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Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Chinese to a monkey."(pshaw.wordpress.com)
83 points by bprater 18y ago|142 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
And why are they anywhere in proximity to each other in case something (a ship?) runs into them? If they aren't in proximity ... hmmm. We talk about redundancy all the time. Many of us are experts in redundancy from the software level all t
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by bprater 18y ago
Quick, hackers: what the algorithm for the maximum amount of money he could earn in 365 days?
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by bprater 18y ago
Yep, Sinatra ain't Rails. But Sinatra is a great way to get closer to the metal that Rails allows you with it's powerful voodoo magic. You can get to know Ruby and still build well-designed MVC style apps.
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by bprater 18y ago
Check some of the marketing videos. Pretty impressive motion graphics.
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by bprater 18y ago
Interesting how they have a continuity program (monthly payments). It'll be interesting to see how they do this. Give away the app and then when you are in-app they ask for your credit card number?
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by bprater 18y ago
Dean Kamen had a really cool water purifier. I wonder if it'll ever hit the streets. And how it competes with this solution.
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by bprater 18y ago
Is there a way to do this anonymously?
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by bprater 18y ago
I'm guessing that's a general recurring theme anytime a new technology arrives. Weren't Kleenexes originally for taking off make-up? It'll be interesting to see where they take this service.
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by bprater 18y ago
I second playing with CodeIgniter first. It's very "liberal" in the way it allows you to set things up, which means you'll be learning PHP and not fighting the framework designer. You aren't constrained by the framework. If you want to do q
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by bprater 18y ago
I'm willing to pay good money for a three-hour video on using Emacs for Rails.
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by bprater 18y ago
It's truly a bummer that 3rd parties can't access the dock connector for data xfer. A card swiper would work great attached to the bottom of the phone.
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by bprater 18y ago
I really like this idea too, just like stars in Gmail. A star would appear next to the article name in the index page (and detail page). One click and a star next to the article. Works like a charm in Gmail. No need to even float stars to t
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by bprater 18y ago
I think this is brilliant. We need more competition on the battery front. We are in 2008 using technology that is basically the same as 1808. Intel is all about serious research.
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by bprater 18y ago
Wow, I'm slow or it took me at least a minute to figure out what the heck your service is doing. I think you may want to play with your slugline: "Tired of uploading your photos to Flickr to share pics with your friends and family? With Clo
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by bprater 18y ago
And computers only need how much RAM? Come now. Let the future folk figure out how to deal with my head on a platter. I'm just happy that I can finally get the internet on my cell phone. Nobody says that future folk will raise the dead in 5
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by bprater 18y ago
Ah, cool, I didn't know up-voting plopped them in that area. The downside is that I like to up-vote some posts, but don't necessary want to follow the on-going conversation.
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by bprater 18y ago
The issue with DIY is that you can easily get black listed by a major ISP. If enough idiots mark your "Welcome to MyService.com" as spam, you are screwed. Once done, nobody at that ISP is going to get your mail. That's the advantage big pla
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Ask YC: How do you follow YC threads you enjoy?
29 points by bprater 18y ago|48 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
Do they have an API that you can inject email into their system with? Edit: It looks like they do have a programmatic API. Next question: can you do single-opt email? And the cost page makes it look like it's free to send out a single email
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by bprater 18y ago
Ah, interesting! If anyone has an article explaining this process, please point it out!
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by bprater 18y ago
Wow, I've never heard that quote! I love it!
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, the "because..." part is missing. Is it because VCs are being conservative right now? Will they be conservative forever? Is it because all business models are going to become failure in this economy? It capitalism dead? And why the
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by bprater 18y ago
Is the site down right now?
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by bprater 18y ago
Whoa. Didn't it just come out? I'm really, really surprised they haven't pushed out an official Mac version. Many techheads on the bleeding edge (and the ones that tend to push new technology) use the Macs.
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by bprater 18y ago
AIR is a wrapper around HTML (or Flash) that add OS-level hooks. It's like a super-charged Javascript. For instance: want to write to the file system? In AIR, Javascript (or Flash) gets an easy way to do this. BTW, for anyone hacking AIR on
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by bprater 18y ago
How does Eye-Fi "know" to send to Evernote? It seems like software would have to be installed on a local computer unless they've jammed a processor into this thing, too.
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by bprater 18y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Yang writes his email without proper capitalization? Does it make employees feel like he's down on their level? (Apparently, they aren't good with capitalization, either?) Curious minds...
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by bprater 18y ago
Want to prove you aren't a tester? Come into my office and slap down a couple hundred pages of well-written and documented code -- and be able to have a well-rounded respectful conversation about the technology involved. You can tick-talk a
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by bprater 18y ago
Who do companies want to hire? They want to hire someone that is amazingly good at something. Someone that is truly passionate. Someone that really gets what they are doing. Many of us are generalists, because we've been doing this gig so l

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