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by axod 16y ago
I didn't say there were NO instances of trained employees abusing trust. Obviously there are edge cases everywhere. If I'm going traveling to some strange dangerous place, a trained employee is going to be safer than a random person off t
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by axod 16y ago
spycam in shower? I'd expect chance of prison is nil. Stealing wallet / jewelery / etc? Again, prison is a long shot. I'm by no means saying it happens all the time, but I can see the incentive to use airbnb as a way to lure victims.
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by axod 16y ago
> All tech entrepreneurs are hoping to get coverage from TechCrunch. It is the best way to get early adopters, early traction and recognition. It gives you a sense of pride as well. Once your start-up is covered by TechCrunch, you feel
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by axod 16y ago
They're vetted by the hotel, there's regulation, command structure, security in the hotel, they have an incentive to not do bad things (They'd get fired), they're (hopefully) trained, etc etc Additionally, if the hotel is a big chain, there
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by axod 16y ago
> And that startup time of JVM is orders of magnitude worse than pretty much anything else. This one never ceases to annoy me. The JVM is optimized for LONG RUNNING PROCESSES . It's targeted specifically toward running on servers,
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by axod 16y ago
I live in a safe place. If I'm going traveling (To likely a more dangerous place), I'd be safer staying in some sort of 'official' establishment, such as a hotel. Rather than staying with random people. They could be irritating, unhinged, d
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by axod 16y ago
I'd think it's pretty high as well. Personally, I can't see the appeal apart from price. I'd take a hotel every time. Am I the only one worried about rape/murder/theft with something like this as well? Maybe I am :/
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by axod 16y ago
I don't have time to look for things. That is the service advertising affords me. It tells me about stuff I might be interested in.
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by axod 16y ago
> "The attack is trivial to prevent; just don't allow newlines (and, ideally, active HTML characters) in redirect content." Surely the more correct solution is to escape them properly. eg in the example: Location: javascript: &#
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by axod 16y ago
Anyone can hold down a programming job without being able to program. That's unfortunately one of the main issues in the industry. Most 'professionals' are complete rubbish. You can "teach" anyone to play the piano. But only a small % of th
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by axod 16y ago
> If you are the only person in the world and refuse to collaborate with anyone, then it doesn't really matter what language you use. Yup! And FWIW, I wrote an HTTP parser. And webserver. And DNS server. Amongst other bits and pieces I
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by axod 16y ago
The point is "I never click ads! They're terrible only idiots click them!"... "Ooh an advert for a book <click>"
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by axod 16y ago
Right. And this gets to the heart of the matter. I do not use languages just based on what other people use it for. I completely agree, most people abuse Java using it in stupid ways, writing absolutely ridiculously verbose and complex need
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by axod 16y ago
> Strong push towards threading. Before NIO, there wasn't a way to avoid threads if you wanted to talk to multiple sockets. NIO has solved that for networks, but the whole java framework/idioms push you towards threads where it shouldn'
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by axod 16y ago
It's a myth. People who don't like Java moan on that it's so verbose and the only way to get anything done is by using an IDE. Do people use IDE's to write assembly language? I'd say majority do not. You just learn to organize your code wel
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by axod 16y ago
> I'm surprised that a community of internet entrepreneurs is so disinterested in advertising considering how many of your own sites are dependent on it. An interesting poll would be how many of us generate revenue from ads. HN has trad
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by axod 16y ago
Best way to learn is to do, so depends what hardware they have to play on. I personally went Z80->x86->arm with a few others thrown in. I'd probably suggest most people learn x86 and then arm.
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by axod 16y ago
jdk textmate / jedit / nano ant What else do you need? :/
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by axod 16y ago
I know I'm not an average Java programmer (I hate IDE's, hate patterns for example), but I've never seen anything as an AbstractHammerFactoryInterface. Seems like you're confusing Java the language, with how some people choose to use Java.
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by axod 16y ago
I disagree with all of that, but I doubt my opinion matters here. Hardly ever use globals, never use patterns, I think in code , dynamically... The whole point is to make passing in functions hard. Passing functions everywhere leads to spag
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by axod 16y ago
I would certainly say a lot worse face to face :)
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by axod 16y ago
As someone who programs Java a fair bit, what bad habits do you believe it teaches?
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by axod 16y ago
I'd skip C and learn assembly personally.
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by axod 16y ago
public static void main(String[] a) { System.out.println("Hello world");} Yeah you're right. That's an insane amount of typing which would take any kid hours. I had to muster up all of my patience just to type all that code out. You
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by axod 16y ago
Completely agree. I'll be teaching my kids Java first, if they want to learn programming.
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by axod 16y ago
> "All ads, across the board." Ah so that includes adverts that are just affiliate linkes, or paid links, and all the billions of other things which don't look like adverts? What about all the adverts on HN, like the 37signals "article"
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by axod 16y ago
lol What will that prove? Why not do a poll asking who here likes Justin Bieber?
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by axod 16y ago
Come on. You don't seriously believe those numbers do you? They're from crazyland. Also there are so many types of advertising... Banner advertising is but one. Things go out of fashion, other types of advertising become popular, etc I moni
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by axod 16y ago
This is all fairly naive to be frank. (I've made money from advertising since '99). Ad revenue is increasing year on year. The sky isn't falling. > "The inherent problem with performance based advertising" Again, as someone who has made
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by axod 16y ago
I think the main reason is that he sells books about how to be successful, but his only success is in selling those books. It's a scam. And the 'advice' is ridiculous. Most 'self help gurus' just prey on the stupid.

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