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by ascendant 15y ago
Not every programmer aspires to write enterprise-level software. Some people like to tinker and try new things. This is exactly what he is advocating. Leave it to the sterile corporate developers to immediately assume all programming is on
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by ascendant 15y ago
From the article: "The new port is backward compatible so it can still be used to connect to DisplayPort devices; however, only the new port can be used to connect to Thunderbolt devices."
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by ascendant 15y ago
I have a current gen MBP with a core i7 and I don't really hear the fans that often, and I'm usually running a lot of stuff at once.
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by ascendant 15y ago
The pragmatist in me realizes I don't need a core i7 to edit text files and run unicorn_rails in the background...but the geek in me punched the pragmatist in the face and said "yes you do".
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by ascendant 15y ago
"Cheating" is a meaningless concept once you reach college in my opinion. Either students are learning or they're not. They're (usually) paying money to be there and the only applicable metric is if the skills they acquire while chasing dow
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by ascendant 15y ago
I'm so tired of sensitive people complaining about everything. We all have our problems, being reminded to "call dad" is not a reason to act like Google showed up to your house and kicked your dog.
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by ascendant 15y ago
I'm sure you can come up with more constructive suggestions than just that.
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by ascendant 15y ago
Either the other cofounder starts doing something to justify their continued stake in the venture or you reduce their ownership %. Utterly ruthless but this is business. You're already in a precarious position. Don't carry dead weight.
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by ascendant 15y ago
Ok, we get it. Google is "evil". I'd pay $0.05 for every time someone wants to harp on this and DOESNT.
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by ascendant 15y ago
The second you provide context you start providing clues that can be used to piece together the person allegedly responsible for this, and then once that cat is out of the bag it turns into a full blown he-said, she-said thing with legal ra
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by ascendant 15y ago
Just as a shot in the dark, I imagine there's probably a mountain of legal paperwork to do business overseas that they just didn't want to deal with.
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by ascendant 15y ago
All communities have some degree of self policing. Those that allow any commentary to go by usually end up embroiled in vitriol and snark. HN strives to keep a specific level of intelligence (to varying degrees of success). As was stated el
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by ascendant 15y ago
Hackers can use whatever they feel is the best platform for their hacking. I personally felt sick to my stomach dishing out the cash for a 15" MBP knowing I could get the same hardware for half the price from Dell, however I want to (eventu
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by ascendant 15y ago
You (and Microsoft) do have a point. Moving from Office to Google Docs really isn't that big of a deal for people that read Hacker News. The bulk of the workforces that use Office are not like that: they're button pushers. As a developer I
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by ascendant 15y ago
A degree. No matter what people tell you it will open doors for you. After 10 years in the industry I can tell you it will get you in the door in certain places.
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by ascendant 15y ago
I didn't finish my college degree after I got into programming professionally and I honestly am disappointed I didn't. I can write software but I feel a lot of times I know how things go together the way they do, but not the why. There are
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by ascendant 15y ago
I agree to a point. All of my regular-use apps (Eclipse, Xcode, Textmate, Chrome, Terminal, Echofon) all start up really quickly. I don't really ever find myself sitting around waiting for things on it.
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by ascendant 15y ago
I was seriously entertaining the idea of getting a top-end MBA earlier this year (refurbed for $200 off) but then the new MBP's came out and I couldn't justify a 13 inch screen and a Core 2 duo when for almost the same price I could have th
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by ascendant 15y ago
The company I work for offers a small hosted document management SaaS solution that uses Amazon as the hosted environment, so we've been having issues related to (surprise surprise) EBS.
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by ascendant 15y ago
The US government trampling all over your rights, digital and RL is very much a concern for everyone, hackers included.
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by ascendant 15y ago
> That being said, I agree with most of the issues you raise. Lack of backwards compatibility, rapid changes in APIs and need to build from source make building webapps in Node more complicated than it needs to be. I think Node is on th
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by ascendant 15y ago
I disagree. I view this sort of exercise the same way I view concept cars. These sort of "what if" exercises serve to push the boundaries and show what we can accomplish with this technology. It might also serve to spark an idea in someone
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by ascendant 16y ago
> collection of files which can be distributed by others. You mean like the Anarchist's Cookbook that was passed around on BBS' in the late 80's/early 90's? I was 12 when I first had it emailed to me on AOL in the early 90's. Pretty sur
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by ascendant 16y ago
Yeah, here in the US "top-shelf" is usually used in the context of alcohol. All of the really good stuff is top-shelf (usually literally) and the well stuff is the garbage in plastic bottles. Keep the really good stuff up high and visible w
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by ascendant 16y ago
About 7 years ago Google was the rising star, and there were stories all over the place about them poaching employees from the previous generation of tech companies (ie Microsoft). Now Facebook is the "star" and you hear about Google making
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by ascendant 16y ago
Not entirely on topic, but Igvita constantly puts out some of the best blog posts I see. It is always top-shelf content.
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by ascendant 16y ago
Maybe then a setting you can toggle to display the parent?
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by ascendant 16y ago
I like it, but I think if it is not a top-level comment it should include whatever it is responding to for context. Maybe some sort of subtle (or not subtle) indicator of what is the best comment vs what the context is.
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by ascendant 16y ago
Well, I said they started to. You're right, the Mozilla guys never stopped developing but with Chrome coming out and seemingly running circles around them I definitely felt like they were going the way of the dinosaur. I will readily admi
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by ascendant 16y ago
This guy blames the IT marketing industry. I blame everyone (including myself) that ever handed a management-type a Visio diagram with a cloud graphic representing the Internet.

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