codeglomeration

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by codeglomeration 15y ago
"I secretly chuckle at how I've never once met a Chinese citizen who has felt oppressed, in China." A lot of people fail to realize during these "I've been there and asked around" situations is that there is a fear or reprisal, especially i
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by codeglomeration 15y ago
I don't get the nobleness. If he wanted to donate to charity, why didn't he do so with his own money? He basically took other people's money from an honor system, intended for solely different purpose and decided to donate that. How is tha
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by codeglomeration 15y ago
That's why it's called an honor system. It's based on trust. Not on any guarantee that it can't be circumvented. Of course it can. But if you do, I fail to see how that wouldn't make you an a*hole.
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by codeglomeration 15y ago
Oh man, I've tried numerous time to buy something using Steam and was never able. If you have a card issued in a country and you are traveling abroad, good luck making a purchase. Even if you change the billing address registered with the c
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by codeglomeration 15y ago
This sounds more like social engineering to me. My first thought was this was a hacker who took control of an email address from the security firm, and just tried to exploit the weakest link in order to get plaintext passwords.
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by codeglomeration 15y ago
I think you need to act on this, rather than just keep making promises. I also believe you would have helped already if you really wanted to. You're essentially asking her right now to be a beggar, and putting her into an even more degradin
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by codeglomeration 15y ago
Mark Suster has a more in depth post about hiring based on attitude not aptitude. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/03/17/whom-should-yo...
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
Another problem that Android has is with the availability of the Market. Right now there are not many countries where you can purchase apps. Which is irritating for a lot of users who buy these phones, only to find out that they cannot purc
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
Agree. While it's great to have a demo available if it pops up in a conversation, power pitching can be annoying. Especially if it's done by somebody who exhibits the traits of poor salesmen.
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
It's also about creating new markets. Identifying something along the way and taking your business in a different direction. There are successful businesses today started out as something else, and evolved in time. This continuous change of
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
EU based jobs would be highly appreciated.
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
The point seems to be that it doesn't do all the things that the author wants it to do. And, it doesn't have to. Anybody who knows what his talking about is not saying that computers are dead, and that tablets are the way forward. In the sa
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
Agree. The point was that it's more of a principle not buying the .ly domains rather than something having a real economic impact.
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
I would say buying their oil has more of an influence, rather than owning a .ly domain. The earning for the domains are probably insignificant compared to the oil.
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
I think Joel and Jeff touched on the issues discussed in the article in their podcasts. And Jeff always proclaimed that the purpose of the site is a very pragmatic one. To be a source of help for the specific professional community. Not a p
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
He was referring to the fact that once you've made significant investments in a platform + applications + DRM content, it's not really straightforward to move to another platform, especially because you cannot transfer the content you alrea
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
Maybe it's part of their long term strategy. For now just require validation of fake sounding names. But as soon as you have critical mass, roll out the requirement for everybody to validate their names with valid IDs in order to continue u
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
From the screenshot of the secret page: "Also, we can only give you a Chrome notebook if you live in the United States and ... " I find it such a shame that these types of conditions are so popular for most contests / easter eggs, etc. Are
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
You know you can disable data transfer for roaming right?
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
Multiple contributors does not necessarily mean pair programming.
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
My problem with pair programming is that it doesn't allow me to get in the mental state of "flow". The most productive state at least for me is when, for a period of time, I'm so focused on the job at hand, that I'm not aware of my surround
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
Oh yeah. Cause if you're already using the mouse to navigate it's so fricking hard to click. And the whole graphics with the mouse and hand, just hides away all the content, so I have to go to extremes to be able to reveal the content. And
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
That was my main reason for not picking UK when deciding to work abroad, even though that was my first preference because of the English language. Eventually I ended up moving to the Netherlands, because of their more liberal policies. Your
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
> There is _always_ going to be a better tool for any job, but the criteria for said 'right tool' I think needs to be perfectly spelled out. It is difficult to perfectly spell out and continue innovating at the same time. Just look at W
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
> Some smart people are interested in this stuff, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to transform the industry. I would argue it already has. Now, has it transformed the entire industry? Obviously no. Just like there's no silver bullet, y
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
I don't think they're using peer to peer. From what I know they use local syncing on the client and the content is uploaded via SSL, and stored encrypted on EC2 storage.
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
It will gradually pick up in a few minutes. I've had that before too. Not sure why sometimes it starts up slowly.
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Reasons why large companies on the web are losing ground(wait-till-i.com)
3 points by codeglomeration 16y ago|0 comments
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
I would say that if your area is web development, your best options are the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework, or the Python language and the Django framework. You really can't go wrong with any of those. I come from a .Net back
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by codeglomeration 16y ago
heh. That's pretty much a reference post now, I see.

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