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by dkrich 10y ago
So do you roll your own OS? Payment processing system? Web server on your own hardware? Just because you aren't hand-coding it doesn't make it "magic" or "lazy," it makes it efficient. I'm perfectly happy
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by dkrich 10y ago
What's missing for me from this whole discussion is the allowance that both methods can be correct. Use case: you're a solo developer and you need to build a proof of concept web application based on a fairly complex set of requir
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by dkrich 10y ago
How do you suggest your over 40 family man genius programmer could be identified as a genius programmer by someone who does not know him? As a recruiter you may not like this answer, but you'd have to ask him questions that require h
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by dkrich 10y ago
Care to elaborate on what some of these "newest evolutions" are? I studied cs as an undergrad and in grad school and have worked professionally as a software developer for ten years, so I feel qualified to weigh in on this. I can
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by dkrich 10y ago
Yeah, and there's this: There is no huge secret to conversion rate optimization, or consumer experience optimization. It’s quite simple, really: put your consumer’s needs first and you’ll double your online sales... So it's that
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by dkrich 11y ago
The Yahoo numbers posted in the article are a bit misleading because the London game was not available to watch on cable television in the U.S., so you were basically forced to watch it online, which is why Yahoo would pay such a large amou
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by dkrich 11y ago
Completely agree with this. Reading this I got the sense that the author has the impression that struggling to learn new, complex topics and feeling uncomfortable falling behind is a male vs. female thing. It isn't. I struggled greatly
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by dkrich 11y ago
I knew what crash he was referring to and even so, his statement made no sense to me because he didn't really explain what he was saying at all.
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by dkrich 11y ago
What the author specifies in the article all makes sense. There's one important thing missing, however- any evidence to support his argument. I didn't see a single data point that indicates that commercial aircraft are less safe t
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by dkrich 11y ago
Of course this is all a matter of personal preference, but as a former Atlantan, I'm going to disagree. My main gripes with the metro Atlanta area were: -The traffic, which was the worst of any major city I've ever spent time in,
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by dkrich 11y ago
I don't see any valid reasons for him to end up in a supermarket job. Generalize much? You know based on the fact that he "worked in software" that that he had no valid reason to need a "supermarket job"? I hope n
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by dkrich 11y ago
Can we assume then that a hike in the cost of Prime isn't far behind?
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by dkrich 11y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but this is basically the idea behind "exaptation." Something develops through evolution for one reason, but is found to be superior for a different reason. For example, it is widely believed that feathers evol
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by dkrich 11y ago
I'm not an expert on New York's history, but in a general sense, I don't find the clustering of buildings all that surprising. After all, what's the alternative? Highrises built sporadically around the island in isolated
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by dkrich 11y ago
This is basically the market TurboTax and H&R Block are going after. Each taxpayer's circumstances will be different, so it would be impossible to hire a single company to perform blanket tax-dodging maneuvers for an entire class o
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by dkrich 11y ago
Somewhere in Idaho there's a five person dev shop who's really, really worried about making the tool for production companies that have to deliver 30 second radio spots in 40 languages. Sharepoint's bread and butter is in F
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by dkrich 11y ago
I'm no fan, and Sharepoint is super-heavy and requires enterprisey-typical levels of care & feeding, but it's a mature platform You seem to have just agreed with me. The Sharepoint vs. open source argument is a straw-man, si
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by dkrich 11y ago
Yes, it can be souped-up to be as fast, but the frame is still larger and heavier, and has an inferior display. So, my point still stands that most individual buyers would not prefer a 2012 MBP to a new one that ships with SSD and a retina
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The short version of this is that there is a lot of money to be made from enterprises by selling them outdated technology because enterprises are almost always slow to adopt new technology. That's how Dell and Microsoft Sharepoint stil
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As for the Velcro ties, 31,535 readers have purchased a 100-pack on Amazon, which currently run for $4.99. That’s $157,000 in cable ties, which could add $6,300 into Gawker’s coffers, assuming a 4% cut. All told, the 10 best-selling items
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by dkrich 11y ago
I'd say arrogance is expecting success without actual certainty that it will occur. Some people are good enough at what they do that their odds of success are high enough to make them seem trustworthy when they speak confidently. Other
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by dkrich 11y ago
Well to be fair, I don't see anywhere in the page itself indicating that this is a new launch, just the HN title.
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There's a night and day difference between riding the metro on a vacation and on a daily basis during rush hour.
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by dkrich 11y ago
How could you charge your phone and listen to music simultaneously? There could be two lighting ports. After all, there is currently a lighting port and a 3.5mm jack, so why would replacing the jack with a lightning port be out of the que
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by dkrich 11y ago
I think this is a perspective that makes sense for somebody who lives in suburbia. I don't know that it would make sense to do your everyday shopping online if you have to drive to the store for other items or to return things that you
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by dkrich 11y ago
I'm not sure which issue you're referring to. Both FedEx and UPS have a partnership with the USPS to have USPS deliver a large percentage of their parcels for which they pay a fixed rate. They deliver the parcels in bulk to a mail
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by dkrich 11y ago
Exactly. The reason UPS and FedEx ceded last mile mail and package delivery to the USPS is that they weren't interested in dealing with the complex logistics of last mile delivery. Its unpredictable and unprofitable. They are intereste
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I think that's a pretty huge oversimplification. In terms of dollars, SAFM's growth alone is larger than Yelp's gross revenue. Apart from that, those numbers tell nothing about cost- if Yelp's customer acquisition costs
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There's nothing in that comment that implies that the author believes the writer isn't intelligent.
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When I see the stuff posted on Facebook from Buzzfeed, Business Insider, Mashable, etc., I'm reminded of an interview with Steve Jobs from the mid-90's, pulled from another HN thread: A lot of times we think “Why is the televisio

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