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601.
by catch23 17y ago
I'm glad someone else is coming with a solution other than maven. Maven is one complicated beast.
602.
by catch23 17y ago
Great interview, though some of the better comments were embedded in the other live mixergy interview thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003850
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by catch23 17y ago
Well the reason jQuery rose to popularity had nothing to do with its speed. jQuery is a bit of a pseudo-dsl for dealing with dom manipulation. Sure it's a ton faster if you just did it with pure dom, but I think if you considered the deve
604.
by catch23 17y ago
How different is it working there compared to working at a community hackerspace like the Hacker Dojo next door to YC? There's a fair number of startups working out of the Dojo too.
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by catch23 17y ago
why would it be dangerous to shake a phone? it's all solid state materials, it shouldn't cause damage from shaking your phone unless you throw it.
606.
by catch23 17y ago
I thought they were bumping the power spec for usb 3.0?
607.
by catch23 17y ago
isn't the cloud the same as the web? I mean, before the term "cloud computing" where did people store their web mail?
608.
by catch23 17y ago
I'm not so sure about that... seems like the way that the MIT team won was by using an affiliate model. We'll pay you money if you find a balloon. Would that work in a terrorist situation? $2000 for the first terrorist found. Seems like
609.
by catch23 17y ago
FYI, BGI in San Francisco (large institutional investor firm) uses visual basic on their core trading platform (handles all instrument classes). Their visual basic developers there make more than 100k. Their bonuses are big too -- 50% of
610.
by catch23 17y ago
wow jeez, talk about overpriced! I wonder how much amazon takes home?
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by catch23 17y ago
true, but still a bit sleazy for a company to back out of a contest. i wouldn't want to use a company's api if i knew they did this type of stuff. who wants to work for a company that treats their developers as marketing opportunities?
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by catch23 17y ago
Big people have to eat more too, so they spend more on food. Isn't that penalizing people based on their size too? There is a plus side though, if you have a family with small kids, the cost of the flight might only come out to be a 2-pers
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by catch23 17y ago
It's actually a good idea. Want to save $10 on your flight? Use my 5-minute ABS program! Then again, if it were a democracy, this idea probably wouldn't fly because there's more fat people than skinny ones in middle america.
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by catch23 17y ago
I don't think node.js handles anything related to concurrency... what if you wanted to write a multithreaded raytracer in javascript?
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by catch23 17y ago
Probably not a market for us programmer types. But there's a huge segment of the population that just surfs youtube all day long. My dad just likes sitting in front of his computer watching crunchyroll, the only time he uses the keyboard
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by catch23 17y ago
Well the bad part about Sass is that designers won't work with it. Unless you work on a team of 3 and you've got a programmer that does the CSS, there's no problem, but I think most companies that have 8 or 9 people on staff probably has a
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by catch23 17y ago
Hopefully it doesn't cause you to follow spammers like your version 1.0 did. I had to unlink your app's twitter oauth account because I kept getting more and more spam from following the wrong people.
618.
by catch23 17y ago
Pretty cool that you can bump iphone to an android and have it actually work (I tested it). I don't think there are many apps that cross-communicate interactively.
619.
by catch23 17y ago
though couldn't any of the file storage places have the same issue (mosso, s3, etc)?
620.
by catch23 17y ago
cool, I use handbrake for my dvds as well, good to know their stuff keeps updated with the latest encoding tech.
621.
by catch23 17y ago
why webkit and pyqt4? couldn't the same be possible using something simple like selenium-rc?
622.
by catch23 17y ago
There's no such thing as bad press right? Maybe someone was counting on MA to respond with that type of blog post!
623.
by catch23 17y ago
just fire up gmail :-) I think sexy was a bit of sarcasm.
624.
by catch23 17y ago
Well, the article was written in 2007, so maybe there are more now, but then again in 2007 the economy looked strong. So maybe there's less than 6300 now.
625.
by catch23 17y ago
Sounds like Ruby on Snails for some reason...
626.
by catch23 17y ago
why does this keep showing up here? the last posting was flagged and eventually removed...
627.
by catch23 17y ago
so why is your video on the front page twice?
628.
by catch23 17y ago
why is this here twice? flagged. Seems like the user has something against Mark
629.
by catch23 17y ago
Usually the best way to do customer service is to first admit the problem, then solve it. I'm sure not everyone who works at Rackspace is technical, so someone could initiate the email notification 5 minutes into the downtime, maybe that c
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by catch23 17y ago
Yeah the rackspace outage freaked us out a little. Seems like it would be nice if they could notify the customers before the customers discovered the downtime themselves. If Rackspace emailed their customers at the first sign of downtime,

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