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by atarian 13y ago
>Once, I waited at the station over 8 hours. The train had broken down, and another train was sent to push it to the station. That train broke down too. I was on that train; it was the day before Thanksgiving. It was the worst public tra
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by atarian 13y ago
"Sometimes you got to rob to keep your riches." - Tucco, Breaking Bad
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by atarian 13y ago
Why did you choose Java? I don't have a problem coding in Java, but I thought it was an interesting language choice considering most AI programs I tend to see are written in some derivation of Lisp.
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by atarian 13y ago
Suppose I wanted to create a startup and not have to worry about infringing software patents. What would be a sensible way of going about it? Or would I have to move to a different country?
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Ask HN: Flexible, stable dev work while going to school?
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by atarian 13y ago
You know, some of the things that ended up being super successful (Velcro, shopping carts) are the things that a whole bunch of people initially panned and rejected. I feel pretty confident that this is the case right now. A lot of people h
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by atarian 14y ago
>As an employer, I'd never ever play these games with a prospect. Exactly. Who is going to spend time with someone in-person to swap pieces of paper with salary numbers on them? The employer that the author talked about asked to be cou
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by atarian 14y ago
Thanks, I found this really helpful. As a side note, I had no idea what matrix parameters were or that they even existed before reading this.
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by atarian 14y ago
Like jospehpmay mentioned, it really depends on what you're building. Usually I find good design to be an absolute must when breaking into a crowded space (like social networks, email clients, etc). If you're innovating, I think most people
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by atarian 14y ago
>You won't want to disappoint someone who is depending on you. Believe me, in your case, this will probably make all the difference. Here's another expectation to think about: In ten to twenty years, someone is going to run across this
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by atarian 14y ago
>"Somewhere between dire straits and dead... we wanted flying cars; instead, we got 140 characters." or >"Somewhere between dire straits and dead... we wanted flying cars; instead, we got a global communications service.
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by atarian 14y ago
I was attempting to do something similar, but needed to support IE7 which doesn't support localStorage. You could probably rely on userData as a fallback though.
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by atarian 14y ago
Do you really think the people who are leading this movement care about your job security?
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by atarian 14y ago
I know that's what the OP meant and I agree with what she's saying. I was just translating what http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5273223 was saying to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5273250
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by atarian 14y ago
Is your relationship authentic if you're forcing to put yourself in one before you hit 30?
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Ask: How often do you work on weekends for your startup/company job?
1 points by atarian 14y ago|2 comments
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by atarian 14y ago
If someone were to spray themselves with this and fall into a body of water (pool, lake, ocean) wouldn't they drown? I would imagine that it would be very difficult to swim.
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by atarian 14y ago
>maybe it's for folk who enjoy reading spam? middle-brow dismissal much?
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by atarian 14y ago
Thank you for post, I think you are incredibly brave to disclose such information with your name behind it. I'm always paranoid of a similar thing happening to me. What do you think could have prevented this from happening?
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by atarian 14y ago
I lived in San Diego for about five years before moving to the Bay Area. San Diego is home to a number of big name tech companies such as Qualcomm, Intuit, and Teradata. There are also a lot of defense and biomedical companies as well. I'm
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by atarian 14y ago
How dare he make something that was already possible, more easier to do!
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by atarian 14y ago
>Strong passwords will not be cracked. It's not possible. What qualifies as a "strong password" against such a tool?
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by atarian 14y ago
How is Grooveshark still in business? Weren't they having a lot of issues with copyright?
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by atarian 14y ago
Sweet, glad to see you're still going through with it! I think other than that crazy WebGL game, you guys got the most props from James Gosling.
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by atarian 14y ago
Was this made at the LinkedIn hack day last year? I think I remember seeing this when I was there. EDIT: Yes http://twitter.com/JustBeamIt/status/124645928228495360
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by atarian 14y ago
I'd love to see a PHP Fiddle.
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by atarian 14y ago
According to Steve Jobs, it's a tech company: http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/24...
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by atarian 14y ago
Personally I find it over-designed. Why is there a graph plotting MPG and Regen (what is regen btw)? Why is there only one gear state (I use the dash to see where to shift gears)? Why do I need a wifi icon to tell me whether I have wifi or
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by atarian 14y ago
IIRC, Scott Thompson had an open-door policy as well. I remember because in the leaked email he mentioned it after acknowledging layoffs.
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by atarian 14y ago
You can get still get a link via right-click menu (at least on Mac OSX) for any file in your Dropbox folder (including the ones outside of the Dropbox > Public folder).

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