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by jakejake 11y ago
Cheap hosting and PHP do go well together, but when you work at a company that has a lot of stuff written in one language, and the whole team is experienced with that same language, there needs to be a legitimate reason to change the whole
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by jakejake 11y ago
I'm kinda surprised that MS continues to charge for visual studio. Not that it isn't worth it because it's an incredible IDE. But because it seems like Microsoft would have more to gain by having more developers using it vs t
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by jakejake 11y ago
Once you do lead a team, which I'm sure you will do in the future if you're so inclined, It can be a bit harder than you would think! Even a team of all A players can flounder and never produce anything if you're not careful.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Really interesting story. I wonder if I myself might have gotten into trouble were it not for the fact that I couldn't make that many phone calls. I seem to recall that there was no such thing as unlimited calling - even for local numb
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by jakejake 11y ago
Wow that sounds like a bad client!
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by jakejake 11y ago
I have a few reasonably popular Wordpress plugin, maybe around 500k installs. I get offers all the time from people wanting me to build them something for $25. If you use Wordpress to find clients, it's tough to find good paying work.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Possibly the greatest use of iOSs new web filtering API. Excellent work.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Aside from a few bitcoin I bought before it exploded, I have had an uncanny ability to buy and sell bitcoin at exactly the wrong times. If you want to make a lot of money with bitcoins, my advice is to look at what I do and then do the exa
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by jakejake 11y ago
Footage shot in logarithmic color space looks extremely dull and grey until you apply a LUT (lookup table) to it. I'm not sure if it's exactly what the Author is doing, but it is interesting to me when you see footage that almost
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think a 5 year old with no preconceived notions of a user interface is probably the best validation of whether a device is "usable." Also my 93 year old grandmother took to her iPhone almost instantaneously. As did my technical
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by jakejake 11y ago
If you put an iPhone in any 5-year olds hand they seem to have no trouble figuring it out.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I feel like Apple actually does offer good privacy features on their devices. Of course watching one's parents just click OK on everything to make the alert dialog go away, makes you realize that the device makers can only do so much.
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by jakejake 11y ago
The most interesting part of this to me was that fact that players tend to use their birth year in their username. And that the number 88 was a statistical outlier because for some reason people must really like that number.
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by jakejake 11y ago
There is a history of these types of crowd-sourced-product-creation companies going under. I personally think the reason is because it is relatively easy to build a product. But it is incredibly difficult to build a business around a produc
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by jakejake 11y ago
Probably more sensible and simple would just be a warning alert that pops up when launching an app with a certificate that will expire within X days.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I suspect that there's also a phase of life factor too. People tend to chill out when they get older. Especially those that are successful enough to where they have a comfortable life. Generally you start getting awards and such when y
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by jakejake 11y ago
Meh, Apple wants to control everything because they want a seamless, dead-simple device for non-techies. Because that's the majority of customers - not the power users who want to get down to the bare metal of their machine. They are t
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by jakejake 11y ago
At the time, Jobs was showing off how developers could create app-like experiences using HTML - with the ability for people to "install" your app using the add-to-home-screen feature. That was the intended solution for us plebs. N
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by jakejake 11y ago
You could say that Google is constantly under a DDoS attack because the amount of normal traffic they get far exceeds the amount that would constitute an attack for an average business site.
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by jakejake 11y ago
hehe, i lived for a short time in Arlington Heights, I know exactly what you're talking about.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Chicago is not exactly rural. And don't try to tell me you're in Chicago if you work in the burbs. You're in Oak Brook, man, that's not Chicago!
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by jakejake 11y ago
My company has spent weeks agonizing over price changes and different features for different subscription levels (including a free level). We run all kinds of numbers and projections but at the end of the day you don't always know for
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by jakejake 11y ago
For me this is one of those things that I would definitely spend $800/hour on! Not to mention that the drugs they use to put you under are amazing. Ironically I had my 4 wisdom teeth pulled without it - wasn't even offered to me a
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by jakejake 11y ago
It is tough for sure. People who take a hard-line opinion on the subject I think may not have worked at a small company and/or have never had to think about payroll and insurance expenses. I know when I was younger it never even occurr
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by jakejake 11y ago
Anybody who walks in pushing some personal agenda tends to be a bit of a red flag. The article doesn't really take that into account. It's a shame because it would be interesting to know how it would have turned out had they not w
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by jakejake 11y ago
Well, I was in a situation where my small company had two people and I needed another programmer. One applicant came in who was clearly older - in his 60s I would guess. He came to the interview with a walker and looked in very bad health.
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by jakejake 11y ago
That's a tragic story. I certainly don't think it's anybody's business why you need a second job. Ultimately why do we need any job? Money of course. What you do with that money is your own business.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Certainly people cook less these days but if you get out of the young, hip, affluent areas of town to where the majority of people actually live - it doesn't seem very likely that home cooking is going anywhere.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I agree that some terminology could make it easier. I think "key" is an ok choice for the private key, but for the public key I think there could be a better analogy. Calling them the same thing is a bit confusing and people don&#
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by jakejake 11y ago
When it was first announced there was huge hype here on HN. I myself signed up. We were all really hoping that somebody had finally solved the cross-platform development pain. I was excited to see what the platform was going to do because a

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