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by dropkick 14y ago
My father owns a small payment processing company that does electronic processing of checks. One of his employees was busted by a federal task force for laundering a lot of money. The task force initially accused my father of being the ring
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by dropkick 14y ago
There are 30 developers on the project I work on. So if you get 1000 customers just like us. You're making $5000/month to handle the load of 30,000 daily users. Chances are you'll have to handle support too. Not sure if we're typical or how
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by dropkick 14y ago
It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design. I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or r
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by dropkick 15y ago
FYI, it only does reading but it's still very impressive. I've tried out the demo and it just works against small repos. It's very slow against larger ones.
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Hacker group LulzSec says it is disbanding(edition.cnn.com)
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by dropkick 15y ago
One thing about being an American living in another country has made me realize about the USA is that there are tons of police compared to other countries. This is a good and bad thing. It's a bad thing when you're being pulled over and har
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by dropkick 16y ago
I think w3schools bashing is unjustified. It's good enough for most things. I use it all the time for a quick reference. I've never found anything there blatantly wrong or misleading besides the domain name. Looking at the list on w3fools,
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by dropkick 16y ago
If you want to work hard, feel appreciated, and have opportunity, start or join a startup. From my experience working at Microsoft, the author sounds clueless. Large companies will eat your soul because they like the souls of naive young de
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by dropkick 16y ago
What is really cool about this story is knowing that PG keeps such close tabs on the HN community.
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by dropkick 16y ago
No, it's the snappy uniforms! Our brains can only superimpose our romantic fantasies over reality for so long. One romantic fantasy would be "I'm cool because I work at Apple". I can't see a talented person working somewhere for more than a
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by dropkick 16y ago
A few years ago, I wrote a commercial plugin for a product and later sold the IP to the developer of the product I plugged in to. I'm intentionally being as vague as possible to remain anonymous. My plugin was on the market for about 9month