Murkin

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by Murkin 15y ago
Some studies I have seen, showed that the average newspaper has a 6000-8000 word vocabulary. Add another 2000 to cover technical/domain specific/slang words. And you should have no reason not to be able to communicate freely on day to day
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by Murkin 15y ago
How about instead of having people post emails, someone (who can invite) give us an email where we can ask him in private ? Strange that googlers haven't properly discovered HN yet.. would of been nice to spread some invites to the HN crowd
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by Murkin 15y ago
The strange thing is how some things took a huge leap (3g Internet on a cigarette pack sized computer with GPS) while others are stagnant (my car is, comparatively, barely changed). The trick is to guess what will stay the same and what wil
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by Murkin 15y ago
For all you Lawers and Biz-Dev people who keep crying for a developer to help them do their next 'web hit'. How about taking your skills and trying to find a way to bring media (music/video) to the 6 billion people who do live outside of th
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by Murkin 15y ago
One major area that the author did not cover: Modules. The idea of 'Gems' in Rails(ruby) are exceptionally well engineered. Many powerful tools can be added by simply including a Gem. On the Django side I have found the situation to be muc
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by Murkin 15y ago
That would of been a great idea, alas this is not what they are doing now. They are connecting people who HAVE space with people who.. HAVE space. (just in different locations).
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by Murkin 15y ago
The real reason programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity: They don't demand it. I had the privilege of working with some extremely talented and productive people. Sadly, many of them were making market salary (or
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How to create a 1Tera disk-on-key(superuser.com)
1 points by Murkin 16y ago|0 comments
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by Murkin 16y ago
I hope for a day, when posting links to geographically-limited sites like hulu on international forms, will be considered similar to posting links behind a pay-wall. - Bad form.
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True web security from Javascript injections?(blog.itlater.com)
1 points by Murkin 16y ago|0 comments
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by Murkin 16y ago
10% for the first 4 employees (paid?). Anyone has example of a startup that actually did that ? AFAIK the total employee pool is rarely beyond 15% total. And that number is for a few layers ahead.
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by Murkin 16y ago
Thats almost the same as someone claiming Python is a huge fail - because he didn't know how to configure his editor properly. Alas, poor error messages are a big -
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by Murkin 16y ago
There is a somewhat questionable practise, that has proven very effective (by friends of course). After negotiating like patio suggested, you receive the offer and ask a few days to consider. You then contact back and say that currently the
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by Murkin 16y ago
If you have a device running linux with a usb device controller, you can easily create such a fake. Linux has an implementation for a 'disk-on-key' (mass storage device). /usr/src/linux- */kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c The sam
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by Murkin 16y ago
What they removed is not just meaningless titles but rather all management positions. I, for one, don't want to code my whole life. Something 37signals can't offer me. But there are people who are content to code forever, and I wonder how t
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by Murkin 16y ago
Appears there are two types of people, The 37Signal employees: * Like their field and want to be 'hands-on' * Don't mind staying in the same company for 10X years. The supposed norm: * Prefer to advance to other positions vertically * Like
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by Murkin 16y ago
Anyone care to post a short jist on what this 52min video includes ?
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by Murkin 16y ago
So the new email has much better conversion but alienates a minute percentage of the user base ? And you choose to go back ? Always thought its better to have less great customers than more bad ones. Guess I am more sales oriented that emai
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Why USB transfers slow down in parallel(blog.itlater.com)
2 points by Murkin 16y ago|0 comments
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by Murkin 16y ago
Is there something similar that works with Blueprint (or such) ? This is very _cool_, but Blueprint style col/row instead of absolute positions will be a bit better.
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by Murkin 16y ago
That simple ? 10K/month ? Id love to hear how I can get one of those 10K/month businesses (outside of consulting/programmer-for-hire). People keep making it sound like it super easy to just get such a business going. How about some examples
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by Murkin 16y ago
I have seen this happen three times so far, on small scale (~50 people departments and 150ppl company). It was very successful on all 3. I can see how a huge organization will turn this into a committee that will end in disaster.
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by Murkin 16y ago
The only solution that I have seen working to solve the "Peter Principle" problem, is re-org. Once in a while, parts of the org chart, get re-organized. People moved vertically and horizontally. Carefully moving the "newly incompetent" to a
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by Murkin 16y ago
I designed and built the Tesla coils and there came along "The Hacking Gentleman"
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by Murkin 16y ago
Actually a pretty solid advice and in accordance with the article. Do that. Postpone all the rest for a year.
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by Murkin 16y ago
This article might of sounded a bit less of a "WHAM" if the real quote was put it: Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% of developers currently on the market. But still, valid point
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by Murkin 16y ago
This is the #2 reason I am sorry I didn't grow up during the 60's. A competent programmer could known the whole stack, down to the micro-controller. (Mainly because there wasn't much stack there..) * Free love&drugs is #1
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by Murkin 16y ago
To counter point, 5 years back when our company sold our software product to Nokia, I flew to Finland to talk about architecture and implementation. Ended up giving a lecture to 8 (+2 PMs) Nokia engineers, many of whom asked the most intell
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by Murkin 16y ago
I wonder how that explains the over-complex multi-layer protocol. (Go look up OTG) Or maybe because USB-IF is built of committees made up by (mostly) the least productive people in given large organizations.
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by Murkin 16y ago
I wish I could up-vote you 50 times, as this is the best, by far, response to this pompous article.

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