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by chops 15y ago
Yeah, it sounds like a threat written by an angst-ridden 16 year old. I know, because when I was a dumbass 16 year old, I took myself way to seriously and wrote the same kind of pointless drivel.
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by chops 15y ago
Also (unrelated), My favorite quote from the article: "Race conditions are why sane programmers don’t program with threads or, if they do, they use shared-nothing architecture and pass all communication between the threads through a messag
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by chops 15y ago
While reading this article, it reminded me of an odd bug I encountered working with the Nitrogen Web Framework. I was finding that, similar to Patrick, it was losing sessions (though much more consistently), but only in Chrome and only wi
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by chops 15y ago
Freenode: #startups ? Or could always make a #sopa on freenode.
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by chops 15y ago
Yeah, I absolutely recognize the value in that. It's definitely an acquired skill and I can't help but be mildly envious of folks for whom that skill comes naturally. rgraham's phrasing: "each call feels like an approaching disaster" is so
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by chops 15y ago
Yeah, this is an itch I've had for a few years and last year's summer leagues was the straw that slayed the dragon (is that how that phrase goes?). The youth market is definitely something on my radar as well. I've met with a few folks wh
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by chops 15y ago
I'd say things are looking positive. While I haven't yet had a paying customer (didn't start pushing it until this fall, so my first paying customers will start this winter), the response from the folks who own and/or run the leagues has b
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by chops 15y ago
I have to express similar experiences with the blog post. While I have Adwords experience for 5 years now (with my MMO guild hosting system), with my newest offering (Plug: Sports League Management - http://www.bracketpal.com ), I knew tha
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by chops 15y ago
Just contribute to an open source project you find interesting.
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by chops 15y ago
The general principle at work here is the "early-adopter" vs "mainstream". Your early users probably recognized that it was a new product and were willing to take a risk with it, recognizing that it's a small organization in charge and t
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"Always ask 'which is the most beautiful code?'"(erlang.org)
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by chops 15y ago
It's not a false positive. He's hellbanned. Hellbanned users don't know they're hellbanned - their posts appear to them "not dead." If you look at his posting history, all of his posts starting 160 days ago are dead, and it seems to have
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by chops 15y ago
I'm actually working on a novel right now Funny tidbit, the original version of my post was something along the lines of "If you wrote, a book, that snippet would make me want to read it." So yeah, make sure you post to HN, or shoot me a
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by chops 15y ago
Many of these folks will take corporate jobs, or law jobs, and lead lives of reasonably well-compensated misery. None of them will be paid nearly what his lost days and months and years are actually worth; this is felt intangibly, in the b
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by chops 15y ago
(presuming you meant https://stripe.com)* Heh, yep. Total brain fart. I'm not sure about the HTML stuff, but I thought that they do have a js drop-in that should require minimal coding. Don't quote me on that, but at the very least, it's
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by chops 15y ago
until something better comes along Like http://www.swipe.com ?
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by chops 15y ago
This is pretty awesome news. I've been running GlusterFS on my guild hosting system for coming on 4 years or so. While I haven't followed the project terribly closely, hearing RedHat has acquired it is good news for the longevity of the p
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by chops 15y ago
On the other hand, I know about a Free Software clone of a game that used the original graphics and music. Not quite legal, but the game was very old and the right holders obviously didn't care. However, after publishing the project got a
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by chops 15y ago
I like this muchly, buy it does not render the icons on my phone (motorola photon).
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by chops 15y ago
Followup (since I thought I had already posted this and it's too late to edit): Feel free to toss me an email at gumm@sigma-star.com or something. I'm curious how it goes with your project and the cold-calling.
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by chops 15y ago
Cold calling has been surprisingly fruitful. I'm getting about a 70% success rate for setting up an in-person meeting. Granted, all have been in the Milwaukee area, so setting up a meeting is more "personal" than the next logical step, wh
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by chops 15y ago
I'm the solo founder of an MMO guild hosting company (5 years and counting as of this past May), which was doing quite well years ago ($90k+/year), but is now much less busy. The site: http://www.dkpsystem.com . Honestly, I blame the fac
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by chops 15y ago
The whole point of this thread is to share the details. Coming in and saying "oh yeah, I also make a ton of money, but I can't tell you how" doesn't really do anything for the conversation. Even if it's minor details like the fantasy sport
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by chops 15y ago
"I'd say in a given week, I probably only do about 15 minutes of real, actual work ."
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by chops 15y ago
I've love to ride a blimp, but it's hard to forget the imagery of the Hindenburg. Just like Adolf isn't exactly a popular name for kids. I'm reminded of the Archer episode "Skytanic" and the main character's failure to grasp that the blimp
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by chops 15y ago
From what I understand (again, heresay), in the heavy-investment locations like NYC, it was something like over 70% of your income was in the form of a bonus, perhaps more, ie, you might take a $30k salary, but if performance of the company
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by chops 15y ago
From what I understand about the hedge fund market (a friend of mine is the CTO of a hedge fund who worked his way up as a programmer), especially for NYC, is to expect a low salary, and make it up with the end of year bonus. No idea how mu
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PreCentral community raises almost $17k for WebOS Internals(precentral.net)
1 points by chops 15y ago|0 comments
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by chops 15y ago
I like to name my apps like classical pieces: App No. 1 in Erlang App No. 2 in Haskell Variations on a theme by Hasbro
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by chops 15y ago
The company make WiFi routers targeting large companies and software to manage wireless networks with tens of hundreds of users I found this wording a bit odd. Why say "tens of hundreds of users" and not just "thousands of users"? Or is

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