple countersued they'd win. Apple doesn't respond to critics like this, so the EFF k
823.
by MCRed 12y ago
TLDR: Google is doing it too. Thank you for pointing it out.
824.
by MCRed 12y ago
And of course this is hacker news. The hordes of android fans down vote me with no comment, no argument, because it isn't about the facts of reality, it's about ideology and hatred. So, this is a site where, if you don't kowt
825.
by MCRed 12y ago
You can call it DRM but what it really is, is security. Apps are signed, preventing the running of unauthorized code, which keeps malware off the platform. If google really doesn't have this, then it's a shame, but it would expla
826.
by MCRed 12y ago
Sure thing, I'll illustrate point by point. 1. Public Statements, reason for this is that many people have tried to publish various forms of malware, and then when apple rejected the app, they cried fowl and pretended like Apple was be
827.
by MCRed 12y ago
Because they care more about making propaganda, apparently.
828.
by MCRed 12y ago
Its really getting to the point that no matter how many consumers rights Google violates and no matter how many consumers Apple protects, the adherents to this holy war against Apple will never admit things are not as black and white as the
829.
by MCRed 12y ago
Nothing being exposed there, all those terms were well known, and when you cut thru the dishonest spin of the EFF, actually perfectly reasonable and designed to protect consumers.
830.
by MCRed 12y ago
You could totally agree to them. They aren't unreasonable, you're just grandstanding here. And worse, you're being DISHONEST to pretend like suddenly you were shocked-- SHOCKED!-- that Apple prevents malware in the store, and
831.
by MCRed 12y ago
You're not taking crazy pills. The difference is you're not a Linux hacker that switched because it was hip and who never bothered to put 1/10th of the effort into understanding OS X, and now is complaining because it's
832.
by MCRed 12y ago
Yes. They are an american company that is owned by a Japanese company. Just the same as the Apple store in your town, which likely has its own LLC or corporate identity, is a company of your state, owned by a company in California. On the
833.
by MCRed 12y ago
As an norte american who was an expat for many years I agree. IT's amazing how different the perspective is when you get out of the US media bubble. Nobody, not CNN, not Fox, not MSNBC, etc, none of them really are critical of the US
834.
by MCRed 12y ago
Or technology coverage in Wired. And it has been that way since the first issue- it's always been a People Magazine type magazine. When I got my first copy, stumbled on it at a news stand in harvard square on a trip to visit MIT, it w
835.
by MCRed 12y ago
True, and I did spend some time looking. It's kinda sad, though, how our field seems to have devolved in the past 15 years. Startups today are much more corporate, more likely to be run by biz guys without appreciation for software, e
836.
by MCRed 12y ago
Here's the difference: When the market says something, I can react to it and improve immediately. For me the market is large and variety, it's not like a few people make up %80 of the income. Working for a corporation, in the mo
837.
by MCRed 12y ago
I'm in my 40s and have been working for and with startups since my early 20s. I'd rather scrape by doing what I love than make bank and hating my life. Of course, making bank and loving it would be the ideal. But its not like I t
838.
by MCRed 12y ago
Well, 30 years ago there was no global internet full of knowledge and allowing collaboration-- I had to go to the college library. There was also no global internet allowing for an instant global market to be serviced from the middle of now
839.
by MCRed 12y ago
I think to say the economy as a whole suffers is too broad, and falls into the trap of people who really are advocating a consumption oriented society. For instance, you could spend your money constantly hiring more employees to do more wor
840.
by MCRed 12y ago
I'm older than you. Have done this before, spent 6 years "unemployed" traveling the world before I "got a job" that turned out to be a terrible decision. Of course you don't have control over your destiny to t

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