cpt1138

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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   That sounds pretty much the same as a plastic garbage bag. Sounds delightful.
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   If it repels water that well, how is going to be for breathability and moisture coming off the body wearing the treated clothing?
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   Check HN of course.
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{http_code}' http://www.example.com/somepath/version.txt
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   God had nothing to do with it. Pretty sure of that
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   Can't understand why this is not getting upvoted. Nice execution, great idea. How much of a discount are you negotiating. Since this is inherently a one-shot deal (no repeat customers for a one-time show) it probably can't be too steep, but
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   MTMJ, emacs, lots o' memory
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   by cpt1138 15y ago

   No they stream to xbox and the tv just can't stream on both at the same time. This is some new development, didn't used to be an issue.
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    An open letter to NetFlix (or how to treat your customers)

    3 points by cpt1138 15y ago|2 comments
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Coffee, HN, more coffee, Reddit, grapefruit, cereal and then a 20 mile bike ride into work.
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    I keep thinking about this: http://www.miniature-earth.com/ If you have a computer, a roof over your head and enough to eat, you're in the top 3% of the world.
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    eh for what its worth, you kind of amaze me in Office Hours being able to ferret out the nuggets of idea's you've barely heard. That plenty makes up for being on stage.
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    This actually is quite comforting. The vast majority of our universe, totally unseen, unknown and mysterious seems very odd. Totally understand that my comfort has nothing to do with reality, but I certainly am interested in this new hypoth
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    I read that too, with a grain of salt and subsequently did a 'find . -name "*er.java"' just to see. 23 out 148 matched in one of my projects. Cursorily, half of them are nouns and the other half are a combination of Loader, Manager and Hand
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    There was a post recently about starting up "rent a sysadmin." The problem is two-fold. How would you vet them apriori? After a while they could get reputation I guess but you're handing over everything to the sysadmin. The second is that I
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Ok so you listed your competition. So how do you differentiate yourselves?
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    link: http://paperorplasticapp.com/
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Wearing the sysadmin hat has been the hardest part of my startup. I just don't have the smarts or bandwidth to do some of the stuff I know I need. But on the other side I'm super paranoid about security and insider threats. So rent-a-sysadm
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Thank you for posting this. Like Barbara Sher points out about doing what you love, its not running a restaurant with all the food ordering, hiring, firing, pressure, etc. It's the desire to cook for people, so join a soup kitchen. Postpone
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    link: http://www.chatnearme.com/chatnearme/
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    I once had the displeasure of trying to program for a Symbian device. I couldn't believe how difficult it was to just get text to appear on the screen. Like harkening back to Petzold's HelloWorld. I am paraphrasing but the documentation sai
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    My understanding of the "premature" part is the fact that without profiling your application in some way, you have no idea apriori where the bottlenecks are. This "optimization" is premature in that its cost in w/e metric you want (readabil
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    I'd venture that some do and just don't talk about it seeing as its illegal and all.
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    How would you know the difference between the first chart and the third chart a-priori. Say you saw the third chart and mistook it for the first chart? Having looked at 10's of profiles using frameworks and seeing the exact same profiles ac
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Was it determined that the "experiment" was a hoax/viral marketing effort by Starbucks?
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Ive taken issue with 'entrepreneur' being associated with anyone that launches a website regardless of what it does AND frankly any business whose sole business model is advertising. I think its reached a saturation point where its just not
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Sweet implementation.
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    I worked with the Be guys when they were bought by Palm. Never in my career have I experienced such an obsession with solving problems no one has. To me its kind of sad so much obviously raw talent wasted on such frivolous effort.
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    by cpt1138 15y ago

    Yes I do think they are exaggerated. However I would say do it and set yourself a timeframe to re-evaluate, regardless of money.