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by ghc 15y ago
Better title: How many ads are you willing to look at? A test.
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by ghc 15y ago
I don't know if it's just me, but I tend to shy away from reading these sorts of articles here. On HN I'm able to recapture some of that child-like joy that goes along with building things, so it feels extra-painful to be reminded of my mor
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Agile: 5 years later and you're still doing it wrong(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
215 points by ghc 15y ago|77 comments
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by ghc 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It's really hard to test videos within the framework of the weekend since time is so compressed. Since the focus isn't on code, it's hard to achieve the items you list, but I 100% agree as a fellow geek. I'll see wh
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by ghc 15y ago
We'd really like feedback on our video. Making progress in one weekend using the lean process is really difficult, but it's pretty rewarding too. I'd recommend anyone give a Lean Startup Machine Weekend near them a shot.
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Show HN: Landing page for our LSM Boston entry(foldr.co)
4 points by ghc 15y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: We're competing in LSM Boston. Help us win by answering a few questions
1 points by ghc 15y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 15y ago
Apparently some of the most popular languages in the world are "toy languages" because they aren't compiled. Also decompilers apparently don't exist because compilation gives you "protecting ones ideas and security". In addition, I guess th
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by ghc 15y ago
I completely agree with you, but it matters what type of data we're talking about here. Facebook scared me off a long time ago with its policies and what it knew about me, but it's a different story with Google's personalized search. I don'
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by ghc 15y ago
This reminds me of the old days where people would encrypt all their emails, no matter how mundane, with blowfish. I'm pretty sure there must be some sort of inverse relationship between the effort you put in to hiding your comms activity a
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by ghc 15y ago
> Europe has loads of nice things. You should visit sometime. HN is not a place for flame wars about countries (or continents). He had a valid point, as he was referencing the hostile legal climate for doing (some kinds of) business in
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by ghc 15y ago
This isn't new to America. Anyone who's a fan of Japanese or Korean TV has exactly the same problems Europeans experience with American TV.
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by ghc 15y ago
This site is the second google result for swole, after the urban dictionary definition of the term. I honestly don't like the name, and I think for most people who have never heard the term this will bring to mind "swollen", not "buff". Not
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by ghc 15y ago
What terrible design! Truly awful. 50 questions? I bet nobody will actually finish this. I expect better, CSM.
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by ghc 15y ago
Lisp wasn't the right tool for the job because back when this was written (1997 or so, if I remember correctly) there were a lot of reasons Lisp was not the right tool for the job, the biggest reason being that chances were your Unix admin
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by ghc 15y ago
Very true. I've been in a similar situation with a lot of money not being paid, and the client didn't care about their reputation being damaged. What they did care about was my lawyer.
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by ghc 15y ago
He's probably being downvoted by people who have extensive experience in dealing with PayPal. Dealing with PayPal's rather frequent API outages can be hell for businesses and developers. If you have a small enough business that you don't ne
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by ghc 15y ago
Finally a movement I can get behind!
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by ghc 15y ago
Samsung will continue to make SSDs and other products based on its NAND business, but Seagate will gain NAND supplied by Samsung that it needs to launch its own SSD business along with acquiring the entire Samsung HDD business. This was pro
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by ghc 15y ago
They did not sell their SSD business. They sold their Hard Drive business.
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by ghc 15y ago
I was mostly joking about the energy savings, but yeah, you'll have to pry my Trinitron from my cold, dead hands.
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by ghc 15y ago
I have this (perhaps mistaken) notion that when I'm staring at a screen for 12 hours straight, it's better for my eyes to be looking at a mostly dark screen than a mostly lit one. At the very least, thanks to that link a year ago about how
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by ghc 15y ago
I found myself nodding along with this until the bit about the array module. The array module is very well suited to doing real work. Maybe it seems arcane if you're coming from a web dev background, but given the space inefficiency of Pyth
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by ghc 15y ago
I have all the MTP libs. There are bug reports out there regarding the fact that Banshee can't detect the phone. I also manually set up mounting the device through FUSE, but without the developer tools activated it won't mount. Something we
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by ghc 15y ago
I went to one VZW store this morning, and they were sold out 10 minutes after opening. Headed straight for Best Buy and got the last of 5 (?!) that they had received. The phone is not without problems. Everyone mentioned my voice sounds a l
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by ghc 15y ago
> Rich Ashley music FYI it's Rick Astley, not Rich Ashley.
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Has Verizon released the Galaxy Nexus?(hasverizonreleasedthegalaxynex.us)
3 points by ghc 15y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 15y ago
Pythonista and Haskell hacker here. Everything he hates about Coffeescript is what I love about it, minus debugging. My debugging workflow looks entirely different (and more efficient) than his, however. While I can't say for sure, it remin
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by ghc 15y ago
I couldn't agree more with this blog post. The drastic reduction in friction has allowed me to experiment a lot more painlessly. Mongo may not always be as robust as a mature SQL solution, but the friction is so low I just don't care.
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by ghc 15y ago
This is fantastic advice, especially for many of my fellow Americans. For me, however, I think the problem is that fruits don't fit into my lifestyle. My meals mostly consist of fish, miso, rice, seaweed, tofu and various vegetables seasona

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