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by nir 17y ago
IMHO, the problem with consumption is that it compromises your independence - that is, buying and maintaining stuff you don't need requires a steady stream of income, which makes it harder to leave a job you don't like or pursue goals like
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by nir 17y ago
It's about craftsmanship. It might not cause any harm, but an error message like that in this type of site just shows you don't care for your craft.
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by nir 17y ago
Why not use set_error_handler() instead of scanning the logs? ( http://php.net/set_error_handler )
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by nir 17y ago
Kind of ironic for someone from Reddit to nitpick over a typo...
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by nir 17y ago
Being concerned that "the post makes me sound like a douche" by definition places you outside the douche set.
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by nir 17y ago
Having gone through similar Basic Training to Yossi's, I can testify it contains less jungle survival knowledge than most boyscouts pick up during their training. Basic Training is short, and most of the time is spent on elementary soldier
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by nir 17y ago
It may be a successful blog, but it has nothing to do with journalism. It's hardly a path you can recommend to someone who wants to make a living as a journalist.
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by nir 17y ago
Web 2.0 really has spoiled people I think it's more that Web 2.0 has allowed the spoiled people to broadcast their juvenile "Fuck Yahoo!" to the general(er) population. That said, the funny thing about Flickr is that they really don't sen
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Twitbot alerts whenever an object passes within 0.2 AU of Earth(twitter.com)
1 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Assuming the people defined as "business owners" in the Gallup data have been running their business for a while, they represent a very small minority of entrepreneurs, those who actually succeeded to some extent. "Entrepreneurship certainl
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by nir 17y ago
My thoughts exactly. If you're iterating this fast, you're pretty much doing agile, whether you follow SCRUM/XP/etc or not. As I understand it, the various agile practices are simply there to enable these quick iterations.
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by nir 17y ago
Why would WSJ care? Either way, the readers pay. I'm not a huge fan of Murdoch, but I respect him for insisting on the simple principle of charging money for his product, while the hyposphere keeps twitting on how he "just doesn't get it".
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Unmanned Aircraft - Future of Drone Aircraft and UAVs(esquire.com)
2 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Python should be easier to pick up. I knew very little Python before using GAE, looking back there was hardly a learning curve. It's almost like writing pseudo-code. (Though somehow not as fun to code as Ruby, for me..)
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by nir 17y ago
"Oh, Twitter - is there anything you can't do?"
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by nir 17y ago
Hmm.. Maybe because the US government isn't likely to imprison or torture you if you claim the elections were rigged?
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by nir 17y ago
The Nobel Peace Prize committee have done the world an important service today, by reminding us how meaningless and fickle most awards are, no matter how much prestige they are supposed to carry.
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by nir 17y ago
If it works on Google App Engine you can deploy it for free...
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by nir 17y ago
Remember when people in software were, in general, pretty thoughtful and self effacing?
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by nir 17y ago
But Facebook, with >300m users, is an edge case. It's a business model in the same way getting into acting in order to become as rich as Tom Cruise is a business model. 37Signals model of charging for a service, on the other hand, can a
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by nir 17y ago
A CMS requiring a slew of third-party mods before it can be usable is useless to someone who can code a custom Rails CMS in a day or two. (Hint, hint. Build it in Rails.) Seriously, this is #1 story in HN? Hint, hint: you will not build a
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Researchers developing free mobile mesh network(itnews.com.au)
2 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Nice! That one seems to have more features than the site I submitted. I had no idea there's this whole niche of loader GIF generators...
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by nir 17y ago
Just found this, thought it might be come handy for other devs as well..
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"Loading..." Animated GIF Generator(ajaxload.info)
36 points by nir 17y ago|15 comments
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by nir 17y ago
So you mean it won't reboot the internet?
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by nir 17y ago
By the way, anyone catch Gaddafi's UN speech last week? I was thinking about all these .ly URLs...
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Open-source framework for executing Google AppEngine applications(appscale.cs.ucsb.edu)
2 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
>PHP even uses more memory than Java on some benchmarks, which is pretty damn impressive. True, but in a web scenario, once a PHP script finished running it's completely removed from memory - so PHP usually ends up using less memory tha
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by nir 17y ago
What if publishing a blog post cost $1? Would people spend more time thinking them through?

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