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by groaner 16y ago
Don't underestimate the ability the entrenched players in the disrupted industry to fight back via non-technological means, e.g. lobbying the government to ban your disrupting technology.
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by groaner 16y ago
For the record, neither MySpace (headquarters in Santa Monica, CA) nor News Corp. (New York) are from the "valley."
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by groaner 16y ago
Please fix the link. It is a bit disingenuous to link to the subsection fragment for Java when there's stuff above it.
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by groaner 16y ago
After about 2 weeks (seriously!) in the job the new employee just got up and left, never to be seen again. On the day he quit we were actually in a team meeting and once it was over, the employee collected his things, called a taxi and got
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by groaner 16y ago
It sounds like I'm not cut out to be an entrepreneur because I wish to actually create value rather than just skimming.
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by groaner 16y ago
Whitelisting these user agents ensures that anything claiming to be a major search engine is allowed open access. The downside is that user-agent strings are easily spoofed, so a bad bot could crawl along and say, “hey look, I’m teh Google
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by groaner 16y ago
Ironic that this commentary should come from India, which is improving despite the country's worn-out infrastructure, failing education system, and lack of political consensus.
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by groaner 16y ago
You make it seem like this is a non-issue for you, but it looks like you created a new account to comment on this. Are you concerned about this opinion being linked with your real (or better-known) identity?
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by groaner 16y ago
I haven't done any web development for a couple months now and I still entered in 2 hours for time spent dealing with clunky sites that don't work in any browser other than IE6.
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by groaner 16y ago
It's not fair to compare you to Google, but if you're returning results from php.net, I thought I'd see some of the more higher-profile pages: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aphp.net+needle+haystac... http://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%
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by groaner 16y ago
Am I doing something wrong, or should this query return more results? http://www.searchforphp.com/?s=needle+haystack EDIT - For those who can't get the page to load, here are my results: * grapheme_strstr (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0,
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by groaner 16y ago
Care to quantify that? I could maintain my current lifestyle for 8-10 years from savings (without having to touch retirement accounts), or longer if I move somewhere cheaper, but I don't feel wealthy at all.
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by groaner 16y ago
The next question is... does HN also remove the interrobang‽
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by groaner 16y ago
I've never yet met a fun person who goes around telling people how much fun they are. I must have read a different article then, since very little of what I read was actually about the author himself.
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by groaner 16y ago
The best way to prove to yourself, potential investors and to any potential future employees that you have a killer idea, is to get a number of A-level engineers to join full-time with equity-only deals. Um... given all the advice to neve
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by groaner 16y ago
But the ramen you make for yourself in Japan is "real" ramen, not instant ramen, is it? I'm looking at the more interesting pictures here: http://images.google.com/images?q=ramen&biw=1714&bih...
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by groaner 16y ago
You might call it unhelpful moralizing, but I would consider it helpful if it alerted people to the pretentious nature of their social signaling and got them back on track financially. Deferred gratification is an important lesson to learn
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by groaner 16y ago
I currently live in a neighborhood of mostly ~$1-million homes. Many of the residents are retired people who originally bought their houses in the 1960s for ~$50k. This probably explains why all the on-sale items at the supermarket get so
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by groaner 16y ago
I don't think I got the same message from the article as you did. The unstated assumption that the article is trying to challenge is that luxury vehicles are the exclusive domain of the rich. Even if the statistic were that 43% of luxury
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by groaner 16y ago
BREAKING: People don't actually want to be rich, they want to live like they are "rich" people. Film at 11.
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by groaner 16y ago
The canonical version of the server configuration doesn't play nice with version control, and so staff has to work with a facsimile and hope that nobody makes out-of-process changes. You claim that this is a social problem, and I claim
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by groaner 16y ago
Is "educate your boss" no longer an option these days? What if someone edits the sqlite file via sqlite rather than the config file? Think of the sqlite database as a "deployed" configuration, not the configuration that you work with. Pu
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by groaner 16y ago
Support.
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Ask HN: Is it necessary to be a good consumer before being able to do business?
10 points by groaner 16y ago|2 comments
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by groaner 16y ago
Try sleeping in a room above an open-air street market. The roosters will raise a ruckus starting at 4am during the summer -- an alarm clock that you can't turn off .
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by groaner 16y ago
Strange that Russia is listed under "other" -- last time I checked, the Russian Orthodox Church was still cited as the dominant religious institution there, despite decades of repression under the Soviets. I'm also surprised that Israel wou
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by groaner 16y ago
Interesting - I first thought of The Wonderful O [1], a children's novel. A wholly different kind of evil there -- the villain would certainly also hate Open sOurce sOftware! [1] http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-O-James-Thurber/dp/155611
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by groaner 16y ago
There are places that interview people with no intent of hiring them, but rather to prove a point: "We can't find anyone with the right skill set, therefore we must do X." Values of X may include: - Outsource - Find a cheap, indentured H1B
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by groaner 16y ago
Maybe it's a national pride thing as well, since OCaml was developed at INRIA.
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by groaner 16y ago
Judging by how much discussion it got the last time it was posted, I think the community has decided on how relevant it is already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589346

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