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by noamsml 17y ago
They also rail against firewalls, though, which do work. Also, antivirii may be a poor solution, but they don't do nothing; the antibiotic analogy is apt because they are not a preventative solution, and because they don't work on everythin
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by noamsml 17y ago
The article makes those guys' cause sound waaay more legitimate than it really is. If their homepage and articles are to be believed, it seems like their real cause is to stop exploit publication so that only the "real" hackers will know ho
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by noamsml 17y ago
Ask him about the population of japan divided by the population of china in the year 2000.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Most languages with C integration can be integrated into C++ quite reasonably, if not optimally.
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by noamsml 17y ago
But then how would we know what's a URL and what's not? And how will I distinguish outside sites from local machines and stuff I set in my hosts file?
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by noamsml 17y ago
You just published your startup on a popular tech news site. This is your public launch.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Most of this seems silly. OSX is the only laptop OS? Since so many people buy PC laptops, that answer is clearly wrong more than 75% of the time (unless he wants newbies to try and hackintosh). Also, what's with the "no black on white" thin
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by noamsml 17y ago
Actually, we use electric kettles here too nowadays. As for the wash/dryer, haven't seen it around here.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Alternatively, just sell matching pairs of electronic tags (sticky) that both have buttons and beep when the other one is pressed.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Library (all code still runs in the same process) != process (code runs concurrently)
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by noamsml 17y ago
It's a measure of our progress.
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by noamsml 17y ago
I dunno if I'd call that "advanced". More like "easier to use". Don't get me wrong. It's nice (I personally disabled it because I want my apps to take the full terminal).
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by noamsml 17y ago
Also, though Facebook is clearly a resounding success, I'm not sure I'd use the words "beautiful" and "makes people happy". More like "useful" and "makes people connected".
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by noamsml 17y ago
Can't say this mirrors my experience of geeks at all, but then again, I went to a school where all cliques were extremely loose-knit and accepting (it was just part of the school culture).
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by noamsml 18y ago
The iLike app looks terrible. What happened to simplicity and non-interference?
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by noamsml 18y ago
TextEdit isn't a text editor; it's a rich text editor.
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No Heroes Allowed(menloinnovations.com)
2 points by noamsml 18y ago|2 comments
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by noamsml 18y ago
Yes and no. YC has more success than you but that doesn't mean that they're right about you. Your job is never to take the advice of an authority figure simply because they are an authority figure. People who work like that never succeed.
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by noamsml 18y ago
Mmm. Javascript vim clones...
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by noamsml 18y ago
moderncv is also nice.
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by noamsml 18y ago
Huh. I didn't know about Dropbox. I could definitely use that.
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by noamsml 18y ago
"Ugh, I'm too tired to learn Haskell. Maybe another day." That kind of laziness? (I kid, I kid, we all know it's "I'll learn Haskell only when I have to compute something which requires me to know it. I mean, I thunk I know it.")
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by noamsml 18y ago
Every redesign gets the same response.
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by noamsml 18y ago
Why not? Dell sells Ubuntu laptops.
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by noamsml 18y ago
That's a very nice way of saying the Air is for idiots who have too much money and are more impressed by shiny stuff than by real merit.
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by noamsml 18y ago
C has no types, as a quick (int*)&var will show.
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by noamsml 18y ago
On the whole I am unimpressed. The idea is funny, but she doesn't have anything to back her initial wow value. If she really wants to get the job she should incorporate twitter into her site in a unique way and show rather than tell them
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by noamsml 18y ago
She's not dead.
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by noamsml 18y ago
"Of course, there are a few very good software engineers in Japan but they are ... self taught ..." Unlike other places in the world, where, if you want to hire a decent software engineer, you'd look for someone who knows only what they've
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by noamsml 18y ago
> They didn't set out to build a platform that would please console geeks. They could still have built it on a better technical basis. That's like saying MS is excused from having had a crappy security model for WinXP (and only slightly

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