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by boris 18y ago
Wouldn't the same argument hold true if you substitute "marriage" with "web apps"?
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by boris 18y ago
In the end what counts is the result. Nobody cares what language you used if your software is great. Similarly, nobody cares about your language or the software, if it is a piece of crap. Every time there is a post about D on Slashdot, Redd
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by boris 18y ago
First it was that Android root shell fiasco. Now this. I wonder if this whole "holier than thou" attitude towards Google will finally start to subside.
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by boris 18y ago
They can replace you if you are just a coder. If, on the other hand, you work on an important product, acquire domain-specific knowledge, and know the code inside-out, then replacing you with someone else will be a lot harder. Think, for ex
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by boris 18y ago
You mean, it is ok for a publisher to release poor quality books now and again as long as the average stays good enough? I feel that people with this kind of approach are not worthy of giving this kind of advice. So I didn't read the post i
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by boris 18y ago
I own a few. I also own some from Addison Wesley, Prentice Hall, Morgan Kaufmann, etc. For example, "XML Schema" by van der Vlist is just incomprehensible (I don't understand how it got passed the editor). Plus the author is by no means an
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by boris 18y ago
Based on the quality of books O'Reilly publishes, it's hard to view him as worthy of giving this advice.
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Fun and dull moments of making development tools(codesynthesis.com)
1 points by boris 18y ago|0 comments
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by boris 18y ago
Yes, you are correct. Though in mutt you can hit 'n'/'p' while reading a message in a thread and you will move to the next/previous email in the threading order. I would imagine one would need to use scrolling in gmail for any substantial t
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by boris 18y ago
Mutt has email threads. It had them for as long as I've been using it (6+ years). It also has regex search and selection, besides other things...
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by boris 18y ago
The question is whether Microsoft management can figure out who is dead wood. Based on their recent product fiascoes, I am not sure they can. It can also be that management itself is dead wood.
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by boris 18y ago
Based on the fact that prices are still declining, I would guess those are forced sales. A good sign is when prices stop falling.
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by boris 18y ago
We ( http://www.codesynthesis.com ) are looking for great C++ hackers in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information on what we offer and who we are looking for, see http://lists.clug.org.za/pipermail/clug-work/2008-July/00062...
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by boris 18y ago
"It is also easier to get investment for an idea that is in a “hot” market such as e-commerce during the dot-com boom and social networks more recently. VCs also expect their companies to expand rapidly. This makes a VC-funded company burn
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Why develop new products during a recession(codesynthesis.com)
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by boris 18y ago
I try to do things that I enjoy. Something that I would do (or would like to do) even if it didn't have any monetary payoff. If you can find a project that you would do, rather than read the net, and it happens to pay the bills then here is
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by boris 18y ago
You seem to enjoy the prospect of the payoff but the journey is hard. You need to enjoy the journey in order not to get distracted.
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by boris 18y ago
Work on something more interesting than reading the net.
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by boris 18y ago
No, I don't think so. The income is not produced by merely hosting the app in the US. Instead, you most likely develop and maintain it, provide customer support, etc., all outside of the US.
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by boris 18y ago
If I hire myself as a contractor in my home country, do I have to pay taxes on these incomes to US gov? If I get paid from US-based company personally (not through company), do I have to pay taxes to US gov on these incomes? You don't pay
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by boris 18y ago
It was a hidden test: we only hire people that spot this. Joking, of course.
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by boris 18y ago
What about a "great hacker"? Here is a position we advertised in a local LUG. While writing it up I kept asking myself if I would reply to an email like this. Feel free to take it apart: http://lists.clug.org.za/pipermail/clug-work/2008-Ju
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by boris 18y ago
Another problem with this is that to view the document you need Flash and if you want to download the PDF version then you need to have an account with scribd and login. I am also wondering what's the reason behind this. It is not like YC h
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by boris 18y ago
It's been a little over three years now however I had some relevant background in the problem area from my previous job. Right now 2 people (founders) are working on it though we are planning to hire some more soon (if you are a C++ hacker
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by boris 18y ago
It is not a C++ compiler, it is a compiler written in C++. It compiles XML Schema to C++ but other target languages are in the works. As for who would pay for this, manually parsing any substantial XML vocabulary using DOM or SAX is a major
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by boris 18y ago
We do a compiler in C++. Probably as far from Web 2.0 as you can get (in this industry).
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by boris 18y ago
Steve is talking about the "link-time inlining" (see the original quote) which is not supported by any mainstream C compiler that I know. Inlining in the same translation unit is possible though its application is too limited to explain why
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by boris 18y ago
I stopped reading after this: "C is really fast, because among other things, the compiler can inline function calls. It's gonna use some heuristics, so it doesn't get too much code bloat, but if it sees a function call, it can inline it: it
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by boris 18y ago
"Had Xobni taken $1 million instead of 4, they’d all be buying beach houses right now. On the other hand, Microsoft might come back and offer the $40 or $50 million it would take to make the VCs agree (I think it would be a good idea for th
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by boris 19y ago
And that's why your startup needs an enemy. Otherwise you will have to be the one everyone is fearful of.

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