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by axod 16y ago
FWIW, I'm 32. I guess you can go chasing girls in night clubs when you're older, but it's way easier to do that stuff when you're young. Similarly it's possible for people to wait until their 40s to have kids, but I'd say it's far easier
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by axod 16y ago
Thanks :) Cool, as long as you can fit in all you want to achieve in life it's all good. I spent a lot of my teens sat in front of a computer writing assembly language, and although infinitely enjoyable and useful to me now, I probably did
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by axod 16y ago
I'd say that you can start companies at any stage of life. You can start a company age 50, and probably have far more chance at success based on your extra knowledge. However, you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes
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by axod 16y ago
It's cool they're using Android now. I had one of the Archos AV300 range devices when they first came out (6 or 7 years ago?), which used their own proprietary OS which was fairly rubbish. I r/e'd most of the hardware, firmware format, encr
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by axod 16y ago
The sheer suckiness of US networks never ceases to amaze. For a supposed 'technology' country it's amazing how backward they are, and just how much they have customers by the balls. And the customers don't seem to mind.
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by axod 16y ago
older school: boot sector viruses which triggered when an infected floppy was left in a machine on bootup. They'd then TSR and infect any other floppys inserted into the machine, as well as any hard disk drives if the machine was an expensi
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by axod 16y ago
Unfortunately I took Music 'A' Level at school (age 16-18). It was pretty much all music theory - history of composers, analyzing music, etc. Pretty much no playing music at all. Boring as hell.
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by axod 16y ago
not really, not everyone plays a musical instrument either :/ Up to you what you enjoy. I don't read novels.
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by axod 16y ago
I'm from the UK. Potty training generally happens at age 2 or 3. To achieve full dry night potty training is usually more like age 3. However, it's pretty common for kids to need a lot more time to go through the night dry.
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by axod 16y ago
Analyzing code and naming patterns is far harder than just writing and reading code. Also it's kinda pointless. If you go up to an improvising musician and tell them how amazing the hemiola cadence they just used was, they'd probably tell y
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by axod 16y ago
I disagree. The companies chasing the hype are bubble companies. The companies providing value, creating profits are using old boring tried and tested unfashionable technology.
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by axod 16y ago
> my sister has successfully resisted the introduction of video games for at least six years - hope she can continue to fight. idk. I bought my son a Nintendo DS when he turned 3 (reward for potty training). I'm really glad I did as he'
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by axod 16y ago
I buy groceries at the same store each week, which has its own loyalty/voucher scheme, as is the norm here at least (UK). Yeah I shop for various things in town, but I can't be bothered with vouchers for them. I guess if you're a very promi
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by axod 16y ago
If there was ever a sign of a bubble, it's this comment. Some local coupon startup thingy bigger than Google? u-huh. People have been saying 'local is gonna be big' for years. I don't see why. Why do they think more money will be spent loca
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by axod 16y ago
Not buying it. I don't spend much money locally. I spend it online.
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by axod 16y ago
It'd be great to kill the hype, unfortunately though it seems to have always been there, it just moves around... Java -> Ruby on rails -> node.js etc etc
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by axod 16y ago
> The only exception is Java. Most languages can compile down to JVM byte code. I'd say the JVM is a pretty quick beast.
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by axod 16y ago
I don't think any stretch of the imagination would say it's unique. Good design choice, but exists many places.
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by axod 16y ago
There's simplifying, and misleading. The only thing node.js does that other frameworks don't, is uses javascript as a language syntax.
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by axod 16y ago
Pretty much any webserver can do that though. Even apache can easily be setup to do that. So it's not really unique to node.js. Definitely a good design decision, but as I say, not unique to node.js.
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by axod 16y ago
I'd get rid of the 'node.js runs everything in parallel' BS unless you can back it up with facts and numbers. It reads like complete rubbish atm. Also I have no idea what you're talking about with 'connections to the OS'. Sounds like more F
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by axod 16y ago
Just saying, when everything seems 'easy' and you're making money without really trying, I've felt low at the points when I've experienced that. I think it's completely natural to feel depressed when life doesn't feel like a challenge. It s
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by axod 16y ago
So much name calling and playground idiocy. Just looking at a sample of the tweets made my head hurt. Surely most of us don't use Tor because 1. It's slow as hell 2. We're not doing anything illegal or trying to get past censorsh
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by axod 16y ago
Surely that's extremely common. If you have every toy you could want, what's left to do? Surely that's why several millionaires go up, go to excess, lose it all etc.
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by axod 16y ago
They're extremely different though. Facebook has a good, proven business model. They kept control - people generally go to facebook.com. However, twitter gave away control to 3rd party clients. Only a tiny number of twitter action comes fro
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by axod 16y ago
I think the twitter hype has long peaked. Could turn into another Digg.
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by axod 16y ago
FWIW, I think XMPP solves problems in a completely horrible way. It's ridiculously over engineered, verbose, needlessly complex, overly extensible to the point of absurdity. It totally makes sense to create a concise, specific protocol to
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by axod 16y ago
XMPP seems like a very bad choice unless you need it for interoperability with other systems.
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by axod 16y ago
advertising rarely causes anyone harm.
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by axod 16y ago
It used to mean 'acquired company, including userbase, products, revenue streams etc'. Now it means 'hired team and shutdown previous company'.

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