avstraliitski

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by avstraliitski 15y ago
"CVS should be enough for everyone" ;)
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Firstly, you originally posted this article so I can see that you are biased against cynical dismissal of the company. (I tend to feel that in openness you should have declared that in refuting my skeptical take on Evernote, but now I've do
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I am going to have to stop replying to these comments soon because they're not well thought out. But here's another response. More than text files? Yes, there's some binary file support too. "Ooh" OCR is not hard. They probably just use
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I agree. However, In my worldview, due to life being short one should eventually learn to think past value as presently defined by the US market, because the cracks in that particular form of economic rationalism have grown far too great to
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Why would you replicate something that already exists? That's what Evernote has done, with very minimal spin. It's pretty close to empty marketing crud. A superior solution would be any version control client and regular files. I'm not inti
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
In reality, economics is not about money. If you produce resources or services of value, then the future is rosier because others will trade with you in exchange for access to those resources or services. If you make some piece of software
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Honestly, I've coded loads in perl, and I think the language has a great place in the Unix user's toolkit. I certainly use it for small scripts all the time. However, the 10,000th time I had to type 'man perldsc' because of the ugly hack th
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I disagree strongly with the article's premise. Don't take a job where a language and framework has been chosen that you don't know, where you are still at the point where building basic websites is a 'project'. Why not? Because obviously t
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
+1! The only IT people worth their salt are those who have natural curiosity. Without it, you cannot sustain learning as technology evolves and the industry changes, and your skills will become irrelevant. Incidentally, this is probably why
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
The simple fact is that many people need drugs to deal with day to day living in US society. They are told constantly they should be happy, healthy, beautiful, hard working. The US has less holidays than other western nations. It also has l
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
So you essentially Web2.0 a TODO text file, making s/CRLF/<arbitrary new record type>/ and let some other people view it, maybe ... add timestamping or version control or some other cruft, maybe a couple of mobile platform specific
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
It's almost never the wrong decision to try something new.
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I liked WebOS and was enthused by the launch. I wanted to buy a device. I was in Taiwan, one of the world's consumer electronics centers. There were no devices. FAIL. If you can't even distribute your product, then why bother building it? S
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
This is lame and not HN-worthy because the use cases are almost zero. 0. Premature optimisation is the root of all evil 1. Approximately zero big sites use ruby 2. Of large sites, very few would actually care that much about tiny on-wire me
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
G+'s manageable exposure model may threaten the whole online dating arena when opt-in interest groups (Facebook 'page' replacements, possibly co-branded with Google Groups) with geolocation support and event functionality (possibly co-brand
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I posted the same request. I run a Facebook page for a small special-interest community with a few hundred members. Members can meet each other, share relevant info, and there's some people with powers to moderate the inevitable borderline-
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Don't worry about DECE. I had access to draft technical documentation on it about .. oh .. early 2009. I don't think it's breaking any NDA to discuss the overall aspects of the consortium's goals. Basically what they are trying to do is pro
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I worked on a project recently where they gave $10 million USD to convince a major consumer electronics manufacturer to use a Microsoft software component in an upcoming product. This is apparently standard practice for them. Microsoft is e
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Nice. I am in Kerala right now! The vegetarian food here is amazing :)
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Fundamental truth = no code should ever trust its input. Break this rule never. If you have optimization problems, then don't worry because they're better than security problems and the hardware will likely solve it for you by the time you
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I found one of these and notified the IT manager of the company. It wasn't hard to get them on the phone. Then I got free stuff and many thanks in return, plus warm fuzzies.
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Tablets are good for restaurants, stock taking and other specialised uses. Though they will soon fight the connected TV in the lounge room, right now they are a good option to have about the house if you just want to read or browse and rema
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Communications: Never communicate more than once under the same identity. Do not use a cell phone. Borrow other people's phones, Skype, or use public phones if you need to make or receive a call. Never communicate with anyone whose inbound
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Two words: fuck bureaucracy. This is why I'll never work for a large company.
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I may have a job offer for you, send me your email address (only, the receive inbox is effectively public): avstraliitski@TempEmail.net
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I'm guessing your male. If you were female I'd help you out! Bureaucracy sux. Good luck.
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Furthermore I would add that there is no 'magic deploy to cloud' button that is going to work most of the time for most people. As much as the RoR fans would love to think so :) ./generate code && tweak-slightly && deploy-re
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
I think the rapid adoption of these first generation cloud type services is basically something that introduces massive inefficiencies and unknowns in to any system. Simply put, no SLA - even with cash penalties attached - really means anyt
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
Anyone want to meet sooner? I'm recently freed of employment and trying to figure out what the tech scene's like around here (other than linked to 'the industry'...) May is ages, I might throw the towel in and go travel India or move to SF
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by avstraliitski 15y ago
At age 19 I quit my burgeoning career after a similar realisation in India, where I had been sent to present a satellite surveillance solution to their military. Similar trips followed to other asian governments, R&D on surveillance sys

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