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by joedavison 11y ago
Care to share any great OSS libraries you've found that are good replacements for various Telerik components? Thanks!
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by joedavison 11y ago
This seems interesting, but I am having a hard time parsing all of the government contractor-specific terminology in order to understand what the actual opportunity is here. Can someone explain this in layman's terms? Let's say I
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by joedavison 11y ago
Yes. Yes it does.
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by joedavison 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this is illegal. http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0199-prize-scams http://www.ohiostartuplaw.com/is-your-business-running-an-il...
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by joedavison 11y ago
The actual quote is, "Every day in every way, I am getting better and better" (Original: "Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux")
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by joedavison 11y ago
If they are giving you five days to switch and will pay out all of your processed transactions in a timely manner, then how is that "getting fucked"? It's not. The credit card processing industry is rife with horrible compani
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by joedavison 11y ago
So it doesn't support root domains? Using a root domain on Herkou requires configuring some non-standard record (I think it is ANAME). It's something that annoyed me about Heroku because a lot of people prefer the non-www version
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by joedavison 11y ago
Yes, your startup failed. That's OK. 25 years old is not old. It's OK to lose all of your money, it is almost a rite of passage for most entrepreneurs. You are lucky it is happening to you in your 20's, and not your 30's
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by joedavison 11y ago
see-ell-eye
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by joedavison 12y ago
Yes, and to let those people deploy their capital profitably for them.
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by joedavison 12y ago
For me, it depends on the article. There are some articles where I only care about the article, and ignore the comments. On the other end of the spectrum, there are some articles where the only thing that's interesting is the discussio
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by joedavison 12y ago
I've used them since 2006. It's probably the only service I have never even questioned whether or not I should renew every year. It is very good.
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by joedavison 12y ago
On February 20, I had a story hit the front page of HN on a brand-new blog that didn't receive traffic from anywhere else. Here are some screen shots from my analytics. OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png Browser: htt
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by joedavison 12y ago
$100k as a minimum to raise a family and have a reasonable (read: tolerable -- not luxurious) lifestyle in Silicon Valley is very accurate. If anything, it's low. On $100k, you wouldn't really be able to save very much, so the ide
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Computers, My First Love(reprogramming.com)
2 points by joedavison 12y ago|0 comments
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by joedavison 12y ago
Innovative Merchant Solutions, a division of Intuit http://www.innovativemerchant.com/
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by joedavison 12y ago
This story actually happened years ago; it was pre-Stripe. The merchant account company simply had no clue about online businesses. Today there are a lot more options. I actually wonder how Stripe does what they do -- I've heard nothin
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A Hard Lesson About Planning for Scale(reprogramming.com)
39 points by joedavison 12y ago|10 comments
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Hiring Programmers(reprogramming.com)
2 points by joedavison 12y ago|1 comments
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by joedavison 12y ago
I think they're referring to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_D "System D (in French, Système D) is a shorthand term that refers to a manner of responding to challenges that requires one to have
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by joedavison 12y ago
Congratulations man! You earned it.
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by joedavison 12y ago
And what about pro se litigants? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_se_legal_representation_in... For individuals, representing oneself pro se is extremely common. Corporations must have an attorney, of course.
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by joedavison 12y ago
Rails is the "Rails of" Ruby. Rails is a framework. Ruby is a language. In analogy form, I think his question is: Ruby::Rails Javascript::???
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by joedavison 12y ago
Step 1. Stop calling the rightful owner of a domain name a "squatter", even if you don't happen to agree with the way he chooses to make use of his asset. [1] Step 2. Contact the owner of the domain name and make him a reason
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by joedavison 12y ago
It means they try to trick you into joining Prime, every time you make a purchase. Case in point: Yesterday my wife made a small purchase on Amazon. In the evening, I was checking our shared credit card statement and noticed that there were
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by joedavison 12y ago
I'm very interested in this hardware, but the price has been a deterrent for me as well. I would have ordered it already for $199. But for $449 + extra for the electrodes, etc., it's a pretty serious investment for a fairly unknow
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by joedavison 12y ago
They have one really great domain: sent.com I have never had a problem communicating it.
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by joedavison 12y ago
I believe you are correct: human brains have no special abilities that can't be emulated by computers. But I also think that "human" == "brain" is far from a given, and that is an implicit assumption of this viewpoi
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by joedavison 12y ago
And what about concepts like art, love, beauty, morality? Are these also simply "computations" of some sort? I believe your argument holds true for all intelligence that relies on logic. However, I would put forth that the full de
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by joedavison 12y ago
Another example: - Linear algebra used in graphics and game programming

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