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by jmatt 17y ago
If they didn't have those insane installation instructions that said: sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local I'd check this out. But I just can't bring myself to do it when they still have that as their default install instructions.
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by jmatt 17y ago
There were a number of sites that were launched shortly after arc came out based on the news.arc code. The arc language and code are under the Artistic License 2.0 [1]. (I admit that I thought they were public domain) See arclanguage.org fo
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by jmatt 17y ago
As a follow up, all these guys are borderline cases of "long-term unemployed".
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Yes this is a great time to ramp up a new project. I found a great designer who was laid off from a full-time job as an Art Director. He is doing contract work now but only part-time while he looks for another full-time job. This gave me an
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by jmatt 17y ago
I happily signed up on coder.io because I knew enough about the site to sign up. In this case, they're promising more than they're actually delivering right now but present you with a way to potentially get better access. That is it. I ne
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by jmatt 17y ago
It's a car company created in the spirit and likeness of a tech startup by founders who were previously successful tech startup founders. Their upcoming IPO was already evaluated as extremely risky even for an IPO and now they have to deal
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by jmatt 17y ago
You should come to a Tucson Startup Drinks get together. It's a combination of small business and startup business owners and employees in the Tucson area. There also tends to be a lot of like-minded students in attendance. The google group
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by jmatt 17y ago
Ya I used to agree with you completely. I still do for the majority of pages out there. I recently learned of a counter example. There is a locally owned sports bar and restaurant that has a very active group. Most of the members are fans o
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by jmatt 17y ago
Here's the main page for open source facebook projects: http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php I agree it's a bit silly. I think they hope that it'll catch on sometime in the future and they'll have yet another type of group social
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by jmatt 17y ago
Who is the iPad for? I've been thinking about this for awhile. I think the target is people who use a laptop for web browsing and email most of the time. Rarely they'll need to use it to create a document or presentation. If you ask them
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by jmatt 17y ago
I was wondering why there wasn't more functionality too. I guess he follows the release early and often philosophy. I saw that one of the people that Gates follows said this: http://twitter.com/inafried/status/8000814417
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by jmatt 17y ago
Ya I noticed that too. I'd love to have some performance benefits from JIT too but not at those costs. 2.43x - 2.76x increase in memory to Django[1]. Ugh. That's a large enough change that I'd have to upgrade hardware. Come on now. [1] htt
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by jmatt 17y ago
As a follow up, I didn't explicitly state one of my points. When you are taking 50000 shots per project you only need one to come out perfect. So when you look at award winning shots like this it could be a 1 / 1000000 shot. It's seems poss
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by jmatt 17y ago
I agree it's a great shot. I can't really speak to whether it is fake or not. You make some good points about the perfect and complete lighting. I've been lucky enough to spend time with wildlife photographers in the field. As far as I can
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by jmatt 17y ago
It's an honor and privilege to be chosen to go to Antarctica. Especially if you can actually participate in your field of study. My guess is whoever gets hired is already coding for a similar astronomy or physics project. I've heard of some
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by jmatt 17y ago
I'd recommend Consolas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas OS X Install → http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/ With slightly more effort it can be installed on linux.
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Ya looks like it http://news.ycombinator.com/best
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by jmatt 17y ago
As vijayr put it That is Patrick (patio11) of Bingo Card Creator. He's an active member of the community. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050982
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by jmatt 17y ago
Yeah you are right. It reads as a contradiction. I thought of that when I was posting but couldn't reconcile it at the time. Let me clear it up. What I meant was it's possible to implement such a system in the framework of a dow30 type cult
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by jmatt 17y ago
Do you have personal experience with mechanical engineering projects that suggests that most work best with large, lowly-paid design teams using management-friendly technology, or are you just assuming that they would? Yeah I think they w
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by jmatt 17y ago
This is right on. I've worked at big and medium size companies in the past decade. I worked at a startup that was acquired by a big company. I've implemented enterprise systems from design through support for governments and dow30 companies
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by jmatt 17y ago
A bold move. And it now looks like a smart decision. Summary: He bought it for 70k did 227k in sales after Apple's take. Spent 50k on marketing, though that's been reduced. Recent growth has been through internationalization. Side note - tr
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by jmatt 17y ago
I agree. Experts may be interested in answering questions for wages around 10 dollars per question or problem. As you pointed out most questions and explanation sessions will not take a full hour. In general I agree with tentonova2. Going r
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Also modular search for django - http://haystacksearch.org/
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by jmatt 17y ago
But sometimes there is little that you can do about this. My friends have yet to adopt twitter and thus I rarely use it. I agree it can be a useful tool for some but it has yet to sweep through and suck in most of my friends. Who are still
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by jmatt 17y ago
Ya this might be a nice opt in option. It preserves privacy and keeps people from having to handle yet another messaging system too. My email happens to be a google talk handle. So that occasionally leads to contact.
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by jmatt 17y ago
Looks like chrome to me! I had a double-take. A home tab and improved awesome bar will put some competitive pressure on Google. Those two features were the most innovative UI features to come out of chrome. They changed my browser use habit
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by jmatt 17y ago
Slashdot used to be my goto location for tech news. If I go far enough back, I used to read and enjoy the comments. The beginning of the decline was the growth or maybe how they dealt with the growth. Meta-moderation was the nail in the cof
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by jmatt 17y ago
I agree comments are a great idea. But I don't think all comments are necessarily negative. I can think of times where I wanted to comment directly to the poster privately. So maybe there is an even more generalized solution for providing f
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by jmatt 17y ago
Wow, It's amazing they couldn't fix this over the last decade. Even a simple obfuscation, anything is better than raw data that is so easily viewable and worse verifiable. I would assume there is plenty of people with experience encrypting

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