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by masto 14y ago
An illegal one, in many (most?) places.
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by masto 14y ago
It's hard to remember what the Internet was like in 1996. I do it by remembering that in 1997 I started an ISP to offer blazing-fast 56K dialup to the indifferent grandparents of Long Island for $19.95/month. We had a computer on display
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by masto 14y ago
I made a geeky version of this using an industrial stack light, an Arduino, some MOSFETs, an RFID card reader, and node.js. Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/dX33N Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bButG4EWSfE https://www.youtube.com/
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by masto 14y ago
What about the Kinect video chat? Isn't that based on Messenger? I would be happy to see that change to Skype.
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by masto 14y ago
NYC, full-time MediaMath. Successful market-leading company with a solid engineering department. Various positions including Perl, JavaScript, C++ developers, data warehouse, sysadmins, network engineers, etc. jobs@mediamath.com
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Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts(pocketables.com)
277 points by masto 14y ago|124 comments
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by masto 14y ago
I figured I'd try it out, but lost my enthusiasm after unsuccessfully attempting to search for the app for five minutes. Next time pick a distinctive name.
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by masto 14y ago
MediaMath - New York City - full time I'll keep it short. My team is looking to add some frontend developers: modern HTML5/Backbone.js/etc. stuff. We are also looking for solid Perl developers to work on our Catalyst-based API. If either o
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by masto 14y ago
I like it, though I got around curl's painful syntax by wrapping it in a few shell script. For example, here's my api_post script (meant to be used like "api_post users/123 first_name=Foo last_name=Bar") (pardon my incompetent shell script
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by masto 14y ago
My tip for using Jenkins (or CI in general): have your build script produce a single-file artifact. You don't have a .war file, but what you can do is simply tar or zip your project. I recommend having a source directory and a build direc
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by masto 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. Deployment via SCM tool is a terrible idea. The first thing to do when starting a project, no matter how small, is to set up a continuous integration server with a clear build and deploy process.
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by masto 14y ago
Though as he says, not to lose weight.
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by masto 14y ago
Since this is Hacker News, no discussion of diets can be complete without a reference to The Hacker's Diet < https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/> . Especially in this context, since it's basically calorie restriction designed to app
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by masto 14y ago
Rails developers seem to be having this revelation a lot recently. I don't think it's a particularly new idea, and I don't see why Rails vs Node vs Java has anything to do with it. MVC is ok for a backend that's "just an API" (although th
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by masto 14y ago
It's great that Microsoft has (for whatever reason, it doesn't matter) taken up the banner of standards compliance, modernization, etc. It doesn't change the fact that IE9 is still a pain in the ass for real-world developers making the cur
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by masto 15y ago
Well, you've all downvoted the crap out of me because it's not socially acceptable to publicly admit that you find any aspect of children annoying. Step away from the knee-jerk reaction, and read the author's own words: 'The fellow is alre
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by masto 15y ago
People who are successful by accident sometimes develop a tendency to preach that the only way to be successful is to do what they did. It's almost like a kind of auto-cargo-cultism. "I had a pear tree in my front yard when I made my firs
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by masto 15y ago
This guy thinks his kid is cute, because it's his kid, but I don't like the part where he deliberately irritates everyone in the hardware store. I don't think your kid is cute, so please keep it out of my way.
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by masto 15y ago
I don't really care, but when I see these things I think about what would happen if the situation were reversed: how would the store react if the total came out to $19.38 and I decided I was only going to pay $19.35 because it's a nice ev
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by masto 15y ago
Linus is increasingly becoming a crazy old man. I find his diatribes largely irrelevant.
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by masto 16y ago
"NSS Labs recently tested half a dozen network firewalls to evaluate security weaknesses, and all but one of them was found not to be vulnerable" What does this say I don't even
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by masto 16y ago
They don't seem to be able to verify my (valid) credit card. I'm hoping it's not a scam, but if it's not, they may have gotten shut down by their payment processor for a lot of suspicious $0.01 authorizations.