btmorex

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by btmorex 16y ago
http://www.webpagetest.org/ - is very nice
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by btmorex 16y ago
They're talking about the signup process basically. Mint is a terrible product with a fantastic signup process. All those posts about how great it is are from people who signed up, looked around for 5 minutes, then never used it again.
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by btmorex 16y ago
What laws are in place? FDIC doesn't cover theft/fraud.
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by btmorex 16y ago
That's one of the aspects of the HN community that I most dislike. It's like Puritan divine providence, but applied non-religiously to business. X succeeded so he/she must be great. HN sees these people as masters of business: smart, ambiti
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by btmorex 16y ago
You wrote "with the cash value equal to the what that person would have been paid if there was cash in the company". There's no upside there. Why wouldn't he/she just get a job at a normal company and actually get paid over maybe getting pa
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by btmorex 16y ago
What's the benefit for the prospective employee? If the company does well, they would be much better off with equity. If the company does poorly, they aren't going to get paid anyway.
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by btmorex 16y ago
This guys analysis is pretty bad. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I don't think the deal was at all about maintaining good partner relations. I think it was more about trying to hold wages down in the valley. I realize that it was o
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by btmorex 16y ago
Disagree completely. I only have about 50 college credits and have no plans to finish. I've also lived pretty much all over the United States and there really isn't much of a stigma... certainly not from my friends and family. Large compani
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by btmorex 16y ago
Everyone spends more as they make more money. It's pretty much human nature. The difference is that most people keep some bearing on reality and realize that they have it better than almost anyone else in the world (speaking of wealthy Amer
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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, you're betting that government pensions will stay the same (or get better) over the next 20 or so years. That seems to me like a very bad bet to take. California is basically bankrupt from paying government worker pensions (among othe
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by btmorex 16y ago
For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I sort of agree about tactile feedback. People don't miss it much on the iphone. On the other hand, real buttons are still a far, far better interface. I basically don't use the virtual keyboard on my droid. I either use the real keyboard o
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by btmorex 16y ago
Have to ask... what would the motivation be to use anything other than a 2d grid to represent something that, in the real world, is a 2d grid?
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by btmorex 16y ago
The effect on society can be much, much worse than neutral. If it happens enough, all of sudden it's expected and then people will start intentionally delaying service/making it difficult unless you pay them. (for reference, see any country
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by btmorex 16y ago
shrug... you've named a bunch of things that have to do with the tech industry. The whole point I was trying to make is that women are deciding to stay away from engineering before being exposed to any of that. A 17 year old who decides she
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by btmorex 16y ago
I've already skipped a few services that sounded interesting because they used fb connect (I do have a facebook account). So, to answer your question, if enough people are like me, then yes it will kill your startup.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I don't know the answer, but I have to agree that it has nothing to do with silicon valley, venture capitalists, or really the tech industry at all. My introductory freshmen computer science course had about 100 people of which maybe 10 wer
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's weird that your solution is to not make any money at all. Isn't the correct solution pretty easy to implement too? Just make the licensing fee apply only after you've met minimum revenue requirements (like $10000 or something).
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by btmorex 16y ago
As far as I can tell, he isn't notable outside of blogging (I had no idea who he was either). I can understand why his wikipedia page got deleted. On the other hand, I have no problem with wikipedia including pages on famous bloggers who ha
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by btmorex 16y ago
In my opinion, the biggest problem with the google-style interview (other companies do the same thing) is that you can practice and get better at it. In fact, you can probably improve how well you do so much that even a mediocre developer c
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by btmorex 16y ago
The best pro C++ argument is that for all its flaws there's nothing out there that completely replaces it and it's still widely used. My own view: I'm not in love with C++, but it's not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Most of
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by btmorex 16y ago
Maybe because you linked to a document that ranks total state taxes instead of per capita taxes? (which is incredibly misleading regardless of whether or not it was deliberate)
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by btmorex 16y ago
"Secondly, remember that Java programs may actually be faster than C/C++ programs. Programs written in C/C++ require more time and knowledge to performance tune. Writing something in Java (or other high-level language) allows the author to
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by btmorex 16y ago
I always though the biggest problem with slashdot was that the moderation somehow lead to an extremely insular community. There was a prevailing "slashdot" opinion and that was pretty much the only opinion expressed in highly moderated comm
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's been like 45 seconds and it still hasn't loaded so you should probably figure out performance first.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but: "Initialize right away" --> "Make it hard to figure out what your variables are by mixing up code with their declarations." No. Putting all declarations at the top of a function makes it hard to
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's pretty common. For example: http://www.science.psu.edu/premed/premedicinemajor.html
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by btmorex 16y ago
I would say a number of things, but one big one is to simply show that you're the kind of person willing to jump through various hoops to get where you want to be. Actually, I think at the undergraduate level it's even worse (you still lear
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's interesting how everyone is interpreting this data one way. (the startling way) Another way to look at it is height has a certain level of importance and how much money you make almost doesn't matter at all. In other words, it takes so
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by btmorex 16y ago
You can also just hire someone who's smart and willing to learn. I mean web development isn't that hard. I know everyone wants to hire someone who meets every single one of their many requirements (we've all seen the job ads), but realistic

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