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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> I've been casually following "micro nations" for decades, and attempts are often long remembered Could you share more? Are there any decent write ups about the more interesting attempts?
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by gedrap 12y ago
Olympics are a bit different because I believe there are requirements to be met in terms of performance. But living in San Marino or Liechtenstein must be great - if you get to the national football team (which shouldn't be hard), you
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> Hitler considered himself a good Christian Well, sort of a nitpick but Hitler and religion is a bit more complicated than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
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by gedrap 12y ago
I've done that for non-trivial commits and found it much better than someone reviewing a commit alone. When you are reviewing a commit alone, it's very easy to just skim through and not be aware of details.
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> which they wouldn't have to do alone if it was open Well, that's an assumption. User base is very small, and potential contributors base is even smaller. So that would be a big bet hoping that someone would contribute
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by gedrap 12y ago
Didn't downvote myself but one-liners often are not popular in this community.
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by gedrap 12y ago
It's very common in the UK, for everything from gym membership to the rent. At least in my experience during the 4 years I've spent there :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
The screenshot in their homepages shows the sales funnel (followed -> visited web site -> purchased). So yes, you are right, seems like they are solving an actual problem. I see how it might useful for e.g. less technical people who f
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by gedrap 12y ago
I said a toy DB, not hype machine ;)
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by gedrap 12y ago
Stand up is not easy to do well because people tend to abuse it a bit. It's ok if everyone briefly answers these 3 questions and moves on. 1 minute/each, no big deal. I find it a bit useful when I am work on something totally unre
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by gedrap 12y ago
Personally, I found that my ROI for time on HN is a decaying function. During my first year here, it was extremely valuable. I've read about many things that I didn't it exists, read comments written by far more experienced people
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by gedrap 12y ago
You have a point :) Building something you want usually means that you have a deeper understanding of the problem. Also, chances are, that you are familiar with the market, alternative tools, etc. Which is a must for creating a good product
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by gedrap 12y ago
An idea alone is very hard to copy unless you have deep expertise in that area and can quickly understand the problems it solves. For example, you describe me an idea for some SaaS startup targeted at constructions companies. I have no clue
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by gedrap 12y ago
This is a pretty good example of what does it mean to be good at shipping. Sometimes you have to acknowledge that what you are doing right now is not the best solution architecture/design/whatever wise, but it provides the best qu
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yes! Would love to read a post about writing a toy DB :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yes, your point of making it unnecessary is really important. When you see patterns, etc. for the first time, it gets very tempting to over engineer stuff.
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by gedrap 12y ago
This. The problem is that in some cases, the legacy system is really messed up and making it unit testable is a big refactoring task on it's own. In these cases, I try to write some functional tests first (such as calling restful endpo
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by gedrap 12y ago
> nor does it seem to learn when I pick a suggestion The most frustrating part about FirefoxOS is that if I choose not to autocorrect the word, it doesn't remember that and tries to do the same the next time I am typing it. Yes, I c
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by gedrap 12y ago
I use Firefox OS as main phone (ZTE Open C) since October, came with version 1.3. The biggest disappointment is lack of applications. So you can't get notifications for Facebook messages, etc. But that's ok, given that the phone i
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by gedrap 12y ago
A summary of big tech companies (Apple, Google, etc) salaries in the USA according to GlassDoor. You haven't missed anything :)
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Drone owners register called for by House of Lords(bbc.com)
1 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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Meet Jack the Plumber/ Philosopher (2013)(gselevator.wordpress.com)
1 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
I can't remember a title and link to it, but not long ago there was an article about people demanding lossless encoding and how it doesn't make sense because it's almost impossible to tell the difference. Same here, I guess.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Well, to be realistic, almost all Linux users are of no actual interest to NSA. All it means is that statistically, someone browsing about encryption is more likely to be thinking about committing a crime. If you count people who go the ext
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Litvinenko post-mortem 'probably most dangerous ever'(bbc.co.uk)
64 points by gedrap 12y ago|53 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
I was a PHP dev for ~6 years, switched to Python about a year ago. * Once you know PHP, it's really fast to get shit done. Can't deny that. * After staying with one language for so many years, it's crucial to try something ne
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yes, I think that this is a rather typical 'programmer growth curve'. You start with spaghetti code which just works (hopefully), after a while you are taught how to do things 'properly', resist to it a bit and suddenly
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by gedrap 12y ago
I don't think anyone at Google can read anyone's emails willy nilly just like that.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Oh, so your revenue comes from affiliates? I thought that you have a monthly subscription fee :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
We need more stories like this! It's not all about crazy growth over a year or two after founding like in the most front page stories.

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