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by mpk 17y ago
* Even TechCrunch shoots out an email so they can say that they asked the company what their side is. * Yeah, and they wait all of twenty minutes before posting the article anyway with a "XXX could not be reached for comment". Class act, t
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by mpk 17y ago
I too would much appreciate an invite! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01h_xy67iNydUvNuXZD8LUQQ==...
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by mpk 17y ago
Not being Dutch shouldn't prevent you from having a beer :)
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by mpk 17y ago
Another point for Rotterdam here. I'm always up for a beer or two.
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by mpk 17y ago
Oh dear, looks like someone had a vivid flashback to 1998.
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by mpk 17y ago
Not a lot. The founders get it all and later parcel out pieces to others, with investors taking the huge chunks. I'd say you're looking at some figure between 0.2% and 4.0% depending on when you sign. There's also a big difference in having
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by mpk 17y ago
I really like The Matrix, but it doesn't make sense for a simulation. It's a movie and there are tons of things that Just Don't Make Sense. People grow up inside the Matrix, which means that the whole system has to be continuous. No resets,
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by mpk 17y ago
RIP Fravia. Good guy, engaging speaker, great friend. Always good to see a searchlores link.
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by mpk 17y ago
I used to think that, at your age. Get over it.
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by mpk 17y ago
> 40 is old for a startup founder or professional athlete Though I wouldn't really classify rock or mountain climbing as a profession, the really good ones tend to peak around their 40s. The books I've read on the subject indicate that
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by mpk 17y ago
I hate to be a cynic, but your first assignment will be to make whatever it is work. As this is your first real programming gig you will probably be given a hopeless assignment with really bad or zero infrastructure to build upon. Lacking d
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by mpk 17y ago
As much as I am frothing at the mouth to verbally attack Microsoft for its anti-competitive behaviour, its crappy licensing schemes, its continuing sabotage of open standards, etc, etc - I am not going to jump on the MS-hate bandwagon just
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by mpk 17y ago
HTML and the whole dynamic web-app thing became interesting once a major party deployed a wide-spread application that used asynchronous updates. Wait, let's go back a little. HTML became interesting once Microsoft implemented an ActiveX XM
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by mpk 17y ago
.. but will still be allowed to use all other protocols besides HTTP(S).
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by mpk 17y ago
I love reading articles like this. 8 years or so ago Ruby replaced Perl for me as my 'go to' language for day-to-day problems. I haven't looked back since. What other people call 'magic', I call not understanding the language and execution
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by mpk 17y ago
Thanks for that, John. A very eloquent eulogy that captures how I perceived _why to be.
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by mpk 17y ago
WTFs/minute during code review : http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m
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by mpk 17y ago
I didn't read the article because it's on scribd and I haven't installed flash on the new system yet. But the headline sounds a bit too dramatic. We've been using and expanding applied mathematics for thousands of years. A proof of P=NP wil
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by mpk 17y ago
That works too.
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Ask HN: If you play an instrument, which is it?
9 points by mpk 17y ago|20 comments
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by mpk 17y ago
Yes, developers aren't end-users. However, developers do form an important target for a platform vendor such as Apple. A few years ago you hardly every heard developers complaining about Apple, but with the latest generation iPods, the iPho
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by mpk 17y ago
Long, long before he put up his infamous Rails rant, I spoke with him several times about Mongrel implementation, build issues and getting stuff running on different linux systems. He seems to me to be a nice guy, a clean coder and yes, a g
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by mpk 17y ago
Reporting what's up at 4chan. I see techcrunch has found its level.
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by mpk 17y ago
The coworker only spoke English. My dad made some remark about his coworker not speaking any language at all, but I figured you'd get that from the context. I mean really - that's pretty easy from here on out, right?
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by mpk 17y ago
I'm always reminded of an anecdote my father told me. Once, when he was working abroad in Australia, a faxed document arrived in French, which no one else on site could read. So he translated it to English. This prompted a coworker to comme
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by mpk 17y ago
> [...] than two-thirds of the nation’s approximately 780,000 jail inmates. That's a lot of people to be holding for processing one way or another. Some Googling gave me this informative wikipedia link on the matter if you want
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by mpk 17y ago
A really good wargames sites used to be pulltheplug.org, I had some fun playing around there 5 years or so ago. They seem to have moved to http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/ .
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by mpk 17y ago
Having read the article I came here to comment and specifically mention this video. I highly recommend taking the time to watch this video if you haven't seen it already.
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by mpk 17y ago
You need a little more than familiarity with programming to get started with a JS toolkit. Most JS toolkits are heavily biased towards the browser environment, so you also need some knowledge of the DOM and the host environment provided by
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by mpk 17y ago
Articles like this have me nodding 'yes, yes, yup, sure, yes' while I'm reading them. But by now it's just too easy to write them. What I'd like in such articles is some root-cause analysis and at least a few pointers on how to proceed.

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