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by nfm 14y ago
This post deserved so many more upvotes! Fantastic summary, and explained lots of things I didn't quite get really well. Bookmarked.
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by nfm 14y ago
Are you thinking of http://www.updateditis.com/ ?
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by nfm 14y ago
That's not TDD. You define the expected behaviour first (which still can be wrong, now or in the future - they're based on your current assumptions/spec/other mutable thing), then ensure the code produces output that matches your expectatio
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by nfm 14y ago
This is something I've experienced first-hand, and an extremely valuable lesson for people thinking about starting a startup. At a low average monthly cost (say less than $30), it's really damn hard to get enough people into your funnel f
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by nfm 14y ago
A previous tool for the same class of exploits (Firewire DMA): http://web.archive.org/web/20100510013948/http://www.storm.n... Were these kinds of exploits noted when writing the 1394 spec and ignored in favour of the DMA feature?
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by nfm 14y ago
Is there a consulting market for fixing these kinds of examples? I quite enjoy optimizing these kinds of issues, but perhaps the value is too implicit or too low for them to bother.
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Founders must both fear and embrace failure to succeed(thenextweb.com)
1 points by nfm 14y ago|0 comments
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by nfm 14y ago
"That quota service experienced traffic problems today due to a faulty load balancing configuration change. That change was to a core piece of infrastructure that many services at Google depend on. This means other services may have been af
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by nfm 14y ago
Had significant issues with the Chrome Web Store yesterday - images not loading from some content servers, extensions failing to install ('The extension file was not a CRX'). I guess this was the cause.
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by nfm 14y ago
Yeah, the 'Add comment' link is pretty confusing. I'd consider moving the '1 comment' text below the comment box, and display the truncated comment text instead. It felt very much like the comment I'd entered had just disappeared with the c
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by nfm 14y ago
How can they drop their prices by 30% and still make anything? I was under the impression that the margins for S3 and Cloud Storage weren't that high.
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by nfm 14y ago
In theory, yes, but if you have a profitable business with a 1% margin by definition it already has to be absolutely giant (e.g. Amazon) to be making money. And to reduce costs at this scale is harder than increasing sales.
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by nfm 14y ago
The problem is that reducing costs doesn't typically scale. If you want to grow a businesses profit significantly, you need to increase sales. It's entirely reasonable to double your sales. It's pretty difficult to halve your costs.
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by nfm 14y ago
Wish I hadn't started reading the article before the HN comments!
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by nfm 14y ago
There's nothing convenient about having 78 character class names in your code, whether you typed them in manually or not!
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Why We Offer A Refund To Every Customer Who Leaves(paydirtapp.com)
3 points by nfm 14y ago|0 comments
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by nfm 14y ago
To each their own, but I'm having real trouble imagining that this could actually be helpful! I'm sure it's possible to get used to, but I doubt I'm the only one that remembers when they first turned syntax highlighting on , and the differ
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by nfm 14y ago
Nitpick - http://userfox.com/about/ 404s.
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by nfm 14y ago
Seems to have been fixed... but red much?!
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by nfm 14y ago
I can't wait to be able to compensate patio11 financially for all the actionable, money making help he's given me for free. Sign me up.
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by nfm 14y ago
I respectfully disagree. Choosing to use a graphical IDE or a terminal based editor is a matter of personal preference; it's foolish to proclaim one or the other as universally superior. There are pros and cons to each, and they are fundame
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by nfm 14y ago
Colloquial use: "We were working on an enterprise database solution, then pivoted to a social network for toddlers." Intended use: "We were working on a time tracking application for freelance designers, and pivoted to making it for lawyers
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by nfm 14y ago
You should check out BugHerd if this is a common use case you have: http://bugherd.com
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by nfm 14y ago
The converse is that if you're not using a preprocessor, it's very easy to 'adjust' a color and miss a few instances of it.
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by nfm 14y ago
Interesting post, but the title (and subject) is actually " Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing". The 'How' is absent.
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by nfm 14y ago
HN has detection algorithms for voting rings and won't count votes in such cases. If a post is getting upvotes, it's typically legit.
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by nfm 14y ago
I think the GP was referring to weeping with joy.
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by nfm 14y ago
They aren't in debt. They sold something like one seventh of their company. That's not enough to lose control of the company in any meaningful sense.
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by nfm 14y ago
I don't think any of the major web browsers do semantic versioning. Mozilla doesn't increase the major version number for every patch either - they increase it for every scheduled release (ie every 6 weeks). Patch releases (typically securi
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by nfm 14y ago
On a related note, breaking statements into multiple lines can screw with your VCS workflow immensely. It's not a problem if you're doing something sensible like extracting nested function calls, but inserting newlines into simple statement

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