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by dleskov 12y ago
Most of the Java security issues only affected applets, not standalone apps. And the larger and the more sophisticated a standalone app is, the less desirable is running it on the system-default JRE.
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by dleskov 12y ago
When buying a cup of coffee, I am normally pretty sure that I am going to get a cup of coffee that I will enjoy to a certain extent. When buying a mobile app, I may be buying myself a waste of time. Which is double loss. Most, if not all, o
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by dleskov 13y ago
Out of all those graduates, the number of which we are told is 2-3x the number of open positions, are really qualified to fill in those positions? Passionate about their field of study? Intended to get a job in that field in the first place
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by dleskov 13y ago
I am afraid that the bias of the "1000+ club" will silence many comment authors whose views and opinions are substantially different. The result is you will have a smaller community, the member of which are in agreement with each
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by dleskov 13y ago
I second the first and last statements. As far as compensation goes, here, an average Java developer makes a least 3x of what is the average salary for the region in which I live. Yet all local companies are complaining about the quality of
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by dleskov 13y ago
Have you ever had to wrestle with the consequences of the complexity of analyzing a not-so-simple-and-well-researched data structure for which no generic implementation exists in any language?
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by dleskov 13y ago
That's crazy life you live in the Valley. We are nearly as remote from SF Bay Area as a place on Earth can possibly be (18 hour net flight time with two stops) and do not have many perks, but I would be very surprised to hear about a n
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by dleskov 13y ago
> I see, still thats quite a bit especially when need to hand over a large chunk on any sale from Irish/EU28 customers in tax! I am not sure I understand what you are talking about. If we set the price at $1K, we get from FastSpring
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by dleskov 13y ago
To me, the key phrase is "My favorite job was probably the year I worked at Apple retail in college, because I got to explain technology to people and change their lives in some small way." I moved from programming to techsupport
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by dleskov 13y ago
Solely from the taxation perspective, my home country now looks surprisingly friendly for small IT businesses. We have a so called Simplified Taxation System for small businesses (not just IT.) Basically, as a company we can choose to pay e
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by dleskov 13y ago
> re: fastsrping > "You have the option to pay either 8.9% flat or 5.9% plus $.95 per transaction. " > Wowza, thats steep! FastSpring customer here. First, they handle lots of boring and complicated stuff for you, not jus
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by dleskov 13y ago
I recall coming across a web site aimed specifically at connecting entrepreneurs with engineers, designers, etc., willing to work for equity, but cannot find it now. There are http://www.equitive.com/ and http://
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Ask HN: To which sites would you submit a charity deal?
1 points by dleskov 13y ago|0 comments
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by dleskov 13y ago
Look up a post by JangoSteve below, saying "...We act as CTO and development team for hire for early-stage startups..."
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by dleskov 13y ago
What do you think is so special about Python that it appeared four times in the list of 100 "most sought-after employers in the World", as LinkedIn put it, as one of the top three skills in demand?
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Python is the only programming language in LinkedIn's 2013 Most Demanded Skills.(linkedin.com)
10 points by dleskov 13y ago|5 comments
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by dleskov 13y ago
Novosibirsk, Russia: about $19 for a 1kg (2.2lb) pizza. I prefer a different delivery, which charges $7.3 for a much smaller, 320g (0.7kb) pizza.
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by dleskov 13y ago
We never run job ads for positions in our product team. In fact, we never have any open positions in that team. Instead, we have a very organic process of interns becoming employees. Yes, it is slow. And we only retain one out of three - on
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by dleskov 13y ago
Small idea == (small risks, small returns) Big idea == (big risks, big returns) most of the time.
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by dleskov 13y ago
This is why I keep the balance on the debit card I use online at $1.xx, trading the inconvenience of having to transfer funds to it before each transaction for peace of mind.
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by dleskov 13y ago
Ah, you did not mention the URL has to contain a query. I assumed that mydomain.com.samuru.com would either display all mydomain.com pages you have indexed, or otherwise indicate that I will be searching within mydomain.com.
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by dleskov 13y ago
It does not seem to work. This includes your cnn.com example. Your home page is displayed instead.
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by dleskov 13y ago
Sorry, "my own Web site" should have read "my company's Web site", with user forum, product knowledge base, tutorials, articles, PDF documents, and the like. Planting AdSense on it would be nonsense. We used to pay
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by dleskov 13y ago
A bit disappointed that I cannot yet add Samuru to the list of search engines in FF. I switch between three engines multiple times each day. By the way, will I be able to use it in place of Google Custom Search on my own Web site?
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by dleskov 13y ago
You don't have kids, do you? I have not played anything but short streaks of casual games since the infancy of my first, maybe with the exception of 2011/12 winter break, when I snatched a $0 deal on Broken Sword reissued for iPad
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by dleskov 13y ago
"New/changed since last month" would have been a great filter.
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by dleskov 13y ago
Disclosure: I work for Excelsior. Excelsior JET ( http://www.excelsiorjet.com ), a Java SE JVM with a native code compiler and deployment toolkit, is free for non-commercial use. Note that "non-commercial" != "open
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Mobile Web apps may be slow, but Garbage Collection is Not among the reasons(excelsior-usa.com)
10 points by dleskov 13y ago|0 comments
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by dleskov 13y ago
A quick search for "excel diff" returns: http://excel-diff.florencesoft.com/ http://www.exceldiff.com/ http://www.suntrap-systems.com/ExcelDiff/ Are you sure neither would work for you?
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by dleskov 13y ago
You can make an Eclipse plugin and sell it to corporations and/or OEM license it to IDE/tool vendors.

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