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by ecaron 14y ago
I think that programmers frequently adopt a new product, see it is a mess, and burn-out trying to clean up the mess on the first pass. I think you should start figuring out where it forked from the original code base & generate a diff f
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by ecaron 14y ago
Are you working on this by yourself? How long until your employer is expecting bugs fixed and features added?
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by ecaron 14y ago
Proof that 99% of generating good conversation on HN comes from a well-phrased title.
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How To Run Your IT Department Like SEAL Team 6(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
Price.
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by ecaron 14y ago
http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features Looks to me like it just exposes many of the out-of-the-box Linux terminal features that aren't immediately obvious & require Googling to setup. But saying that it is so amazing it alone warran
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by ecaron 14y ago
Step 1: Live in San Francisco (or at least have a remote office there). Physical, accessible presence is key.
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by ecaron 14y ago
You'd think - except it was the iPad users that were the first ones asking why we didn't have a mobile version:-) I suppose you can't win them all, right?
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Ask HN: Have we reached the point where sites need a mobile AND tablet version?
4 points by ecaron 14y ago|5 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
Anyone else seeing different results on this vs. what Blekko's monte (e.g. http://blekko.com/ws/your+phrase+/monte ) produces?
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by ecaron 14y ago
No depth limit that I'm aware of.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Because it happens. Typically in places where it shouldn't (e.g. bad programming) but sometimes it does (e.g. enormously complex active system state.) The point is that there are solutions offering equivalent speed without that barrier, so
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by ecaron 14y ago
Only disagreement (although I feel like I'm arguing w/ Linus about git) is don't memcache session data (lesson 5.) Memcache's 1mb max-block (exceeding that removes too many performance perks to be considered viable) introduces a "I need to
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by ecaron 14y ago
Link to the job if you want to skip the "sign up to sign up to sign up" process: https://bestbuy.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=...
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Star Wars Uncut announces "The Empire Strikes Back Uncut"(starwarsuncut.tumblr.com)
4 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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CyanogenMod releases Google Wallet competitor(cyanogenmod.com)
2 points by ecaron 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecaron 14y ago
makr.io - the fact that it took me 7 tries to type it correctly in the URL bar & comment field leaves me hoping their #1 task is a better name.
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by ecaron 14y ago
All my responses on using Ubuntu on a Lenovo were summed up nicely on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964530 (Ubuntu visits Google.) For my developers getting new machines, I tell them to split the HD into 3 partitions: Windows, Ubun
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by ecaron 14y ago
I think the largest point the OP makes is that he wasn't intended to find a new job, but the HN community (mentality & philosophy) brought that opportunity to him. That's the key piece in #4, and the linchpin for the whole experience.
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by ecaron 14y ago
Another good take-away, though not directly mentioned in the post, is befriend HN users both in the real world and online.
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by ecaron 14y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:stoicje...
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by ecaron 14y ago
How does the "marketplace has reached boiling point [with Twitter]", for app.net, differ from the marketplace reaching a boiling point with Facebook -> DIASPORA*, yet the trends speak pretty loudly ( http://www.google.com/trends/?q=dias
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by ecaron 14y ago
A nice addition would be a close button, plus listening for the Esc key, to close the "Send us a voice message" dialog after it has been triggered. Otherwise a very impressive idea!
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by ecaron 14y ago
We're using MariaDB at linkup.com and love it! Whenever I read "MySQL is becoming closed source" I think its just an indication that MariaDB needs more community interaction (like how the Fedora team ramped up marketing efforts when RedHat
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by ecaron 14y ago
Not just your Mac - my Firefox & Chrome on Linux. Seems the color palettes in http://80legs.com/_images/bg-home.jpg vs http://80legs.com/_images/the-most-powerful-web-crawler-ever... don't match up. Looks great on all browsers on Wi
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by ecaron 14y ago
How come I can't find this job on http://hockeyjobs.nhl.com/teamwork/jobs/jobskey.cfm?s=unix
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by ecaron 14y ago
Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo! - this only stands a chance if you get them all to partake in this discussion and work towards a single implementation that works against all of their platforms. Otherwise, these discussions are p
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by ecaron 14y ago
More along the lines of Twitter's original beauty was it provided an unbiased, unfiltered access to all information from the Internet, and their recent behaviour indicates that beauty is no longer there. Given the massive role Twitter playe
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by ecaron 14y ago
The title doesn't do this article justice. Digg is ditching comments and rebranding themselves as "v1".
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by ecaron 14y ago
> more or less the same for each site, with one of the sites being slightly different That's because the Clojure library isolated you from the vastly different interpretations that those providers have of the spec. Had you written your

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