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by pm 12y ago
As you put it, validation requires that you ask the right questions, which is half the ball game.
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by pm 12y ago
Okay. Time does not equate to quality. Credentials do not equate to mastery. If shit's not working out for you, you're either ahead of your time or it's a shitty idea. Either way, the only person in control of your life is
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by pm 12y ago
Airbnb might be a bit presumptuous.
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by pm 12y ago
If you're going to downvote this, at least respond. I was asking a genuine question.
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by pm 12y ago
Fair enough, but it's not a US-centric thing (which is the bulk of YC companies), so I highly doubt that "fired a synapse" for the founders when they came up with the name. When the Pakistan cricket team tours down here in Au
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by pm 12y ago
Paki, an ethnic slur? I would've thought it was short for Pakistani.
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by pm 12y ago
Cross-platform work is pain enough without making it torture with Xamarin.
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by pm 12y ago
How much of a generation getting fat is attributable to institutionalised science versus people divesting responsibility for what and how much they eat and exercise?
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by pm 12y ago
Yeah, I haven't seen anyone do a darkside other than him yet.
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by pm 12y ago
Have you actually tried writing CoffeeScript? I can't tell from your post, but if you haven't, you should really give it a go first and see how you progress. It might not be as big an issue as you think.
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by pm 12y ago
This is what happens when one person stops communicating to another due to lack of awareness; the other assumes the worst, and stops reciprocating. They are the only one who knows what's going on, yet it almost always comes down to th
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by pm 12y ago
Create vitamins, not painkillers? I'm not sure I would call that a great piece of advice. I've found entrepreneurs have a knack for one or the other, but I'd err on the side of painkiller if I couldn't pick either one.
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by pm 12y ago
What city are you in? Sounds like Hobart.
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by pm 12y ago
I'm still reeling at the fact the pricing incident is the only thing that sticks in developers' minds, given how easy it was to mitigate.
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by pm 12y ago
Seeing as I can't reply to the comment in question... the price hike article you mention is in 2011. The price hike was a change of system, and everything went up because most people were using Python 2.5 which had no threading suppor
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by pm 12y ago
It really doesn't.
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by pm 12y ago
Really? That was in 2011. It's now 2015.
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by pm 12y ago
Get your health right first. Your side project will always be there, the time you spend with your daughter will not.
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by pm 12y ago
That sounds plausible, though I thought any power running through it would've caused it to burn out. I was actually going to do a full disassembly with a mate of mine who was an EE, but never got round to it. We attempted to do it wi
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by pm 12y ago
How about attempting to fix the issue instead of confirming what I already knew and telling me to buy a new computer? That's what technicians are supposed to do.
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by pm 12y ago
Heh. I caught in the rain with my MacBook Air, and it worked fine for a day, but then wouldn't boot up at all and wouldn't hold charge. Three weeks later and rice and all that jazz and nothing. A couple months later, the charge
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by pm 12y ago
My old housemate had a bad habit of getting stoned and ordering random cheap shit from China on eBay (and forgetting about it until it arrived 3 weeks later). One day he beckoned me into his room, and showed me the training kit he wanted t
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by pm 12y ago
Outback public schools are lucky if they're equipped with more than one toilet. There are many good tutorials on the Internet for a lot of things, but many make assumptions for things that aren't specifically code-related (librari
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by pm 12y ago
The purpose of an analogy is to educate a concept using an approximation of another concept the person will understand. If the person in charge of risk management doesn't understand how risk accumulates in a codebase, they're far
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by pm 12y ago
Technical debt is an elegant analogy. However, I find the majority of systems on which I work are not loosely coupled. And yet, judging from the notes left by my antecedents, "loosely coupled" was the ideal for which they were s
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by pm 12y ago
What you're talking about is a bad implementation of a design stemming from its inherited technology. Essentially, attempting to refactor the technology or the design first is a bad idea - fix the implementation.
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by pm 12y ago
I couldn't imagine they'd want to do that after all this time.
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by pm 12y ago
It would just be easier to reclassify NZ as Australian territory.
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by pm 12y ago
I relate somewhat to poster's situation, as one of my half-brothers had a somewhat related experience in rural NT, sans the happy ending. If the poster is reading HN, I'd be happy to catch you up on the state of Australian tech.
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by pm 12y ago
I would think that by "mundane" Franklin means "not that interesting".

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