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by minsight 10y ago
That is exactly what I thought when I saw what had been posted. I have a feeling that we have a generation of developers whose work makes sense on a small scale or in the short term, but becomes ridiculous with growth and/or age.
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by minsight 10y ago
Thank you, Pieter, for making your ideas public. I learned many valuable lessons from your designs, all the way back to Libero and the SFL. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
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by minsight 11y ago
> Lustig himself seems to have not figured out what the secret is to health and weightloss as he is obese to morbidly obese. I just googled images and videos of him, in case your statement had some validity. The Lustig I saw looked like
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by minsight 11y ago
Well put. Also, the developers (at least when I was involved with it) had a thing for repeatedly changing internals such that new developments (most importantly, security-related developments) required orders of magnitude more ability in a
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by minsight 11y ago
The application of updates required manually updating databases. There was an easy-to-use installation procedure but the upgrade process was both not automated and very easy to break. The developers (at least at the time) were more interes
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by minsight 11y ago
I had the misfortune to use Drupal a while ago. It seemed like a very convenient and powerful way to get an extremely full-featured and rich site up quickly. It was only after attempting one of the frequently-required updates that I reali
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by minsight 11y ago
New? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508633
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by minsight 11y ago
The info could be very valuable. Or it could be not valuable at all. It could be inflammatory. It could be dead wrong. Remember, you are not your down votes. Or your up votes. Share the things you'd like to share. Hopefully, someo
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by minsight 11y ago
I was burned by a hardware vendor on Indiegogo. All that it took for the person running the campaign to remain (indifinitely) in compliance was to regularly keep us updated on project progress. Of which there was none. So we'd regul
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by minsight 11y ago
This is just amazing. I was waiting for how it might go horribly wrong, but the guy's mouth looks great.
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by minsight 11y ago
Sigh. And also someone who should never be cited about anything, unless in the context of a humorous anecdote.
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by minsight 11y ago
"The lemur stared at me for a moment, then turned back to its drink. "
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by minsight 11y ago
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11199300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117880
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by minsight 11y ago
According to my mother, that's "The hard drive".
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by minsight 11y ago
"This drone did not testify."
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by minsight 11y ago
I'm not sure what any of this means, but I have a feeling that Hacker News readers are not even close to the target market for this page.
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by minsight 11y ago
A Billion second photo app.
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by minsight 11y ago
I got a "for life" server years ago. I didn't expect it to really be for my life, but I at least hoped it would be for the life of the company. It wasn't. Oh well. At least I got a few years out of it and learned neve
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by minsight 11y ago
There are a multitude of better ways to spend one's time than making this service or using this service.
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by minsight 11y ago
>It's one reporter's take on current events. Where "one reporter" was once Secretary of Labor.
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by minsight 11y ago
Idera bought a company that I used to work for out. They terminated about half of the people without severance (well, you could get severance if you were still out of work after 36 weeks). The rest were kept on in case Idera's employ
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by minsight 11y ago
In my case, all the person running the campaign had to do was send out weekly messages to those who had purchased. The content could be something like "I'm trying to call my partner, but he's not answering". You may g
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by minsight 11y ago
Buyer beware: Indiegogo campaigns for hardware leave their supporters with very little recourse if the project fails to deliver. I've been burned by this one in the past.
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by minsight 11y ago
He seems like the "Simpsons Comic Book Guy" of Shakespeare.
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by minsight 11y ago
I've seen many "main developers" terminated due to layoffs, restructuring, etc. Don't let the your importance to a project prevent you from restructuring your own life.
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by minsight 11y ago
For all those who want some sort of backup: There is a search function here. If you search for Linode, you'll find a long string of security blunders. You really won't have to try hard. (PS. I'm a current Linode customer
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by minsight 11y ago
Where I come from (Canada), you can't call yourself an Engineer unless you are certified as a Professional Engineer by the appropriate licensing body. This is similar to the fact that you can't call yourself a Lawyer or a Medica
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by minsight 11y ago
It seems that he hacked the culture at NASA. Showing that spectacular things were possible when one decides that certain (in retrospect unnecessary) limitations can be ignored is a very hackerly thing to do.
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by minsight 11y ago
Canadians say "aboot" nearly as often as Americans who plan to go drink at a "baah". After all, the United States = Boston and Canada = St John's.
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by minsight 11y ago
It does the same thing for me. I actually went looking to see if I had some sort of crazy malware messing with my browser after opening it...

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