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by niggler 14y ago
"I do it because I'm intellectually curious (aka I like new stuff)" I hear that a lot, and I hear the argument that industry doesn't give you that type of opportunity, but I firmly disagree: in many places, people with bachelors or masters
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by niggler 14y ago
the keys expire, so even if you have it it won't be useful later.
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by niggler 14y ago
This is why ssh-agent is awesome: they don't hold the passwords in memory (only the keys) so you minimize the number of times you type password and the number of places it is stored.
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by niggler 14y ago
He also wrote "the skeptical environmentalist"
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by niggler 14y ago
Can we agree, as a community, that Forbes is linkbait and not up vote these articles? *funny, i wrote this three weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272564 )
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Audi Graveyard(maps.google.com)
2 points by niggler 14y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
I'm sure PG is aware of this, but is he going to do anything about it?
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by niggler 14y ago
Congratulations on being well-positioned and ready to handle the onslaught when Google announced that they were axing Reader. You clearly were "where the puck will be" :)
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by niggler 14y ago
" the economic differences between regions in the US aren't nearly as large as in the eurozone" I think the origin of this and other problems is the lack of a significant EU-wide tax system. The US federal tax system serves as a wealth dis
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by niggler 14y ago
Failing in chrome: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1 at np.LibRequest.parseCookies(LibRequest.java:37) at np.LibRequest.<init>(LibRequest.java:26) at np.Interpreter.initRootContext(Interpreter.java:94) at np.Inte
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by niggler 14y ago
100% spot on. It's much easier to go from $1/mo to $10/mo than to go from $0/mo to $1/mo
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by niggler 14y ago
I'm not really familiar with eBay's practices, but what happens if the product is counterfeit but advertised as original?
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by niggler 14y ago
You can do it today: https://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... You can initiate the request from the other side (the new carrier), in which case it is forcefully wrested in a day. If google still refuses, you can co
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by niggler 14y ago
You should add an email to your profile, that way people can reach you :)
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Is PHP the Windows of web development?(twitter.com)
2 points by niggler 14y ago|1 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
"According to our experts, greater than 60% of the Herve dresses sold on eBay were fake [1]. Heh, that means eBay profited more on counterfeit Herve Leger than authentic ones." How is eBay compensated? If they are compensated on a flat-tra
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by niggler 14y ago
"I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone. " There's no question that many of Steve Jobs' greatest innovations and ideas came late in his life. Many great people are late bloomers, and its by selection bias that you think most pe
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by niggler 14y ago
I originally used google voice as a really quick way to get a phone number while setting up a business, but later moved the number to a dedicated cell phone. I still use it in that capacity, given that they don't give more than 1 year clari
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by niggler 14y ago
The good thing about google voice is that when it is finally axed, the US laws require them to give a way to port numbers. That's the only reason why I was comfortable using their service
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by niggler 14y ago
"three pennies on every $100 traded." That's enough to wipe out 95% of traders.
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by niggler 14y ago
5 bucks says that searching for your phone number actually adds you to the list
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by niggler 14y ago
There's a difference between monetary runway and time runway. YC solved the money problem but didn't solve the time problem with throwing more money. To put it different, you can throw billions of dollars at a company, but they'll still op
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by niggler 14y ago
You're still assuming that HackFWD is dumb money. From what I can tell, they have expertise in European markets that probably surpasses YC and they give a much longer runway to develop without funding pressures (full year as opposed to a f
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by niggler 14y ago
"I think a top FB/Google tech lead who knows investors who leaves to go do a related startup " I suspect there's a strong selection bias in YC and other incubators (take dropbox, for which Drew is an MIT grad), which probably makes my reque
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by niggler 14y ago
I wonder if there's a good IDE or linter to pick up on these issues while you code. It would be difficult to farm out to the compiler on every character change, but I suspect something like that is needed
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by niggler 14y ago
It won't end, because even those who claim to dislike the practice still wish to be part of it. "the innovation engine that is Silicon Valley" Maybe I'm too young, but was there ever a time where Silicon Valley was innovating in the way we
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by niggler 14y ago
Do you have numbers / proof of that claim?
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by niggler 14y ago
You should also do the quick calculation: YC originally gave something like 10K for roughly 6%, giving a rough valuation in the 180K range. HackFWD is giving, for two people, 110K for 30% which implies a value of roughly 370K. On the num
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by niggler 14y ago
I certainly agree that CoffeeScript has a bad predictability - it is full of surprises. This 100% captures my experience, especially when it comes to interstitial whitespace sensitivity
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by niggler 14y ago
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