midas007

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   by midas007 13y ago

   Interesting. Got a reference to that CIA incident?
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   by midas007 13y ago

   R: Another Octave TOML: Because INI files, JSON and YAML parsers are either too hard to read or write sane parsers for (It's not a language, but hey data formats are people too.) Elixir: Because I want to be a Ruby hipster and an Erlan
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   by midas007 13y ago

   It's who you talk to, where and how. Probably no bank in Palo Alto will invest, but they may consider a loan with collateral.
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   by midas007 13y ago

   Lol @ Color reference. Whether WhatsApp, SnapChat are in league with Broadcast.com, The Learning Company, Geocities or Exite is debatable. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how Groupon justifies any valuation considering how muc
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   by midas007 13y ago

   Some money buys freedom, too much limits other freedoms. It's nice to have the free time to do projects and ventures for the cool factor and betterment of others. (Recommend Lessig & campaign finance reform if in the US... single b
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   by midas007 13y ago

   Toiling in anonymity is something I enjoy. Privacy is priceless.
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   by midas007 13y ago

   Cooking is the same way. A few, simple, fresh ingredients prepared quickly and correctly can be much more amazing than a complicated 20 ingredient recipe that takes 2 hours to prepare.
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   by midas007 13y ago

   And how much net current/future amortized cost (time + maintenance + pain) / benefit there is between DIY & using "off-the-shelf" + learning/configuring/donkey-punching
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   by midas007 13y ago

   Chaos monkeys meet entropy gremlins. (Watch out for water.)
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Just curious about scaling distribution: do they deliver themselves, use waiter.com / MyEatClub or similar? I would use MyEatClub, but I'm ovo-latco-pesci-vegetarian, and don't like restaurant food loaded with cream and salt.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Yeah, it depends. Some people want to go for max $, and that's cool (WDWTMCW). Some go for max cool, and don't care to much about cash. Some folks even will go for cool even if it's a white elephant and not survivable. I
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Either way, it's pretty genius in a flappy bird way.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Cool. What we write here has an impact on someone on the other end. 'sama is mostly human too, despite magically colored collared polos.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    An incubator is different than VCs. If an incubator figured out a way to "hired" founders, that could be a hackaround if it didn't expose them to other employee rights assertion issues.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Definitely disagree. 'sama has clarified that he meant YC would volunteer to beta test it. Probably the fairest way would be for govt to take applications and select X at random.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Yeah, I was "0.0 Wtf?" Seems very undeserved and comes off as mean.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    > People seem to be trying to deliberately misunderstand my point. Welcome to HN :) Btw, <3 whomever did the fruit loopt video.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    See also: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583021&pag...
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    WhatsApp encryption fail(twitter.com)

    2 points by midas007 13y ago|1 comments
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Yeah, if it's not a voluntary act, then demanding volunteer work would be a "voluntold" situation. That's not cool.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Roles and titles cause people to associate with and get put into boxes, and deny latent talents and dismiss insight that could very well be valid. Mgmt consultants make tons of cash repackaging internal feedback into neat, glossy deliverab
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    by midas007 13y ago

    For anyone that needs a DIY preorder site, there's the lockitron selfstarter project https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter
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    by midas007 13y ago

    I like servers that work reliably so the "pager" doesn't go off in the middle of the night nor get calls as to why our service is down.
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Bikeshedding on config syntax isn't a valid critique. Apache uses tons of memory regardless of which worker model is used. Nginx is reliable and stable, we've never had memory leaks or weird shit happen. This is why it's oft
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    Def self.❨╯°□°❩╯︵┻━┻(github.com)

    2 points by midas007 13y ago|0 comments
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Interesting, thanks. Current Gemfile: # ... # i18n gem 'rails_locale_detection' # consider locale_setter gem 'rails-i18n', github: 'steakknife/rails-i18n' gem 'i18n_data', github: &#
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    by midas007 13y ago

    So I worked at Trimble Nav in the radio group, so this by no means perfect || expert on the first go: Rough specs of something that might be respectable: - wind & solar powered - externally-mounted, self-contained, near zero maint
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    by midas007 13y ago

    I'm working on locale stuff for a Rails app right now (just updated the i18n_data in fact). The assumption will be that country is mostly orthognal to language b/c people are übermobile. Further, that the dialect of the language
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    by midas007 13y ago

    Btw, what other keywords/b{uz,i}zwords are sed replaced on HN besides? s/i18n/internationalization/
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    Ruby gem i18n_data updated(github.com)

    1 points by midas007 13y ago|1 comments