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by jakejake 13y ago
On the rare occasions when I drink soda these days I just think, I would have been happier with water. Also if I'm gonna consume 300 calories I'd rather have a taco or something.
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by jakejake 13y ago
There is something to be said for pursuing things that have absolutely no practical application. There is nothing wrong with amusing one's self and perhaps even learning things along the way. I don't agree with the "I'm older and smarter t
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by jakejake 13y ago
I thought the same thing. I think this would be hard to do at scale and they offer quite a lot more features than most would need (sepia tone filter). I couldn't personally see paying for re service, but obviously it must be useful to oth
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by jakejake 13y ago
It's also difficult to provide phone support when you work from a coffee shop.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Could be interesting for secure API calls..?
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by jakejake 13y ago
The question is interesting but the scenario doesn't sound like that much of a disaster to me. Maybe I'm the only one here who's worked in the insurance business though...?! A 5-person project with 2 months of work plus another 1.5 months
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by jakejake 13y ago
I think it is polite to communicate with the original author first. They may appreciate having somebody else in charge of package management. It's not uncommon for an app author to provide only source code and then some other person decide
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by jakejake 13y ago
I'd like to think that's try since I'm not in Silicon Valley. But sometimes it does feel like most of the deals that are made are due to personal connections - people who are running into each other at events, parties, coffee shops, etc.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I don't think in that context it represents an apology or even empathy. It means "allow me to politely tell you that you are full of shit!" Kinda like saying "have a nice day" to somebody who was just rude to you.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I kinda expected him to say that the investor was his Dad or something. I am pretty sure that if my company is not moving forward and the ROI is not looking good for investors - then they will not be first and foremost concerned with my hap
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by jakejake 13y ago
A "lifestyle company" is a dirty word to investors. For the owner though, it can be a very rewarding career with a fantastic salary. There's little ability for VCs to profit from it though, so you won't hear anybody who is going that rout
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by jakejake 13y ago
Yea I find investors are not primarily concerned about my happiness - except how my happiness may effect the business. It's not at all that they're heartless & they certainly don't want me to be unhappy. They just didn't give me money s
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by jakejake 13y ago
I saw a show where people make skeleton models and they used a type of bug to clean off the bones. Using certain chemicals would make the bones rubbery, whereas the bugs would leave a perfectly clean bone.
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by jakejake 13y ago
If you ever have to go to court, you'll see pretty quickly that emotional appeal is very powerful. Even though its not technically supposed to work that way - in reality it works because humans are emotional creatures - not robots.
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by jakejake 13y ago
It does feel like a startup strategy is that if you can just manage to get a large amount of free users - then you'll be able to figure out how to monetize it later. We all know that it works in exceptional cases. But many times when I see
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by jakejake 13y ago
I would take it to mean that they basically went too far past the gray area of "legitimate" SEO in any or all areas. Spammy links, low quality links on "link farm" sites, keyword abuse, etc.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Most of the rants against PHP don't have many specific technical reasons mentioned. Some do, but when you provide specific facts it's much easier to argue against them. So I think it's more convenient to stick with "PHP sucks." My theory
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by jakejake 13y ago
The bottom line is that we all have bills to pay. Get a consulting or contract job and continue with the venture in your spare time until either the founders raise enough investment money to pay your salary or you decide they won't be able
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by jakejake 13y ago
It does look eerily the same as the documentaries when you see a monkey being trained to put a ball in a cup or whatever and then receives a treat. When the treats stop coming, the monkey will start performing the action rapidly and repeate
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by jakejake 13y ago
This is a great article for people on HN to read because we more normally hear about start ups struggling to find developers. I get a whiff of arrogance from a many developers when they list their demands for employers. They criticize com
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by jakejake 13y ago
The subscription price is probably a little more expensive than if you were to outright purchase every new release. But you don't have to cough up $600 or whatever to buy it initially either. If you're a professional designer and must have
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by jakejake 13y ago
There's so much wrong with you condescending and arrogant post that it's hard to know where to begin. Where do you think bad, old developers come from? Well, they started off as untalented young developers. Right now now there are young d
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by jakejake 13y ago
I would say if there is a lesson at all - that it's helpful to be on friendly terms with several of the Silicon Valley elite before you start your company. Not taking away from Instagram being a great app, but it was catapulted towards suc
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by jakejake 13y ago
I'm kinda blown away that this question hasn't been closed on stack overflow already. The mods are usually so aggressive about discussion-type questions.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Oh sure, nothing to complicated. Basically I just happened to notice that I loaded several classes that were not always needed. I was able to tune up the framework to load some of them on-demand instead. One example is that the framework
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by jakejake 13y ago
I think the tractor/ferrari analogy does't really hold up because a tractor to me implies that it would be slower, but more powerful. The ferrari sacrifices power for speed. I'd say these platforms are more like comparing a ferrari with a
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by jakejake 13y ago
I would like to pile my thanks onto this list as well. I'm the author of Phreeze and I can say that I'm grateful that fairness is being encouraged. There is certainly glory in ranking well on any benchmark and I have to admit, as I was im
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by jakejake 13y ago
Well, it is actually an interesting idea. I personally am not a designer yet I feel ok offering my criticism of a design.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Well, all I can say is that when you are hiring - it's very tough to find skilled developers at all, let alone with design skills. Designers are easier to find, but not a lot of them code. That's just my own personal experience plus a gen
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by jakejake 14y ago
I've been a developer for over 20 years. For all of that time I've had to be a bit of a designer as well. I am, at my very best, an adequate designer. Most of the time my design is merely adequate and it takes me ages to do even that. So

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