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by devmonk 16y ago
If you are a Libertarian, you should find and write-in your candidates, not stay home. If there is no known candidate, you should write in "Libertarian", if there is a space to do so. And if there is no Libertarian on the ballot, you should
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by devmonk 16y ago
I think it is just incompetence. The more you spend time with government, the more you see that, even though we'd imagine they have things under control, they really don't.
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm excited to hear that but also surprised. When I checked on Chrome OS project page only a few weeks ago, it looked like the project had done very little of public mention since a year ago. And the video on the linked page with the demo i
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by devmonk 16y ago
Couldn't the baggage x-ray and metal detectors that we've been walking through for ages in airports be considered an invasion of privacy also? I think people are getting too upset over this.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Struggling to provide estimates of user adoption and hoping to get realistic numbers from someone else that you could use as a wild guess? Stop wasting time dreaming, get the app out, and get your numbers up. Don't scale until you need to,
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by devmonk 16y ago
A number of people I've talked to that voted for him in the last election have been saying that they're unhappy with the president and Democratically led congress. There is a good chance that many on HN are unhappy also. They might not be v
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by devmonk 16y ago
I totally agree that incentives are great, but sometimes laziness beats incentives. I was told by someone that they paid workers in a 3rd world country by the amount they did, thinking they would do more, but instead they did the same amoun
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Is NASA Covering Up the 100-Year Starship?(foxnews.com)
2 points by devmonk 16y ago|0 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Here is a copy of Kent's response: "Kent Beck, Husband, father, programmer, goat farmer. The needs of a startup before product/market fit are very different than those after. Before, you need the absolute lowest possible latency from idea
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by devmonk 16y ago
If using FF, check out: HTTPS Everywhere ( https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere ) or Force TLS ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12714/ ) For Chrome, note that EFF says: "...There is a Chrome extension called KB SSL Enfo
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by devmonk 16y ago
I know it seems like a lot, but you are lucky it was only $550.
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by devmonk 16y ago
And street view would get ugly if a lot of people and businesses withdraw from it, but I don't think that will happen. Google is probably going to get more requests to have houses removed from street view with that kind of publicity, though
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by devmonk 16y ago
How about OOSI (omnipresent and omnipotent service infrastructure)?
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by devmonk 16y ago
Pretty rad. Here are the specs: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor/features/techspecs/i... The IPS display looks to be similar to the iPad's and is a full touch screen. I doubt it is multi-touch, though. Odds are the glare will be wo
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Ask HN: A cheap netbook for development?
27 points by devmonk 16y ago|53 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Whenever I give anyone my information or know anyone has my information, I accept that it is no longer private. That information can just be the fact that I walked by a camera, or said something near a microphone that was recording, or perh
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by devmonk 16y ago
OP is right about tech/development managers needing to respect estimates but wrong about Captain Kirk. Captain Kirk pushed Scotty because Scotty was an extraordinary man capable of doing much more than he admitted, if the matter was urgent.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Wonder what the OP thinks about pink vs. blue prison walls and about striped vs. orange prisoner uniforms. I think there is some science to colors, and perhaps there is some truth behind the B.S. they were teaching.
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by devmonk 16y ago
'early indications are that a computer component on the fifth launch control center continually tried to communicate with the missiles in the silos when it wasn't supposed to. He compared it to five people with walkie-talkies and one of the
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by devmonk 16y ago
gtk. Not into M$, but wasn't aware of Bizspark available to startups that was noted as a way to get access to Azure: http://www.bizspark.com/Pages/home.aspx And gtk this is the Azure suggestion area: http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.co
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by devmonk 16y ago
This might help: http://searchyc.com/Offer_HN
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by devmonk 16y ago
If you have a conditional or some other piece of code that would act differently for t >= 946684800, then per TDD, you'd need a test for it to be true TDD. If you don't have a conditional or different behavior that would occur with a va
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by devmonk 16y ago
Some points: - True TDD requires 100% test coverage of the code the developer using TDD has written or altered. I've seen the reports from companies or organizations claiming they do TDD that aim at least 60%. That isn't true TDD, in the
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by devmonk 16y ago
This would've been a better giveaway if it were open to all web developers, regardless of company. How in the hell is a large company going to be able to keep multiple developers from applying and the device from going to the "wrong" one?
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by devmonk 16y ago
There is already a Minecraft post on techstartu.ps, so I don't think it is only about tech startups. I don't think splitting is the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY IMO, HN needs to have different category pages for diff
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by devmonk 16y ago
What about... The Original Mac: http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=271 The Xerox Star 8010: http://lowendmac.com/wale/07/the-roots-of-the-mac-os.html
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by devmonk 16y ago
There is nothing on that front page of www.adclays.com that is standing out as a reason for people to contact you back. And you have wierd spacing on the periods there. You have a misspelling in the title of the page: http://www.adclays.co
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How Long Does a Flash Drive Last?(bress.net)
95 points by devmonk 16y ago|18 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
Yes! And there are other HN threads with similar questions: http://searchyc.com/github+resume
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by devmonk 16y ago
Eliminate requests for the http://www.google.com/ and http://www.google.com/firefox for default home page loads, now what is it?

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