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by ninjaa 17y ago
Although for practical reasons (such as sending them separately to the cc processor) I understand why we still collect names in this arbitrary {First, {MI?}, Last} format ... but in the general sense I have yet to understand why names need
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by ninjaa 17y ago
Similar situation. I got my macbook on the left for skype, videoconferencing. Then I got a Core II Duo 2.4 Ghz Dell running WS 2008 (fantastic OS I say) ... and with dual 24" and 19" monitors. I use synergy to mouse and keyboard across all.
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by ninjaa 17y ago
Good forum on the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/900803/cost-and-ownership... I believe in CA the following holds true (from a comment in the above thread) but am not a lawyer and DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE: "The normal situation wit
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by ninjaa 17y ago
you can telecommute.
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Ask HN: Best marketing videos / webinars for software today?
1 points by ninjaa 17y ago|0 comments
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by ninjaa 17y ago
YAGNI. seriously... the curse of premature optimization is a deadly one.
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by ninjaa 17y ago
pack up some small anecdotes that are a lot of fun and that also expose your interests. Make sure they're not super-geeky - most laypeeps will enjoy a story from fmylife.com or rickrolls or /b/ gaming Time Magazine or whatever but not about
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by ninjaa 17y ago
Basically if you are a programmer who smokes (and I was until a few weeks ago) it's easy to quit smoking. You already know how grossly inefficient and wasteful smoking is. You just have to trick your mind into instinctively realizing smokin
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by ninjaa 17y ago
For all its flaws, PHP and Perl are the only web languages that let you build a web app in _whatever_ fashion you want. This extreme flexibility coupled with mature libraries makes web app development ridiculously easy. For a complex applic
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Afghan tech boom: Mullah embraces iPhone(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by ninjaa 18y ago|0 comments
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by ninjaa 18y ago
great post!
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by ninjaa 18y ago
A good way to get a leg up: 1. Do some jQuery tutorials and really bone up on flashy javascript. 2. Learn to use any popular web 'stack' - LAMP is easiest on *Nix servers, RoR and Django are not rocket science. Nor is ASP for that matter. 3
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Ask HN: Where to get a good subscription and service contract for managed e-commerce?
1 points by ninjaa 18y ago|1 comments
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by ninjaa 18y ago
has anyone on HN tried Alfresco? Usually I just roll my own PHP CMS or battle with Wordpress, but if I was to go with an enterprise ready open source solution this would likely be it. Anyone have testimonials?
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by ninjaa 18y ago
It's asking myself your question that drives me. I do whatever I do because I _believe_ (taken on faith) that it gives my existence meaning, and that ultimately, by doing enough of what I do, I hope to glean some insight into why I exist. I
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by ninjaa 18y ago
The best thing about OO in app development is that it lets you abstract the main routines of your program into what is effectively business logic. For example," $customer = new cp_customer(); $customer->add($customer_form_data); /* C
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by ninjaa 18y ago
integer division JUST KILLS Python for scientific computing, it introduces the most disgusting silent errors everywhere. And the visualization functions generally suck compared to the handy plot() of Matlab. Still, Py handily beats other fr
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by ninjaa 18y ago
it's really simple - 1. be headstrong, 2. be mission-based 3. try and fail 4. try not to learn the wrong lessons from failure
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by ninjaa 18y ago
we do paypal checkout and google checkout as well ...
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ASK HN: Best practices for storing Credit Card information
10 points by ninjaa 18y ago|20 comments
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by ninjaa 18y ago
since you don't have any legal structure and don't want to waste time and money finagling with lawyers etc, I suggest you borrow the money at a reasonable rate of interest (say 7-8%), and defer interest and repayment (set yourself a generou
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by ninjaa 18y ago
1. get a partner if possible, esp if he/she will invest real $$ as well. if going solo, get a peer review group set up (beta users, your friend who is a web designer/technical type, your mom, target market, so on). The longer people hear ab
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by ninjaa 18y ago
Hey MR FISH I never got the chance to thank you earlier, this really is a useful comment. The first thing I did after reading it was set up a stage and god I am so much more relaxed during deployment. Bug tracking etc fall into place in abo
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Ask HN: How to virally market an individual website?
1 points by ninjaa 18y ago|2 comments
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by ninjaa 18y ago
Subscriptions I have Business: Basecamp, Zoho Consumer: O'Reilly safari - safari.oreilly.com - browse their entire library (including books in pre-publication) for $42.99/mo
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by ninjaa 18y ago
As someone who has been screwed before: Make a buyout date and clause. Value the IP based on time, calculate your share and set an end date on your agreementpast which you can demand cash from him for your stake. This way he may have final
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Ask HN: What does the ideal deployment process look like for this scenario?
7 points by ninjaa 18y ago|8 comments