mojuba

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by mojuba 19y ago
Bots won't be able to ab/use a site with gradual engagement, because the whole process would be too difficult for them to follow, I presume. Thus no need for captchas.
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by mojuba 19y ago
How does gradual engagement work precisely? If this is based entirely on cookies, which seems to be the only possibility, then: what if I started the process, posted something - my video, a blog post, etc - then got my cookies deleted? Or m
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by mojuba 19y ago
I thought the key phrase in your comment was: "Your startup depends almost entirely on the thinking and behavior of people", emphasis mine, and I responded to this seemingly wrong idea. I assumed "thinking and behavior" implies some speci
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by mojuba 19y ago
> Your startup depends almost entirely on the thinking and > behavior of people You startup depends almost entirely on personalities of its founders and also professional skills of all employees. Making psychology a cornerstone in
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by mojuba 19y ago
Munger's psychological insight is fantastic. Curiously, reality distortion (or misjudgement) he talks about in its extreme is one of the symptoms of psychosis. Essentially, he explains the causes of "mild" psychoses we all may have from tim
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by mojuba 19y ago
One reason is portability, especially for applications running on both UNIX and Windows. The Windows system event logger is so awful I sometimes think it was made for robots rather than human programmers. It's just useless. Why not UNIX sys
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by mojuba 19y ago
Those people would hardly ever get it right then.
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by mojuba 19y ago
Another "how to eat pizza" post. 1. Find a partner to eat pizza. 2. Order pizza. 3. Open the box with pizza. 4. Start chewing pizza. 5. DON'T watch Sponge Bob while eating pizza! 6. Leave nothing to your enemies!
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by mojuba 19y ago
I worked for outsourcing companies in some third world countries for years, and here's my advice: don't outsource your work if you can and you will save a lot of money in the long run. Or, if you feel you need 50 Java programmers for a sing
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by mojuba 19y ago
Ok, then take a look at how HTML does forward compatibility, for example. Extremely simple, elegant. Not that i defend lexable-parsable formats - I got the point that speed was important on stone-age computers. No. It's about architecture.
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Ask YC: Is Y Combinator itself a startup?
9 points by mojuba 19y ago|17 comments
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by mojuba 19y ago
How about my old-school comments that I might need when editing my source on Mars Rover?
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by mojuba 19y ago
You can collapse/expand comment blocks in Visual Studio, although I'm not sure if VS can hide all of them at once. If not, it's a matter of writing a very simple plug-in. But anyway, that's not my point. I think the idea of turning your pla
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by mojuba 19y ago
One problem that Steve doesn't talk about is that books on programming and all kinds of tutorials are mostly written by noobs and teenagers, and for a reason that's I think intuitively clear, vets rarely write tutorials. This is a pain for
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by mojuba 19y ago
Oh yes, that's Microsoft Valley where Yahoo will be moving to soon. This is roughly what Bob Cringely was predicting here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111933
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by mojuba 19y ago
How many legs do you have?
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by mojuba 19y ago
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by mojuba 19y ago
Чему вы рады? :)
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by mojuba 19y ago
For consistency of the interface I think "threads" could be renamed to "my threads" in the top bar.
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by mojuba 19y ago
This is a nice thought experiment. We all know it proves nothing and at the same time, formally, it does prove something. Let's get back to PG's original essay. What he says essentially is, if the goal of high-level languages is to make com
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by mojuba 19y ago
Among other things, this is also about taking over the IM market. Yahoo+MSN together would be able to impose standards, and in case of acquisition the standards most likely will be closed or just partly open. It is interesting that both MSN
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by mojuba 19y ago
MS has nothing but many failed attempts to create web sites. Absolutely no positive experience in the field, all negative, and they are going to run flickr, del.icio.us and many others. No, seriously, these are the pearls of social networki
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by mojuba 19y ago
It looks like a descriptive language rather than a Turing-complete programming language. Or am I wrong?
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by mojuba 19y ago
A formal language that sounds like Put the first word of the third line of field "hello" into field "goodbye" (which is actually goodbye = hello.lines[3].words[1]) is ridiculous. The HyperCard phenomenon though is something that sho
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by mojuba 19y ago
Agreed, I, too, had the feeling that he didn't get the algorithm. In fact, you have to compare every 5th position with all 5 letters of the pattern - p, e, n, 1 and s, (edit) or the other way around, like you said, which can be done nicely
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by mojuba 19y ago
HTML is presentational in nature, so what's the point of separating presentational attributes from presentational tags? With the current spontaneously emerged HTML standard we have a choice of using or not using separate style declarations,
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by mojuba 19y ago
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080122/#absent-att... Look at the things that are depreceted in HTML5: noshade attribute on hr, nowrap attribute on td and th, width attribute on hr, table, td, th, col, colgroup, iframe and pre,
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by mojuba 19y ago
First time I see an investment figure which is an 99.99-style. Is that for tricking the investor it's not too much, or what? :)
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by mojuba 19y ago
What's the point? Subycnews for subhackers?
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by mojuba 19y ago
You mentioned intuition - so what is it anyway? There is an interesting mechanism in our minds: when we find an algorithm for doing something and we do it often, the brain decides to hide it under the water - sort of passes it over to our s

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