melvinmt

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by melvinmt 14y ago
Sure, but what marketable skill are you able to learn with Wikipedia alone?
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by melvinmt 14y ago
"If you sell a 99-cent app to just 1% of the people who bought new iOS devices in the 2012 holiday quarter alone, you’ll clear about $519,750." http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/11/the-1-percent-falla...
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Also known as an argumentum ad Hitlerum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Can you elaborate on why incoming transfers from reputable companies have a certain risk attached? I simply can't think of any reason why that should be the case. Isn't the primary function of the bank to receive and store your money?
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by melvinmt 14y ago
We have to be careful when we question the "real value" of specific assets as we may tumble in an essentialist philosophical debate where we have to question the "real value" of every single asset in the universe. There is no inherent diffe
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by melvinmt 14y ago
> (As a Dutch person I believe The Netherlands is the greatest country of the world) Uhm, really? As another Dutch person I now suspect you to be a member of some extreme rightwing ideology (PVV?) because no sane Dutch person I've ever
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Simply put: if the board doesn't maximize the interests of the shareholders, the board will be replaced by a board who does. Because of this control mechanism a public company will always take care of the shareholders first before anything
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by melvinmt 14y ago
All the more impressive.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
The author mistakenly attributes the deflating aspects of a controlled limited supply of Bitcoins (by design) as the cause of the recent surge in valuation while it's really just speculation at this point. Even worse, he's urging everyone t
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by melvinmt 14y ago
> The iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 will obviously not work on LTE, but they will function on T-Mobile's "4G" HSPA+ network. I've been using my unlocked European iPhone 4 for 2 years at T-mobile now because it's the only GSM carrier that has r
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying (can't edit my statement), the engineer I spoke to was wildly enthusiastic about Go so it may have been wishful thinking on his part. Even though it's clear now that the existing codebase won't be rewritten nearly as
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by melvinmt 14y ago
I won't name the source but I never intended to bring "harm and distrust" to the Go community (I really like Go). I can't edit my OP but thanks for clarifying the statement.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
I'm not sure why, I also thought it was a bold statement coming from a Google employee and we'll have to see if they actually are able (and willing) to do that. But I can imagine, seeing how obsessive Google with performance usually is, tha
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by melvinmt 14y ago
For those of us who are wondering if 1.1 is stable enough to upgrade: Google is already using Go 1.1 in production. And the company is betting big time on Go, more than 50% of their codebase will be (re)written in Go in a couple of years. S
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Technical details aside, I don't want to be tied into paying for a service in a currency that fluctuates 30-50% a month. I think that's by far the biggest problem bitcoin currently has.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
> it's not some faux-English DSL your brain isn't constantly fighting with itself making stupid and incorrect assumptions about syntax because 'hey, it looks like English'. I'm doing the same Rails tutorial right now and I constantly fe
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by melvinmt 14y ago
I'm sorry but you live in the UK (aka the CCTV country) you say and think your privacy is protected more than in the States? Think again.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
I think he's being sarcastic.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Well, I still see a logo above the fold, whether it's dimmed or not, it kinda invalidates your point.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
It's quite common to be $30,000+ in debt for a wedding where my family is from (Turkey).
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by melvinmt 14y ago
I agree that ordinary people shouldn't bet their life savings on startups. But this allows an average well-informed SF employee to invest $1,000-2,000/month of his/her salary into any startup they like - hardly a life changing amount. See i
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“House of Cards” and Our Future of Algorithmic Programming(technologyreview.com)
1 points by melvinmt 14y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmt 14y ago
You're the 2% who needs to install add-ons.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
"Please don't open multiple tabs or use multiple browsers. Each time you open a new connection, your ticket search will restart."
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Will Microsoft Fire Ballmer When Blackberry Crushes Windows?(thestreet.com)
1 points by melvinmt 14y ago|0 comments
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by melvinmt 14y ago
I like the way how Github handles DMCA requests by the way, everything's out in the open, including the lame claims people come up with.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Security should not be a feature.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
It's a test.
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by melvinmt 14y ago
That's why I don't use any fancy services for my notes, which usually contains sensitive data. I simply use Notational Velocity which encrypts my notes and stores it locally. It does provide a synchronization option with SimpleNote but they
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by melvinmt 14y ago
Waiting for the iPad Mini w/ Retina display (wait, where's the iPad mini?).

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