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by freework 12y ago
Great music comes from great musicians, not a mediocre musician following some kind of magical methodology. Great birdhouses are build by great woodworkers, not crappy woodworkers using a fancy $1000 drill. Great software is created by bein
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by freework 13y ago
this article was written specifically to piss of bitcoiners
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by freework 13y ago
> They were not hair-brained ideas established by anonymous individuals engaged in private debate outside of the forums of democracy maybe not when they were founded, but thats definitely what the banking system has become in the year 20
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by freework 13y ago
I don't have a problem with the pony either, but there is another community that uses the pony, and the Django folks would rather not associate with.
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by freework 13y ago
Silk Road didn't sell anything, they were just the marketplace.
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by freework 13y ago
localbitcoins.com
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by freework 13y ago
If you can find a place to buy a macbook directly with bitcoins, you'll be OK. Selling BTC for dollars is whats tricky, as it requires money to pass through Gox's bank account. The banks don't really like BTC that much, so it
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by freework 13y ago
Bitcoin needs to be understood before it can be used by someone. People's ability to understand bitcoin is the current bottleneck to bitcoin adoption.
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Could Bitcoin Be More Disruptive than the Internet?(foxycart.com)
37 points by freework 13y ago|49 comments
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by freework 13y ago
> Is it a frat house? Most startups are
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by freework 13y ago
This sounds kind of like my project, LibraryDSS: https://github.com/priestc/LibraryDSS although, I'll probably never finish it I was disappointed when the pursuit website turned out to be nothing but design docume
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by freework 13y ago
Its always funny how every time one of these articles gets written, the author mentions a small percentage of people (in this case 5%) who refuse to go along with the process. What they always seem to miss is that they are the top 5%. In ot
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by freework 13y ago
Thats what I thought when I read the article too. I feel the same percentage of people would give their phone up if you said "So how about those [local sports team]".
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by freework 13y ago
This is great for that 1 time out of 1,000,000 when you have an ajax call that would benefit from a tool like this. In the overwhelming majority usecase, this oboe.js thing is not going to be a "plug it in, automatically webscale"
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by freework 13y ago
Thats what I would do. Then again, I always get rejected when I do these type of interviews...
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by freework 13y ago
Its no that difficult to create a github project that can be completed in a weekend. I created the hacker new karma tracker and weedprices.biz in one weekend each.
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by freework 13y ago
How cute.
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by freework 13y ago
Culture is not a function of an individual, it is a function of the group. It is not valid for someone to say "you are not a cultural fit" ("you" referring to a human being). On the other hand, it is valid for a person t
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by freework 13y ago
Imagine someone walking up to Maya Angelou, handing her a white eraser marker, and asking her to write you a poem on a white board. She's obviously not going to immediately write you a poem, at least not one thats any good. Is it fair
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by freework 13y ago
Someone needs to create a new internet where everything that makes it way onto it is automatically Creative Commons "by Attribution". If you can read it, you can use it (as long as you give credit).
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by freework 13y ago
Its not like I had to shut off the old site while I worked on the new codebase... The old codebase was running perfectly fine, up until I shut it off and replaced it with the new code.
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by freework 13y ago
If I had superpowers that allowed me to delete one website from the in internet forever, it would be this article. I find the "complete code rewrite" to be the most powerful programming technique I have in my repertoire. In 2007 I
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by freework 13y ago
The biggest problem with the "talk industry", if you can call it that, is the talk selection process. You may have the best talk in the world, but if your proposal doesn't get approved, you ain't giving the talk, no matt
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by freework 13y ago
Whenever I see these, I think of this lil wayne skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkye9r0h8ys&t=19:40#
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by freework 13y ago
I did the same problem during my Google interview last week. Here was my solution to the counter problem: https://gist.github.com/priestc/6284678
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by freework 13y ago
I did a phone interview with Google last week. I was given the exact same counter problem as mentioned in the article. I can verify that I was not asked to sign any NDA at any point.
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by freework 13y ago
They allude to just that in the article. DPR is not the founder of SilkRoad.
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Ask HN: How to get a job at a Big Company?
7 points by freework 13y ago|8 comments
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by freework 13y ago
wfp doesn't store any user data
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by freework 13y ago
As much as I want to love this thing, I can't help but feel like they are trying to solve an unsolvable problem. We don't consider Michaelangelo a genius because he thought up the David statue. We consider him a genius because he

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