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901.
by jbm 17y ago
I agree that it is uninspiring, but from a completely different angle. I can't imagine tolerating the rudeness implied at any age, let alone after 25. This really is one of those stories that has no business on HN.
902.
by jbm 17y ago
Please accept my apologies - almost 2 years in Japan has put an end to my capacity for writing proper English. I did intend to say that people seemed to be as intelligent (or not) as they were when I had started reading this site. The edu
903.
by jbm 17y ago
I am not sure what loss of "critical thinking" you are referring to. I don't think anyone is losing mental marbles, nor do are stories getting that bad. (Admittedly, I couldn't stand the stories a month or two, but things seem to be on th
904.
by jbm 17y ago
Like you mention, I cannot understand how a problem like this that has been solved gets such a bad solution. For those, like me, who are slaves to mysql for one reason or another, this is what I do. 1) mysql_real_escape_string 2) sprintf I
905.
by jbm 17y ago
I can't comprehend why this was modded down. The book is fascinating and provides us with an insight into valuation. It really is a topic that is difficult to sum up in any reasonable time. I wish I could find a free source for it, but I
906.
by jbm 17y ago
In reference to housing prices; I don't understand how it is the "best time to buy" if prices are still falling. Wouldn't it be the "best time to buy" once it has hit rock bottom and just begun a slight upturn?
907.
by jbm 17y ago
This will doubtlessly cost me Karma - but all too often it seems as if my brothers are either living under tyranny or building implements that allow others to be subject to the same humiliation. On the bright side, Science marches on!... if
908.
by jbm 17y ago
Ditto - anyone that calls "Commando" the worst vehicle for Arnold clearly didn't see the subtle mockery of the "Guy with a gun" genre. (Oddly enough, it also set a record on 2chan here in Japan; apparently they never had a situation with mo
909.
by jbm 17y ago
I am making it clear that Facebook isn't only "failing to act" against Holocaust-Denial groups. Thus the title is overstating the case. If one is looking to be offended, I can assure you that I will find something that will offend you. Fa
910.
by jbm 17y ago
The funny thing is that the title works both ways - Jewish haters are also welcome. http://www.promisedlandblog.com/?p=980
911.
by jbm 18y ago
Same here. I even went to the trouble of building a bookmarklet to handle the only Firefox plugin that I missed (rikaichan - http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2009/04/japanese-english-bookmark... )
912.
by jbm 18y ago
:potd: :mittens: (For those not in on the joke, feel free to look up the history of Fucked Company) Apparently they dropped the price already (12 dollars). Considering Godaddy is 7 dollars with a coupon, who would take the risk?
913.
by jbm 18y ago
With my low karma count, I hesitate to ask this - but what benefit is there to being the "Apple" of enterprise software? The benefits of Apple to the consumer market is that you don't have to know much about the insiders of the device in o
914.
by jbm 18y ago
Same here. I freely admit my first creations were hardly anything of art; but keep in mind, this was back in the day when Classmates.com was charging for functionality that wasn't even close to what Facebook offers now. As a result, my cla
915.
by jbm 18y ago
I met with a higher up from Oracle a few weeks back - to be clear, he didn't know anything about the Sun deal at the time. One of the things we talked about was Google unveiling a new server. He looked at me and said "Why would they do th
916.
by jbm 18y ago
Non-technical. 14 pages, 1 photo/device/oddity per page, and a topic structure manufactured to produce popularity on social news sites. What is it doing here? It would be different if there were technical details about the add-ons themsel
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Ask HN: Invited to Oracle Open World. What presentations should I attend?
1 points by jbm 18y ago|0 comments
918.
by jbm 18y ago
+1 I use PHP and Ruby all the time, but I'm tired of reading about how shitty PHP is. I'll take PHP over VB any day!! /hypocrisy :)
919.
by jbm 18y ago
That's why I planned on showing him Thymer - http://thymer.com/ It's exactly that, and it's full of y-combinator goodness :) Ever since I started using it, my productivity doubled.
920.
by jbm 18y ago
I'm not sure what Griffin is - tried googling it, but a mess of results with no common theme came up. I hear the "Instant awareness" thing. I should probably look up an example of this before I go in though. I think I read an article abou
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Ask HN: Social Networks and Business?
9 points by jbm 18y ago|13 comments
922.
by jbm 18y ago
I have a NEC w/ a solid state HD. It was dying under Vista - couldn't even load an image file in less than 10 seconds. Think about it - a miniscule 40kb jpeg would take 10 seconds to load. I switched to Ubuntu and most of my problems went
923.
by jbm 18y ago
I love this app already. Guys, if you want to do a Japanese cell phones version, give me a holler. I might be able to help.
924.
by jbm 18y ago
Don't you find that humor feeds a positive cycle that results in it being inevitably over-represented in the body of comments made on a website? I know that is one of the reasons I can't stand reading the comments at Digg anymore.
925.
by jbm 18y ago
Awful article. However, I'll say this - Microsoft really needs to step up vendor support for WM. Every awful thing you think about Microsoft seems to be 10 times worse when you are dealing with WM support in Asia :(
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by jbm 18y ago
I'm in Tokyo too - would love to meet up with you guys sometime. ideas at jawaad mahmood [!do/t] com
927.
by jbm 18y ago
Great eye to notice that - I remember the same sort of nightmares with C++ (not so much Java). Bottom line is that things are getting much better these days.
928.
by jbm 18y ago
Now I remember why we computer scientists always looked up to the Math majors...
929.
by jbm 18y ago
Not sure if I like the idea of deleting content and replacing it with soundbites.
930.
by jbm 18y ago
Damn, I posted in the wrong thread it seems. Mamma.com is a company with too much money and no vision - at least that's how they were when someone I knew was dealing with them. I don't know how an "insider" manages to not sell his shares a

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