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by axefrog 15y ago
My argument is more against the sentiment that could be summed up as "meh, just use Linux". What you say is absolutely fair enough, but should Microsoft (or other contributors) overcome the expressed limitations, then a promoted Windows por
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by axefrog 15y ago
It's a shame you feel that way. I understand there is technical limitation due to the blocking nature of one of the subcomponents, but if Microsoft (or some other organization) solved that issue, it sounds like you'd continue mixing open so
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by axefrog 15y ago
Plenty of developers learn a specific platform and are comfortable using that platform, setting it up and know the ins and outs of securing it. Yes, yes of course they should learn the other platform but really if you're trying to get a j
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by axefrog 15y ago
Powershell + msysgit work just fine. It puzzles me why people still keep referring to ye olde command prompt as "the windows command line" when Powershell has actually been around for years now and (while significantly different to bash) is
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by axefrog 15y ago
According to one of the residents in the video, all you need to do to purify meat is to freeze it and then cook it. Doing so will make all the pollutants magically disappear! Who knew?
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by axefrog 15y ago
Not to mention IronJS, Jurassic and Jint...
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by axefrog 15y ago
Maybe PG would like to chime in with some actual figures from the logs? That'd give a pretty accurate guide to where HN readers are coming from.
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by axefrog 15y ago
Bottom line -- if Zynga feels that an employee is not pulling their weight, they should let the employee go for that reason alone. Stock should never enter into the equation and the fact that it has shows that Pincus' motivations are not as
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by axefrog 15y ago
I have the same gripe with the word "revolutionary". It seems every other day I come across some business touting their product as "a revolutionary new... blah blah". Sorry, your product or service isn't revolutionary until you ACTUALLY cre
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by axefrog 15y ago
This is absolutely true. I've worked both solo and in small teams many times and whenever I've worked with others (particularly senior developers) who had decent skills I always learned a lot. When you work by yourself you don't have the be
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by axefrog 15y ago
There's the obvious allure of Silicon Valley given the investor/startup culture there. I suspect the question was probably more focussed around SF than the US in general.
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by axefrog 15y ago
Does PG listen to the StackExchange podcast? There's some great information on there sprinkled throughout the various conversations they have. Jeff Attwood is very passionate about online community management and he and Joel Spolsky get int
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by axefrog 15y ago
If only broadcast media organisations would take this on board. If a movie or an episode of a popular show is released even one day later via convenient streaming media channels than it is through other traditional mediums, it'll be pirated
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by axefrog 15y ago
You know what's cool about Siri? Apple now has a vested interest in improving natural language processing artificial intelligence as fast as it can. I don't think there's ever been a commercial interest in that type of technology at this sc
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by axefrog 15y ago
UK here. PayPal Website Payments Pro via Recurly. I rolled my own PayPal solution previously but bugs messing with recurring payments is way too much of a problem to work through if you can avoid it. Better to leave it to the experts.
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by axefrog 15y ago
People are used to logging into PayPal in order to send money or pay for purchases, so I would think that associating PayPal with a website login is going to be hard for a lot of people to feel comfortable with, particularly because people
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by axefrog 15y ago
He worked up until he barely had a month left. That's passion for you.
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by axefrog 15y ago
Sometimes it seems to me like many people are betting the farm on getting funded without already being in the coveted position of having prior successes which will (mostly) guarantee them their funding. I tend to think it's best to operate
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by axefrog 15y ago
Luxury! In my time, my father would wake me up by cutting me in half, then I'd have to walk forty miles uphill through a blizzard to get to my computer and then I'd have to electrocute myself to turn it on and I'd interface with it using an
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by axefrog 15y ago
I generally like to think that icon use should be handled as part of the CSS, as it's a design element and not part of the document semantics. Putting it in the markup means that if the design is updated, the markup is still stuck with the
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by axefrog 15y ago
Ten years ago called and wants its anti-Microsoft conspiracies back.
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by axefrog 15y ago
"Levelling up" as a developer doesn't rest on checking off a bunch of points on somebody else's list (though many of those points may still be relevant to you on your journey), but rather a combination of a constant need for self-improvemen
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by axefrog 15y ago
About the only ads I find offensive these days are (a) ads that play sound without it being initiated by the user, (b) ads that get in the way of the content and (c) the Kontera-style double underline in-text ads that have an annoying habit
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by axefrog 15y ago
A simple solution I think would be to change the "Spam" button to instead read "I didn't sign up for this". That would be much less open to interpretation based on the user's own personl definition of "spam".
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by axefrog 15y ago
There is nothing wrong with reading sites like Hacker News. Just do it when you need a break. i.e after you've done a whole lot of work. I'm on the couch writing this on my iPad after coming off a 10 hour coding session. Code first, hacker
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by axefrog 15y ago
Great, now I'll be able to still write top notch code when I'm 90!
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by axefrog 15y ago
Agreed, but plain old DDOS against PayPal seems like a great way to get PayPal to upgrade their DDOS defensive measures and not a great way to get them to change their policies. Companies change their policies when their customers become ed
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by axefrog 15y ago
Causing problems for PayPal's service is shortsighted and has a lot of collateral damage. For many small business owners, PayPal is the only viable way to take global payments online. There are a few other payment providers, but their fees
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by axefrog 15y ago
Check out Jint, Jurassic and IronJS; all 3 are JavaScript implementations on the .Net framework. Jurassic compiles to CLR, Jint is interpreted and IronJS runs on the DLR.
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by axefrog 15y ago
Any economics experts around? What would hypothetically happen if all countries lifted all immigration laws and allowed people to come and go wherever they liked?

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