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by dotBen 15y ago
Last year a lot of non-developers bought tickets just to scoop up the free goodies that Google gives out. My guess is yes, they will use a code problem or similar to filter out developers from carpet-baggers.
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by dotBen 15y ago
"The Clojure Community and I "
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by dotBen 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
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by dotBen 15y ago
As per the Guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curios
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by dotBen 15y ago
Didn't personally find it funny (I respect you and others may, however). Clearly they're not going to buy Yahoo and it just reeks of shameless publicity stunt to me. Donating to Charity:Water just makes the thing viable - otherwise why wou
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by dotBen 15y ago
If you are involved in the startup scene (attend meetups, read HN, have other friends involved in startups, etc) you soon know what startups are around. If the Internet is just "Facebook" + "Google" to you then, sure you're missing out but
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by dotBen 15y ago
My guess would be that's a hole that's been left for the carriers to insert their own branded app (and customized to the unique aspects of their particular voicemail platform). Remember the 'base' Ice Cream Sandwich you see on the Google Ne
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by dotBen 15y ago
That's cool, like I said - it's not for everyone. Although it's worth considering that if you are successful and sell your startup to a Big Co then you'll need to "like" working there in order to see out any handcuff deal you are given.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Funny you should mention SkunkWorks - that's actually the one thing I was able to communicate to him was the SkunkWorks concept within a larger company. But clearly if everyone is working that way, then it no longer has the delineation f
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Ask HN: how could a big tech company successfully attract developers like you?
10 points by dotBen 15y ago|14 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't know why your comment is being down voted. Thank you, that's a kind comment. But this happens on almost every comment I leave: I get downvoted once or twice and then the comment slowly gets upvoted. I think I have a troll (or eve
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by dotBen 15y ago
You are absolutely right, an opt-in system would destroy the whole location-by-wifi-ssid service for everyone. ...but that doesn't create leverage or a good reason for having such a poor and inelegant opt-out. This is an "ends justifies th
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by dotBen 15y ago
No, as I wrote, you can run WordPress locally (ie on your own workstation, local server, whatever) and have it send to S3. I gave the WPEngine link just to prove people are doing it with WordPress and it's not a pipedream.
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by dotBen 15y ago
you can also do this with WordPress http://wpengine.com/faq/blog-s3/ (you can run WordPress locally to generate the site, or use a 3rd party service just to run the process but not serve from it).
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by dotBen 15y ago
I took my GCSE IS (Information Systems, IE 'computing'/whatever) in 1998. I remember failing the mock examination because I kept making reference to the Internet, World Wide Web, etc in my answers and I was told that as our syllabus pre-dat
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by dotBen 15y ago
I run an exit node, but not on a US-based server given DMCA complaints becomes tiresome. Single best thing you can do is run the "this is a tor exit router" (google for it) web page on port 80 of your TOR exit node --- that demonstrates you
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by dotBen 15y ago
nah. He'd pull up your actual Facebook profile and then show it alongside the fake profile that was created when you 'thought you were doing a person search', and suggest you can't have got it right the first time and wrong the second. I sa
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is why HN - as awesome as it otherwise is - is awful for legal advice. A reasonable argument would be that the first time I went to Facebook, I wanted to search for a friend, so I put in HIS first name and last name, created an accoun
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by dotBen 15y ago
(pssst, andrewpi, I think theshaddow's parent comment is tongue-in-cheek.)
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think that's only within the tech-elite/tech-aware communities. I believe this kind of strategy still piques the interest of "regular folks" - in the same way that "buying virtual goods" is kinda cliche and unappealing for most of us on H
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by dotBen 15y ago
The problem with recruiters is that they're the only (potential) vendor/service provider to your business that doesn't actually understand the product they are delivering to you. * My hosting partner knows how operate servers and datacenter
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by dotBen 15y ago
In the past month I have heard from the founders of two startups who both had late-stage acquisition talks sour when technical due-diligence raised that they had all or large amounts of their stack in .NET. Even Enterprise companies that ru
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Google Music's New Service Set to Launch, Without All the Music(allthingsd.com)
3 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
Your argument, if I read it right, is basically that I'm wrong and that the military is good at capitalizing on people's skills - and you give psyops as one example and also talk about people's credentials. Sure, I don't disagree with you t
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yup, both.
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by dotBen 15y ago
there don't seem to be a large number of reservists/national guard in the tech community; Why do you/others think this is? I'm not a US citizen, so that counts me out. But even so I wouldn't become a reservest because I feel I have a lot
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by dotBen 15y ago
Or, where's the data? Seems to me most of your traffic is going to be people asking about the same sites - would be interesting just to publish that information.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Absolutely, people should definitely support the software if they use + enjoy it. As you'll note from my parent comment, I carefully wrote: "and give folks the option to buy it in the App Store or download the community version." I inten
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's New BSD License, so yes binaries can be distributed as long as all the legal/copyright info is maintained http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_.... And I see you just emailed it to me - thanks!
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by dotBen 15y ago
Seeing as you've already compiled the binary from the 1.3.1 tree, would you be willing to distribute it?

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