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811.
by hvs 15y ago
I agree except for the whole ";" "," "." line endings issue. When I can't copy and paste to move lines around without "fiddling" with the line endings, I get angry.
812.
by hvs 15y ago
I've never understood why this question is asked on Hacker News. Can you really not imagine why someone would try to do this, even as just an intellectual exercise?
813.
by hvs 15y ago
Cars and homes are completely different animals. Yes, home prices have been inflated, etc. But property is a very scarce resource and is generally a good investment over the long term. Just because you can build homes quickly doesn't mean
814.
by hvs 15y ago
Well, then they can have their heavily regulated ghost towns.
815.
by hvs 15y ago
Not as humorously.
816.
by hvs 15y ago
Maybe the point is to find hard-to-test code in other people's code.
817.
by hvs 15y ago
I like Github a lot, and SourceForge has definitely dropped the ball, but is anyone else tired of linkbait article titles? SourceForge has a ton of projects still. They didn't "lose" anymore than Github "won". Competition is trip not a de
818.
by hvs 15y ago
For some things, yes.
819.
by hvs 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that "algorithmic challenge" is NP-complete.
820.
by hvs 15y ago
I was talking to someone who once worked at IBM, and he mentioned that they give a bonus (something like $2000-$5000) for each patent that you receive. He said that employees would get together in small groups and take turns filing patents
821.
by hvs 15y ago
This looks like the judge just denied the preliminary injunction. It's a good first step, but this battle is far from over.
822.
by hvs 15y ago
He wasn't working with a child, he was interviewing an adult who was free to leave at any time. Learning new things can be difficult. If anything Joe probably came away from this having learned something new (and is now able to receive disc
823.
by hvs 15y ago
Go out and talk with other nerds. The easiest way to network in our industry is to open Meetup.com and look for JavaScript, C++, whatever events to discuss technology with like-minded nerds. And where there are nerds, there are nerds that w
824.
by hvs 15y ago
Actually, this isn't really related. This is an exemption for the Terrafugia vehicles to use different materials than those required for standard cars and still remain "street legal." The Moller Skycar has never been planned to be a street
825.
by hvs 15y ago
I understand that part of accounting, but I didn't think that it was listed as "cash" on the balance sheet.
826.
by hvs 15y ago
Could be. Microsoft seems to have suffered a similar fate. My original point was that with a company that is that fiscally responsible, it is much less likely for it to go belly up than to flounder for a bit and then refocus and find its ma
827.
by hvs 15y ago
RIM has $3 Billion in cash? I guess I'm not that surprised, but that's quite a bit of "help us get back on our feet money." With some clear direction (which they may or may not get from their current executives) they could definitely regain
828.
by hvs 15y ago
Some background on this: Mark Mazer, CityTime consultant accused of scamming millions, has checkered past of investigations http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-12-23/local/29441786_1_... CityTime Crook Pleads Guilty As Defendant List
829.
by hvs 15y ago
I don't think his complaint is so much about shitty software as it is about criminal activities relating to its creation. Carl Bell (the executive in charge of the project) plead guilty to approving charges from a contractor for years when
830.
by hvs 15y ago
They could sign on to the Streamlined Sales Tax Project that Amazon is in favor of (as well as 44 states and D.C.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamlined_Sales_Tax_Project
831.
by hvs 15y ago
Chicago has local sales taxes in addition to the state-wide sales taxes. Sales tax is a complicated mess and that's why Amazon doesn't want to get involved. A consistent sales tax across all states (something Amazon is in favor of) would go
832.
by hvs 15y ago
Most "herbal medicines".
833.
by hvs 15y ago
I try to read authors that I disagree with but respect. A certain amount of bias filtering is inevitable, but I like to think that I at least try to listen to opposing viewpoints. Especially about issues that matter. When dealing with iss
834.
by hvs 15y ago
Those two things are not mutually exclusive. I dislike MG's and Gruber's articles almost equally. I would argue that Gruber usually tends to have a little more substance to his fanboyism, but I generally don't read either of them.
835.
by hvs 15y ago
What kind of reviewer, for what kind of paper? Any paper in which I wrote "Then x = y/2" would almost certainly be a math (or computer science) paper, so the reviewer would know what I was saying. If it was for a more general audience, I wo
836.
by hvs 15y ago
Not using what most others are using has drawbacks, so some justification is needed. This is only true in the open source world and then only in one corner of it. Subversion is still, by far, the most used version control system in the en
837.
by hvs 15y ago
I completely agree, but I wouldn't assume that Microsoft isn't doing anything behind the scenes. When you are dealing with an issue that is generating bad press like this but your company isn't the cause (i.e. Microsoft) but it has the pote
838.
by hvs 15y ago
I was completely unaware of the situation at Virgin Air before reading this letter, so I had no context when I started, but after reading just the first three paragraphs, I was already thinking "If I was an employee of this company, I would
839.
by hvs 15y ago
Of course. That's what separates good entrepreneurs from "no so good" ones. I think his advice applies to businesses in general as much as startups, its just that established businesses creating new products have more resources to work with
840.
by hvs 15y ago
Once the deal goes through, they will be Microsoft employees. Until then, certainly this will hurt their image, but I doubt that no one would work for Skype (of course, I wouldn't).

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