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by astrec 19y ago
@cammacrae http://twitter.com/cammacrae
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by astrec 19y ago
Obviously intended as a parody, but I think he's inadvertently on to something.
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by astrec 19y ago
"Donna Bogatin's purported distaste for YCombinator is belied, however, by her self-interested appropriation of Paul Graham's essay to pitch a competitive offering."
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by astrec 19y ago
Hmmmm. Pretty sure unix started as an unfunded side project for a couple of lads. From memory, research on transistors began well before Bell Labs had a hand in their development, IBM didn't give us the relational database; the honor belong
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by astrec 19y ago
Young hackers who start companies in cahoots with YC are mentored by old hackers who start companies.
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by astrec 19y ago
Ha! In all seriousness, Ruby doesn't fare any better.
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by astrec 19y ago
Wouldn't it be better stated: "It takes some of the busy work out of building database-driven Web sites."??
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by astrec 19y ago
BS Comp Sci / BA Philosophy - Monash University (Australia)
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by astrec 19y ago
I'm fairly partial to the drone of a tanpura/tambura/tamboura (a bit like a sitar, only fretless). I visited with this swami for for a bit, and he gave me a recording as a background for Japa practice - it's incredibly powerful concentratio
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by astrec 19y ago
My understanding was that what has been tested (and ruled on) in court is whether the code comprises a trade secret, and whether as a trade secret the code should be disclosed. I still don't get what's wrong with the mkI pencil and ballot
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by astrec 19y ago
The mere fact that the source for these machines is not available for public scrutiny is a pretty clear indication that voting machines threaten the democratic process. I wonder if anyone has tried to use FOI laws to gain access to the cod
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by astrec 19y ago
svn here too; plenty of nice clients and trac integration.
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by astrec 19y ago
svn here too; plenty of nice clients and trac integration.
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by astrec 19y ago
Have a look at Erlang. Actually, have a look at functional languages in general as being (mostly) side effect free they often have primitives for parallel processing. Another pretty exciting language you might to look at is F# - presently r
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by astrec 19y ago
Have you read PG's "The Equity Equation" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html )? Please do, it's instructive. The short version, imho, is if you're worth employing as the 4th employee, you're worth more than 1% Good luck whatever you dec
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by astrec 19y ago
It's important to remember that Ruby and Rails are not the same thing. Ruby has a lot of very nice features, but a slow-ish runtime (JRuby & IronRuby might be a different matter). As for a Ruby bubble (as opposed to a Rails bubble), I
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by astrec 19y ago
Instead of a rewrite, how about working constructively to improve the existing code base, including the home cooked framework? As with all startups, it's more important to release something - anything - (well ok, not anything !) than to pr
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by astrec 19y ago
can't go wrong with postfix
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by astrec 19y ago
30 + BSc. (Philos /Comp. Sci.)