feralmoan

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by feralmoan 13y ago
I think we'll see a lot more automation on the product development side before it starts to cut into software jobs themselves. With so many automation frameworks popping up and big movements towards open API's and IPaaS systems w
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by feralmoan 13y ago
There was a lot of good advice in the article, I think its a big creative leap to say someone who travels, understands their needs, dresses how they're comforable, finds inspiring friends or has a strategy for personal growth is someho
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by feralmoan 13y ago
grid virtualization for the web has been around for a long while with things like slickgrid/extjs (google docs is a great example), maybe there's a good open source project opportunity in writing a virtualized+paginated+history fr
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Worth it for the hint on MkDocs alone - thanks Eric Holscher!
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by feralmoan 13y ago
It assumes that everyone has the same starting balance also, so the most efficient would be a crosspairing of commuters within the turnstiles at each destination. Way too complicated but maybe a fun thought experiment.
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by feralmoan 13y ago
> So, what's the point HN, and why all the upvotes? I guess SV types get a little hot for AI based utopian/dystopian succession when they're the only ones who could possibly gain from such an outcome.
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I dunno, the definition of intelligence is biased by our own ability to comprehend and therefore profoundly slim (even IQ can be gamed, and most people puke at emotional/lizard brain intelligence) so large chances "science" e
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Interesting you say that as its a huge trend in the gaming industry but I feel the complete opposite about it. After having people in my face all the time, playing single player games with a strong immersive narrative or environment are th
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by feralmoan 13y ago
No, companies do not care and they have no imperative to do so (old-guard companies, at least). That's why its perfectly OK to call them out on their crap and take your holidays when you need them. If they're a big company, thei
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I think the (right) assumption is that http basic auth should always be used with TLS. Its why you can't generally install multiple certs on the same ip without sni support, no http headers, uri, url's etc. make it over the wire
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I don't understand the problem mentioned with HTTP Basic, username/password injection into the uri https://username:password@such-n-such.net works just fine if for some reason you can't set the header explicitly.
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Maybe I'm living in a fantasy world but isn't this what Google does with Gmail and people are completely fine with? What's so surprising about this that it needs a lawsuit. Is the angle that Yahoo haven't been proactiv
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by feralmoan 13y ago
You could ask for a copy of your contract, it should be in there if its a problem. Or if it is, ask about a no-compete waiver.
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I don't understand how these emails disappear... isn't it still present on the recipients POP/IMAP?
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by feralmoan 13y ago
British colonial hangover and the general Australian penchant for self-flaggelation has a lot more to do with authoritarianism in Australia than any philosophy the USA extrinsically promotes. Isn't the island borrowing its culture fro
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by feralmoan 13y ago
It doesn't sit well with me that Ashe is trivializing the time commitment with 'oh they're just white dudes', when it's usually more a case of 'they love what they do and they make time for it'. If writing
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by feralmoan 13y ago
"it will make its IBM Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud". Future tense, and no bucket to drop an email into for notifications :( Would take no time at all to buy the parked watsoncloud.com domain (
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I definitely view blogging as a major distraction, it’s a time sink, tedious, needs mental context shift, and is more of a long-tail investment, really tedious. Did I mention tedious? It does let you solidify the message or mental-model o
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Open source it under GPL and sell exceptions as the copyright owner http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions The benefit being that everything GPL touches also needs to be open sourced, unless you hold the
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Did you take a look at FOAF project or similar (or the whole semantic web ecosystem I guesS), its a good place to start for defining an ontology.
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Being part of YC adds a whole new dimension of political clout and credibility irregardless. It's definitely a 'who you know' rather than 'what you know' notch on the belt beyond simple validation. Saying you were
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I'd be up for a regular something in Manhattan. btw there's http://eranyc.com if incubation is more your thing, approaching their winter deadline.
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by feralmoan 13y ago
That's crazy, well done
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by feralmoan 13y ago
https://bip.io (Billion Instructions per I/O) - its a framework for creating ephemeral endpoints ontop of graph based message pipelines. You can orchestrate and share these graphs (kind of like micro-workflows) to automate
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I dumped a lot more than that at Comiccon on people with actual talent (non derivative works). Banksy is a very strange thing that I really don't understand at all however I'm glad for him that he knows how to capitalize. Is the
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by feralmoan 13y ago
I don't care about Banksy either and don't feel to despondent having known it was right there, its the kind of crap I'd just walk past every other day of the week. The question does beg though why the hell this is on the fro
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by feralmoan 13y ago
The UK is well within "US legal jurisdication", officially or non-officially. Didn't you guys join and start wars together??
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by feralmoan 13y ago
> "the interview process is this largely protocol driven song and dance where you're supposed to scratch your head and be wowed by the technical question and then slowly and painfully make incremental progress on a solution whi
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by feralmoan 13y ago
Seems like a problem that will figure itself out over time, my experience has been that the industry has a very high attrition rate for those who are under talented. If you love what you do and actually possess skill the long term prospect
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by feralmoan 13y ago
A basic regex is more than enough and you don't even need to deliver a message, just connect to the MX for their domain and check that A) The domain resolves an MX and B) That you can handshake for a 250 OK on the rcpt to header only, then

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