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by kika 11y ago
Just a few decades ago it was obscene for some civil individual to express their opinion on the public world wide network without DoD permission and security clearance. Shame on you!!
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by kika 11y ago
If this had happened in the so called "marine park" then it usually means that the yacht paid the "mooring fee" for just the right to drop an anchor in the designated space. Designated by the "local authority",
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by kika 11y ago
Luck is not a zero sum game. Yes, he was partially lucky and yes, he earned every dollar. There're so many lucky people in the world and so few Allens. I also have experience anchoring in the Caribbean, among reefs as well (abeit in a
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by kika 11y ago
That's really sad. I loved the mag and it was my favourite read once a month. Good luck, I'm sure we'll see something interesting from you in the future, you can discard the project you've lost the passion to, but you c
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by kika 11y ago
This is actually "Skeuomorphism level 2". Super great.
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by kika 11y ago
Thanks! Actually we have "Takeaway" app, which is actually "SaaS in a box". We just don't want to distribute it yet, because it is much more difficult task to support shrinkwrapped software.
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by kika 11y ago
There were reasons Quora did it very late in their life. So, probably, at least for some companies, yes.
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by kika 11y ago
I've applied 20 minutes before deadline, if I remember correctly. I guess the quality of the application reflects this fact :-) I'm 46, single founder, scratching my own itch, so the expectations were low, in fact I even forgot ab
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by kika 11y ago
adult shit. weapon grade, so to say.
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by kika 11y ago
Yes, they usually leave the office then and/or take time off (for babysit). That's what I suggest - develop a mental discipline to "enter the office" and "leave the office". It's just the commute that gets
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by kika 11y ago
I worked remotely for 20 years, as developer, team lead and manager. The number one advice - communicate. It's better to overcommunicate than undercommunicate. A mediocre developer beats a genius if the mediocre one communicates and ge
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by kika 11y ago
It depends on your IT architecture and more importantly on your software architecture. I did this IRL and I did it both ways and I'm doing it again. If you want some ideas or guidance or want to ask specific questions - feel free. My
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by kika 11y ago
To be fair, (I think) you don't need to know category theory to successfully apply FP principles and/or use any functional language. I had a great (GREAT) success at using erlang not only not knowing what monad is, but even not kn
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by kika 11y ago
AutoCAD brought Lisp mainstream for mechanical engineers, architects, and so many other 'rocket scientists' that I believe Emacs pales in comparison. I was programming AutoLisp (automatic correction of trace and drill patterns for
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by kika 11y ago
Soviet Union. The country which basically invented and implemented state-owned free healthcare on a very large scale (the USSR population was on par with the USA population). And, frankly, I believe USSR succeeded in this implementation. I
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by kika 11y ago
Oh, I thought I'd never encounter this on HN. But since I did, here's the story: Somewhere in late 80s my mother started to have pain in the abdomen. She went here, then there, then she finally did something like CAT scan or whate
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by kika 11y ago
Cancer is basically a problem of the immune system. We have a lot of cancer cells in our bodies and our bodies manage to kill them quite efficiently. Something went wrong in your body and a cell or two survived. I'm in no way a doctor
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by kika 11y ago
They're also planning to get to Mars before US or anyone else does.
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by kika 12y ago
Hm, why do you have such impression? Killing someone while driving drunk is quite a felony in my book. But breaking someone's arm just because you were not able to figure out where the lane markings are is not okay too, but doesn'
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by kika 12y ago
The article calls for crackdown on drivers and may be rightfully so, but. I came to the US from the country where road laws are based on the concept of "operator of the dangerous machine". Such an operator is at fault by default a
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by kika 12y ago
If your thought was to object to the statement you're replying to then probably it went wrong.
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by kika 12y ago
It was better for us, they didn't have engineers skilled enough to understand what we were saying and asked for a second meeting with their top notch tech people. But I've smelled something fishy and just forcefed them with top gr
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by kika 12y ago
Happened to me. I didn't sell the company in the end (mtg meltdown, tech acquisition department got dismissed altogether, etc) and the company never recovered from me taking the "rest". Wasted 3 years of my life and $250K of
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by kika 12y ago
Exactly, I felt the same. I believe it (cooperation, attention to detail, much less hype and lawsuits, etc) is because of the responsibility. If I sue competing startup and they will get distracted and miss their scaling problem and begin t
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by kika 12y ago
Boeing or LM? I worked for Tupolev - Tu-214D, auxiliary fuel system control module, which actually did D in the name (which means Dalnii, Long Range in Russian). My famous takeaway from these times was --- ARINC Report 431: No Fault Found
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by kika 12y ago
I worked once on the design of the auxiliary fuel control system for a long range version of jet commercial aircraft. This single job taught me more about "Proper System Design"(tm) than my whole previous experience.
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by kika 12y ago
Crowdfunding for law making (and un-making)?
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by kika 12y ago
You have the right to say this while being the lowest ranking employee in the company, not CEO. But when you're CEO, you have other people you're responsible for, you hired them and they depend on you being able to run the busines
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by kika 12y ago
Node - for node-webkit, I believe. As for the general question - why use web technologies for desktop app, I think it's like "Qt for those who don't want to use C++". Cross-platform GUI toolkit. As someone who used Qt ex
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by kika 12y ago
I can recognize the hack value, but having a hard time imagining why would I use it for something else than a hack value. If I wanted to develop, lets say, an iOS app natively - I'd chose Obj-C (which I don't know good enough, so

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