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The Humble Music Bundle(humblebundle.com)
8 points by kvnn 14y ago|1 comments
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by kvnn 14y ago
You are worrying prematurely. "without taking on consulting work or trying to create some other application on top of Meteor to sell" != "Meteor will be built without real-life feedback" debergalis cleared this up below: "We use meteor to b
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by kvnn 14y ago
> Women get ostracised from I.T. fairly early on What evidence have you found that suggests that women are systematically ostracized from I.T.?
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by kvnn 14y ago
Doesn't Americas Cardroom, among others, allow U.S. based players to play poker?
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by kvnn 14y ago
There is another comment on this thread, by a separate user that reads: "both RequireJS and Browserify are not even good options. Browserify's implementation is awkward, incomplete and pollutes global scope a lot. Check out OneJS" I think t
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by kvnn 14y ago
Did anyone who actually bid on the site take issue? I'd think that anyone ready to spend $400k on a site would have the willingness to get in direct contact with the seller, and that this "Rise of the White Knights" episode on HN is not bas
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by kvnn 14y ago
Direct link: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention I recommend pressing the play button (it is not a video) and watching for a bit.
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by kvnn 14y ago
1. Kid disrupted his entire company through the combination of a resentment towards manual labor and a skill set that allows him to automate it. 2. Kid did not respect the authority of Boss. When Boss fired him, Kid went over his head and s
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A 3-tiered model of trust, and how con men hack people.(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
2 points by kvnn 14y ago|0 comments
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by kvnn 14y ago
I found their software engineering to be much more advanced than their submarines. Care to go on?
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by kvnn 14y ago
I have always been curious whether Linus has made good money for his contributions. This both made me happy that he was given some money and prompted me to find out whether he has made money otherwise. It looks like he has [1], and thats aw
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by kvnn 14y ago
This is a good argument.
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by kvnn 14y ago
I meant what I said more literally than you took it. Apple doesn't obstruct her from using Android. She can choose not to use Apple products. Edit: keep in mind this is what I was replying to: They reserved for themselves the power to obst
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by kvnn 14y ago
Apple doesn't obstruct her from using Android. Again, I vote that the app stays up. But you are being silly by portraying Apple as evil.
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by kvnn 14y ago
I'm not really sure what is being said here.
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by kvnn 14y ago
If you take a look at the PRC Facebook page [1], there is a SWARM of angry people making a mess of their name. I wonder if this removal will be a net loss for them. [1] I've linked it twice on this thread, and its in the original post's con
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by kvnn 14y ago
I mean, take a look at this quote: The founders of the company marketing this app are speech-language pathologists who were trained by PRC, and who used their knowledge of the Unity system to develop a Unity-like app of their own and marke
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by kvnn 14y ago
The founders of the company marketing this app are speech-language pathologists who were trained by PRC, and who used their knowledge of the Unity system to develop a Unity-like app of their own and market it in the Apple iTunes store.
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by kvnn 14y ago
The following is from PRC's Facebook page [1]. Most of it is in defense of their lawsuit, while the last paragraph is in defense of their request to remove the app from the Apple store. Last week Prentke Romich Company (PRC) learned that A
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by kvnn 14y ago
Google has changed the relationship between exploiters and themselves into something symbiotic and fun. How refreshing it is to hear excitement and admiration when a large tech company speaks about an exploit made in one of its products. Su
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by kvnn 14y ago
I think that everyone who is assuming that 37 Signals is being neglectful or unprofessional here, may be missing the possibility that they let the auction fail with intent. It is possible that private negotiations have been in process. I'm
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by kvnn 14y ago
Actually, so am I. Lets go through it together: 1) "Implementation of Darwin" [1] 2) "On top of the Linux kernel" [2] 3) "Binary compatible with iOS 5.0" [3] 4) "The final goal is probably recreating the iPhone OS 1.0 stack" [4] -------- [1
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by kvnn 14y ago
This is the sort of person that I want to be engaged with: * highly opinionated * driven by personal interest * not afraid to go down the worm hole and come up with little public recognition and enormous personal gain This is the sort of pr
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by kvnn 14y ago
I'm really happy that this is on the front page. This sort of tangential wisdom makes me a better builder than many acute technical posts do.
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by kvnn 14y ago
Yeah, definitely. It applies to making songs as well. It probably applies to any creative, competitive endeavor in which a stranger consumes the end result.
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by kvnn 14y ago
EDIT: I was wrong. Your diatribes would be much more effective if they either had a bit more research behind them or did not succumb to poe's law. - saulrh Good critique, thanks. - http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
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by kvnn 14y ago
In my experience it is common, and the percentage / structure depends on the total estimated price.
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by kvnn 14y ago
I was pissed off at first because we have enough "jQuery"* libraries that do just about nothing when it comes down to business. Then I looked at the DOM HELPERS and said "yeah I've had to build that from scratch" for every single one. Very
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by kvnn 14y ago
He was being sarcastic. It was funny.
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by kvnn 14y ago
Good question. It appears that I jumped the gun a bit, doesn't it?

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