bprater

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1. 721.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   Agreed. Readability trumps creative styling.
2. 722.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   What tool did he use for watching the data?
3. 723.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   I use an iPhone and don't have these issues.
4. 724.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   OO programming is great fun! Take a real world model and simulate it with some OO code in your favorite language. For instance, model an elevator system in a large apartment complex. Model the buttons, the elevators, the call buttons, the s
5. 725.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   Where is Cringely?!
6. 726.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   Yep, I'm sure Cuban would love to talk about it, but he could get in legal hot-water depending on what he says. (In fact, I'm surprised he said anything.)
7. 727.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   Back in the old days, there was some honor in doing the "right thing". Not just the thing that was most beneficial to self at the cost of everyone else.
8. 728.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   AIR has an encrypted local store you can hide secret information in.
9. 729.▲
   by bprater 18y ago

   He follows up here: http://wdr1.com/blog/2008/06/22/scribd-the-followup/
10. 730.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    If you knew that everyone else had the potential of carrying a concealed weapon, would you be at likely to shoot someone else? In my state, Florida, it's relatively easy to secure the paperwork to carry concealed, and it tends to be a stron
11. 731.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    The current economy offers every company a convenient excuse!
12. 732.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    If we could all agree to use a messaging app that bypasses the traditional SMS app, we could do this ourselves!
13. 733.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    How much lower will this take prices? 10%? 20%? 30%?
14. 734.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    As long as lobbyists exist, this won't happen.
15. 735.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Before jQuery, I hated Javascript. After jQuery, I love playing with Javascript.
16. 736.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    I've got messages like that from Classmates for years. Always wondered if it was a scam or not, but never really liked anyone in school enough to pony up and check!
17. 737.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    I read through all this and am thankful that I've reached a level of experience and wisdom where life is always tempered a bit. Youth rocks, but sometimes it rocks hard enough that you can end up hurting yourself in a very real way.
18. 738.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Pagination exists because it's relatively straightforward to program on the server-side. To do client-side pagination, you need a hacker who is willing to take all the rendering out of his preferred language and using Javascript and Ajax in
19. 739.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Sniff around the Amazon S3/EC2 documentation and you'll find pipelines demonstrating what you want to do, such as: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...
20. 740.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Yep, I use this model, too. Using this model is great, too, because multiple disparate servers can be dealing with the media coming from/heading to S3. You don't get stuck with media files on one box. It's like a giant disconnected filesyst
21. 741.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    There is one constant we can't beat -- the speed of light. Unless servers are physically closer to the people using them, latency will always be an issue.
22. 742.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    It would be silly to replace Jobs for anything less than him going into a coma. Apple's stock would plummet and investors would be pissed. That's the downside to having such a strong, visible leader at the helm.
23. 743.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    I'm not sure I'd have the cajones to strap my iPhone to anything resembling a rocket. But great story, nonetheless!
24. 744.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Getting work as a contractor isn't too awful hard, especially if you are skilled and can hold a meaningful conversation with another human. Go to industry conferences. Shake hands. Let folks know that you are a software developer and love c
25. 745.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Interesting. I was going to recommend taking melatonin to help regulate sleep. I take melatonin (in it's natural form from the drug store) on a nearly nightly basis, so that I can keep a regular schedule. I have symptoms similar to DSPS, bu
26. 746.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Funny how it takes the better part of your life to figure out that you have some kind of condition, huh? Have had the same thing happen to me several times!
27. 747.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    For those curious about why some of these bikes can be so powerful (besides the fact that the bike itself is very light compared to a car), it's because an electric motor delivers nearly 100% of it's maximum torque constantly. What's amazin
28. 748.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    I don't believe in monkeys? At least take the time to elaborate. That's a reddit response, not a y!hacker one.
29. 749.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    Totally disagree but respect your position. Trying to learn the analog side of electronics can take a very long time and requires vast amounts of information. If you go the digital route, most (software) hackers can be creating fairly elabo
30. 750.▲
    by bprater 18y ago

    I've been through the situation. There is no magic sauce, it literally takes years to work through the process. Find people that can support you through the process.