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by jm4 18y ago
Fine. You could say it obviously has something to do with domain names. But, what exactly? Why should I bother using Domainr instead of searching using my preferred registrar? Surely, there must be something compelling enough to warrant suc
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by jm4 18y ago
How about a more descriptive headline? You would probably get a lot more clicks if you gave people at least a hint about what is behind this link. If submitters can't take an extra few seconds to write a few descriptive words why should any
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by jm4 18y ago
I think early in the week is the best way - at least when firing people. If you let someone go on Monday or Tuesday they can immediately start looking for a new job the next morning. With any luck maybe they can start getting callbacks or a
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by jm4 18y ago
I am not sure where you get your information from. It is my understanding that Python is one of a few languages used at Google and is used quite extensively. If I am not mistaken GMail and Youtube are Python applications. The fact that they
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by jm4 18y ago
I haven't been paying much attention to AppEngine, but it seems like kind of a major oversight that there was no SSL support until now. Is anyone using this thing for real work? I don't know how it could be considered much more than a neat
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by jm4 18y ago
Umm... Why? I thought the whole point of Google AppEngine is that you get to run your application on the same infrastructure (hardware as well as development platform) Google uses for their own applications. If you want Ruby on Rails go dow
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by jm4 18y ago
I hope so.
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by jm4 18y ago
You can't cure cancer. He was successfully treated and I believe the cancer went into remission, but to say the prognosis is grim might be the understatement of the millenium. Less than 5% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive 5
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by jm4 18y ago
Have you seen Steve Jobs lately? We are literally watching the man be eaten away by cancer. I am not sure if he has much of a choice in the matter.
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by jm4 18y ago
Headline is incorrect. The article says Warren Buffet is the richest _American_ - not the richest man in the world. Second, a post like this has little to nothing to do with Hacker News.
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by jm4 18y ago
You couldn't get anywhere near the size of Facebook on SQLite. Even a FogBugz or BaseCamp type of application on SQLite could be problematic if you are doing lots of writes. The driver you use to connect to the database is also very importa
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by jm4 18y ago
Where is your site that receives 3.5M visits per month? It doesn't matter what language or platform you use. Handling 3.5M visits takes some thought. In fact, where can we find anything to support your language-bashing in your last few post
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by jm4 18y ago
There is not anything particularly remarkable about this interview process or offer letter. I am not sure why the author would even write about this. If anything, I think it only makes him seem like a jerk. This guy applied and interviewed
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by jm4 18y ago
This is totally off topic so I'll probably get modded down. Please don't be too harsh... Thinking the Democrats were the good guys is your first mistake. The sooner we all realize neither side is good, the better. They are both equally bad
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by jm4 18y ago
If you want to offer other languages your best bet for the short term is to outsource the translation. Keep hiring English speakers as usual, but when dealing with alternate language users use an outsourced middleman for translation. There
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by jm4 18y ago
It's probably true of many of the products we use on a daily basis.
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by jm4 18y ago
In China these people would be executed. If I remember correctly that's what happened to the CEO of the company that made all that bad pet food. I'm not saying we need to gather a lynch mob or anything, but we certainly need some kind of ba
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by jm4 18y ago
Two chicks at the same time. Seriously, I have no idea what I'd do with that amount of money. If I was completely selfish maybe I'd buy an island somewhere. I sure as hell wouldn't use it to bail out a bunch of failed businesses whose execu
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by jm4 18y ago
This BBC article is 7 months old. There are new videos on all the gadget sites.
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by jm4 18y ago
Agreed. Coincidentally, that's the sort of thing I used to see on Reddit shortly before it turned into some monstrous Digg/Youtube hybrid.
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by jm4 18y ago
I don't find that report the least bit surprising. I would only expect that figure to increase. But it's completely ludicrous for anyone to suggest that it's the result of bloated operating systems. I'm not surprised I was modded down given
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by jm4 18y ago
This has to be one of the more idiotic statements I've read on here. Sure, crappy software that uses more disk space, memory and CPU cycles probably requires more power, but you can't seriously believe this is a real issue. If you do, in fa
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by jm4 18y ago
Why not link directly to the video instead of some idiotic Reddit comment? Besides, the comment has already been deleted so this post is useless.
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by jm4 18y ago
Why did this get modded down? It seems informative and it's on topic. I don't know Erlang. Is this information incorrect or something?
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by jm4 18y ago
If I remember correctly there's some limitation where you can only run one application at a time. I think it's something to do with the login limit in Remote Desktop, although I guess that can be avoided if the application you run is explor
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by jm4 18y ago
Isn't this something that goes without saying? I'd be surprised if anyone outside of Hacker News has even heard of TechCrunch, and the only reason people have heard of it here is because the site is spammed daily with their lame articles. I
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by jm4 18y ago
I never realized things had gotten to the point where people can't even put together a sentence fragment without gross grammatical errors. How do these morons even make it out of middle school? It's a sad state of affairs when so many peopl
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by jm4 18y ago
This "mockup" looks like a screenshot of the current version with a couple red boxes outlining the areas where new things will be. How is this news or even remotely interesting? Is anyone actually reading the articles on here anymore before
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by jm4 18y ago
So now the sister of a programmer being arrested at a political rally qualifies as Hacker News? The signal to noise ratio here decreases every day. sigh
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by jm4 18y ago
So how many week-long interviews are you planning to attend? I don't doubt that this would work in a perfect world, but it's going to be difficult finding candidates willing to go through with it. Right off the bat you're going to have a se

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