outotrai

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by outotrai 16y ago
I'm interested in this sort of competition, but honestly, I don't know enough to even begin. What do you recommend to someone who'd like to learn enough to participate in these competitions?
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by outotrai 16y ago
If you (or someone else) wouldn't mind taking the time to explain it, I'd really like to know why your unsupported and vaguely anti-Ruby statement is so popular. I'm assuming that it means that the problems with Ruby are so widely known th
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by outotrai 16y ago
I'm sure the remaining employees appreciate your keeping the company afloat.
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Michael Dell mulls taking PC colossus private(theregister.co.uk)
9 points by outotrai 16y ago|2 comments
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by outotrai 16y ago
I'm shooting from the hip here, but I think maybe there's a distinction to be made between ideas for a product and ideas as a product. The end result of the ideas of mathematicians is mathematics itself - furthering mathematics was the goa
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The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)(garretthardinsociety.org)
4 points by outotrai 16y ago|0 comments
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by outotrai 16y ago
When will Rails 3 be formally released (as the stable, recommended version)?
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by outotrai 16y ago
How did you and do you decide which services to provide? How do you gauge demand as you're thinking of possible products?
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by outotrai 16y ago
I think he means that he shouldn't be obligated to sign up for or get involved with any service that he doesn't want to just to protect his reputation. Sure, you don't have to pay the mafia protection money, but what happens if you don't
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by outotrai 16y ago
I don't use Ruby very much, so I can't respond to the bulk of your comment, but I wanted to note that Dive Into Python was first written for Python 2.x, then rewritten for Python 3, not the other way around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma
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by outotrai 16y ago
Why do you say so?
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Ask HN: Experiences Programming Outside of Tech?
9 points by outotrai 16y ago|8 comments
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by outotrai 16y ago
More readable print version of article: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/...
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Ask HN: Education level of successful tech founders?
6 points by outotrai 17y ago|2 comments
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by outotrai 17y ago
Wow! I really like the attention to detail. You can change the desktop wallpaper with the genuine Windows 3.1 tile images, you can create and save files (which download to your actual computer), wildcards work in the file selection dialog
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by outotrai 17y ago
Because you're considering stopping, I wanted to say that I find this sort of post very helpful. Many times I've found much more interesting discussion on previous submissions because of you, or learned something I otherwise would have mis
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by outotrai 17y ago
I disagree. Being able to downvote comments to -4 (and no farther) seems like an excellent system to me, as it allows us to punish comments that are detrimental to discussion while preventing comments from being so downvoted that they have
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by outotrai 17y ago
I'm very interested in that sort of business model - selling real or virtual products within a free application. I remember reading an article last year ( http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/06/eas-new-motto-ple... ) wherein the CEO of
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by outotrai 17y ago
"Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders] is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-mad
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by outotrai 17y ago
I think he's saying that if someone came into your house and said it was theirs, and had the ability to enforce that, it wouldn't be your house anymore. No, you can't ethically say "I claim this piece of land for my own. Oh, look! There
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by outotrai 17y ago
> And is he pleasantly surprised at the 250ish Euros or did he consider it too high? He was very pleasantly surprised. In response to a comment on his post, the author wrote: "According to newchoicehealth.com, an abdominal ultrasound i
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by outotrai 17y ago
If you expect a comment of yours to be downvoted, perhaps you should consider whether or not the comment in question is actually contributing to the discussion. I imagine that your original comment was downvoted because it expressed your f
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by outotrai 17y ago
Sorted results of that poll (as of 9:30 PM EST 11/15/09): INTP - 207 INTJ - 188 ENTP - 76 ENTJ - 57 INFP - 41 ENFP - 30 INFJ - 27 ENFJ - 16 ISTP - 12 ESTJ - 11 ISTJ - 11 ESTP - 4 ESFJ - 3 ESFP - 2 ISFJ - 2
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by outotrai 17y ago
How did you finance the café initially, as a college student?
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by outotrai 17y ago
A thought on security - I think #5 should be changed from if socket.gethostname() == 'productionserver.com': DEBUG = False else: DEBUG = True to if socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp': DEBUG
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by outotrai 17y ago
This is probably the best option, but the FSF-approved WTFPL (Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License) may be clearer. [Previously discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652183 ]