melvinmt

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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Meanwhile, the national economy doesn't seem to have any problems with pouring 1.5 trillion in a fighter-jet (F-35).
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   http://refactoring.com/catalog/replaceNestedConditionalWithG...
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Thanks, I bought the paperback for $30 on amazon, had no idea it was also available for free!
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   I wonder what caused the 14% regression of negative value.
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Still, netting $1,000 for managing 3 apartments (it takes a lot of work, my wife used to do this for others), is not really worth the trouble?
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   I thought that 'holacracy' was a made up word from Silicon Valley (the TV show) where they have a fictional company called Hooli, but apparently it's a real thing.
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   > If you're involuntarily collecting information then Mixpanel or GA are not going anywhere. Expect a policy change in 3.. 2.. 1..
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   > This product seems rushed. In Apple's eyes, it's Android and Pebble who are rushing :)
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Question to Matt Mullenweb, co-founder of WordPress and Automattic: If you could instantly rewrite WordPress in any programming language, which would it be? Answer: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jg781
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Yup: http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2015/01/making-users-feel-special-...
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    The major reason why I'm walking around with 5 credit cards in my wallet is that, as being relatively new to the country (4 years), I needed a way to boost my credit score. Note that the recommended number of credit lines (by CreditK
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I'd say not only Italy, but Europe in general (I'm from the Netherlands and it has the same poisonous culture).
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    In retrospect, the global P2P marketplace that we've launched in 2010 on top of PayPal's API may have been 5 years too soon. Requiring all our buyers and sellers to have a PayPal account was detrimental to our brand. But, we concl
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Uhm.. the book is titled "The Prophet" so I would think "that turn" is core to the message of the book.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    > go with what your eyes tell you, but your eyes are also part of the map…
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Is it insider knowledge if the company is not public yet?
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I've worked on projects that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars, all written in shitty PHP code. Was it a big pain for us developers to maintain it? Yes. Did our struggle matter? No.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    > And they traded at a 10% discount to A shares for over a year, because Chipotle was growing quickly, people were logging into their discount brokerage to buy CMG, and their brokerages were giving them CMG.A. The caveat is that this dis
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    > I won't carry an extra phone for each messenger Then you're probably not part of the target market. In a lot of developing countries (India etc), WhatsApp is the primary reason to get a phone.
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    I use bitbucket mainly to host all my private repos (unlimited free private repos) and use github for my public ones. I'm not sure what the tradeoffs are regarding features (so far I'm not missing anything on bitbucket) but it&#x2
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    They could have mitigated this trust issue by requiring people to hold a button on the side of the device to enable the camera. That would be a socially acceptable enough gesture that would signal: "FYI, I'm recording." just
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Do you know if .CO (originally Colombian) is treated as a top-level domain by Google, just like .IO is?
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    If your side project lingers on your personal site where nobody sees it, how would you ever know if people need what you're making? This is the typical "if I build it they'll come" pitfall. You're basically talking
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I heard from my repair guy that the models after 2011 are much harder/more expensive to upgrade and repair.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    I think Tim Cook once said Apple doesn't do it for the money too, while having $150bn on the bank.
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    The paradox is that the best programmers tend to be the worst at interviewing (because they usually get hired quickly) and the worst programmers gradually get better at interviewing (after doing lots of them).
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    Hi everyone, I created TapChat because I’ve always wanted to create a simple app to break the ice during networking events and meeting locals when I’m visiting new places. Basically an anonymous messaging app aimed at more professional use
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    Show HN: Text privately with new people around you (my first iOS app)(tapchat.com)

    2 points by melvinmt 12y ago|3 comments
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    by melvinmt 12y ago

    It's a common misconception that the inability of poor people to learn/grow is related to motivation or "laziness", you should read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-having-little-means-much-eboo.
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    With 300M users, Instagram is now bigger than Twitter(cnbc.com)

    1 points by melvinmt 12y ago|0 comments