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by nothacker 14y ago
Another more fatalistic way of looking at it is that if IIT is the top of the game in the area, then even if their startup projects suck, that is the best that could be done in the area, and may be good enough to sell to the public. Now you
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by nothacker 14y ago
"How are you doing?" is the least of my worries. For the past several years when a friend or family member asks "How is your job?", I answer honestly, sometimes slightly sugar coated if I'm feeling positive that day, and always feel like I'
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by nothacker 14y ago
I have some open source projects that I've released on multiple occasions without having tested them. I think people make the assumption that things that have adequate documentation and comments/support tickets, etc. that indicate use, that
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by nothacker 14y ago
Redundancy wasn't the problem I saw last night. What I saw, at least with Heroku, is that when I checked, the main Heroku site was down and displaying things like nginx errors . That to me is unacceptable for an operation such as theirs. E
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by nothacker 14y ago
This all sounds very Hatfield/McCoy to me. Whether or not libav is a PITA/POS, I don't know, but of the two, I had only heard of and used ffmpeg until now. That said, I really don't give a crap how either of them operate, and neither should
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by nothacker 14y ago
Don't stop with this post. I think the girl with blog of the school lunches in Scotland showed a modern method to solve any similar customer service issue. Start a blog and continually update it with whatever your issue is in a factual non-
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by nothacker 14y ago
I think when they talk about Apple as an innovator they mean innovative design. I agree that they haven't so much introduced products that changed the world because they were scratching an itch that hadn't previously been scratched- they ju
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by nothacker 14y ago
Even though this is incorrect, I agree that this seems to totally violate the spirit of GPL which is meant to be used with free software. It's one thing to open source your code and have people donate to get support and fund development. It
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by nothacker 14y ago
I'm not sure who came up with the "should have 45db of background noise", but I worked in an environment like that for years and never liked it. Others I worked with felt the same way, and some dismantled them. I don't like audible distract
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by nothacker 14y ago
Office? Do you work at Microsoft? Most of us just have cubes. Thanks for the suggestions though. I've worked in a place that had white noise generators. Really awful, imo. Much better to have silence.
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Ask HN: How to avoid audible (and other) distractions at work?
2 points by nothacker 14y ago|7 comments
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by nothacker 14y ago
Ah- I thought this was the same Arun Gupta that does Glassfish at Oracle, but this is the YC Arun Gupta. Seems like a middle initial or nickname might help.
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by nothacker 14y ago
At first I thought- wow. I really shouldn't overclock. But, then I realized the findings were biased. The major players, HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, etc. obviously have more lobbying power. Two things stood out specifically: 1. The mentio
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by nothacker 14y ago
Really great post. The only thing I was expecting that wasn't there was something about having to be the janitor when it came to cleaning up other messes, like having to let people go, and then having to keep yourself from getting jaded and
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by nothacker 14y ago
Awesome post, but I'd like to see the backing data.
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by nothacker 14y ago
I'm a conservative and have spent a good amount of time here and have been vocal periodically. I know how unwelcome my views are but that doesn't stop me usually, although I don't speak up nearly as much as I did for a while. And it's not j