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by columbo 14y ago
> more polite I know you are correct in 99.9% of all situations as email used to be taken more professionally. ...but I did find this little gem in there, it made me laugh and reminded me on how so little has changed in software/process
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by columbo 14y ago
Absolutely fascinating, I found the collapse emails really telling, this is a long one: http://www.textfiles.com/games/ATARIMAIL/vax84.txt From: KIM::FRANUSIC 23-MAR-1984 15:02 To: @SYS$MAIL:JUNK Subj: THE FUTURE AT ATAR
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by columbo 14y ago
I'm moving in the opposite direction, I've abandoned my smartphone and use a small pay-as-you-go phone as a sort of "pager". Nobody knows the number except family and coworkers. Everyone else gets my global "google voice / straight to voice
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by columbo 14y ago
> The total number of people who signed up for a free trial dropped, but that's only because there are a bunch of people who aren't a good fit for the service This is the real benefit of free/no signup. If you can weed out your customer
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by columbo 14y ago
I know nothing about bitcoin, can someone provide a tldr about why it is (seemingly) so difficult to build a secure site around exchanging these things? I don't get how you can simply "Loose" a few hundred grand without a horse head winding
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by columbo 14y ago
That was... perfect. -> You send us X <- We give you Y Why is it so many api docs fail on this basic level?
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by columbo 14y ago
I agree. I may be an old codger but when I think back on all the 16+ hour days I've worked the vast majority fell into a few categories: 80% Fixing some stupid emergency drop everything issue that was somewhere between the user's keyboard a
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by columbo 14y ago
Are you currently hiring?
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by columbo 14y ago
More posts like these need to go up on HN. I became a developer during the first boom (97) and spent countless all-nighters working on products for companies that simply no longer exist. I remember sleeping at the office, being up for days
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by columbo 14y ago
The gist of the article seems to suggest that you don't go all in with beta software. That advice applies to webservers, languages, operating systems, cellphones, tshirts and cars. Saying 'Nodejs is a toy' seems flamebaitish.
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by columbo 14y ago
-slightly off topic- I really like some of these languages. Clojure is something I've worked with but haven't built a complete product from, but I'd like to make something standalone. I just wish there was a single website devoted to re-cre
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by columbo 14y ago
I'm not a fan of "ask you to leave", it sounds more like someone that is too afraid to face up to the decision they are making. "John, due to reasons X and Y you will no longer be employed with this company." If I had to choose, I'd rather
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by columbo 14y ago
Hrm... never heard of centipede? Not sure what you are looking for but this ( http://www.liketotally80s.com/top-20-80s-arcade-games.html ) has a good list...
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by columbo 14y ago
> Rather it's simply: hello world Wouldn't that also apply to jsp, cfm, gsp, jsf and asp?
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by columbo 14y ago
Hrm... an online application perhaps like autocad where you have hundreds/thousands of bits of information for every user's "file"? Instead of saving all that data in xml/json you could keep it in a database. This would also allow you to re
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by columbo 14y ago
I do too. I'm just saying the smaller the project the more the benefits tend to lean towards personal preference over empirical evidence.
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by columbo 14y ago
My opinion in the svn vs git debate: Unless you are working across multiple groups with developers in different time zones and a choppy set of releases you'll see almost no benefit from git. However, if you are in that situation the benefit
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by columbo 14y ago
Why do you need to specify the initial number of rows/cols? Or is that optional?
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by columbo 14y ago
def user = User.findById(25) return user.getLocation().getAddress().getState() What happened during that execution? Was that 1 query or 50? Would it have been better to write a specific sql statement? To me, this describes
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by columbo 14y ago
It might be best to reverse the question: Who is your target market and why should they find it addictive?
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by columbo 14y ago
Hrm... if you don't trust your core to that extent... then why use it?
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by columbo 14y ago
Judging by the credits ( http://www.joehallock.com/edu/COM498/credits.html ) I think this was created in 2003.
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by columbo 14y ago
I disagree with (A). According to the php docs floatval('122.34343The') == 122.34343 floatval('BLARTLBARTFAST') == 0 Why should it take the input and choose a different response than what floatval would respond with? If floatval returns nul