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by methodin 15y ago
Or you could look at it as a form of addiction similar to how WOW and other MMORPG games have you do mundane tasks to get a reward which is in and of itself meaningless. The more they can get you to read articles the more it benefits them.
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Anonymous suspects arrested in Italian police raids(thenextweb.com)
2 points by methodin 15y ago|0 comments
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by methodin 15y ago
That's a point most people don't seem to remember. I can see what Google has on me, for the most part at any rate, and opt to destroy it. Contrast that with FB and I really have no clue what data they have on me.
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by methodin 15y ago
Am I the only one that thought the screenshots looked almost identical? Reading the article led you to believe it was like stepping back into the 90's when in reality it looks like he just needs to turn off some calendar views since everyth
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by methodin 15y ago
Talk about nitpicking. You are clearly missing the point here. These videos are not aimed to tell everyone everything there is to know about a topic. They are there to lay the basics or spark some interest after which the person should go o
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by methodin 15y ago
If this would be the case then why does every startup ask for an email address to let people know when the product is ready? It's really no different. If you are genuinely interested in something you will chomp at the bit to access it. I fo
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by methodin 15y ago
I can't remember the last time a schema I made in week 1 was similar to the schema in week 4. That alone is why I made that statement. Modifying schemes requires modifying code all over the place that relies on it. The majority of the time,
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by methodin 15y ago
I actually tend to believe many developers realize that data in a relation DB is not the only way to go about things. Having spent my entire adult life in a SQL bubble it's refreshing to have all these alternative tools now that can do more
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by methodin 15y ago
I don't really quite get what point you are making here. Are you saying that the innovation today owes more to the innovation of the mid-nineties? Are you saying that any innovation now with respect to AJAX and JS does not make your life be
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by methodin 15y ago
Is it legal and/or feasible to start a Kickstarter project to help fund these developers' legal costs? Not sure how it could be distributed but if they could somehow pool together it would make for a pretty awesome stand. I know I'd gladly
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Lodsys shifts in-app purchasing target to Android devs(engadget.com)
2 points by methodin 15y ago|0 comments
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by methodin 15y ago
This seems like a desperate move. I'm not aware of the timelines but it seems ridiculous that Paypal just sat around knowing their "secrets" were taken to Google and hoped the person(s) that took them would remove all traces and not divulge
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by methodin 15y ago
I know what you mean. I've often shied away from using REST simply because I like to setup the APIs as classes and use the classes directly in my internal code usage. REST breaks that for me, not only because the paradigm is different, but
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by methodin 15y ago
RESTful APIs can be a pain when you have to mashup different APIs, though. The amount of calls you end up having to do can be quite a lot. From a backend standpoint it's not that bad if you cache, but from a consumer standpoint I have to ge
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by methodin 15y ago
I see this argument/question come up all the time in a variety of different contexts. Inevitably it boils down to some form of "this company/site/person is taking away my privacy!" Typically this stems from the belief that a particular prac
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by methodin 15y ago
How bout now?
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Show HN: Simple palette explorer using Colourlovers API(plgrnd.com)
4 points by methodin 15y ago|3 comments
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by methodin 16y ago
Couldn't they just strap solar panels all over the surface or on top of the wind mills to mitigate some of the inefficiencies? On a related note, whatever happened to the spray-on solar material using nanotechnology?
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by methodin 16y ago
I still remember the 5 things in this list and I wasn't even trying to... I wonder if it works with bland data?
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by methodin 16y ago
How long has the site been in invite-only mode?
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by methodin 16y ago
I've seen this before on the other end. Someone learns a mostly useless design pattern then begins to architect every solution using it.
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by methodin 16y ago
"Writing software quickly is much more important than writing it well" You should mean: "Figuring out if people will use your product/idea is much more important than programming it" At this point in my life I can implement a well-programme
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by methodin 16y ago
Telling people to take shortcuts and write spaghetti code is a terrible idea. I'd venture to say the people nodding their heads have never had to deal with a million line code base with spaghetti code, duplication (50%), terrible architectu
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by methodin 16y ago
It's probably because most people have never made something elegant with PHP. The language is always a means to an end. It, in and of itself, will not make you a better developer. It can do a lot of work for you (frameworks) and make esoter
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by methodin 16y ago
This was one of the more intriguing and thought-provoking articles I've read in a while. As someone who always had enough to get by, but never enough to spend without consequence, the goal of "being successful and having money" was always o
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by methodin 16y ago
I started out in a medium company not really doing anything exciting, but doing it fast (and in .NET... bleh!). I decided to go the startup route and tried that and failed twice over the next two years. At some point I got fed up with job h
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by methodin 16y ago
Did this ever actually launch? I don't recall ever hearing about it although I probably wouldn't have remembered anyway. I also didn't realize lycos was still around!
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by methodin 16y ago
$ne = not equals which translated to "give me everything not equal to foo". Using this you can basically get a dump of all the data or update with foobarred critera - updating all passwords for all users not equal to foo, for instance
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by methodin 16y ago
Right. That should have been "would be".
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by methodin 16y ago
Buzz is actually way more useful to me than facebook and twitter. The functionality is the same, obviously, but the fact that I can switch tabs while in gmail to check posts is pretty useful. Sadly I only know 2 people that use it, and most

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