WarTheatre

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by WarTheatre 16y ago
It seems to me that people like the marketing without actually liking the product itself. Are there any sales numbers for Old Spice?
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by WarTheatre 16y ago
"ooc is a modern, self-hosting, object-oriented, functional, high-level, low-level programming language. It strives to be powerful, modular, extensible, portable, yet simple and fast. ooc translates to C99 via rock, our self-hosting compile
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Hacker News and Information Overload
24 points by WarTheatre 17y ago|38 comments
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by WarTheatre 17y ago
Databases and SQL, everyone developer needs to know about them. They are easy to learn, incredibly ubiquitous and actually quite fun to work with. Have them start out simple by downloading MySQL and reading, say, <a href=" http://www.w3
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ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do?
8 points by WarTheatre 17y ago|9 comments
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Web based IT ecosystem on a shoestring?
3 points by WarTheatre 17y ago|0 comments
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
All businesses need to embrace change. But too often people forget that change is a mindset belonging to individual people and that it therefore needs to be constantly re-rooted in the organization to actually stay relevant. If your org
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
If scribd went out of business tomorrow, how long would it take for you to get a solution working? How much would it cost? No, I don't think you're making a mistake, but this is a high risk decision. Personally I would at the very least loo
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
Yes, I think this is an idea that's at least worthwhile experimenting with. Invitation based membership can be quite a powerful mechanism to ensure that HN remains a high-quality and civil place. A place where even the most controversial to
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
The company had actually already chosen Samport, a provider mainly (only?) active on the Scandinavian market. However, Samport fulfills all requirements that I previously described. Actually, if there are any Scandinavian developers/entrepr
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
This is only a problem if there are very strong mechanisms in place that encourage/force people to actively compete for karma so that they don't risk losing their status. For instance, if high karma people are given more exposure or special
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
I'm also cautious about writing about HN on various communities I visit simply because I fear it would attract the wrong crowds, e.g. spammers, trolls and your average eternal septemberists. Right now HN is a great community for startups, I
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
I've setup a hosted payment solution (i.e. the customer is redirected to the provider) for a minor e-commerce so I have some experience on the matter. My recommendation would be to select a provider that: 1. is based in Germany. Having a pr
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
This is not really about perfection - which, after all, is impossible - as it's about creating high quality products, no matter how simple or complex they might be. If the wheel was invented with today's manufacturing mindset, it wouldn't a
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
Uhhhh, yeah, so did I :( I was looking for the options thingy and clicked the triangle. Yeah, obviously wrong.
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
How do you report spam on HN?
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by WarTheatre 18y ago
Experiense indeed! ;)