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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
>A life spent mostly hoarding money and possessions is a wasted life I find it interesting that an article whose tone is one of optimism is so judgmental.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I agree that the goal is moving on. However, I don't think the best way to bridge is to fail to acknowledge our history. To me, it's important for a society to explicitly acknowledge mistakes. FWIW, I'm American, and I wish
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Must be a typo. Can't get 20 coffees from 50g. My guess would be that it should be 500g.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Have you deployed any apps in their Appxchange? I'd love the chance to talk with someone who has done that to hear their POV. Was at Dreamforce last week and it felt like one giant sales-pitch-cum-Anthony-Robbins event. Let me know if
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Unless the software that enforces this is compromised. If the iPhone can be jailbroken by hobbyists, you can bet there will be resources greater than the Protean dev team devoted to hacking this device to bypass their checks. Credit card s
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Bezos said recently that he thinks AWS could be Amazon's biggest business. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/jeff-bezos-believes-aws-cou... From the press conference reported in the link: "Jeff is v
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
“I hate dark chocolate” “I fucking hate dark chocolate” What about, "I don't like dark chocolate"? It seems like the author doesn't want to be negative, and profanity increases that negativity. But he seems to take hal
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Someone please correct me, because I'm sure I'm way off base. But I feel like this article is really absurd. The Twitter IPO isn't costing the city money. Due to the tax deal struck between the city and Twitter, the city co
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'm currently in between a programmer and a marketing guy in a specific niche. My interpretation is slightly different: With software, you can find a way to get it to work. Given the right knowledge, you can accomplish your goal. (A
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Appreciate the resources. I'm working with the salesforce people and am aware of the developer accounts and other resources, was just trying to connect with someone who has done it before to have a personal conversation. The developer
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Ask HN: Any experience developing on the Salesforce Platform(s)?
3 points by monkeyspaw 13y ago|3 comments
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
My point was that your question wasn't very interesting.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Why build it? Because it appealed to the author, perhaps in a way you can't understand. Why share it? From the comments, I understand that it was shared by someone else, and the original creator didn't intend for it to be put on
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Coding Horror? The whole exchange seems to be @rabois saying "no, that's not a startup. No, that's not what I meant by CEO. No, he doesn't count." What's his point in making this statement, except to attract
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
10x in cost isn't necessarily the most important factor to a business. From an individual's perspective, that's hard to understand. To a business, it really isn't that difficult to justify the cost. One of my criticisms
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
If you view money spend on reducing risk that ended up not being fulfilled, I believe you are correct. However, one major component of businesses that private individuals do not understand is the value of risk reduction. In a major sense
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I second the recommendation for anyone who hasn't seen this movie. It was marketed as a kids movie, but has a lot of stuff in it that adults can appreciate. It was also one of the first movies to combine significant CGI with real-worl
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Your approach would definitely work with me. (Side note: very off-put on Ash Maurya's page by the autoplaying video, so I immediately closed it. But I'm guessing it converts better for him.) Your approach answers the following q
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
The summary is very much appreciated. I read the first two pages of the article, had barely gotten any real information other than the author's personal and biased experience. The whole thing felt very self serving and not very inform
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Grading on a curve helps normalize the resulting letter grades based on how well everyone else in the class understand the material, as it was presented. You are correct in this. I believe it acts as a check to make sure that the class is
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
You speak with much certainty. As the original record was set over 25 years ago, surely there have been incidents of people trying to break it and "plowing over pedestrians", no? I wouldn't encourage people to try this, but
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I was surprised by the startup nature of the thing -- investors, lawyers, etc. The money laundering part seems obvious, since that happens with most criminal enterprises. But the business services around it really are analogous to legitima
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I guess I just see the level of "scientific soundness" as a spectrum. For some work (peer reviewed journals, work you hope other people to be able to reproduce, etc.) you need a higher standard. I find that higher standard requir
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Yup. I don't plan on publishing anything I do in a peer reviewed journal. If I did, I would have to be way more cautious with a lot of my assumptions. By freeing myself of that level of effort, I can test a lot more stuff and build t
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
What would be a preferable term, data engineer? I don't have a background in statistics, and I do a lot of things that would make PhD level statisticians unhappy... but the things I do are sufficient for my own purposes. Sometimes I d
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Probably subsequent signups from the same IP address. You could also put a cookie on the users computer, so you know if that cookie is present for 5 subsequent signups that have little/no activity, it's probably a cheater.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
OTOH, not running on port 22 prevents you from drive by scans. You are right that it doesn't protect from a targeted attack. In my experience (10 years as a sysadmin and dev), I've never had a targeted attack -- all the attempts
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Would servers be affected by the instability of the ocean? That is, if they use spinning drives, would the heave and ho of the ocean affect it? Would that affect other electronics and components?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I think I'm confused as to what, exactly, they do that you're objecting to. Some time ago on HN I remember reading about a company that embeds forms on websites. So if I filled out a contact form on Site A, the third party collec
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
What platforms do this? I'm pretty curious how they advertise the fact that they do something like this as well.

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