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by johnyzee 15y ago
Not to mention that employee #1, if an engineer, is probably chained to the engine block (figuratively), toiling with keeping the machines running. He/she most likely remains in the dark when it comes to the business development and deal ma
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I like checked exceptions because you can't not deal with the error condition. Swallowed exceptions is a code smell that any half-decent developer will notice, whereas failing to check for some return value is much more subtle. Java allow
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by johnyzee 15y ago
That is his point. Most people don't want to know about "sleep", "hibernate", "standby" etc. The device should not need to bother the user with that choice.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
E-ink is what makes the Kindle for me, it is such a pleasure to read off a screen that does not feel 'electric'. The months of battery life are nice too. I also don't get how TechCrunch has the e-ink devices being the 'lower cost' models, m
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I'm Danish and have often wondered about this too - there are so many options here for electric height adjustable desks and everyone has them, from banks to car dealerships. I would never work somewhere that didn't offer this, I even got on
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I have come to really dislike lessons - love anecdotes, though. A 'lesson' taken from a specific context and applied under different circumstances is, in my opinion, just as likely to harm than help. Some of the 'rules' may be completely ar
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by johnyzee 15y ago
As cool as Dwarf Fortress is, I really don't think we should go along with judging games by the metric that is suggested by the GP ("killing simulators"). It is like forcing kids to only play with Lego, because 'cops and robbers' is a 'cri
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I would rather tell my grand kids that I made a cool game that a lot of people had a lot of fun with, than try to explain how I helped an insurance company limp along without succumbing under the weight of their legacy IT architecture. Or c
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by johnyzee 15y ago
There's a good chapter about Max in Founders At Work , too.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I don't think that is true. Learning another language sets you up with a grammar vocabulary that is very useful when learning any other language later on. We learn Latin in high school specifically because it is like a key to learning other
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by johnyzee 15y ago
How about ذ (zal), ز (zaa) and ظ (sor)? Perhaps they are more 'z' than 's'? Then there is ث (tha) though that is more of a 'th' sound I think, but people in the subcontinent pronounce it as an 's'. The differences are really subtle to me.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
The linked hymn is also very beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdCPDP5qHy0&feature=relat...
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I believe Arabic is the language with the largest variety in sounds. A lot of these sounds don't exist in other languages, such as the deep-throated 'ain and the seemingly many different ways to make an 's' sound, each with subtle differe
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> Europe's hottest startup capitals: Moscow > Europe's hottest startup capitals: Tel Aviv > Europe's hottest startup capitals: Bangalore (Ok I made the last one up)
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Perhaps you don't like what you're working on enough? I am generally in the same boat as you, constantly interrupted by the need for an easy information stimulus. But I have noticed that when I work on something that I truly and deeply love
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Floorplanner.com is free, online (no installation), the top search result for 'floor planner', and excellent, somehow existing for years without the magical iPad ecosystem or whatever. Of course it is Flash-based, so if anything iPad users
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by johnyzee 15y ago
There was a story a while back about one of the founders and/or creators of Tesla, and how he was pushed out and mistreated by Tesla management. Although we all like to root for Tesla, for me that story casts the company in a different ligh
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Are motorized height-adjustable desks really so hard to come by in the states? I ask because they are the norm here in Denmark and most office workers use them to stand up for part of their workday. I'm always surprised to see guys set up i
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Every company says that. When I was a consultant at IBM middle managers loved to tell the tale of the software dev who became a gardener at some IBM facility because supposedly that was what he yearned for. In practice though, you took the
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> If we wanted it for our own use, we would have been up-front about that With all due respect, are you really in a position to say that with any kind of authority?
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by johnyzee 15y ago
"Move fast and break stuff" - they're actually proud of that shit? I heard that line before but I didn't realize they had made it their mantra. I wonder if they realize how it rings to all the third party developers who are fighting a daily
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Thread safety is the same whether you use a static instance or plain static methods. In fact with all static members you don't have to worry about synchronizing initialization of the singleton object which is often done wrong. The only reas
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I'm probably too old anyway but Mustache Monday could get old on me real quick.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
> I also think video chatting on TV is pretty revolutionary and might be a huge thing in the future, so they should take advantage of that with GTalk. The only problem I see here is that people will have to buy cameras for their TV's,
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Good call, 'Wintermute' :) Gibson's stuff seems to never feel old, a remarkable achievement for sci-fi stuff from before the internet era.
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Ask HN: Statistics on voting since hiding comment score?
4 points by johnyzee 15y ago|0 comments
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by johnyzee 15y ago
I appreciate your points about voting behavior, but the point of my question was to get the hard data. (I don't read any indications into PG's comments one way or another and either way, actual data would still be interesting). Will try rep
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Ask HN/PG: Stats on voting since hiding comment score?
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by johnyzee 15y ago
This is most likely intentional, '1993 chic'. Ling was on Dragon's Den by the way, as far as I remember, got funded too I think. She had the same type of over-the-top garish style which was part of her appeal.

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