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by mpk 18y ago
Well, this sounds like a good opportunity for me to mention an alternative deployment tool with a cooler name : Vlad the Deployer. http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html
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by mpk 18y ago
Enterprise apps suck for a number of reasons. And yes, of course you can build a better UI for most of them, but that isn't really the problem in this space. As a startup you face several problems if you want to get in on the enterprise mar
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by mpk 18y ago
> If you're really seeking a lead developer - I'd change that to at least 5 years of developing web apps, with around 3 in ruby. Oh pfffff, I say. If you're hiring someone to do something they've already done before, you're missing the
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by mpk 18y ago
"Equity only" sounds like "work for nothing". Everybody has to live off of something. Offer a salary that'll cover rent + noodle money and you'll see a lot of positive responses if you throw in some equity. Or maybe even if you don't. A lot
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by mpk 18y ago
Oh, OK, I'll bite. When choosing a framework, I want it to be community supported. This means it's under active development and open to change. When programming an app against a framework, I want it to simply not break when updating to a po
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by mpk 18y ago
> we are implementing compilation of whole or parts of ECMAScript programs and functions into native code. This seems to be a new, popular approach to JS optimalization. For an open-source implementation it's a reasonable approach, but
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by mpk 18y ago
Whether or not working from home is good or not really depends on your situation. I have a 40 minute commute to and from work which I use to read the papers or a book. I have an official 'work-from-home' day (Wednesday) and the option to wo
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by mpk 18y ago
I've written code in almost everything under the sun and don't really give a damn one way or another. That said, choose Java. If you have to choose between C# and Java, go with Java because the JVM runs everywhere and the dotNet runtime run
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JavaScript is adequate (and not that bad)(blog.mendix.com)
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by mpk 18y ago
This article is obviously a random snapshot of some impressions the author has. But this line strikes me a grossly unfair. > The web development community consciously chose to stick with a pathetically crippled technology to avoid havin
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by mpk 18y ago
FYI, this is how you do a user-interface rant/parody : http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
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by mpk 18y ago
While it's quite probable that Burger King violated some part of the Terms of Services, I'm cynical enough to think that encouraging people to remove relationships from the Facebook graph might have played a role too.. (Come on, you thought
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by mpk 18y ago
What's really funny about this is reading the comments and watching Arrington make an ass of himself. I realize he's known for his volatile personality and taking everything personally, but wow, does this guy ever have issues.
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by mpk 18y ago
I do a little web hosting on the side. Only for friends or companies that are run by friends, though. Depending on what they want I charge somewhere between 10 and 40 euros a year. If you don't know the dollar/euro exchange rate, just assum
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by mpk 18y ago
Wake me when they have a working build for linux.
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by mpk 18y ago
randallsquared is correct. You are misunderstanding sequences of related events. Running the roulette wheel twice is a sequence of unrelated events. The (ideal) roulette wheel is totally random. The results of run #1 are unrelated to the
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by mpk 18y ago
The author apparently doesn't understand where the confusion in the original question (or variations) comes from. One way of phrasing it is asking, "If you have an unrelated man and woman and they both have two children (one of which is a b
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by mpk 18y ago
"Ask HN : How do big websites roll out new versions?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411282 Lots of interesting replies to that one.
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by mpk 18y ago
Steve Yegge says something similar about applying for a position at Google. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightl... 'Resume screeners keep an eye out for non-weasel words, aka Productivity Words. These are words th
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by mpk 18y ago
Well that was a right ole' waste a' time, eh chaps? Let's get back to discussing how the Harry Potter movies would have been far superior in the colonial lingo, wot?
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by mpk 18y ago
I personally love to read a good rant. Zed's flaming exit from the Ruby community, however, is not something I would recommend everybody does. Things generally work differently for different people in different situations. (Good luck tryi
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by mpk 18y ago
I agree and I like your analogy. However .. I feel compelled to point out that if you're anywhere on the way to a star, you'll find yourself in an interstellar micro-vacuum with no moons in sight. If you manage to reach a moon from there, y
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by mpk 18y ago
This post is full of sweeping generalizations. Not all developers are working on a startup. There are also more startups out there that start without everyone being a (software) developer. Not all startups do software, for that matter. With
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by mpk 18y ago
> I'd be interested to see a good framework for measuring success in startups that could be used by VCs and the media alike. Breaking even seems like a good starting point to me. Of course, this is not good from the VC viewpoint. VCs ha
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by mpk 18y ago
This is a really cool map. It seems fairly accurate from my experience. What I'd like to see now is a map of global network inter-connectivity and reliability super-imposed on this map. [edit for typo]
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by mpk 18y ago
I played the violin from my 8th to about my 16th year. Then other interests took over (programming, hanging out with friends, you know, the same story everyone has). After about ten years I finally picked it up again. I was afraid that I'd
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by mpk 18y ago
I think Facebook's Palantir project also deserves an honorable mention here. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=37403547... Real-time visualization of Facebook actions (pokes, friend request, etc).
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by mpk 18y ago
From his website, http://www.naggum.no/ "I am unable to keep my company in operation for health reasons, but it is one of those things I just cannot give up. Instead of being a commercial undertaking, it is now only a hobby. Until my heal
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by mpk 18y ago
I like Zed. He writes some seriously good code, he answers technical emails (mine, at least) and seems to really care about his fellow humans (read up on past threads if you're missing this). However, I don't think that every item he posts
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by mpk 18y ago
Not to worry, I was just feeling cranky. Posting at 3 AM and all that :)

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