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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Wildly inaccurate title for a misinterpreted anecdote that has no bearing on programming whatsoever. Flagged.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
This entire article appears to be based off of the ramblings of one sheriff's deputy in Texas. I've read that RT is not a trustworthy news source. This would appear to back that conclusion.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
For what it's worth, I found VS2010 to be so slow and prone to crashing that I reverted to 2008. Since installing the VS2011 beta, though, I haven't looked back. It's been great. I work on C++ desktop apps, though, and they aren't huge.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
This 3 year "absurd generosity" is nothing more than a classic bait and switch Marketing strategy As someone who is currently enjoying the benefits of BizSpark, you're completely wrong. Your sense of entitlement is simply amazing. I writ
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
This is a very insightful theory and I really, really hope you're wrong. Regarding students, though, Microsoft has DreamSpark, which looks like BizSpark for students (all the way down to high school students, apparently). They can get free
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Near the peak of the bubble, I was at the gym in Phoenix, AZ. Two guys on the stationary bikes in front of me were talking. "I just bought AOL at $ X today." There was a look of resigned exasperation between them over how high the buy-i
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
True, but taking Facebook as an example, it's IPO'd with a 100:1 P/E ratio. It would take 100 years at current earnings in order to pay for its current value. So, the question is: will they double revenue for enough consecutive years to
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
My recollection of Apple leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the iMac and OS X, was that everyone in the press was beating the drum of impending doom. I recall a coworker telling me that her financial adviser had re
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I agree in general, but: 1) These are, by far, the most inspiring stories on HN. I would so much rather read about how a developer or small group sold X dollars of product Y than about a mega-corporation going public. 2) The SEO bene
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Sure. But he didn't give any explanation for why SVN sucks. He merely repeated the mantra at every opportunity. Well, if you don't have problems with SVN, then he hasn't done much of a job explaining how git is an improvement, has he?
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Bullshit right back. I don't pay attention to the others, but Torvalds is awful. His bizarro personal attack on C++ programmers when explaining why C++ isn't used in the kernel was wildly unnecessary. There are sufficient technical reaso
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I would like to see this applied to the inside of engine oil bottles so that I'm not tossing out a few ounces of expensive synthetic every time I change my oil. Assuming it's inert and stable at temperature, I'd also like to see it inside
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
My attitude toward automated teaching is the same as my attitude toward automated cars: you won't beat the best humans (in the near future), but you'll probably rival or beat the average humans (mediocre training, tired, grumpy, etc.) I ha
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
The part that made me dubious was that he had sufficient hacksaw blades and a rat-tail file, but no hand drill. I'm having a hard time thinking of why one would pack blades and a file, but no drill... But hey, I figure this is the type of
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Alternative idea: allow the flight attendants to hand out nicotine patches. :-)
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I was taken to a confirmation page that read, "Your developer application has been confirmed. Thanks for your interest in Leap."
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I was sent to a result page that read, "Your developer application has been confirmed. Thanks for your interest in Leap."
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Please give us some technical details to satisfy our curiosity. Perhaps I missed it on the website, but I didn't notice any mention of how it functions (IR? Sound waves?), what sort of range of distances it works in, etc.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
So, this is somewhat similar to the Kinect, right? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
A Bluetooth 'dumb' stylus with a button or slide sensor could give a pretty convincing airbrush effect in a paint app. I don't see traditional writing being a realistic application, though perhaps cursive signatures could work.
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I'm super focused, and I inadvertently don't have a huge social life, and I'm ok with that. Let me suggest to you that you do the equivalent of a "gap year" sometime soon. Save up a bit of money, put your stuff in storage, and head off o
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
You can't anticipate anything? I think you need to expand on that. I don't think I saw anyone advocating making decisions now based on assumptions of a Utopian society. Personally, I advocate making decisions now that increase the odds o
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Lets not pretend that every human is capable of doing any of this if they only had the time. The people who are capable will do it, the rest won't. It seems unlikely to me with advances in genetics (and 'consumer' demand) that future gene
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Not that I necessarily agree with the views of the parent post (I don't know them well enough), but I think you're looking at "now" to argue the impossibility of "then". In other words, I don't think our current society really reflects muc
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
Well, I certainly hope you're right, but I have my reservations about small businesses, particularly those run by young, inexperienced people, scaling in order to employ others. I do think that the recent trend of staying "at home" longer
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
As a former Oaklander, I take offense at your statement. :-) Oakland exists as an industrial hub. Emeryville, on the other hand, exists as a suburb of San Francisco (though I think that with recent business expansion, it's becoming its ow
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
SF in the 90s was an awesome place for punk and industrial music, cyberpunk visions of the future, ratbikes, raves, and a lot more arty types mixing with the nerds. As things cleaned up and gentrified, a lot of what I consider to be the co
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
SF just isn't worth it anymore. The fog (I know there are fog-free areas, but much of SF is foggy-to-super-foggy), the filth, the homeless, and the insane landlords and rents are out of hand. Also, I'm of the opinion that SF culture peake
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
You probably look to rent in Oakland instead. Rockridge and Lake Merritt are very nice areas (Rockridge being my preference, as there seems to be less property crime, and I lived there for six years).
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by georgieporgie 14y ago
I think the best entrepreneurial disruption you could provide in education would be to provide education on entrepreneurial methods. :-) I'm in my 30s, and I have quite a lot of various skills, but spotting areas of opportunity is still no

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