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by gooseus 11y ago
Hey! I just posted a similar idea to this as a reply to another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886142 Basically put a high-powered airpump and heating element in the center of a life raft with a balloon desi
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by gooseus 11y ago
I actually thought of a novel solution yesterday after reading this article, I'm going with the "Take to the Sky!" option. So imagine you take one of these - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipbo
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by gooseus 11y ago
I'd love to see this post as I'm securely in the "lottery is a tax on the desperate" camp. I'd love a reason to stop disparaging my father's mega-millions dreams and the dozens of people that frequent my local
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by gooseus 11y ago
Can not recommend this book enough (Code by Petzold)... Extremely well written with timeless information on understanding the history of computing and coding.
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by gooseus 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CynvMlFyo I couldn't resist
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by gooseus 11y ago
Discipline is the muscle that needs to be worked so that when shit gets heavy, you don't just drop it. Really it's about developing the behavioral pathways in your brain, your second nature if you will. For me, when something har
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by gooseus 11y ago
I second this... if there is anything I regret in life it is my contemptuous attitude toward discipline through my younger years, which has lead to lots of bad habits in adult years. I'd be willing to bet that when all those failed sta
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by gooseus 11y ago
Well, I liked it... though I got the feeling I had read this before. Then I saw it was from a year ago and garnered almost no attention here back then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8153457 Are we not talking about
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by gooseus 11y ago
I was under the impression is was foreign demand for high yield real estate investment vehicles? I don't know a lot about real estate though.
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by gooseus 11y ago
If I want to use Angular, I can include a single javascript file and then bootstrap my entire page, or a portion of the page with an application module. If I want to make an application where one page is an Angular client app and the other
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by gooseus 11y ago
You can still just run javascript in your browser... but before all you wanted javascript to do was run a clock or change an HTML or CSS attribute when you hovered and if you worked in IE6, you were probably fine. Now your javascript is ful
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by gooseus 11y ago
Seems to me I'm one of the few people who are willing to openly express their dislike while also having a real life use case where it caused harm to a startup actively seeking funding. I was brought into a company where the lead dev wa
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by gooseus 11y ago
Well-compensated, talented, and trusted in-house developers committed to making the framework the best it can be for all their client's use cases. Either that or they're a part of their huge open source community which will still
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by gooseus 11y ago
What about "isomorphic javascript" needs to be addressed? That was a term that almost seems invented as a problem for Meteor to solve. The fact that code in completely different environments (browser vs server) needs to look dif
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by gooseus 11y ago
The investors are extremely appreciative of that... it'd be a shame if they had to invest in actual filling out their own gaps with the 20M they've raised. That money is better spent convincing other developers that Meteor has no
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by gooseus 11y ago
Maybe you're right and everyone else on this comment thread are suffering from some cognitive dissonance? I'd be willing to bet much of those SO questions and replies are a part of keeping up the Meteor hype with most questions be
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by gooseus 11y ago
Gaining traction because of the venture capital hype juice I mentioned. There are lots of open-source and "viable" web frameworks out there. People want Meteor because it makes a lot of promises regarding productivity, but (as the
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by gooseus 11y ago
When Meteor is no longer commercially viable and runs out of venture capital brewed hype-juice everyone will jump to the Next Big Thing and companies that listened to their Meteor evangelist will have to furiously find someone to port from
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by gooseus 11y ago
> The altered chicks still had a flap of skin over their would-be beaks, so the difference is not obvious, says Bhullar. “Looking at these animals externally, you would still think it’s a beak. But if you saw the skeleton, you’d just be
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by gooseus 11y ago
Lots of good points that I definitely agree with. > They are wrapped with a crudely drawn distribution curve on the cover and published to a tourism market... This reminds me of the lessons of Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan/Antifragil
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by gooseus 11y ago
Cause different people experience different situations differently? Sure, I could have responded like that, or punched them in the face or just stared at them until they walked away or given them the watch as a gift since they liked it so m
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by gooseus 11y ago
I'm seeing a lot more discussion and debate, rather than criticism. So good job for that too... I think this Deck of Cards API would make a great case study for analyzing and discussing the varying takes on how a RESTful interface shou
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by gooseus 11y ago
I didn't get that at all, it sounded like a genuine review from a self-aware (or self-conscious) individual who used some introspection for context. I definitely agree with the idea that there is social status/baggage that goes al
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by gooseus 11y ago
I suppose the question is how do you rank each stress against each other? If we use an arbitrary stress unit (maybe call it a "Dammit"), with a single Tap being the base unit (1 Dammit), then could we use usability tests to try an
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by gooseus 12y ago
I think the main point the author was making is that you should do things you enjoy and not waste time in ego-based arguments. Unfortunately, he makes that point while simultaneously showing contempt and patronizing the people who enjoy ego
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by gooseus 12y ago
Honestly, I can't... I know what I like about Slack, but I can't really articulate what I didn't like about HipChat. I think it lacked something that made it interesting, but also HipChat was somewhat foisted on me initially
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by gooseus 12y ago
Yeah, I remember hearing about it, using it and loving it all in the span of a few hours /days. Then within a month every other team I talked to was also using it... blew HipChat right out of the water. I would attribute it to the amaz
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by gooseus 12y ago
Yeah, I realized that... decided to edit the comment with that info (rather than delete) in case someone else was gonna make the same wrong assumption as me.
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by gooseus 12y ago
EDIT - I didn't realize those links where for 3 years of the same event... The hackathon you link to is from 2013, the article is from 2 days ago and that repo you link had its first commit 4 days ago. Perhaps her experience is based
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by gooseus 12y ago
Then lets be sure not to have any real-life conversations, though I do appreciate you being authentic about it. I agree 100% with the idea that it's better when people know about potential pitfalls before making big decisions and I hat

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