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by eggbrain 14y ago
While what happened in Newtown was tragic, other stories regarding this on Hacker News have been killed already due to the HN Guidelines: ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sp
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by eggbrain 14y ago
This entire article is garbage. - It talks about "investors starting to panic" about Apple's future. The linked article has no such wording, nor does the USA Today articles that I saw. - The title makes it seem like the iPhone 5 sales have
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by eggbrain 14y ago
There are many caveats to this hook -- so be sure to read the warnings associated with it.
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Show HN: Git hook for Rails to rollback/migrate database on branch checkout(github.com)
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Git checkout -b "feature-1" Git commit -am "Added feature 1, which included a migration" Git checkout -b "feature-2-that-builds-off-feature-1" Git commit -am "Added feature 2, which includes another migration" Git checkout mast
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Who said anything about production? Are you saying you've never hit a snag with a local db that had data that would be a pain to re-import?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
"Avoiding situations like this is the best policy though as unexpected things will happen" Yes, but they happen. This seems like replying to someone drowning "well, you should have avoided swimming!" You also make the assumption that we are
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by eggbrain 14y ago
One of the biggest problems I have is that I'll branch out to a new feature branch, modify (add/rename columns) in the db, then get sidetracked by something where I have to switch back to master, making everything explode because the db is
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by eggbrain 14y ago
But then how will I find a phone that doesn't have crap-ware preinstalled by the carrier by default, and allows a user to update to the latest version of the OS without going through the carrier?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Am I the only one that finds it somewhat funny that a phone with no LTE, non-removable battery, no SD card slot and glass front and back is the most talked about Android phone to date?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
The device offers many features current lock-and-key models don't, and can be used by a wide variety of people (whereas you cant use custom locks for apartments). Your analogy above really makes no sense. But going back to your original pos
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Why use a car? Relies on: Gas to run You making sure everything is well maintained Expensive vs biking Auto mechanics needed if your car breaks down Anyone in your area could easily steal your car or explode it rendering it use
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Regarding your first point, the video for Lockitron mentioned that you'd be able to remotely open your door from anywhere. I'm really excited about this -- I've always wanted to do this for my door, but as a renter I can't exactly just chan
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by eggbrain 14y ago
My guess is that you are an experienced developer that worked for a company and never saw the outside clients -- meaning you have no reputation in the field outside your resume. I'd partner with a web-contracting agency in your area to star
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Microsoft's #1 enemy right now would most likely be Google -- Balmer has been waging a war on the online front with Bing, and so far, has been losing pretty badly. As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend -- partnering with Apple wou
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Maps become exponentially better the closer they get to accurate. Even if Apple has, let's say, 90% of the map data/information that Google does, the minute you are sent to the wrong location, or to a store that doesn't exist, or try to get
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by eggbrain 14y ago
What I want to know is -- why did they release the app in the state that it was in vs partnering with someone like Microsoft? Let's assume that Apple's contract with Google was ending soon, and that Google had failed to deliver features for
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by eggbrain 14y ago
The problem is, you might not mind your name being linked, but your friends might. Let's say this story blows up, and it's right, this image might get posted to many different websites, and suddenly your friends names are plastered over sev
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Why would you link to a picture that not only has your name, it has many of your friends names, and your location? Also, as per Facebook's FAQ: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=151337961603332
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by eggbrain 14y ago
To be honest, it was because Google kept being a false positive whenever I ran the analysis on RSS feeds, and since Google hadn't had any large password leaks (outside of China targeting a few protestors), along with Google's emphasis on se
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by eggbrain 14y ago
One of the biggest issues I've found is that many developers say they are uncreative -- they have the talent, but they say they can never think of ideas that are useful to build. So, for those of you wondering how you can even start buildin
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I've won a couple of Hackathons recently, and the two keys I found were: 1) Make sure your presentation is flawless 2) Don't take on too big of a challenge. We saw plenty of people that had great projects, but when they went up to present,
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Code School is a great company, and this web course will definitely help bring iPhone development to many users, rather than only ones with Mac's and Xcode. That being said, I feel... Conflicted about a company, whose goal is to make profit
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by eggbrain 14y ago
That made much more sense, I saw it as 196mm from Sequoia (of the 223mm raised total) with the rest coming from the other VC's.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading things, but it says Sequoia pumped in 196 million, but its stock value of equity at launch will only be worth 150 million. Does that mean they will be 'losing' money on the investment, until the stock goes up?
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I think it would be much harder to determine whether a prosthetic was "fair" though. With the swimsuits, you could test two different swimsuits on the same swimmer and see if one offered a direct advantage. Not to mention, when people that
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by eggbrain 14y ago
While his current prosthetic might not give him a great competitive advantage, doesn't it seem like a slippery slope? 12 years from now, lets say there is a breakthrough in prosthetic technology, one that gets rid of all the disadvantages,
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I'm trying to not give it away, but by Google searching "encode jquery" (without quotes), the answer was the 4th ("suggested") dropdown result.
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by eggbrain 14y ago
Let's say I'm a system administrator in charge of all my company's servers. I find out I'm about to get fired, and I decide to give myself the only admin privileges on these servers (that control databases, production code, etc). I'm then f
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by eggbrain 14y ago
I didn't add it to the short version, but in the second paragraph the op says: I get a call from my bosses boss ....but I was hellbent on refusing to give out the password. So he refused to give it to his boss, his manager, and his b

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