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by iguana 13y ago
Software snobbery. "Cost and developer time are non-factors" Bro, do you even startup?
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by iguana 13y ago
You're mixing technologies (PHP vs Ruby / Python) with types of programmers (inexperienced vs experienced). Wielding a master's sword does not a swordmaster make. Surely you've seen enough RoR and Django projects to know that. Some people w
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by iguana 13y ago
Depends on why you're a programmer. If you wish to optimize for compensation, by all means, learn as many different languages, platforms, and technologies as you can. So I would say you should learn something in addition to PHP so that you
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by iguana 13y ago
* Easy to deploy * Cheap to deploy * Easy to find programmers to help you * Affordable programmers * Code is easy to read for non-programmers who understand HTML * Ton of free code available to reuse Inconsistency, poorly thought out OO, la
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by iguana 13y ago
Cost and availability of developer time is much more of a factor in platform choice than a lot of people think, especially engineers who don't have to worry about the business end. If you can find RoR developers, they are not cheap. If you'
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by iguana 13y ago
Oh please, I've blown up so much stuff when I was younger, and it was instrumental in encouraging me to learn about science. Did people get hurt? No. Was she doing it to hurt people? No. Was she doing it for attention? No. She was doing it
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by iguana 13y ago
PHP is popular because it's incredibly easy to get started for someone used to doing things with HTML. An HTML page can be renamed to .php, and that is a valid PHP page. For someone trying to go from HTML/CSS to the server side, PHP present
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by iguana 13y ago
Does anyone have a list of current bitcoin exchanges, and the licenses they hold? Is Coinbase safe? Is BTC-E?
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by iguana 13y ago
Isn't this an example of the gambler's fallacy, that previous outcomes impact future outcomes?
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by iguana 13y ago
Come here and work on hard problems, like rounding corners and getting people to click on stuff.
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by iguana 13y ago
Lots of web apps are still implemented along the lines of: GET /foo?action=delete&item=x A less naive implementation would also include a crumb to mitigate CSRF as well as unintentional access.
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by iguana 13y ago
What value does your comment have? If you don't agree, tell us why. Otherwise, why comment in the first place? To tell us we suck? Have you ever seen the comments on CNN, Yahoo, etc? I find the quality of discourse on HN WRT politics is exc
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by iguana 13y ago
I too was shocked that Alan Greenspan was suing people. "The Fed has gone too far!!!"
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by iguana 13y ago
See her other replies. The only correct response to this type of situation is a professionally worded apology and some soul searching to determine where the zeal for viral distribution outpaced commonly understood limits of ethical marketin
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by iguana 13y ago
You also have an incredibly bad attitude, and have a difficult time taking constructive criticism. Your default wording is ridiculous. A user wasn't able to understand the consequences of your UX. That's a failing on YOUR part. Grow up.
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by iguana 13y ago
aaaaand we're on reddit
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by iguana 13y ago
Keep private things private, the rest can be transparent. Anything you say to a reporter should fall into the second category. Answering a TC reporter's questions in an open recording has far more marketing value than just answering questio
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by iguana 13y ago
He could've participated in the open call just to see what it was like, and there is a story there in and of itself. If TC was interested in tech journalism, they would have agreed to it, but sadly they're interested in page views and maint
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by iguana 13y ago
I agree. TechCrunch has jumped the shark a long time ago, and uses the weight of its name to focus on articles that have high pageviews. This reflects extremely poorly on TC -- the TC author could've easily agreed to the open call and parti
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by iguana 13y ago
Go on Dice, then search for any job listing requiring J2EE/struts/hibernate. The technical interview will consist of explaining what polymorphism is and a handful of OO design patterns like singletons and factories. Then give a poignant spe
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by iguana 13y ago
Although understanding the difference is important, the specifics are typically far more relevant in a high performance language than a dynamic scripting language with lots of "magic". OP is interviewing for a C++ gig, so performance was cl
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by iguana 13y ago
It isn't the technical skills that are lacking, it is confidence and the ability to sell yourself. If you have the experience and code samples, you can still get technical questions wrong, so long as you're able to admit defeat in a confide
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by iguana 13y ago
I should apply to YC for my revolutionary 3D Bitcoin Printing startup.
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by iguana 13y ago
Anything that increases bitcoin liquidity is good for bitcoin. Anything that increases PayPal's market opportunity is good for PayPal. A lot of people want to purchase bitcoins with their PayPal accounts, and since PayPal is already license
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by iguana 13y ago
There is no anonymity in Bitcoin. There are ways to go about this, such as selling BTC for LTC and then back to BTC, and there's been a suggested modification to Bitcoin called zerocoin that would make it anonymous, but by itself, Bitcoin i
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by iguana 14y ago
The total cost of wars since 2001 is estimated at $1.5T [1] which is printed through quantitative easing every 1.5 years as of December 2012 [2]. 1 - http://costofwar.com/ 2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#QE1.2C_QE2..
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by iguana 14y ago
Of course they're wagging the dog, unless NK secretly wants to be obliterated or invaded and converted to a corporatist oligarchy they'll call a "democracy".
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by iguana 14y ago
I wonder if they'll let you transfer coins to other people easily.
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by iguana 14y ago
I don't think breakage applies, because I doubt they can keep the the lost/forgotten coins, just like unspent gift card money is not kept by the issuer.
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by iguana 14y ago
Market corrections due to hacked wallets and DDoS, which is quite interesting to watch. I'm guessing those with heavy bitcoin reserves paid for the DDoS to keep the massive wallet theft from moving the market. Instead, it pushed the clueles

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