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by octane 17y ago
Dunning-Kruger has been the (ironic?) favorite fodder of holier-than-thou tech scenesters since the early days of EFNet, Slashdot, then reddit, now HN, and I'm sure it'll make repeated appearances in the next place we all migrate to after t
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by octane 17y ago
> flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations. In other words, IRC? Every "next big thing" communication medium has been trying to replicate the IRC experience for the past 15 years. Twitter is the closest, it even has # and @ modif
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by octane 17y ago
Oh christ, get over yourself.
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by octane 17y ago
Being a hacker has always meant being a social engineer. NY Times is an excellent window onto mainstream media and how society thinks.
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by octane 17y ago
Anyone want to take a guess at how much free traffic and users were obtained by all 3 sites from this PR move?
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by octane 17y ago
Yes. If you are a large organization and have the money for licenses and DBAs, they're definitely worth it. Not everyone is a startup. Not everyone cares about clever hacks and rag-tag scalability and bragging about how they scaled up t
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by octane 17y ago
WalMart does make large changes to their stores and business models based on what their smaller competition is doing. So does Microsoft. So does Google. The bottom line is that they are all ruthless competitors and that's why they're al
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by octane 17y ago
Oh, I'm sorry, the Chinese people will get that memo as soon as the white people get the memo about fixing their entire banking system.
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by octane 17y ago
You've never sat in an audience and felt uncomfortable/embarrassed when the presenter or speaker started making a fool of himself? What the fuck are you, some kind of robot? You're full of shit.
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by octane 17y ago
My theory is by letting the house rot, he is battling the historic registry people. The house will be demolished by nature, the point rendered moot.
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by octane 17y ago
It's called net work ing for a reason.
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by octane 17y ago
And if you're in between, pick up some tri-tip.
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by octane 17y ago
No. It hasn't.
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by octane 17y ago
Sure, whatever, just don't forget to pick up a burrito. If you're headed toward LA, get some tacos.
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by octane 17y ago
One thing that nobody mentions about a startup is that if you choose co-founders, you should probably choose someone you've already had heated disagreements with - the more personal the better. In fact, if you started out hating each other
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by octane 17y ago
> He loved to bash bankers more than anything else... but he also bashed other traders, especially FX and metals traders, who he considered sub-human morons... This shit is just like Python vs. PHP vs. Perl vs. .NET vs. Java vs. ...
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by octane 17y ago
Because it's a scene.
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by octane 17y ago
Honestly I don't care if women are offended by this or not, but it's awfully embarrassing to me as a man, and as a computer programmer. Sigh.
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by octane 17y ago
> not your local fratboy forum Don't be intimidated by the fact that there are UNIX-using pros who aren't into your juvenile posturing.
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by octane 17y ago
> terminal sessions > ssh These are basically the same thing.
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by octane 17y ago
> The simple notion of asking more people to grab a casual coffee didn’t seem to crack my thick skull until I reached my early 30s. I think what actually happens is us men get older and more attractive in their late 20s and early 30s.
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by octane 17y ago
Quite honestly the only thing I use screen for is detaching programs to run while I am logged out. I would rather have 10 terminal windows up if I'm simply doing multi tasking on the command line. It totally makes me feel like the guy from
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by octane 17y ago
There still isn't. Unix is hard.
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by octane 17y ago
> you have been doing it the wrong way. You ever stand behind a door because you were afraid the modelines in your XFree86 config file were going to blow up your monitor? Uphill both ways in the snow, etc.
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by octane 17y ago
Don't be bitter, you'll soon learn there's much more to life than re-configuring your window manager and X server's config file over and over again. I promise.
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by octane 17y ago
The navigation system in my car has logos for the brand of gas station it has on the map. A good way to monetize the map as well as help people who have cards/accounts with particular gas companies.
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by octane 17y ago
People like you make me laugh because they remind me of my younger self. And I'm not even old.
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by octane 17y ago
It's really simple. Once the money starts flowing, it's hard for it to stop. Hence, laziness. Getting it started flowing is the tricky part.
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by octane 17y ago
> actually a problem I agree. This is really one of those places where I think to myself, so what? The only real problem I see is that a guy who goes into the field is going to be surrounded by other dudes, which is one of my biggest
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by octane 17y ago
> is the lack of "Home" and "End" buttons Every single new Mac user has a "critical missing feature" that turns out not to be so missing after all once they actually read the docs about the literally thousands of keyboard shortcuts that

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