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by far33d 17y ago
I'd love to build up a nice little web framework with node.js, maybe using some of the work from v8cgi.
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by far33d 17y ago
There was a time in the past when some services online wouldn't immediately authorize the card - it would only check if the value was a "valid" number. So, you could, hypothetically, get 1-3 hours of shell internet access based on a generat
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by far33d 17y ago
Really this is something of a response to #1 and #3. Imagine that instead of congress listening, journalists/bloggers/etc used it as a way of doing their own impromptu polls of sentiment on issues by district.
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by far33d 17y ago
Brand new account complains about the direction of hacker news? Not news.
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by far33d 17y ago
A young man “can work at excessive speed with no ill effect but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.”. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
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by far33d 17y ago
Why is zuck wearing a tie?
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by far33d 17y ago
The author mentions snipMate, the vim plugin for snippets. I've started to really embrace this plugin and it has made programming much more pleasant, since I only type the stuff that matters and none of the scaffold (especially in HTML)
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by far33d 17y ago
"2) Market. We're in an existing market where the pain is pretty acute and the problem domain well defined. Additionally, the incumbent competitors had basically neglected the market as unattractive." Cust. Dev. is not as important when c
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by far33d 17y ago
The biggest reason you never have to pay back technical debt is because the company doesn't exist anymore. The next biggest reason is because that debt no longer applies - the idea, feature, or product you wrote that code for is unnecessary
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by far33d 17y ago
I think this metaphor is being stretched way too thin at this point.
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by far33d 17y ago
This is great - I was looking for the "guide to productivity" last week and realized it was gone. I looked for a cache of it on google but didn't take the extra time to look @ archive.org. These are some of the best startup articles ever po
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by far33d 17y ago
Free app on a device I already carry around all day vs. $99 single use-case app... no brainer.
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by far33d 17y ago
While US companies have no obligation to act in the interest of human rights, it would be nice if they, nonetheless, felt compelled to do so. Google claims "don't be evil" - this should extend to using information to help, not hurt, the opp
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by far33d 17y ago
The most annoying off-topic discussion is the meta-discussion.
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by far33d 17y ago
It's ridiculous that a student who barely coasts through the most remedial track can graduate because of social promotion, but a motivated kid who takes college courses can't get a diploma.
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by far33d 17y ago
Not to be a broken record, but I think these accounts are setup to "listen" to the brands, people, celebrities, products, etc that the subscriber is interested in. Most people don't blog, but lots of people read blogs. Twitter isn't really
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by far33d 17y ago
Not exactly - twitter, unlike facebook, is asymmetric, so you expect a large percentage of users who are just listening. That doesn't mean you can ignore them - they are the audience.
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by far33d 17y ago
Pay $5000 so you can fund someone else's startup! A prerequisite of "angel investing" is that you actually invest. Here we have a group of "advisors" funneling other startups' money (not their own) to a company of their choosing, and taking
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by far33d 17y ago
It is on Columbus day.
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by far33d 17y ago
Would love to jump in on a hn meetup - Monday morning or evening works best for me.
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by far33d 17y ago
The thing I noticed first was that no one sends rejection letters anymore - you just go into the resume black hole (unless you actually manage to get an interview).
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by far33d 17y ago
There's no way a city bus travels an average speed of 30mph. I would be lucky to travel at an average of 30mph driving a car in most cities, and I don't stop every 3 blocks for 30 seconds to pick people up.
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by far33d 17y ago
Only hire A if he completely loves what you are building. If he thinks he is "above" your real problems he'll be brilliantly, independently kicking ass at something that you didn't ask him to do and isn't helping you succeed at all. Worst c
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by far33d 17y ago
Coherence (expensive) does this very well.
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by far33d 17y ago
I learned all I know of C from doing the projects for CS167/9 at Brown. The lectures, and more importantly, the project assignments, are online: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs167/lect.old.08.shtml http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs16
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by far33d 17y ago
> Up is a tremendous movie; it made me laugh and cry, and was intended to be seen in 3D. Wrong. Up was made, first and foremost, as a 2D film, just like every Pixar film before it. 3D was very important to the overall box office strateg
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by far33d 17y ago
You don't see django folks freaking out about how tornado rewrote URL routing and wrote a new template engine (they even take some shots at django's restrictions in templating). There is probably as much overlap with django as there is with
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by far33d 17y ago
> That's shortsighted. Maybe the short term goals had different accents, but in the long run, Twisted and Tornado have the exact same goals. Actually they don't. Twisted is "an event-driven networking engine written in Python" Tornado i
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by far33d 17y ago
The chat demo seems to have turned into a tech discussion about the framework. Love it.
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by far33d 17y ago
I'm sure many plumbers are profitable from day one. Amazon wasn't profitable for a while. Which is the more successful business now? I agree that you aren't a success until you are making money, but I don't think that it's important to be

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