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by gedrap 12y ago
Depends on your goal. If you want to learn a lot about development, write a lot of code, you can use flat files and treat them as a small database. Implement simple SQL analogues of WHERE, etc. It could definitely be fun to implement! A lot
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by gedrap 12y ago
Drama drama. It seems like 'police are bad' is such a popular prejudgement, and if a police officer pulls you over he definitely wants to throw you to jail for no reason. Police officer pulled over. Anything wrong with that? Nope.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Although the issue with NSA is important, the problem with most of those threads is that they all the same. Same predictable arguments, or no arguments at all.
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by gedrap 12y ago
I really enjoy reading well written software development stories from 90s, like this one. It just has a different vibe, emotion compared to the 'modern' stories. Makes me wish I was born a decade earlier, in a western country :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
I tried to learn Mandarin a year ago because I started a relationship with a Chinese girl. The words made no sense (felt just a completely random sounds), got angry and gave up after a couple of days. A year later, after hearing a lot of Ma
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by gedrap 12y ago
While reading people talking about writing data to permanent store, I got an interesting (well at least for me!) question. My initial idea was that it would be possible to store data to be written at RAM at first, and periodically flush to
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by gedrap 12y ago
That's true for this scale, and probably up to 32GB or so. But bitly is running at much larger scale and he is talking about hundreds of GBs, which is a totally different game.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Since people are mentioning their workarounds, I will share mine. I often have to print something from my email from untrusted computer (boarding pass, some documents, etc). When it's possible, I save the thing to print to PDF, upload
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> The thing is we are conditioned to believe that anything the government does, especially anonymously, is necessarily bad. I definitely noticed this trend here, in HN. While it's popular and not surprising in general public
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by gedrap 12y ago
Well... The link is not to onion, is it? "In 1991, while attending the University of Helsinki, Torvalds became curious about operating systems[31] and frustrated by the licensing of MINIX, which limited it to educational use only. He b
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yup. When I discovered HN about 3 years ago, I read most of the posts and maybe some comments. Now, it's opposite. I read a lot of comments and usually don't read the links themselves. From my experience, the value of the links d
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by gedrap 12y ago
Totally agree. 9-5 (or 9-6) engineering jobs are a bit crazy - no one is able to work productively for 8 hours, that's a fact. Many managers understand that and are cool with people just not doing work while at work... However, I would
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by gedrap 12y ago
That's true. On other hand, it's just for the interviewees own good - you don't want to work with people like that ;) except from megacorps with hundreds and thousands of devs
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by gedrap 12y ago
Because it takes just a few votes (4-7 in first ~45min, from my experience) to bring something up to the front page. Plus a cool name, I guess.
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by gedrap 12y ago
The other week I was thinking about buying a car to save money on commuting... And I'm sure I am not the only one. I definitely see value in this tool. I have 0 experience with cars, and I am sure I have no idea how much does it cost t
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by gedrap 12y ago
Totally agree with you. So called perks like gaming consoles are a bit silly indeed, and would fit his point better. But food is different, as we all need to eat.
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> Don't be bashful, just say your company is hiring. While I haven't received this (yet), I strongly agree. Everyone knows a guy who messages you after years of not being in touch, asking how are you doing and all that
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by gedrap 12y ago
It doesn't say that it's over of conversation, we either meet right now or forget. Feel free to continue conversation online, it's just call to action, showing initiative. It's easier to respond to initiative, rather tha
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by gedrap 12y ago
But they were offering you to change the world dude! Like social and big data and cloud! This issue was discussed quite a lot on HN over past couple of years. Not sure what those so called CEOs are thinking but it's their lose. There m
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by gedrap 12y ago
StatusPage blog posts from time to time pop up on the front page, and I read all of them, from their very beginning. A great blog, well done guys, you documented the process of working on a startup amazingly well. Also a great example of co
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by gedrap 12y ago
Good point again! Programming largely is creative, with some degree of standard and quite autopilot code. Creative work can't be produced by staring at a blinking cursor. I agree with counter productivity, and I strongly agree with com
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by gedrap 12y ago
Some people hate the idea of shifting everything to Web. Other people hate how unsuitable HTML5/CSS3 is for replicating native appearance. But I think overall, it's a good middle ground. There will never be a perfect solution in t
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by gedrap 12y ago
Good points! >>> With the current market for engineers, if you aren't enjoying your work most of the time, you're doing something wrong and should probably find a more interesting project to work on. Fire yourself if you
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> I’ve felt the pull. However, personal motivation to succeed keeps the wheels churning. I really like your point about motivation. I'm a freelancer and working from home, and I used to think that nutrition, physical activi
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by gedrap 12y ago
I think it's smart to wait a bit before replying, because there are more comments posted every minute than you can possibly read. So just let the up/down votes filter out the rubbish.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Oh God... I hope it's some sort of joke I didn't get? HNers are talking that they can't like favourite artists on FB because they are afraid to be affiliated with gangs. Or that liking something might help to detect that the
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by gedrap 12y ago
Reading this made me feel a wide range of emotions. But mainly, seriously, wtf...? Who is funding those apps? This just doesn't propose any value to the user other than momentary coolness (like most other apps for teenagers). Once it f
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by gedrap 12y ago
Good post. I didn't do an internship because I didn't have confidence. I was at a top school and had good grades, part-time dev experience. But there were always much better guys (and gals!) around me. "Just 2 more weeks, I w
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by gedrap 12y ago
I like the idea. It's nothing new and sensational but well presented. [0] But there's one essential problem: you are selling a limited resource for a very low price, which will cause problems later on. And the rate is unreasonably
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> So Facebook knows I like Bob's Burgers but not The Family Guy. And? This. While in general privacy is definitely a concern, I see "don't give your information" way too often and it's becoming sort of a

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