lazyjones

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   by lazyjones 14y ago

   tl;dr: It's AOL all over again...
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   by lazyjones 14y ago

   > Seems this is 100% intentional from Google. What the fuck? I was completely blindsided by this, I couldn't imagine a huge company like Google doing this at this scale. The funny thing about this is that Microsoft used to employ such m
3. 2793.▲
   by lazyjones 14y ago

   I stopped drinking coffee about 3 months ago, until then I had undergone different phases with sometimes 2-3 cups/day (recent years) to 20-25 cups/day (last few months at university). I stopped because I simply couldn't stand the "routine"
4. 2794.▲
   by lazyjones 14y ago

   My "server costs" for my personal web page are $0 as well, I forward the URL to static HTML hosted on Wuala. It gets rewritten to a long, ugly URL nowdays (previously it was just content.wuala.com/.../~LazyJones or something like that), but
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   Ask HN: checking/cleaning a domain's reputation with SEs

   1 points by lazyjones 14y ago|0 comments
6. 2796.▲
   by lazyjones 14y ago

   Geizhals in Vienna, Austria is looking for senior and lead web/full-stack developers. We currently use mostly Perl (mod_perl, PSGI/Plack and Mojolicious), PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache, Gearman, as well as JavaScript, C, Java/JSP, PHP for minor
7. 2797.▲
   by lazyjones 14y ago

   Indeed, it might be a good idea to have 2/3 separate threads for US/Europe/Asia... or US/Rest of the world since postings regarding jobs in Europe are hardly visible at all.
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   by lazyjones 14y ago

   Seconded, but Linux and OSX seem to be the root causes of this (Net-/Open-/FreeBSD people flocking to these). What happened to all the extremely interesting efforts like EROS ( http://www.eros-os.org/ ) with its global persistence (i.e. can
9. 2799.▲
   by lazyjones 14y ago

   Thanks for posting this, the code is very readable and good for learning. How much time did you spend on Go before you finished these projects?
10. 2800.▲
    by lazyjones 14y ago

    If the hour-long sitting is the cause of the problems, why not fix them by using height-adjustable sit-stand tables? They've become popular in our office...
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Work: decide on a new main programming language to switch to (from Perl) so we can actually hire more developers ... Personal: move to a new flat (8 years were enough for the current one, I need new surroundings), stop eating sugar, grains
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Indeed, this has been done many times before and more carefully. I don't know why this was newsworthy, we used to implement dynamically-sized arrays for our programs in C 20 years ago ... :-/
13. 2803.▲
    by lazyjones 14y ago

    I wouldn't mind bots that fix spelling mistakes in comments or even actual bugs in code. But why not let github projects be configured to allow certain kinds of bots?
14. 2804.▲
    by lazyjones 14y ago

    It's not always helpful. Consider code with a similar purpose on github (transforming images, compressing them) with an accompanying image test suite, where modifying these images will break tests.
15. 2805.▲
    by lazyjones 14y ago

    The best choice always depends on your data and the quality of the implementations for the language you use. We tested many serializers recently for our backend (Perl, but we wanted something more open to other languages than Storable) and
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    That was what I was looking for - php and node.js seem most popular with younger people, but not by much. What is surprising is that game development is much more popular with younger people than web development.
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Working (pretty much no family left...). It is highly annoying when no lawyers, consultants, other professionals are available these days. ;-)
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    > If however you choose to snipe at hard work, you deservedly attract criticism in the strongest terms. That's a strange attitude. A user does not thrive on your hard work, he uses your product. He cannot judge (nor should he) whether h
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Possibly because the demand has increased? We're a Perl shop and have absolutely no chance of finding professional developers on the market, we've actually considered switching to Python (despite the language's similar to Perl deficiencies:
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    I don't understand your aggression. He chose to pay $100 - or whatever Windows 7 costs now - so that is the investment he needed to make to fix his problems. Fixing it in Ubuntu might be a lot more expensive to him (or impossible due to lim
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    I'm not using any of these services (expedia or booking.com), but have heard similar things several times ... "Genuine" reviews are a difficult problem to solve though, even if you have the identity of actual "customers" at your disposal. T
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Hmm... I'd like to see the ratings for that hotel on booking.com, because I wonder whether such experiences are actually avoidable using the mechanisms (user to user ratings) provided.
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Someone recommended this - at first I thought the title sounded too cheesy, but then again I already had plenty of (bad) management books, so I gave it a try: http://www.amazon.com/Its-Your-Ship-Management-Techniques/dp... While not featu
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Assuming that a serious developer will easily earn more than enough to cover his/her costs of living whether in NYC or in Louisville, this isn't really a strong point. There's also the matter of what you can do in the near vincinity with th
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    This (HN post) is a good marketing attempt, but perhaps the best way to grow your business is to add some sort of referral bonus (refer a friend and get $10 discount). Word-of-mouth is powerful, more powerful than posting on HN. ;-)
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    I've seen this a couple of times but not after pull requests, but simple (verified even) bug reports or feature requests. Let me quote a recent example from IRC: > XXXXX interesting how the number of new github issues went down since i
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    Ugh. I don't know where this hate of threaded forums comes from, but these arguments are obviously based on something emotional rather than rational. If you don't know where the heck you are in a threaded forum, where sub-threads often have
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    http://zotonic.com/ is pretty innovative (the event-driven model e.g.) and so is http://www.helma.org/ (elegant, server-side JS, heavily used by large websites like orf.at for many years, but not widely known).
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    If you want these JavaScript 1.7 features on the server side, you can use RingoJS ( http://ringojs.org/ ), which has supported 1.7 since 2008 or so (and now sports some 1.8 features) ... It's a much less known alternative for Node.js, bette
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    by lazyjones 14y ago

    The Dell Mini 9 had an Atom N270, which is rated at 2.5W max. TDP: http://ark.intel.com/products/36331/Intel-Atom-Processor-N27... There are (or were) plenty of fanless designs around that CPU on the market, from embedded/industrial PCs t