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by lelele 15y ago
> So the $5M in sales? It wouldn't have happened without them! (that's the perception) Maybe there was a either a strict deadline or a challenging technical issue to overcome such that that sale couldn't have happened without your contr
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by lelele 15y ago
Refactoring can impact your unit interface too, and when that happens you'll have to refactor your tests accordingly. What you don't want while refactoring is being stuck with your old interfaces.
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by lelele 15y ago
RMS: "Free software literally gives you freedom in the area of computing. It means that you can control your computing. It means that the users individually and collectively have control over their computing. And in particular it means they
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by lelele 15y ago
> From Stallman's blog & email history on newsgroups I could work out: The problem is: FB has all these things together: blog, e-mail, network of people and surfing habits (inside FB, at least). For you and recursively for each frie
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by lelele 15y ago
> To continue the original example, if your program just runs the HTML generation program and supplies user data via a command line argument then it need not be released under a compatible license. I wonder what would happen if you modi
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by lelele 15y ago
Next submission: "Breaking CAPTCHA breakers with automated humans". That is, having humans filter comments submitted through a CAPTCHA. I'd bet they would work even faster than CAPTCHA breakers: typing CAPTCHAs is time-consuming (at least f
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by lelele 15y ago
Would you upgrade your server each six months? I don't think so. We should compare Debian release cycle to Ubuntu LTS'.
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by lelele 15y ago
I followed the modular init file approach at first, but keeping track of dependencies between different modules was a chore. Having all of my initialization code in a single file greatly simplifies maintenance: I could instantly tell what c
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by lelele 15y ago
> I think that mostly the admins and architects on these projects have simply never heard of nginx, or if they have, they don't really know what it does. Then let those admins and architects be hired by your competitors. I mean, whoever
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by lelele 15y ago
> your time as a youth shapes you, forms your understanding of the world. Only if you stop learning. And by learning i mean challenging your ways of thinking and acting (think about a computer geek learning salsa dancing), not learning
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by lelele 15y ago
It's reasonable to ask for a cut on your software output, if the author is giving it out for free. While should they give out their work for free to people who are going to make money out of it? Actually, asking for a cut could become a sta
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by lelele 15y ago
Does not Ruby support pipelines?
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by lelele 15y ago
Besides replying, it would be nice to be able to send you a thank you note to users who accept them. Acknowledgements do not add to discussions, but humans are social, you know.
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by lelele 15y ago
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by lelele 15y ago
Actually, if you look at the submission from HN, its caption looks discarded: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455054 However, if you look at it from HNSearch instead, its caption is there: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&
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by lelele 15y ago
To move out of my rented flat without having anywhere to go - besides hotels, I mean - I gave away most of my belongings and it amazed me watching how many items I owned which were sitting there consuming space. Then, after leaving my count
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by lelele 15y ago
Moreover, if you are not attractive, people won't value you on the basis of your appearance, hence you are less likely to care about it.
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by lelele 15y ago
> Not many, because it's hard and risky and - drum roll - difficult to replicate! I don't think so. IMO, companies do not focus on their image and consumer experience because most CEOs are not entrepreneurs, and lack vision. They have r
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by lelele 15y ago
So what? As long as your master password was strong, your data was safe.
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by lelele 15y ago
I agree. But how many companies do you see really focusing on their image and consumer experience? I used to be a fan of Nokia mobile phones and their ease of use, but as I upgraded to a Nokia 5800 I was disappointed, and lost my faith in t
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by lelele 15y ago
I've learned that this issue has a name: Data Loss Prevention. Indeed, companies may have data more sensitive of source code (customers' credit cards numbers, financial or medical information, etc.) There are companies already which special
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by lelele 15y ago
I wonder how companies protect their source code from leaking. Doesn't every programmer have access to the full source tree? Any disgruntled former programmer employee ought to be able to dump the source of a product for the public to see.
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by lelele 15y ago
Is it that difficult to replicate what Apple does, provided that you have enough resources? I don't think so. But, still, companies fail to do so. Yes, what Dropbox does right now does not add up to much, but if they keep expanding their us
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by lelele 15y ago
What does Apple do? Sell computers and smartphones. Everyone is doing it, but they do it differently, which for many people means better. What does Google do? Web search. Someone else is doing it, but they just do it better.
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by lelele 15y ago
They may be a stopgap feature right now, but they can evolve. Every successful company starts by filling a niche, and then keep expanding such niche till it reaches its critical mass.
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by lelele 15y ago
HN discarded my comment to a submission I made. It seems commenting your submissions it's not possible anymore. Why? And then why the submission form makes you write a comment just to discard it?
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by lelele 15y ago
Actually, as soon as the seller as a decent amount of feedback, I switch to wire transfers, if available. Why should I make an hardworking person pay to get paid? Truth is: PayPal is too big to care about the little guy.
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Doit: a disarmingly simple and flexible build tool(python-doit.sourceforge.net)
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by lelele 15y ago
Therefore your experience is that compilers and/or mainstream libraries are irredeemably broken, right? Because I can't think of any reason why your code should break havoc as long as you are following your language's and your libraries' gu
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by lelele 15y ago
And Eiffel (Design by Contract and strongly-typed OO).

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