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by al1x 13y ago
Everyone knows Java. It's the first programming language taught to every freshman Computer Science undergrad, everywhere in the world. Even most die hard Rubyists know how to write Java. They may hate it, but they know it. Who in the w
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by al1x 13y ago
Do you really need a co-founder? I think co-founders are over-rated. > You need to have someone in the team that can fix a crashed server at 3am, or burn the midnight oil to hit a new feature deadline. Almost every contractor I've
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by al1x 13y ago
There is no reason whatsoever to switch from Java. Ignore this noise.
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by al1x 13y ago
Why not scrape Alexa's list of the top 500? -- http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/News As a side note, not to ruin your party or anything, but over the years a handful of HN users have made news
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by al1x 13y ago
I wouldn't waste a minute of time writing a business plan. If you want to throw together a 1-pager, or a quick "Business Plan" .ppt presentation, sure. Nothing beats product and traction. For the record, I've contacted t
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by al1x 13y ago
I found all of the available JS engines in Selenium to be insufficient for my purposes. None of them handled a wide range of javascript well and would often fail to execute it. I switched to PhantomJS and couldn't be happier.
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by al1x 13y ago
Does anyone want to summarize this novel?
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by al1x 13y ago
TL;DR: Science is sometimes confusing. So is religion. Therefore religion is no less invalid than science. What is this doing here, danso?
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by al1x 13y ago
The source you really want to use for nutrition information is the USDA National Nutrient Database. See http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6359?fg=&man=&lfacet=... and http://ndb.nal.us
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by al1x 13y ago
I'm more curious about how they plan on monetizing "annotating stuff".
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by al1x 13y ago
But that operation had also involved surgery on the girl’s esophagus, which never healed properly. She underwent another operation a month ago to correct the problem and died from complications arising from the second operation, said Dr. Ma
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by al1x 13y ago
NES Game Genie Technical Notes - http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/gamegenie.html
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by al1x 13y ago
Isn't this what Dwolla's currently doing?
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by al1x 13y ago
Atlantis is significant because it's the first market of its kind to support Litecoin, a lesser-known scrypt-based bitcoin alternative.
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by al1x 13y ago
I'd suggest creating a few accounts on elance and odesk and under-bid on as many small projects as you can. I say create a few accounts there because contractors there are limited to the number of bids they can make (per month, I think
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by al1x 13y ago
"One of the first things you learn as an entrepreneur is that on some level, you’re only as good as your pitch." On some level that may be true. I think the primary level though is that you're only as good as your product. Sm
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by al1x 13y ago
The article really doesn't do a good job of answering why was it developed. Why do we need feathercoin? It's a litecoin fork. What improvements does it offer? "4x more coins"? Ok, but how does that add value? I'm
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by al1x 13y ago
Or break down and invest in a VMWare license, and run everything (_everything_) in a virtual machine.
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by al1x 13y ago
Not to mention by the time you burned it it would be well out of date (security patches). If you're going to go that route you'd be better off buying a USB stick with a write-lock (Kanguru sells some).
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BSDCan 2013 FreeBSD Presentation Videos(freebsdnews.net)
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Foc.us, a GoFlow/tDCS alternative(foc.us)
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by al1x 13y ago
2013 Darwin Awards nominee?
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by al1x 13y ago
There are too many open source alternatives for me to consider paying for something like this. Plus, API's are risky to integrate -- you'll never be able to guarantee the 100% uptime that you get from using a library. Libraries don't go dow
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by al1x 13y ago
Tom Lane is a great guy. He saved my tail a few months back on the postgresql mailing list when I was up against a real head-scratcher of a bug. It turned out to be a simple misconfiguration on my part, but he patiently walked me through th
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by al1x 13y ago
> The takeaway, happy or not, is that most companies see no disclosure as the only right disclosure and will punish you beyond reason if you're even connected to something that hurts them a little - even if they're the ones who caused t
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by al1x 13y ago
I think a more rational takeaway would be responsible disclosure. That or avoiding these situation entirely by not meddling where you're not supposed to.
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by al1x 13y ago
Interesting statistics. I can agree with you that maybe a restorative justice-based system would work better. It would be interesting to see how that worked in practice. I've always thought the prison system was too easy and that prisoners
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by al1x 13y ago
Well I'm with you on the restorative justice philosophy. I am a thief. I relentless pirate movies, television shows, and music. I do so because I know my chances of getting caught are next to zero. I'm sure there are some who think that way
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by al1x 13y ago
> Is it really worth the cost of imprisoning people for non-violent crimes? Are you suggesting they should go unpunished? > It doesn't appear to deter people from committing crimes. The suggestion that the threat of imprisonment doe
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by al1x 13y ago
He's not being treated inhumanely, he's being punished for repeatedly trying to skirt the system. You put people in jail who break the rules of society. You put people in isolation who break the rules of the prison system. He can "fight the

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