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by mickt 18y ago
A laudable goal, but if you managed that do you really think your senior management (or at least the mgt in most companies) would agree? They'd think they're not getting value for money if your only "working" 2 hours a day.
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by mickt 18y ago
I was wondering what it was. U could always validate the input and check for the particular characters in that sequence and remove them? Hmmm, might be a good question for YC, how do people validate input from users?
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by mickt 18y ago
Hey PG, on Firefox on Ubuntu Linux all the text on this page scrolls about 2 page to the left. First time I've this on YC. Obligatory screenshot: http://timony.com/mickzblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/yc.jp...
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by mickt 18y ago
U might be right. But, on the other hand I think many of us would be lucky to have a boss like Joel.
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by mickt 18y ago
I only saw iamelgringo comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366487 ) after I posted this. I'd still take anything MS offers with a big bucket of salt.
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by mickt 18y ago
I agree it might be more productive (I've never used it). But I do feel the costs and associated costs are quite high. Imagine you get accepted by PG into Ycombinator and you have your $15000 in hand to start. Using MS technologies you have
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by mickt 18y ago
I've noticed that no-one has talked about the cost of using either. Yes the Java IDE's are somewhat inferior to MS's, but you can get everything you need to write, develop, manage, and host Java applications for free compared to MS; the OS,
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by mickt 18y ago
This probably isn't Google's fault, it's probably the fault of someone on the T-Mobile team or at HTC who accidently left this running on the OS image put on the phones.
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by mickt 18y ago
I'm sure he does see the big picture, he's probably just spreading FUD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
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by mickt 18y ago
And ban them in many meetings too ...
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by mickt 18y ago
It's for that reason I use a non-gmail account for my adsense account. Consumerist has a few articles about this, but they don't offer a solution: http://consumerist.com/consumer/complaints/gmail-disables-us...
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by mickt 18y ago
Yeah that's the problem, they're all boring and don't lead to a bit of light reading after a hard day at work.
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by mickt 18y ago
Good reviews on Amazon and it's inexpensive. So maybe I'll pick up a copy. I'm asking cause I might get a gig working for a non-profit that does a lot of biological research.
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by mickt 18y ago
How about a good basic Chemistry book?
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by mickt 18y ago
Anyone know any good books about Chemistry for those of us that know naught about it (particularly books related to programming)?
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by mickt 18y ago
About time Nokia! However, it would be nice to see some Specs for the phone, how the UI works, and what this means for developers who want to write apps for this phone. Also, with all these different phones running different OS's it makes i
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by mickt 18y ago
I was almost embarrassed to ask as I thought it's something I should know! 8)
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by mickt 18y ago
What is TTD? Or do you mean TDD (Test Driven Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Driven_Development )?
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by mickt 18y ago
A window.
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by mickt 18y ago
> if you start a startup to make a shitload of money and you do make a shitload of money, then, mission accomplished right What about the user-base? Don't we have a responsibility to them also? Without them we can't be successful, and w
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by mickt 18y ago
But the problem with that can be actually dealing with people! I used to work a sales job and the general public can vary from the most nicest honest people U can meet to the most horrible nasty fools that can just ruin your day. At least w
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by mickt 18y ago
That's a great f g quote. Thanks for the inspiration, I'm outta (where I work at the moment) here as soon as I can. Not an on-the-spot decision, but another nail to confirm my plan to leave the borg in a few months.
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by mickt 18y ago
UR probably right, but what the heck!
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by mickt 18y ago
Great it's a good start! :) Just be careful that you don't take courses that won't transfer to a 4-year college (beats me how you'd determine this). Plus, this discussion is good for anyone else in your position and it'd be good to keep the
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by mickt 18y ago
The problem with moving is the cost! It's can take a lot of money to move, especially to SV, Boston, or NYC. Plus, as an out-of-state resident (state) colleges will be too expensive. However, UMass Boston has a pretty good CS programme at a
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by mickt 18y ago
Here's what I did; I went part-time off-and-on for 4 years and it seemed like an eternity and sucked big time. Finally quite my job and financed my 1st year of full-time (State) college with my credit-cards, worked in the Unix lab. In my 2n
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by mickt 18y ago
Sage a Firefox plugin, and sometimes Google Reader.
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by mickt 18y ago
I guess you missed this article claiming that couples w/o children are happier than those with. Which could imply; not having kids means working less and having more leisure time? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231236 But surely isn'
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by mickt 18y ago
So that's it! I always suspected that having a dog ruined my programming fits and that having to walk the dog at midnight ruins my concentration and programming rhythm. I guess it's time to get a cat, or train the 65lb dog to use a litter b
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by mickt 18y ago
I've no idea how old 6th grade is (didn't go to US highschool), but wouldn't the OLPC, http://laptop.org , be ideal for a kid to learn programming? They looks at the code of all the applications running on the OLPC and change them on the

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